This is news because the context is all about and only about race. This should be about individual rights -- where Gates is in the right -- and about respect shown to the people who protect society from crime -- where Gates is in the wrong.
But now it will be about neither. This will be a screaming, deafening howl about race and no good will come from it.
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“Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.”
“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.” William F. Buckley
