PRIVACY
We just lost a bunch of it. Professor Gates and a phantom pal were seen entering his house by a scared women, who called a timid woman, who then called the cops. This 911 tag team was due probably because the scared instigating women had called the cops too many times before to do it again, so she convinced a friend to do it for her. (Seniors really should be given something to occupy their minds with besides watching crime packed T.V. and peering through chinks in their curtains. Real crime is not nearly as prevalent or serious as the people who depend on crime for their living want us to believe).
The professor's home was in a very nice neighborhood with very little crime. The cops did not check their crime maps. They simply crashed in, as if they were attacking common ghetto trash. The cops acted stupidly, making demands as if they were an occupying army, which they were. Apparently the professor's pal escaped out the back, if he ever existed at all. The cops invaded Gates' home and accosted him. He disproved their angrily shouted accusations of burglary. The cops reluctantly stopped pointing their murder weapons at Gates' head. After their threats of quick death subsided, Gates tried to exercise his right to get them out of his home. The cops proved he had no right to privacy by abducting him. The belligerent, run-amok cops kidnapped Gates and dragged him, hogtied, into their series of cages and jail in an "arrest" that everyone knew was illegal.
President Obama called them on this in a very weak, deferential way. Instead of calling a deliberate, purposeful, planned false arrest what it was, Obama, a supposed `Constitutional law scholar' let the lawbreaking gang of cops get away with their crimes. He ignored the law and merely said that the cops "acted stupidly".
Now, people who know cops from the bulletspewing end of their murder machines thought the cops went nuts during their screaming match prior to their abduction of Gates. This is nothing compared to the way all the nation's millions of cops went nuts upon hearing that their `Brothers' had acted "stupidly". America is a nation of cops and cop-coddlers due to the media, T.V. and Hollywood elevating them to God-status no matter what they get caught at. This tidal wave of emotional non-thinkers flooded the communication lanes with their frothing outrage over the cops' denigration for violating the law. The media, seeing fat ad-dollars, fed this frenzy by sending out cattle-calls to conservative and ultraconservative cop-coddlers so they could "debate" how right the cops were and how wrong Gates was to defend his rights.
One of the most nauseating of these debates featured the fat toad we used to suffer under as a drug czar, Bill Bennet. This bloated; nearly 400 pound food addict was on a round table discussion for CNN, where he actually claimed that cops were allowed to make false arrests in order to "cool things down." (This fascist nonsense issued out of the blowhole of this former Secretary of Education!) Only one not-so-conservative hot-air mist tried to correct him, and he was swiftly drowned out by the remaining gaggle of copcoddlers. No other media corporation or their hired lickspittles even suggested that the cops had made an illegal arrest despite the obvious fact that they had. They all slid away sideways by claiming, like scared children caught watching their parents' bedroom antics, "We don't have all the facts."
Fact is we have enough facts to make some solid conclusions. The primary fact is that we have a constitution that citizens fought and died for to kick government, the aristocracy and their thugs off our backs. When these forces of too-much power follow their natural tendency toward further abuse of their tax herds and corruption, the media used to spread the alarm and rouse to this recurrent danger. Now the media is in bed with power. Also, the citizenry is comatose with mal-education and lethargy from years of relative prosperity and liberty. We've forgotten history, and we were not properly taught how to gauge our rulers' lies. We are like children, who, having no thoughts of our own, look to the adults of society to learn what we should think. They think we should let their thugs invade our homes on the thinnest of anonymous excuses, treat us like criminals, and then kidnap us when we disprove their accusations and object to being harassed.
We also learned that the cop clan is much more powerful than the citizens' rights voting block, else the President of the United States would not have decided to back up and give the clowns a beer and photo opportunity in exchange for their silence and pretense at accord. The teaching moment here is as big a fraud as the one that cops forced from that maimed and tortured truck driver, Reginald Denny, in their anemic attempt to quell the riots caused by them letting all the cops get away with torturing Rodney King. “Can’t we just get along?”
The answer is, “No. We Can’t.” Not until everyone is made to obey the law, even cops and politicians; especially the cops and politicians who allow them to run amok!