It is NOT a big deal, right! People are getting treated way worse all over the place.
YES. They are, and that is why we dont need this to happen here.
America must ACT, otherwise we will have nothing to defend!
Check out these videos of my reaction to the Andrew Meyer shocks.

http://www.hotconflict.com/blog/2007/09/florida-student.html

And I should apologize. You gotta understand something. For some reason, we tend to attract conservatives on the attack, so I kinda tend to take an immediate defensive posture way too easily. My bad.

As for the police state, I was contemplating doing a follow up post because of this. You know I monitor our traffic pretty carefully, and where it’s coming from and we’ve had a pretty good surge lately based on google searches for this post alone, and I think it’s kinda silly. The way I see this situation is that it’s a dumb kid and a bumbling campus police force. We’re not even necessarily talking about real, on the street cops.

Anyway, what we saw was essentially a bunch of bad decisions compounding upon one another and not some ominous glimpse into a police state episode. Meanwhile, yesterday there were three vital filibusters, one directly against the US Constitution (restoration of Habeas Corpus).

This is the stuff we really need to be debating and talking about, but everyone’s stuck on this whole “police state” taser incident. I understand why it’s happening. On one hand you have boring Senate debate, research into the Constitution, and news articles and OpEd pieces to pilfer through, while on the other hand you have a single very compelling video.

It’s not hard to understand why people are driven to one and not the other. But the point is that while people are watching what they think is “police state” stuff, up in DC the actual real thing may be happening.

Finally, and this is funny, when you say you saw the same thing in my post that I saw in Malkin’s that kinda through me off and I just skimmed through, and was kinda like, “Oh…” Oops. My bad.

And finally, yes, easy on the eyes, but beyond that… Well… everything she says just pisses me off so damn much.

Again, thanks, don’t be a stranger, and I’ll see ya next time.

I meant it simply as an observation, because I thought the same thing about your post as you did Malkins. Yes, we agree on the situation. Besides the student and the officers; I, who didn’t vote for Kerry, didn’t think John Kerry had anything to do with the situation. He happened to be a person in the room, nothing more. Republicans would do better to ignore that angle. Democrats worried about a police state would do better to remember sentiments about Waco and look at this picture.

Hey, I’ve come back several times. You have good commentary. My first comment was meant as light commentary, not major critique. I’m sorry you took it wrong. I find Michelle easy on the eyes, but a bore to read or listen. I haven’t even looked at her commentary on the subject.

Which is why I maintain that much of what we see here is very much gray area.

And again, and I think a lot of people are mistakenly assuming I’m coming down on the side of the cops here, which I’m not, but what is seen in the video is that the cops initially attempt to peacefully (albeit while still laying hands) escort him from the premises, and only after he puts up physical resistence do they adopt more physical and violent means.

I mean, and I think this is really becoming my ultimate point here, even with camera footage, and everything else, the situation is far more complex to be immediately categorized as an event where a certain party was clearly right and a certain party was clearly wrong.

Um… reread the post, and read my comments in the discussion. for the most part we agree, or come very close to agreeing on the particulars. I brought Michelle Malkin into it because the only thing that kept her coverage of the event from being quite good was that she carried out attacks on Kerry which, from your comment, you yourself would disagree with. As for Bush, I was taking to task the absurdity of Ace who had claimed that there was a double standard, obviously ignoring a considerable history of Republicans taking great lengths to prevent protestors at their own rallies.

But going back to the particulars, I think we both agree that it is essentially too complex a situation to clearly say someone is irrefutably right and someone is irrefutably wrong, and both the kid and the police were at fault in a variety of ways.

But if it makes you feel good to come on here and ping me for whatever reason, feel free, not like you’re the first, and you most definitely won’t be the last.

A hypocrite. I find it amusing you can critique “The” Andrew Meyer, the gatorcops, John Kerry, and Michelle Malkin; yet you seem unable to take criticism.

Anyway, the kid did what he did as a stunt. He refers to himself in third person. The cops went overboard, but then they were given tasers as “non-lethal” force to handle such situations. If the kid had pulled a gun, a knife, or rush John Kerry, the question would be why didn’t the cops taser him. Society gives cops leeway because they have to make decisions in the heat of the moment, very quickly. We get to wait a day and ponder the situation for sometime before responding about how they went overboard.

Still, it was 4 on 1 with more coming. Why they couldn’t have dragged him into the hallway, I don’t understand. What the videos show and what witness reports say don’t match.

As for The Andrew Meyer… he planned his assault for days and carried off his ambush of John Kerry. His actions were completely premeditated and intended to draw attention to himself. I have no sympathy that the attention he got was something he didn’t bargain for. John Kerry had nothing to do with it. (Neither does Michelle Malkin or George Bush, even if Kyle Moore can’t be honest with himself about that).

Kid showed no class, but Kerry is a weak baby that deserves NO RESPECT even in such a setting. Poster child of a failure if the kid is going to be called one, and the semi-rant is nothing far from the truth. He didn’t physically attack someone so rentacops needs to serve time as well.

Had this kid got up there and read a speech praising Kerry they would have let him go on for hours. The fact that he was railing on him for caving in after the 2004 election gave the cops, for some odd reason, just cause to drag him out. This is just sick.