Leftist Blogs Defend Police Brutality In Student Tazering

[king of the world]

i said that cuz , everyone was saying that about vick.

and stop painting this whole incident into unequal shit. the dude got his question and kept on going. when he did not stop talking , they wanted to get him off the stage but the motherfucka refused. so you zap a dumbass that refused.

[killerweed420]

Still no justifiable reason why this loud mouth should have been tazered.
How many officers were in that room?
And they couldn't escort him off the premises.
Why did't they just ask Kerry if he was causing too much of a disruption?
Anybody know how widespread steroid use in the police force?
Anybody know what steroids do there pea brains?

[Dutch Pimp]

Here is a portion of an eyewitness account from a student called Tyler Antar that was there.

So I went to the John Kerry town hall forum this morning trying to get students registered to vote. I run a student government organization called Chomp the Vote. Anyway I went inside to watch the event. Senator Kerry took the podium and began delivering a speech about the Middle East, Iraq, dimplomacy, etc. Anyway, after he was done, a university ambassador asked Kerry a few premade questions. Once that was over, Senator Kerry announced he would take questions from the students. There were two
microphones placed on each side of the aisle. One on my side and the other on Andrew Meyerâ??s side. Senator Kerry began answering the studentâ??s questions from each aisle. Eventually it was announced that there would only be a few more questions answered. Since Meyer and I were both in the back of each line, it did not seem likely that our questions would be answered.
However, while Senator Kerry was responding to a studentâ??s question, all of a sudden Meyer rushed to the microphone with cops in pursuit. At that point no one knew what was going on. Could he have a gun, a bomb? Immediately, Meyer began yelling into the microphone that he had been waiting in line forever and that Senator Kerry should â??spend time to answer everyoneâ??s questions!â?� Senator Kerry tried to calm the student down by telling him that he would â??stay here as long as it takes to get the questions answered.â?� The police approached Meyer who began taunting them by saying â??what! are you going to taser me? are you going to arrest me?!â?� The police grabbed Meyer, but Senator Kerry asked the
police to let him go and that he would answer his question. Senator Kerry finished answering the other studentâ??s question and then proceeded with Meyer. (*This entire scene is not in any video I can find so far. This is why 2 cops are seen right behind Meyer at the start of some videos*).

[jakez]

Yeah, he had gun/bomb which is why he was franticly(sp?) trying to approach the MICROPHONE to speak...

So the worst case I can find against this guy is that he might have butted someone people in line and was rude or something? So let's arrest him...

If this was all 'done by the books' as some say, well if I was one of those police officers and I had to do that to someone my letter of resignation would be handed in the next day..

[Psycho4Bud]

Sounds now like ol' boy has a history of doing this type of crap. Big on getting his ass on you-tube.............guess some people have strange ways of "catching a buzz".

Have a good one!:s4:

[ntcrawler]

The guy got what was coming. He resisted not once, not twice, but three times!!!!!!

I didn't even know about Dutch Pimp posted so that just reinforces my view. I had a good video but they seemed to pull it off of youtube? You can still see it though if you search but when you click it it will not go to the video.

[Zimzum]

Better a tazer then a gun. And in a "3rd world dictatorship" he would have just been shot, no questions asked. He lives another day to go do whatever the hell he wants to do. I give a :thumbsup: to those leftest blogs for not falling off the edge of lunacy.

[texas grass]

cops have too much power in american now days. they are the biggest criminal gang in america, their policy is shoot first ask later, so many instances where multiple cops unload 1 and before 2 full clips on unarmed people. it proves in america you dont have right to free speech

[king of the world]

if your resisting arrest , you get tazered. whats wrong in this case?

[pisshead]

The meaning of that Kerry fracas In Florida [align=left] Paul Craig Roberts
Online Journal
Wednesday September 19, 2007[/align]
Naïve Americans who think they live in a free society should watch this video filmed by students at a John Kerry speech September 17, Constitution Day, at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
At the conclusion of Kerryâ??s speech, Andrew Meyer, a 21-year old journalism student was selected by Senator Kerry to ask a question. Meyer held up a copy of BBC investigative reporter Greg Palastâ??s book, Armed Madhouse, and asked if Kerry was aware that Palastâ??s investigations determined that Kerry had actually won the election. Why, Meyer asked, had Kerry conceded the election so quickly when there were so many obvious examples of vote fraud? Why, Meyer, went on to ask, was Kerry refusing to consider Bushâ??s impeachment when Bush was about to initiate another act of military aggression, this time against Iran?
At this point the publicâ??s protectors -- the police -- decided that Meyer had said too much. They grabbed Meyer and began dragging him off. Meyer said repeatedly, "I have done nothing wrong," which under our laws he had not. He threatened no one and assaulted no one.
(Article continues below)


But the police decided that Meyer, an American citizen, had no right to free speech and no constitutional protection. They threw him to the floor and Tasered him right in front of Senator Kerry and the large student audience, who captured on video the unquestionable act of police brutality. Meyer was carted off and jailed on a phony charge of â??disrupting a public event."
The question we should all ask is why did a United States senator just stand there while Gestapo goons violated the constitutional rights of a student participating in a public event, brutalized him in full view of everyone, and then took him off to jail on phony charges?
Kerryâ??s meekness not only in the face of electoral fraud, not only in the face of Bushâ??s wars that are crimes under the Nuremberg standard, but also in the face of police goons trampling the constitutional rights of American citizens makes it completely clear that he was not fit to be president, and he is not fit to be a US senator.
Usually when police violate constitutional rights and commit acts of police brutality they do it when they believe no one is watching, not in front of a large audience. Clearly, the police have become more audacious in their abuse of rights and citizens. What explains the new fearlessness of police to violate rights and brutalize citizens without cause?
The answer is that police, most of whom have authoritarian personalities, have seen that constitutional rights are no longer protected. President Bush does not protect our constitutional rights. Neither does Vice President Cheney, nor the attorney general, nor the US Congress. Just as Kerry allowed Meyerâ??s rights to be Tasered out of him, Congress has enabled Bush to strip people, including American citizens, of constitutional protection and incarcerate them without presenting evidence.
How long before Kerry himself or some other senator will be dragged from his podium and Tasered?
The Bush Republicans with complicit Democrats have essentially brought government accountability to an end in the US. The US government has 80,000 people, including ordinary American citizens, on its "no-fly list." No one knows why they are on the list, and no one on the list can find out how to get off it. An unaccountable act by the Bush administration put them there.
Airport Security harasses and abuses people who do not fit any known definition of terrorist. Nalini Ghuman, a British-born citizen and music professor at Mills College in California was met on her return from a trip to England by armed guards at the airplane door and escorted away. A Gestapo goon squad tore up her US visa, defaced her British passport, body searched her, and told her she could leave immediately for England or be sent to a detention center.
Professor Ghuman, an Oxford University graduate with a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, says she feels like the character in Kafkaâ??s book, The Trial. "I donâ??t know why itâ??s happened, what Iâ??m accused of. Thereâ??s no opportunity to defend myself. One is just completely powerless." Over one year later there is still no answer. [Music Scholar Barred From U.S., but No One Will Tell Her Why, By Nina Bernstein, New York Times, September 17, 2007]
The Bush Republicans and their Democratic toadies have, in the name of "security," made all of us powerless. While Senator John Kerry and his Democratic colleagues stand silently, the Bush administration has stolen our country from us and turned us into subjects.