Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-28 Thread It's just a ride
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:26 PM, authfriend jst...@panix.com wrote: Until you've rode with cops on the beat for, say, 2 or 3 midnight shifts, I suggest you hold off on giving that opinion, Judy. No, I don't need to do that. It's ipso facto an abuse of authority. It's the corrupt (to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-28 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: snip I full well know how many pigs the cops have to deal with and when you're listening to the cops tell their story it all makes sense, sort of. Except other developed countries have cops and pigs they

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-28 Thread WillyTex
The cops got used to it and now expect to be abusive to all. .. Maybe so, Bill, but I don't see anywhere that Professor Gates is complaining about the cops being abusive - he's complaining that the cops who arrested him were racists and came to his house because he was a black man. Gates is

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-28 Thread It's just a ride
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:44 AM, authfriend jst...@panix.com wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: snip I full well know how many pigs the cops have to deal with and when you're listening to the cops tell their story it all makes

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-28 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: Barry must always be vicious. Says the person who vindictively posted porn to the Fairfield Life Files section and then went to the Yahoo administrators complaining about it, in an attempt to get FFL

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-28 Thread It's just a ride
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:52 AM, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com wrote: You cut out what I had to say so you can get the last word. Judy must always get the last word, Barry must always be vicious. Judy is the champion of liberal causes, especially gay rights. You are

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-28 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 8:44 AM, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@ wrote: snip I full well know how many pigs the cops have

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-28 Thread Sal Sunshine
On Jul 28, 2009, at 9:08 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Tom, before you get up on your moral high horse to complain about someone being vicious, I think it would behoove you to remember that your latest ID change has fooled no one and that we all know exactly who you are. Oops, I didn't. I was rather

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-28 Thread TurquoiseB
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Jul 28, 2009, at 9:08 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Tom, before you get up on your moral high horse to complain about someone being vicious, I think it would behoove you to remember that your latest ID change has

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu noozg...@... wrote: snip I think when I've only heard one commentator ask why didn't the neighbor know that was Gates? I guess this says a lot about our isolated society that the neighbor didn't know who lives across the street or nearby. And

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: snip The laws and procedure are taught in police academy but the how to's are taught in less public venues. One how to is in getting someone who's wasting your time and ticking you off to make a fatal

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-27 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@ wrote: snip The laws and procedure are taught in police academy but the how to's are taught in less public venues. One how to is in getting

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@ wrote: snip The laws and procedure are taught in police academy

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-27 Thread It's just a ride
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:55 PM, authfriend jst...@panix.com wrote: It's an abuse of authority in *all* cases. It shouldn't happen to a young white punk any more than to a middle- aged black college professor. However, as I've posted previously, we are laughed at in the UK and Europe

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-27 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.ride@

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-27 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-27 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-26 Thread WillyTex
shemp wrote: We shall see whether they support Crowley's and the black officer's report as to what happened. do you have any doubt they will back up the black officer? The bottom line is that it's illegal to make a comment about a cop's mother in public, so Gates got arrested. Gates not

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-26 Thread Bhairitu
It's just a ride wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:50 PM, authfriendjst...@panix.com wrote: Absolutely. And he should have refused. My point is that there was no reason for Crowley to have asked him to in the first place. I agree I'm saying Crowley *tempted* him, lured him,

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-26 Thread WillyTex
Bhairitu wrote: This whole issue is just a distraction the corporate press can use to keep the public attention off the health care bill and other more important issues... Well, I think Professor Gates was just looking for an excuse to cause a race riot. And, maybe Gates thought the

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-25 Thread Robert
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Jul 24, 2009, at 3:48 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: Here is what is confusing me about the Gates case. I have heard commentators say that Gates was racially profiled by the policeman who came to his home. Although

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-25 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunsh...@... wrote: On Jul 24, 2009, at 3:48 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: Here is what is confusing me about the Gates case. I have heard commentators say that Gates was racially profiled by the policeman who came to his home.

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-25 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine salsunshine@ wrote: On Jul 24, 2009, at 3:48 PM, shempmcgurk wrote: Here is what is confusing me about the Gates case. I have heard commentators say that Gates

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-25 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip There was no need for Gates to come onto the porch. Crowley appears to have told Gates to step onto the porch in hopes that Gates would continue to

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-25 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: snip There was no need for Gates to come onto the porch. Crowley appears to have

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-25 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: [snip] Apparently, Crowley's fellow officer -- who is Black -- backs up how Crowley conducted himself 100%. No surprise there. She has to continue

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-25 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcg...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: snip Apparently, Crowley's fellow officer -- who is Black -- backs up how

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-25 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jst...@... wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@ wrote: snip

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-25 Thread It's just a ride
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:50 PM, authfriendjst...@panix.com wrote: Absolutely. And he should have refused. My point is that there was no reason for Crowley to have asked him to in the first place. I agree I'm saying Crowley *tempted* him, lured him, enticed him into being disruptive in

[FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-25 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@... wrote: [snip] The laws and procedure are taught in police academy but the how to's are taught in less public venues. One how to is in getting someone who's wasting your time and ticking you off to make a

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-25 Thread It's just a ride
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 3:03 PM, shempmcgurkshempmcg...@netscape.net wrote: I'm snipping out everything else because I want to focus on the above. This is what, in effect, Judy referred to as luring.  And that's probably what Crowley did.  But luring is not necessarily a bad thing; it seems

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-25 Thread gullible fool
.’’ Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only love.    - Amma  --- On Sat, 7/25/09, It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com wrote: From: It's just a ride bill.hicks.all.a.r...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-25 Thread gullible fool
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Saturday, July 25, 2009, 3:24 PM On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:50 PM, authfriendjst...@panix.com wrote: Absolutely. And he should have refused. My point is that there was no reason for Crowley

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Racial profiling and the Gates case

2009-07-25 Thread It's just a ride
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 3:37 PM, gullible foolffl...@yahoo.com wrote: From: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/07/25/in_risky_field_suspicion_is_key_tool_officers_say/ In risky field, suspicion is key tool, officers say It's wry humor time whenever, in a learned