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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (59341)	7/24/2009 1:10:09 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I 100% agree. This was a case of a stupid arrest that never should have happened (which was also the point of the president) that is now has escalated into a freaking circus.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (59341)	7/24/2009 1:12:10 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I was struck by Gates comment on some news show that the incident made him realize what - "black men, all people of color, and poor people" face. He is not making this merely a grevience about himself or merely black me, though clearly that is a huge issue, but universallizing (that a word?) the over-reaching of some police and others who have power over others towards all those 'less than'. It is akin to the connections that MLK Jr drew. We don't have many blacks to pick on here, that was 'dealt with' long ago. Even the latinos moving in aren't the main target of our police... it is poor whites. We've had a case of 2 police officers responding to situation where a man's pigs were in the road. The man was in his 70's. 70's. He 'talked back' to them and they tasored him. Then they tasored a woman in her 60's. I forget what her 'offence' was. You'd think the far right who worries of a police state would be concerned about this incident... but that might be where some's racism enters.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (59341)	7/24/2009 3:35:11 PM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

It is part of the mental profile of police to want to assert their "authority". That is why you become a cop. You get to carry a gun and order other folks around. And since forever, minorities have been easier to abuse in this regard. The first reaction in most cases, where it is an option, is to CFN...(cuff the nigger) Cops can't help it. Like telling a scorpion not to sting. Short of physically assaulting the cop, there is no frigging way that this guy was guilty of disorderly conduct, in his own house. No white person would have been handled in this manner. It was wrong and the president was not out of line by making that point.