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Does your love for authority apply to allowing the government to decide your health care options? I love liberty, yes I despise authority (government) when it is taken past it's proper limits. Now, let the circular debate continue.

When Rush Limbaugh is dragged from his radio station in handcuffs maybe then you will begin to see why our founding fathers hated abusive authority. It will be too late then. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell

I realize you all are socialist facists and we have such a chasm in our political philosophies that this debate is not worth continueing. The least government thing to do was for the officer to leave. Gates was in his own home, your home includes your yard, when he was hauled off for talking to authority. A violation of his first amendment rights. If I am in someones home and they start talking to me I will leave. Crowley had the same option. Y'all love big government..I despise it. Y'all the same type that watched Jews dragged from their home in 1940's Germany. It is sad, quite sad. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell

It is interesting you feel big government should lock people up for temporary lack of self control that is endangering no one. It is interesting that you feel government officials should be able to arrest people for hurting their feelings. I suppose you favor shutting down talk radio? I suppose those who screamed at the Gestapo got the attitude check they deserved? Wait, few screamed at the Gestapo, or the Stalinist police; I wonder why? That's what she gets for smoking dope. Good ole fashion justice.

All he had to do was leave. Obviously, that would have been the smart thing to do since the charges were dropped. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Never said Gates was acting reasonable. If failing to act reasonable is a jailable offense women got sumtin to worry about. Of course, they don't deserve that treatment.

. Image don't seem to be working at this time. I got a beagle, pretty much the loudest creature on the face of the planet. I ain't complainin' about no neighbor's barking dog.

Whether it be private or public insurers must ration services to control costs.

Those numbers don't transfer to votes, at least not in Texas.

Now ya got it. Most people need to be killed anyways.

He has to be in the act of damaging the gnome, ya caint shoot him after he has finished, unless ya pull him back in the yard.

Have you seen images of Professor Gates? If he was alarming anyone they must be a in' wimp that needs to be deported for being too big a pussy to be an American.

Sadly, big government won't even let ya do that in Texas. Now if the kid is running off with the gnome that is another story.

You are doing nothing now but engaging in unfounded personal attacks. I have never called the cops on anyone in my life. I think, by and large, government officials should stay out of peoples lives, unless there is a real public interest in taking action. The only one Gates was annoying was the cop, The arrest of Mr Gates served no public good. In fact, just the opposite. I call myself a libertarian because I think the government that governs best governs least. In this case Crowley leaving was the "least" government solution. Just because we all know talking crap to a cop can get ya thrown in the slammer does not mean it should be that way. Y'all love big government, except when Democrats are proposing it. Let's just require everyone have a computer chip inserted so the government official can just wave a device over someone and have immediate access to all their personal information. Long live big government, screw the sanctity of your home.

Where does that come from? I'd be joining the party. Once again, all the officer had to do was leave. It is not like he was called because Gates was causing a disturbance. The officer was the only provocation. All he had to do was leave. I can't help it I ain't a damn Nazi like the rest of y'all.

For the umpteenth time the police officer was leaving when Gates followed him. The officer must have been convinced that Gates had a legal right to be in the home. Gates was only provoked by the officers presence, he represented no threat to anyone. He was a law abiding cotizen arrested for talking crap to a cop. All the officer had to do to restore peace was leave.

If she has speech writers, she better fire them. They are making her look like a raving lunatic.

The question is not valid to my position that in a free country an officer should not arrest a man in his own home when the officer could simply end the mans' "Disturbing of the peace" by leaving. The officer was not wrong for asking for other identification. That does not mean Gates should be arrested for not providing it. We still live in a free country where you do not have to have an "acceptable" ID on you, much less provide it. In fact, the officer was obviously satisfied that Gates was the legal resident since he was leaving the scene and only arrested Gates when Gates pursued the officer and verbally harranged him. Yes, the officer was within his rights to ask for Gates ID. I am within my rights to ask the women of JustBS to send nude pics to my email address. They are not obligated to send them.

It is sad that we cannot have a rational debate on this issue.

Good thing she was not black, she would still be in the slammer.

Funding abortions would lower healthcare costs and most of the babies killed would be future liberals anyways. The first thing I have seen that would actually lower healthcare costs and the number of individuals receiving healthcare.

Orwell was only a quarter of a century off.

I will confess that the cash for clunkers program, unlike most of the so-called stimulus packages, does provide short term benefits to the economy. There is a future problem when you subsidize the purchase of a durable good for a limited time period; that problem is sales of that durable good will suffer in future years. The car companies, and their employees, better sock away some of the money they are earning now.

Since, Gates was not arrested for not producing his ID the question is a red herring. Crowley was satisfied that Gates was the legal resident of the home or he would not have been leaving without detaining Gates. He only arrested Gates when Gates pursued the officer and continued to verbally abuse the officer, Gates was arrested for talking crap to a cop. All Crowley had to do was leave. Gates was a dumbass, It is not illegal to be a dumbass.

Totally agree. Being a dumbass ain't illegal.