Posted on 09/18/2007 10:45:47 AM PDT by Jay777
Amazing how many clowns on this forum are claiming this idiot was somehow wronged.
I’m a cop. Although not a big guy, I can handle physical situations pretty well. Having said that, the taser would have been my first choice. It’s better for me, better for the idiot getting arrested - he doesn’t get busted up and my hand doesn’t get hurt.
I’ve taken the full five second taser ride. Sure, it hurts. When it stops, though, it’s over.
There’s a lot of misguided keyboard commandos jumping on the cops here. I’d love to see the lot of ‘em in a situation like those cops had to deal with...
Then what are you still doing here, asshole?
You are welcome to leave any time you want.
FReepmail me if you need help scraping together enough money for a plane ticket.
This looks like a set up. This guy seemed to have planned it and probably hopes to collect some money.
he is like the character Gilderoy Lockhart in the Harry Potter stories, who after getting hit with a spell, said, "Of course, I knew exactly what spell you were going to do before you did it, and if I had wanted to stop it, it would only have been too easy."
I blame Kerry here because he allowed the student to line jump and then began listening to him. He should have said he would stay for further questions but that the student had to go back to his original place in line. Since he didn’t, the situation became somewhat unclear for the school. Should the student still be treated as a disrupter when Kerry recognized him and gave him the floor, then apparently tried to regain the floor? Kerry was the one who accommodated the disrupter and made it difficult for the campus cops to determine whether he was still a disrupter. Kerry should have had the cahones to tell him to go back in line and wait his turn. I don’t blame the cops here at all. I do think the kid was encouraged by Kerry’s intransigence.
I don’t think the question was embarrassing to Kerry at all.
I think he agreed with the fellow moonbat. The book the guy mentioned was one Kerry had read and recommended.
That statement that the election was stolen from Kerry is what Kerry has always thought.
Impeach Bush? Kerry would love nothing better.
I’m just surprised that Kerry didn’t come off the podium and hug the guy.
They just had to include this:)
During the 2004 campaign, protesters were occasionally ushered off of the premises by Secret Service officers assigned to protect President Bush. In one incident, in West Virginia in July 2004, two protesters at a Bush event say they were arrested for refusing to cover up their anti-Bush T-shirts.
He wasn’t arrested for speaking his mind. He was removed from a microphone after being given plenty of time to express himself but then abused the courtesy by filibustering ad nauseum. Perhaps if he’d put together a coherent question and posed it calmly, he would have been granted more time.
He wasn’t tased for speaking his mind, either. He was tased for physically resisting being removed from the microphone and trying to break free as they attempted to peaceably escort him from the arena so that the discussion could continue.
If he wanted to speak on his own terms, he certainly had the right to arrange his own forum and see who would show up. Instead, he chose to usurp/disrupt someone else’s.
People who complain about the taser should remember what it was designed to replace — the nightstick. Would you have preferred to see that having been employed instead?
Sorry, folks. The police are not going to wrestle with unruly subjects and thus risk their weapons being taken during the struggle. They will instead utilize means that will serve to neutralize the physical violence that do not involve grappling.
Having never been tasered...is one able to repeatedly scream “ please don’t taser me” while being tasered or is that just part of the rehearsed “confrontation”?
Brilliant post. Thank you.
John Kerry went on to say “I object to the treatment of that young man, much as the way I objected to the actions of American soldiers in Vietnam, who carried on not at all unlike the hordes of Ghengis Kahn,, stop me if you have heard this one before”
I've heard that John Kerry was in Vietnam.
I’ve never been tasered either, but I imagine one would be at a loss for words for a bit.
Ok, I watched it. I don’t even believe he WAS tasered. I believe he was trying to pay for his college education with a stunt that might get him a fat settlement.
A taser is supposed to incapacitate a person for a few seconds at least, and this guy was running his mouth nonstop betweent the “don’t tase me” and the “what did I do?”
Lots of OW! OW! in between. Not one significant pause. Plus the officers had their hands on him, did they get a jolt too?
I think he’s just waiting for Edwards to drop out so he can announce his candidacy.
Translation: I had nothing to do with it! And if I did it’s my staff’s fault.
Yes, I concur.
I love it.
Happens all the time at these political events.
Happened at a Bush event, Gore event, Hillary event, Fred Thompson event, Kerry event.
Happens all too often if you ask me. This kid at the Kerry rally did not do anything wrong from the tape I watched.
He asked a question of Kerry concerning his skull and bones affiliation. Boom, grab him.
And they did. When all he did was “rightfully” try to understand why they were arresting him.
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