Comments on: Due Deference http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/07/due-deference/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:46:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mike at The Big Stick http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/07/due-deference/#comment-15061 Mike at The Big Stick Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:34:41 +0000 http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/?p=6754#comment-15061 So let's say this was the middle of the projects and there were a hundred people on the street. Would Gates' actions be judged any differently? So let’s say this was the middle of the projects and there were a hundred people on the street. Would Gates’ actions be judged any differently?

]]> By: Jaybird http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/07/due-deference/#comment-15057 Jaybird Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:30:11 +0000 http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/?p=6754#comment-15057 Insanity. Insanity.

]]> By: Jaybird http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/07/due-deference/#comment-15056 Jaybird Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:27:52 +0000 http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/?p=6754#comment-15056 I hate to break this to you but screaming racism at a cop who is just doing his job is protected speech. I hate to break this to you but screaming racism at a cop who is just doing his job is protected speech.

]]> By: Mike at The Big Stick http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/07/due-deference/#comment-15032 Mike at The Big Stick Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:56:29 +0000 http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/?p=6754#comment-15032 The quote references a 'freedom' which we both know was quite apart from 'the freedom to scream racism at a cop who is just doing his job'. The quote references a ‘freedom’ which we both know was quite apart from ‘the freedom to scream racism at a cop who is just doing his job’.

]]> By: Mike at The Big Stick http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/07/due-deference/#comment-15031 Mike at The Big Stick Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:54:32 +0000 http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/?p=6754#comment-15031 I'm simply much less tolerant of adults failing to behave like adults than others. If someone can't figure out that after two warnings, the second of which also involved the officer pulling out his handcuffs, that they should shut up..then at that point my opinion is that they crossed a line. I’m simply much less tolerant of adults failing to behave like adults than others. If someone can’t figure out that after two warnings, the second of which also involved the officer pulling out his handcuffs, that they should shut up..then at that point my opinion is that they crossed a line.

]]> By: Bob http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/07/due-deference/#comment-15030 Bob Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:53:22 +0000 http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/?p=6754#comment-15030 To be clear, my comment was for Mike, @9:35am To be clear, my comment was for Mike, @9:35am

]]> By: Bob http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/07/due-deference/#comment-15029 Bob Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:51:11 +0000 http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/?p=6754#comment-15029 Jeez, I wish you were kidding. Jeez, I wish you were kidding.

]]> By: Jaybird http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/07/due-deference/#comment-15028 Jaybird Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:40:26 +0000 http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/?p=6754#comment-15028 We can debate whether "on one's own property" is "in public" rather than "within earshot of public" but, even so, we have the Right to act like a jackass on one's own property and if you think that it's right and proper to have an anti-jackass police force... Well, I just boggle at that. We can debate whether “on one’s own property” is “in public” rather than “within earshot of public” but, even so, we have the Right to act like a jackass on one’s own property and if you think that it’s right and proper to have an anti-jackass police force…

Well, I just boggle at that.

]]> By: Jaybird http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/07/due-deference/#comment-15026 Jaybird Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:38:08 +0000 http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/?p=6754#comment-15026 I was quoting due to the content of the quote, rather than making an appeal to the moral character of the man making it. Is the quote something that you think goes too far? Completely intemperate? Something that, seriously, honest people would disagree with? We ought to understand that The British are The Authorities? I was quoting due to the content of the quote, rather than making an appeal to the moral character of the man making it.

Is the quote something that you think goes too far? Completely intemperate? Something that, seriously, honest people would disagree with? We ought to understand that The British are The Authorities?

]]> By: Mike at The Big Stick http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2009/07/due-deference/#comment-15025 Mike at The Big Stick Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:36:31 +0000 http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/?p=6754#comment-15025 I mentioned above that I find Gates to be mostly wrong and the cops mostly right. I mentioned above that I find Gates to be mostly wrong and the cops mostly right.

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