Comments about ‘Common-sense rule: Don't mess with cops’

Nothing like being paid to state the obvious.

A rational person's response to the cops request to "prove you belong in this house" situation is to politely comply, and thank them for serving and protecting you and your property.

The idiotic thing to do is to scream racial profiling and start pulling political strings and whine and complain that you are a victim. You are not a victim, you are a beneficiary of some highly trained officer of the law.

Even worse, is to be so easily manipulated into calling police stupid....

been targeted before. Like my self, when i was younger say 16 or 17 I was a black kid, who grew up in bountiful who also happened to have a 2 foot mohawk. I got targeted by police, now any time i have contact with the police, I don't completely trust them and I only want to do the bare minimum. With Mr. Gates being a black man in a white neighboorhood I wonder if it's the same thing. If you have been targeted you often don't trust the cops. The author of this article states the police wanted to search his house, In no way was he required to comply. He showed the cops his ID and without a search warrant they aren't allowed to go into a house. But tell a cop that and they will flip.

At least we get one civil guy to comment that it's not a racial thing, it's what the cops are trained to do.

As for Gates he's nothing more than a little boy, crying wolf. As for the cops in Cambridge, I salute all 3 that were involved in his arrest.

As for Obama, he's looking like a BIGGER FOOL as each day passes in his Presidency!!!!

How stupid this racists Gates was. He should have sincerely thanked the cops for looking out for him and his home. When a checker at the checkstand asks me for my ID when I write a check, I don't take offense; I instead feel thankful to them for looking out for me, lest someone other than myself writes a check drawn from my account.

Welcome to the American Police State where you can be arrested, handcuffed, and put in a cage for the "crime" of raising your voice at a public servant. What's going on? In the "land of the free", how can a person be assaulted and arrested in his own home for the "crime" of expressing his opinion?
The answer is complex but can be summarized with two facts, gun control and the erosion of personal responsibility. The vast majority of Americans have been effectivly disarmed by thousands of gun laws and brainwashed into believing that they are not personally responsible for defending their natural rights. The result is that the lawmakers and their enforcers are out of control. They no longer fear the people.
In a free society, a society with unrestricted access to guns, no one would be arrested for criticizing or yelling at a government employee. More importantly, no one would be arrested for exercising their natural rights. The authorities would not be able to commit the millions of crimes that they are currently committing.

Consider the following passage:
"...Ye shall not esteem one flesh above another, or one man shall not think himself above another;"
Mosiah 23:7

This being so...would it not also be right that one man should not think that he himself has "power" above another?