Some Minnesota woman posting comments on Ann Coulter’s column about the Gates-Cambridge affair seems to be having trouble processing exactly what took place there and what it all means. Perhaps this woman should not bear the whole blame for her misunderstanding and confusion. After all, it isn’t as though “liberal” commentators, “journalists,” “academics,” “civil-rights ‘leaders’ ” and even U.S. presidents haven’t already disfigured the entire situation for entirely cynical, self-promotional and power-grubbing reasons.

Still, she gets extremely personal about it all. Emotional, too.

“Don’t Mess with My Rights,” she titles her post. And of course, it only slides straight downhill from there.

She continues: “The is [sic] great concern that police officers could enter the home of any American and arrest him or her citing ‘disorderly conduct’. [sic]”

Well, such may or may not be in fact a legitimate concern, but it is not, at any rate, what actually happened in this case. She continues: “It is unacceptable for a policer [sic] officer, white or other wise [sic] to enter my personal property and accuse me of disorderly conduct.” All of which is fine, as far as it goes, except that, again, it is not at all what took place at Cambridge.

This woman adds: “Such behavior from our police officers is not only ‘stupid’ but also very un-American.”

Well, it seems to us that, even if it had happened, it couldn’t be nearly as “stupid” as that entire post. Serious doubt arises whether this woman even has a clue what “un-American” means, because it is doubtful she knows what being American is about. She seems to think it’s about whatever she happens to feel like imagining are her “rights.”

If only someone would explain to these people what federalism and a constitutional republic are and what the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence do and do not guarantee. If only such people would take the trouble to learn about the responsibilities of individual and national self-government. Maybe then we could free our republic from these grotesque misapprehensions and misrepresentations of citizen liberties — which seem to have been revolutionized into some grasping, gluttonous, “gimme” frenzy.

No one’s “messing” with your “rights,” sister, so chill.

The Cambridge affair was a local police matter that got out of hand simply because some fathead, pampered, big-mouthed black fellow who sees Ku Klux Klan whenever he passes a clothesline and who thinks he’s “special” ’cuz his momma told him so and ’cuz “God don’t make junk” began shrieking and carrying on when there was no need.

That’s what happened. That and the fact that he and Obama play marbles together.

And so, all because of one self-impressed, narcissistic, expensively overeducated “African-American” imbecile, the entire nation has to be dragged through this Jerry Springer episode.