tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549928.post5458863951606886943..comments2023-09-06T05:30:01.029-04:00Comments on <br><br><center>An Unenviable Situation</center>: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549928.post-75195952772607362592009-07-29T12:12:59.208-04:002009-07-29T12:12:59.208-04:00And anonymous, read comment #492[!]
here at Crooke...And anonymous, read comment #492[!]<br /><a href="http://crookedtimber.org/2009/07/23/police-discretion-a-different-perspective/" rel="nofollow">here</a> at Crooked Timber. It's written by the author the post.D. Ghirlandaiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06283931383770759507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549928.post-90864760820372900922009-07-28T23:35:43.149-04:002009-07-28T23:35:43.149-04:00Thanks anonymous, for getting me to reread that po...Thanks anonymous, for getting me to reread that post.<br />Oh boy was it pompous. Now it's not, but the argument's the same.<br />Read the links here and at Leiter's. All of them.<br />Most of the arguments about this case haven't been about the case at all. Generalizations aren't facts.<br /><br />The 911 transcript might change something.D. Ghirlandaiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06283931383770759507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3549928.post-27139570681529696202009-07-28T22:40:18.237-04:002009-07-28T22:40:18.237-04:00Horseshit. I don't have a transcript of their ...Horseshit. I don't have a transcript of their exchange, and neither do you. As far as anyone actually knows, either one could have vastly overstepped. Your knee-jerk assumption that the cop was in the right and Gates was arrogant quite clearly betrays authoritarian bias. Have you never heard of, much less experienced, a police officer's overweening arrogance?<br /><br />Police in this country are routinely accorded respect leagues beyond their desserts because they are situationally <i>powerful</i>. They can fuck your shit up, and they know it. Many grow accustomed to such deference, and become jealous of it.<br /><br />"The cop felt constrained"? Really? The cop had, and used, the option of handcuffing and arresting Gates. When one is able at whim to unilaterally abrogate the freedom of the person with whom one are in conflict, one is not constrained.<br /><br />Gates may have been abusive (we don't <i>know</i>), but he was in his own home and had proved it. Crowley had no more business there. He was in the wrong, period.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com