Ah, so you're advocating fascism then. Good to know.

bullshit monologue? thanks, buddy. any politician worth his salt should have been able to take control of that situation in an instant. kerry was the reason the cops were there. he could have easily diverted the situation by suggesting to the guards to deal with the situation quickly and non-violently. you grow the fuck up, subrosa. the kid was obviously made responsible for his disruptive actions, but everyone involved failed in epic fashion. the irreverent kid failed to make his point, the dipshit cops failed to properly do their jobs and john kerry failed to take control of the forum, even though he was the focus of the room, and the only one in the room with a microphone.

as an aside to heathen dave ; at what point was this kid a threat to anybody in the auditorium? please explain that to me. granted, he resisted arrest, but he was being DISRUPTIVE at most. from the video i saw, he used a tone of voice that was irreverant and anti-authoritative. isnt that allowed in the constitution? maybe we should amend the constitution so it only protects free speech 'which heathendave deems as non-threatening.'
go back to cop school, you failed the first time. if you think he posed a threat to anybody in the auditorium other than himself, and merely by exercising his right to free speech, you are deluding yourself.

What private group? I haven't heard anything about a private group. Could you link them here? Because from every news article I've read about this incident seemed to make the implication that this was a University event. I could be mistaken though. BTW, a student organization isn't a private group, it still falls under the University.

Regardless, I'm still not clear on what actual crime was committed here. He was charged with resisting arrest and disturbing the peace, but wasn't that the result of the police escalation?

I've never been "tazed", but I work with electronics. Electricity is fucking dangerous. You can die from electricity. You can cause serious injury to yourself with electricity. Electricity is really fucking dangerous.

Tasers should be used as an alternative to lethal force, not to make cop's lives easier. Kid should have been simply removed from the room.

And that's besides the fact if they just would have let him ask his stupid question, like John Kerry suggested, this whole incident wouldn't have happened. Everybody with at least average intelligence would have simply rolled their eyes and we would have all moved on. Since there's the claim that he wants attention, did the cops give him exactly what he wanted?

1) He was a threat to other people in the audience once he began flailing and running about trying to get away from the police.

2) Stop talking before you hurt yourself.

I'm gonna give up, people are going to believe whatever they want to believe.

thanks for clearing that up!

Yup, that is a human trait.

It's called opinion. It's a good idea to use a informed reasoning process to shape it though.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.



That was funny.

See in a fascist country, that kid would not have asked his one stupid and retarded question to try and put Kerry on the stop because they would have arrested him at the screening.

Granted, since I heard he skipped the screening anyhow, in that case they would have grabbed him and given him the beating of a lifetime right there in front of everyone.

Then dragged him outside and shot him in the fucking head with an AK-47, before rounding up his family for interrogation and likely execution.

And they certainly would not have let anyone tape it.

What happened here was not fascism, it was a fucking kid being a dousche.

Of course, no one can blame the kid. They need to blame George Bush, John Kerry, and the cops who were there to maintain order (such as it was).

Mister 'I'll get up and walk away' should have done that before the six cops pinned him to the ground and cuffed him, and he should have stopped fighting when they first mentioned a tasering.

You taken every thing said here and twisted it to suit your inane rant.

'stop talking before you hurt yourself.'

magnificent argument.

'flailing and running about' ;

wow, serious threat.

youre the one impugning himself with his own bull-headed myopia, buddy. and, no, i wont 'stop talking', just because some smug punk-ass im dealing with reckons himself an authority on the matter. it just sounds like you have a problem with free speech in general ; again, symptomatic of a closed-minded idiot. all hail heathendave, or get a boot up your ass. let me guess, young republicans?

You are so woefully ignorant of both what happened with Meyer and who I am that I can't even imagine where to start. So I won't.

a student of a public university attended a public function at another public university. he attended the function with an agenda, and when he began to exercise his agenda via free-speech, the crowd groaned in disdain. cops interceded when the students voice reached a tone which they were trained to view as threatening and dangerous. the politician speaking at the function began to answer the students question, but it was too late. the cops had already began to 'take control' of the situation. the student resisted arrest, at which point he was forcibly and somewhat violently removed from the auditorium. his only mistake was resisting arrest. he was never a threat to anybody. the police used the tasers too soon.

woefully ignorant?

i couldnt care less who you are, specifically until you stop being a closed-minded douchebag. nobody has once made an argument here that the kid wasnt responsible for his own actions. he was never a threat to anybody in the auditorium. ever. he resisted arrest.

but, i must admit, youve piqued my curiosity now. who are you? you imply, perhaps, that you are personally involved on some level, or that you know something i dont. if this is true, please enlighten my obviously ignorant point of view.

Not what happened. Not gonna keep going with this though.