[Vision2020] Kerry speech/student tasered

Thu Sep 20 16:07:34 PDT 2007

Twenty or so years ago this wouldn't have been any kind of a story. Once this kid had worn out his welcome, whoever was running the show would have given the nod (it is my understanding that the officers did not act on their own initiative) to a pair of security people the size of sequoias who would have wrapped mitts the size of smoked hams around this silly rascals pipe cleaner biceps and frog marched him out the door in the twinkling of an eye. Resistance, as they say, would have been futile. The miscreant would have been left to sputter and fume ineffectually in front of the venue and soon, realizing that he was having no impact what so ever would have been force to hang his head  and shuffle on home, likely to change into a dry pair of trousers.

In today's "anyone can be anything no matter how ill suited they are" world, security consisted of a pair of diminutive lil' things that likely have a difficult time managing an unruly hair-do and thus we have our "news story." The kid is probably lucky tazers were available or he would likely be nursing injuries far worse than the indignity that befell him. That or he'd still be running around the auditorium until some real cops arrived. Either way, Kerry would have continued to drone on irrelevantly in the background. Heck, has anyone checked? He might well still be there.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Kerry speech/student tasered

> On this kids web site he has other occasions when he has 'diturbed the
> peace' and asked for all he got. His mic had been turned off by someone who
> thought he had gone on long enough so it wasn't just the cops who thought he
> had pushed his limits. Its just one more example of the current generation
> pushing the boundries and grownups being unable or unwilling to draw a line
> in manners and behavior.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Rumelhart" <godshatter at yahoo.com>
> To: "Sunil Ramalingam" <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com>
> Cc: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 7:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Kerry speech/student tasered
> 
> 
> I don't know what to think about this.  I'm usually one to jump on the
> authorities in cases like this, but now after watching the video on
> youtube (for some reason the video link in the story didn't work for
> me), I'm unsure.
> 
> I think the police, which I assume were campus security, were a little
> quick to try to remove him from the microphone and from the room.  I
> think that much of what he did at the end was theatrics.  I'm sorry, but
> when the police are moving you physically from the room (rightly or
> wrongly), you don't resist, you don't keep acting less and less calm,
> and you don't stupidly keep telling them "not to tazer me, man".  You
> comply, and you fight it in court.  When they have you on the ground and
> you won't give them an arm for the handcuffs they have only a limited
> number of options.  Physical force which can result in a dislocated
> shoulder, bruises, etc, or the tazer.
> 
> Kerry did say that he would answer the question, and that they needn't
> do what they were doing.  He mumbles, yes, but I did hear him say that.
> It's not like he answered the question by waving at the cops to take him
> away.
> 
> I've also read elsewhere that the person involved (I forget his name)
> was well-known for these kinds of things.  He likes to show up in public
> places and disrupt things.  I suppose the campus cops would think of him
> as an "agitator".  Many of the other students apparently think of him as
> a kook.
> 
> I am convinced that if he simply allowed them to remove him he wouldn't
> have been tazered.  They waited until he was on the ground and still
> thrashing around and acting up and warned him that they would use the
> tazer several times.  I think the police should review their rules for
> removing people from microphones at public events, but after they made
> the decision to remove him they didn't appear to me to use force until
> they had to.
> 
> That's not to say that the "tazer problem" (i.e. using it in situations
> when it shouldn't be used because it is non-lethal) isn't a real
> problem.  I just don't feel much sympathy for this guy.  He got his
> point out there.  Call it a win and sit back down, or let the cops lead
> you out of the room with something of your dignity left intact.
> 
> Paul
> 
> Sunil Ramalingam wrote:
>> 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
>>
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