tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post489126186250940527..comments2023-11-03T05:34:26.880-05:00Comments on The Whited Sepulchre: The Weekly Radley - This will be discussed for decadesThe Whited Sepulchrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17657366124122012622noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-73437538598031956442009-07-27T00:44:26.738-05:002009-07-27T00:44:26.738-05:00Ummm
Are we sure that Gate's indignation wasn&...Ummm<br />Are we sure that Gate's indignation wasn't a function of being caught with a secret love interest?DAvenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-5317233783714340122009-07-26T15:03:31.749-05:002009-07-26T15:03:31.749-05:00Man - I'm way late, but just my two cents. Af...Man - I'm way late, but just my two cents. After being seen breaking into his own home, Gates should've said "Oh, I can imagine how this looks officer and I appreciate that you're responding to witnesses who may not know me reporting some guy banging a door and crowbarring a window. Here's my ID." Officer "Hmmm." (looks at ID) "I see. Everything TarrantLibertyGuyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11624121038065257931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-38650364372610194812009-07-25T11:22:56.602-05:002009-07-25T11:22:56.602-05:00Re: the boys showing up - my faith in humanity is ...Re: the boys showing up - my faith in humanity is restored!<br /><br />My own take: Gates may have been a dick, but if being a dick were a criminal offense, the jails would be a lot fuller than they already are. Several sources have opined this may be as much about social class as race.<br /><br />BTW -- say what you will about Obama, after his initial (perhaps ill-advised) comments, he manned upDr Ralphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315005375209513833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-3638108131210778822009-07-25T00:19:20.433-05:002009-07-25T00:19:20.433-05:00Ahhhh....There we go. I knew the boys would show ...Ahhhh....There we go. I knew the boys would show up.The Whited Sepulchrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17657366124122012622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-30561733941920304892009-07-24T22:04:46.363-05:002009-07-24T22:04:46.363-05:00It looks like the messiah is backing off from his ...It looks like the messiah is <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/obama_throws_skip_gates_under.html" rel="nofollow">backing off</a> from his own racial profiling regarding this event. Tsk tsk.Pogohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01067382603590454738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-61519058599137227042009-07-24T21:39:11.664-05:002009-07-24T21:39:11.664-05:00Has anyone commenting here read the ENTIRE story? ...Has anyone commenting here read the <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/LarryElder/2009/07/23/hwb_--_home_while_black" rel="nofollow">ENTIRE</a> story? Gates was arrested for "Disorderly conduct" and it was NOT in DC. He was shouting racial insults at police officers who had been called to investigate a possible burglary in progress and the insults began <b>before</b> he identified ΛΕΟΝΙΔΑΣhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04976785560712692275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-47796864560200472732009-07-24T16:41:33.299-05:002009-07-24T16:41:33.299-05:00What a cool read. I've been in Germany for tw...What a cool read. I've been in Germany for two weeks so I missed it.<br /><br />Profiling and not profiling is one of the worst things wrong with American law enforcements.<br /><br />If this man <b>had</b> been breaking into someone's house and was stopped by the cops everyone would be praising him (the cop).<br /><br />Unfortunately, the man was breaking into his own house.<br /><br />Garhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12421024873842186683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-44668228487071347682009-07-24T15:51:42.302-05:002009-07-24T15:51:42.302-05:00Or it could be that this topic doesn't interes...Or it could be that this topic doesn't interest everyone equally. I'm not sure that there's a uniquely "libertarian" angle or answer here. Sometimes people just get sideways with each other for whatever reason. I don’t imaging political philosophy doing much to change that. But let's take the Washington Post version of events as written.<br /><br />"The white Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-31947704775732959202009-07-24T15:18:07.183-05:002009-07-24T15:18:07.183-05:00Or perhaps the co-religiwahterverists didn't c...Or perhaps the co-religiwahterverists didn't comment because they were off elsewhere on the Interwebs looking at por...er...Facebook.<br /><br />My opinion, based on what little I've read and the fact that I wasn't there to witness the event?