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Anger management: Harvard professor Gates arrested at Cambridge home – Local News Updates – The Boston Globe

Yes, of course this would have happened to a white professor who yelled at a cop. Common sense 101.

The police report said Gates was arrested after he yelled at the investigating officer repeatedly inside the residence then followed the officer outside, where Gates continued to upbraid him. “It was at that time that I informed Professor Gates that he was under arrest,” the officer wrote in the report.

Gates, 58, declined to comment today when reached by phone.

“He and I both raised the question of if he had been a white professor, whether this kind of thing would have happened to him, that they arrested him without any corroborating evidence,” said S. Allen Counter, a Harvard Medical School professor who spoke with Gates about the incident Friday. “I am deeply concerned about the way he was treated, and called him to express my deepest sadness and sympathy.”

via Harvard professor Gates arrested at Cambridge home – Local News Updates – The Boston Globe.

July 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments

#Gates #defense budget: back to 1963? 1975? 1993?

  1. This defense budget is a liberal dream, the rolling back of scores of hitherto invulnerable mega-programs. but …
  2. It remains to be seen what the budget will actually be after Congress gets done saving programs that protect jobs in the midst of the worst recession since 1945.
  3. People seem to forget that these defense spending waves are cyclical. A surge of dovish sentiment and force reduction in the 70s was followed by the Reagan rearmament. How much do you want to bet that we see another spending surge in 2017?

      Defense Secretary Gates just proposed the most sweeping overhaul of America’s arsenal — and of the Pentagon budget — in decades.  Major weapons programs, from aircraft carriers to next-gen bombers to new school fighting vehicles, will be cut back, or eliminated. Billions more will be put into growing the American fighting force, both human and robotic.

      via Gates Proposes Radical Overhaul of Pentagon Arsenal | Danger Room from Wired.com.

      April 7th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment