re: #719 Flyers1974

I see what your saying. I’m guessing he didn’t have any evil intent, and at any rate it seems way overblown. But whatever the case, given that there was/is no way to prove what happened there, he put himself into a pretty difficult position. I just wonder why he wasn’t prepared for the possibility that question would be asked and have a harmless response at the ready, i.e., love peace happiness, blah, blah, blah.

Well— but his answer wasn’t overblown. Wasn’t weird. Would have been accepted if made by another politician.

Crowley should not have arrested Gates. And in another time, conservatives would have completely agreed with that.

Here’s libertarian Reason and also Hitchens pointing out the real issue: nothing to do with race, everything to do with police power:

The Henry Louis Gates “Teaching Moment”
Put the race talk aside: the issue here is abuse of police power, and misplaced deference to authority

A Man’s Home Is His Constitutional Castle

IMO, the best things written on this whole debacle