<br />Well, sounds to me like the officer was just doing his job up until the arrest, hell the guy had a freakin crowbar and was breaking into a Browncoat Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17382947284829092569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-7917806704183545892009-07-24T06:59:45.860-05:002009-07-24T06:59:45.860-05:00Perhaps my co-religionists are slumbering. Perhap...Perhaps my co-religionists are slumbering. Perhaps TLG has taken them to a secret mountain retreat, with no wireless service.<br /><br />Or perhaps they've been conditioned, like most of us, to avoid any controversy about race. <br /><br />I dunno.The Whited Sepulchrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17657366124122012622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-46951177127238641402009-07-24T06:38:43.372-05:002009-07-24T06:38:43.372-05:00Maybe I haven't waited long enough, but I'...Maybe I haven't waited long enough, but I'm beginning to think many of your co-religionists pay lip service to private property rights. Other than Jackie D's hair-splitting defense of the police action being discussed, no other Randinistas have piped up with an opinion. <br /><br />But let the topic be smoking bans in bars....<br /><br />BTW - let it be noted I'm not finding faultDr Ralphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315005375209513833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-30794030398590643842009-07-23T17:28:59.467-05:002009-07-23T17:28:59.467-05:00VampE,
Property rights are one of the hallmarks o...VampE,<br /><br />Property rights are one of the hallmarks of libertarianism. So is protection of private property. So what we have here is a near-perfect dilemma. <br /><br />Should Gates have gone along to get along, or should he have raised hell, not cooperated, and thrown a fit? The racial angle only adds some anoother complication to the mix. <br /><br />Maybe it's not a The Whited Sepulchrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17657366124122012622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-42105461439095208322009-07-23T10:54:38.397-05:002009-07-23T10:54:38.397-05:00I really cannot believe what I am reading. I canno...I really cannot believe what I am reading. I cannot believe that you repeated this blog in your space. Especially without your opinion to go with it. Silence is not your usual style. Silence implies complicity. And in this case, complicity is horrifying. <br /><br />I can understand your political rants. People are entitled to their political affiliations. <br /><br />But this. This makes no Elainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12315301678583336829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-74408259239738721122009-07-23T08:43:35.220-05:002009-07-23T08:43:35.220-05:00"...Gates was arrested after he yelled at the..."...Gates was arrested after he yelled at the investigating officer repeatedly inside the residence then followed the officer outside, where Gates continued to upbraid him. "It was at that time that I informed Professor Gates that he was under arrest,'' the officer wrote in the report."<br /><br />He wasn't arrested IN his home, he was arrested outside it, after JThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03991106665854663069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-72836386296654246122009-07-23T05:45:10.543-05:002009-07-23T05:45:10.543-05:00...So far the silence is deafening....So far the silence is deafening.Dr Ralphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315005375209513833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-66375771015839855952009-07-23T04:02:13.182-05:002009-07-23T04:02:13.182-05:00That's why I have this under the "hypothe...That's why I have this under the "hypothetical questions" category. <br />I think I know the answer, but am waiting on more of my FREEDOM LOVING BROTHERS AND SISTERS to chime in.The Whited Sepulchrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17657366124122012622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-71518065911400554522009-07-22T22:14:22.860-05:002009-07-22T22:14:22.860-05:00I'm getting slightly mixed signals here. What ...I'm getting slightly mixed signals here. What exactly would a Libertarian's response be to an agent of the government arresting them in their own home?Dr Ralphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315005375209513833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-61577408636266040742009-07-22T19:29:13.442-05:002009-07-22T19:29:13.442-05:00Yep.
But can you imagine being the arresting of...Yep. <br /><br />But can you imagine being the arresting officer and then realizing you've got Henry Louis Gates?The Whited Sepulchrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17657366124122012622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8771666371746650057.post-44672877942994866742009-07-22T16:01:55.889-05:002009-07-22T16:01:55.889-05:009 times out of 10 these thing will go south due to...9 times out of 10 these thing will go south due to indignation and histrionics.nonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07550167783969561280noreply@blogger.com