Kerry Condemns Heckler Arrest (and tasering)

ABC ^ | 18 Sep 07 | Rick Klein

[armymarinemom]

I take it that Kerry could see what was going on when he asked to answer his question and then said “Unfortunately he isn’t able to come up here and swear me in as President”. What a doofus.

[JennysCool]

I have never had a dialogue end this way," Kerry said in a statement.

They usually end in a deep, almost impenetrable, sleep.

[Jay777]

I agree with Kerry’s words too. We’re not arguing that. We are arguing the sincerity...and the one sentence that he wasn’t aware. Bwahahahah! Watch the video. He was aware.

[ChurtleDawg]

the police went WAY overboard. The kid was asking unpleasant questions, but Kerry is a grown man and a US Senator, and should be able to defend himself from a college heckler.

[Sloth]

“I didn’t know he was being tasered because I have such a wide stance.”

[pabianice]

[Tolsti]

He was rambling on with that palast stuff that Kerry won.

This is mentally ill behavior imo, and they should straight jacket him after tazing and put on heavy haldol until he dies of old age in the ward.

[Bahbah]

lol.True.

[rhombus]

The kid was wrestling with the cops and would not be subdued. He’s lucky he didn’t get the Rodney King treatment. All he had to do was let them escort him away.

[petercooper]

“George W. Bush owns a taser company”

[2001convSVT]

I think that you are right. The student should have a good suit against the University and University police. After hearing the audio a Florida jury will probably make the student Florida’s newest millionaire.

[Mr. Mojo]

"I regret enormously that a good healthy discussion was interrupted."

I strongly suspect the discussion in question was neither healthy nor good.

[roses of sharon]

His father must be embarrassed as hell! Let us pray he is sent to a Military school straight away.

[JFC]

He must have listened to RUSH before he made his remarks.

LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE KERRY!

[TexasCajun]

"I was witness to civilian arrest, torture, ... "

[airborne]

Am I missing something?

Nowhere in Kerry’s statement do I see that he “condemned” the arrest.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The video shows that the heckler wasn’t tasered for heckling — he was tasered for vigorously resisting being evicted.

An old and tired anarchist trick (and one that the MSM falls for every time) is to: (1) escalate things physically, to the point where police have to react with force; (2)scream “police brutality” (or some such); (3) play the victim card for all it’s worth. The objective is to turn the masses against the state, for abusing its authority (i.e. being a "police state").

[JPJones]

"I believe I could have handled the situation without interruption,"

"I had a plan to handle the situation"

[brownsfan]

This got just a passing mention on the news. Now if this were a liberal student badgering a Republican candidate and he/she got tasered... woooooaaah. Stop the presses! It would be everywhere.

[Sloth]

The objective is to turn the masses against the state, for abusing its authority (i.e. being a "police state").

Suits me. The US is a police state.