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Posts Tagged ‘Gates’
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Posted: 5th August 2009 by Brant in fun, politicsTags: civil liberties, fun, Gates
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Frank Rich on Gates-gate
Posted: 2nd August 2009 by Brant in culture, politicsTags: civil rights, Gates, republicans, wackos
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Straightforward analysis. Rich argues that the real dynamic at play is the reaction of a certain group of whites who are having real trouble accommodating to the reality that the US is on a direct path to becoming a minority white country. Read the whole article. Ground zero for this hysteria is Fox News, where [...]
Hitchens on Gates
Posted: 28th July 2009 by Brant in politicsTags: civil liberties, Gates, Hitchens, justice
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Christopher Hitchens argues persuasively that Gates shouldn’t have formed his defense on racial profiling, but on simple (but powerful) constitutional rights. Money quote: I can easily see how a black neighbor could have called the police when seeing professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. trying to push open the front door of his own house. And [...]
911 tape in Gates case released
Posted: 28th July 2009 by Brant in culture, politicsTags: civil liberties, Gates, justice
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It looks like the police may have more problems with the Gates arrest. The City of Cambridge released the 911 tape. The caller did not claim that she saw two men breaking into the house. The caller, Lucia Whalen, told the dispatcher she was calling on behalf of an older woman who lived on the [...]