you will respect our au-thor-i-tas!

[riffraff]

university police rent-a-cops tased this guy for asking questions in a vociferous manner during a q&a session with John Kerry

Comments

[unapro]

fuck that!
Kerry even told the cops "just let me answer his question"

[jhandfield]

Attention whore. He reminds me of the tree loonies we had in Warren a few years back.

Planned and executed, he got the attention he so sorely desired.

[riffraff]

Whether or not he was loony (though I think his question was quite reasonable; witness at the end Kerry's attempt to answer it), his words and actions in no way merit tasing.

Justin, if you had a beef with someone and asked a sincere question, would you be happy if you were treated that way by "authorities"? Step back for a moment and view this incident as a data point on our society's growing trendline toward fascist authoritarianism. This isn't about one person and it's not about what we think of him, it's about the response that non-mainstream, out-of-the-box, "radical" thinking provokes these days.

[jhandfield]

Apples and oranges

[jhandfield]

True, he may have been over-the-top in the way he chose to frame his argument, and true, that is definitely not the best way to promote an open and free exchange of ideas. I simply think that the University police response was also over-the-top and misguided; why not simply shackle him and remove him? Were they so drunk with power that they decided they must make a public example of him and stun him with a taser

[cairyn]

I got up and walked away during the tasering. I want to vomit. That's absolutely revolting. He was talking, and Kerry was willing to answer. Tasering was an over the top response. I saw this right away when you posted it, but it's 1:18 now and CNN has only had it up for 49 minutes. WRONG WRONG WRONG.

I can not express how upset I am with so many aspects of this. It's just so... Wrong.