Gatesgate: a collection

Over the last ten days, VFR has had a huge number of entries on this story which some see as a possible historic turning point in America’s racial saga. To make the entries accessible, I’ve arranged them into two lists: a short list of the higher-priority items, and a long list of all the items, in chronological order. The document will be permanently linked on the main page.

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Gatesgate highlights

• Henry Louis Gates, confirmer of racial stereotypes [My first post on Gates, based on Officer Crowley’s arrest report (also called the police report), posted at VFR July 20, before the arrest report was removed from the Boston.com site on the morning of July 21.]

• The police report [Saved at VFR. This also includes Officer Figueroa’s report.]

• The black tactic to create “racist police” incidents, which whites keep falling for and empowering

• Comments on Gates [Lists all entries from the first two days of Gatesgate]

• Gates’s message to America [Gates sees a police officer at his door, and, because the officer is white, instantly knows that he, Gates, is in grave danger, justifying his outrageous behavior.]

• Gates’s version of the event [His long interview at The Root, with my commentary]

• Photographic proof that Gates is lying [Gates has said that he had a bronchial infection and didn’t and couldn’t raise his voice. The photo, which VFR has had lightened to make Gates’s features easier to see, shows him screaming his head off as the police arrest him.]

  Gates and the Signifying Monkey [Paul K. quotes earlier Gates writings showing that he believes in subversion of authority similar to what he displayed in relation to Officer Crowley.]

  Two waffling responses to Gatesgate [Heather Mac Donald and Richard Lowry undercut Crowley with relativistic treatment of what happened.]

  Will there be open political war on whites as whites?

  An exchange with a black reader [The reader says about the Gates incident: “It is quite painful the way that black people are targeted by police in this county” I reply: “The reality is that blacks commit far more crime, which you translate into ‘police are targeting blacks.’ You have flipped reality on its head, turning good into bad and bad into good.”]

  The charge against Crowley becomes ever more refined, finally arriving at his true offense against liberalism [You’ll have to read it to find out.]

  Police speak out on their ability to arrest people for disturbing the peace [Dealing with the troubling information that in many jurisdictions, police cannot arrest a person solely for insulting and berating and cursing an officer. However, I point out that Crowley did not arrest Gates for insulting him, but for disturbing the peace and engaging in tumultuous behavior.]

Chronological full list

• Henry Louis Gates, confirmer of racial stereotypes

• Police report on Gates arrest removed from Boston Globe website

• Gates arrest police report rediscovered and secured [A permanent copy of the suppressed report is available at this entry.]

• The suppressed police report, saved at VFR. (Note: it was suppressed not only by the Boston Globe but by the Cambridge Police.. See entry further down in this list.)

• An html copy of the main part of the police report.

• Gatesgate [my theory of Gates’s behavior]

• Lockdown on the truth: the Boston Globe has now removed the second copy of the police report

• Charges dropped

• The results of the suppression of the police report [People have entirely false notions of what happened. Thus Robert VerBruggen at the conservative blog Phi Beta Cons is under the impression that Gates was arrested for breaking into his own home.]

• The Cambridge Police Department, like liberal dhimmis, refuse to release the Gates arrest report [Includes a discussion on whether the Globe was justified in suppressing the report because it was leaked rather than officially released]

• The black tactic to create “racist police” incidents, which whites keep falling for and empowering
• Gates’s, uh, narrative? [Link to his interview at The Root giving his version of what happened.]

• Gates demands apology from Officer Crowley [Text of New York Times article, with my comments]

• Gates’s message to America [The vicious derogation of white people that is at the heart of Gates’s message]

• Gates’s version of the event [His long interview at The Root is copied in full, accompanied by my commentary]

• A correction [I had said that Gates had followed Crowley to the street, in fact he had stopped on his front porch.]

• Gates and the Signifying Monkey [Paul K. quotes earlier Gates writings showing that he believes in subversion of authority similar to what he displayed in relation to Officer Crowley.]

• Officer Crowley: “I’m not apologizing” [A man, not a signifying monkey.]

• Photographic proof that Gates is lying [Gates has said that he had a bronchial infection and didn’t and couldn’t raise his voice. The photo, which VFR has had lightened to make Gates’s features easier to see, shows him screaming his head off as the police arrest him.]

• Report by second officer at the scene [Officer Figueroa’s report.]

• Obama on Gates [If he didn’t know the facts, why did he intrude into a local police matter and pronounce on the rights and wrongs of what happened? Only a stupid man, a hopeless schmegegy, would have done such a thing. Or else someone totally immersed black racial victimology.]

• O. does his own version of the O.J. acquittal sack dance, not realizing or caring what it says about him

• Turning the tables [Drudge cleverly juxtaposes photos of Crowley and Obama, with Crowley looking askance at “stupid” Obama.]

• Crowley speaks, other police speak [Media interviews.]

• Crowley: Obama “Way Off Base”

• The shapeless liberalism that calls itself conservatism [Writer at Rod Dreher’s “Crunchy Con” blog shows complete cluelessness on Gates matter.]

