Heretic’s Hideout

I’m getting sick of reading about and seeing videos of people getting stunned with tasers for minor nuisance offenses. Some guy at FSU had the nerve to stand up at an open microphone and ask questions about why John Kerry didn’t contest the election that he lost to Bush, and why he hasn’t supported impeaching Bush, and the cops drag him out of the auditorium and hit him with a taser. Is this how a free democratic society is supposed to operate?

This happens over and over and over, and it is going to continue. See this article, The Tasering Will Continue Until You All Submit.

I have argued in the past that the device is just begging to be abused. When police have to decide whether to use lethal force, they are much more reserved in their judgment. But when you give them an option that is supposed to incapacitate without causing permanent damage, whats to think about? Just hit them with the taser and sort it out in court, right? Despite the evidence that tasers have been at least partly responsible for perhaps hundreds of deaths, the police continue to show that they are not squeamish about shocking someone into submission when ever they feel ‘threatened’. I know there are a lot of good officers out there and this type of behavior reflects badly on them. But this type of anti-American, anti-freedom abuse of authority needs to be addressed quickly, before addressing it gets you tasered.

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