[Vision2020] Say What?

[Sunil Ramalingam]

In America, when did behaving stupidly (to use your description, with which I disagree) become an arrestable offense? 

Once the cop knew that he was no longer investigating a burglary, it was time to leave.  Period.

Sunil

> From: jampot at roadrunner.com
> To: philosopher.joe at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:25:55 -0700
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?
> 
> I failed to note it because I'm fairly sure that it didn't happen. Please 
> provide a link to BHO's apology to either Sgt. Crowley or the Cambridge P.D.
> 
> Having actually read the police report, it's clear that had Gates simply and 
> calmly shown his I.D. the officer would have left. It was Gates who 
> continued to aggressively engage Sgt Crowley with demands  and threats. Was 
> Gates' arrest required? Probably not but, there is no question but what the 
> professor was the one that was behaving stupidly.
> 
> g
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe Campbell" <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>
> To: "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com>
> Cc: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>; "Moscow Vision 2020" 
> <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 6:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?
> 
> 
> > If someone came to your house thinking you broke in and you showed him  ID 
> > proving you lived there and he didn't leave immediately, I'd say he  acted 
> > stupidly -- even if you took the race elements out of it. As it  turns 
> > out, Obama even said he was sorry, which of course you failed to  note.
> >
> > Not that any of this will convince you.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On Jul 29, 2009, at 9:12 AM, "g. crabtree" <jampot at roadrunner.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> I'm not so sure that I'd go so far as to brand the POTUS a racist as 
> >> it's a
> >> term that gets thrown around a little to casually, in my opinion. I 
> >> would,
> >> however, like to know how you explain his standing in front of the 
> >> nation
> >> and stating up front that he doesn't know the whole story with  regard to 
> >> his
> >> pal Henry Gates and Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley and yet  went 
> >> so
> >> far as to characterize law enforcements actions as "behaving  stupidly?" 
> >> How
> >> many other decisions does the man reach without being fully informed?
> >> Judging from other remarks I've heard him make I'd venture to say  Cap 
> >> and
> >> Trade and National Health Care might fall squarely into that same 
> >> category.
> >>
> >> g
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
> >> To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 5:41 AM
> >> Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?
> >>
> >>
> >>> "This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and  over 
> >>> and
> >>> over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the  white
> >>> culture, I don't know what it is.  I'm not saying that he doesn't  like
> >>> white people. I'm saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a
> >>> racist.''
> >>>
> >>> - Glenn Beck on President Obama (July 28, 2009)
> >>>
> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIZDnpPafaA
> >>>
> >>> -----------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> >>>
> >>> Tom Hansen
> >>> Moscow, Idaho
> >>>
> >>> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to 
> >>> change
> >>> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> >>>
> >>> - Unknown
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