Actually, the charges were dropped because the officer did act stupidly. You cannot arrest a man in his house speaking his mind. You claim to be for individual rights. What about Gates' individual rights? He was speaking to authority the same way you do in this fray. Well, actually, he was doing it face to face whereas you hide behind several sock puppets. Britesnide got run off this Fray not by a conservative poster but a liberal one who called him on behavior of trying to make everything posted hate speech.

So tell me, what rule of law was Obama undermining? It certainly wasn't the 1st amendment.
Nor was it the 4th? Maybe it's those pesky amendments that John Yoo kept writing memos about to circumvent.