• When Obama does bad, America does good [Lawrence Kudlow says Obama’s disastrous press conference on health care and Gates sent stock market soaring.]

• So go ahead, Obama, make Rush Limbaugh into a race conscious defender of white America. Come on, punk, make my day.

• What do Gates’s defenders want? [They want black enemies of society to rule the police.]

• Obama’s message [White police officers are racists.]

• The idiot president “clarifies” his remarks

• Everyone in this story, including all the authority figures, is black, except the target

• Comments on Gates (and Obama), July 23

• Limbaugh and now Mike Gallagher show signs of waking up

• Why the alien-in-chief is not a nice man [Not directly on Gatesgate, but is related to theme of Obama’s alienation from toward America.]

• Resistance to the Gates/Obama outrage growing [Cambridge Police union calls on Obama to apologize.]

  Crowley’s actions backed up by black fellow officer

• Obama’s hilarious post modern shuffle [Commenter: “According to Obama, both men were wrong and both were right. Both over-reacted but both are good people. That’s how post-racial transcendence works.”]

• Two waffling responses to Gatesgate [Heather Mac Donald and Richard Lowry undercut Crowley with relativistic treatment of what happened.]

• Will there be open political war on whites as whites?

• Open political war against whites, cont. [Disturbing quotes of virulent anti-white and anti-Republican comments at liberal website Salon. LA: “Given that the GOP is hated for its non-existent devotion to the defense of white America, isn’t it obvious that for the same price the GOP could actually be devoted to the defense of white America?”]

• What an idiot, cont.

• Rasmussen: 51 percent of Americans now disapprove of Obama [L-dotter: “Out-gaffing Biden is starting to pay dividends.”]

• Too much of nothing: Obama exposed [Do Obama’s incredibly stupid comments show him to be the “empty black suit”?]

• An exchange with a black reader [The reader says about the Gates incident: “It is quite painful the way that black people are targeted by police in this county” I reply: “The reality is that blacks commit far more crime, which you translate into ‘police are targeting blacks.’ You have flipped reality on its head, turning good into bad and bad into good.”]

• How Gates views America [A 2006 VFR entry on Gates’s PBS series, “African-American Lives.” In this program, everything about America and whites is negative, everything about “African-Americans” is positive.]

• Facts are stubborn, but so are people [The waffling of some conservatives on what happened at Henry Gates’s house continues, along with defenses of the waffling. A constant theme in the comments of all liberals and some conservatives is the way they keep sticking the incident into some narrative they have in their own head, instead of looking at the facts.]

• The latest charge: Crowley “confronted” Gates [Robert VerBruggen of NRO’s Phi Beta Cons blog evidently sees normal and proper police investigation of a reported crime as illegitimate, justifying Gates’s behavior. So many “conservatives” are really libertarians.]

• Contempt of cop [A commenter offers a good summing up of what happened at Gates’s house and the rights and wrongs of it.]

• Having abandoned their unsustainable Big Lie on Gates, the left comes up with a new twist [namely that Crowley shouldn’t have arrested Gates because the charges wouldn’t stick. Ken Hechtman explains the usual disposition of disorderly conduct arrests, I quote the New York State Penal Code’s definition of disorderly conduct, and John B. responds Slate article which claims that disorderly conduct in Massachusetts is limited to behavior that might cause a riot.]

• The charge against Crowley becomes ever more refined, finally arriving at his true offense against liberalism [You’ll have to read it to find out.]

• How the Boston Globe sought to make readers believe that a one-paragraph version of Crowley’s report was the real thing

• Police speak out on their ability to arrest people for disturbing the peace [Dealing with disturbing news that in many jurisdictions, police cannot arrest a person solely for insulting and berating and cursing an officer. However, I point out that Crowley did not arrest Gates for insulting him, but for disturbing of peace and engaging in tumultuous behavior.]

• If police in the U.S. have become robocops, whose fault is that? [An offshoot from the main topic of police supposedly targeting blacks. Leftist commenter Ken Hechtman argues that police now have an adversarial stance toward everyone, not just to blacks.]

• Black racism, truth, and audio tape [Greta van Susteren’s playing of the tapes is devastating to Gates and supportive of Crowley. I also deal with the question of Lucia Whalen not telling police that the breakers-in were black.]

• More on Whalen’s interaction with Crowley and the reported race of the men [A further possible explanation of Crowley’s saying that Whalen told him the men were black.]

• A beer at the White House?

• David Horowitz, champion of white awakening! [Horowitz, an intolerant champion of Obama until a couple of months ago, celebrates the white resistance to PC in the Gates matter.]

• Dear Officer Crowley [I plead with Crowley not to go to White House get-together with Gates and Obama.]

• Glenn Beck calls Obama a racist

• Another reason Crowley should not go [Obama never apologized, as Crowley’s own union called on him to do]

• The Times’ Ethicist on Gatesgate [The NYT’s official “Ethicist,” a former joke writer for David Letterman, says that Gates should sue Crowley.]

Posted by Lawrence Auster at July 30, 2009 12:04 AM | Send