[Vision2020] Kerry speech/student tasered

[Mark Solomon]

Sunil,

Thanks for posting the link, I guess... more nightmares tonight.

m.

At 10:52 AM -0700 9/19/07, Sunil Ramalingam wrote:
>Saundra,
>
>You can hear him in the background droning on! 
>You don't hear him saying "Stop, this is 
>political speech,"  you don't hear him doing 
>anything to stop the officers.  No, he just 
>keeps mumbling.
>
>Sunil
>
>>From: "Saundra Lund" <sslund at roadrunner.com>
>>To: "'Sunil Ramalingam'" 
>><sunilramalingam at hotmail.com>,<vision2020 at moscow.com>
>>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Kerry speech/student tasered
>>Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:56:12 -0700
>>
>>Wow -- thanks, Sunil, for posting this even though it was deeply disturbing
>>to me.
>>
>>For those who might not click through to the link:
>>"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  “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? . . .
>>
>>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."
>>
>>Amen!
>>
>>
>>Saundra Lund
>>Moscow, ID
>>
>>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
>>nothing.
>>- Edmund Burke
>>
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
>>On Behalf Of Sunil Ramalingam
>>Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 10:18 PM
>>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>>Subject: [Vision2020] Kerry speech/student tasered
>>
>>http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts09192007.html
>>
>>Above is the address of an article about a speech yesterday by John Kerry.
>>A student gets up and asks a question (quoting from a book I've mentioned
>>here) and ends up getting grabbed by police officers and tasered in front of
>>
>>the crowd while Kerry drones on.  It's truly bizarre; the video link at the
>>end of the article shows it all happening.
>>
>>Sunil