Cops on leave after Taser incident, student's behavior under scrutiny - CNN.com

Cops on leave after Taser incident, student's behavior under scrutiny - CNN.com:

"(CNN) -- Two University of Florida police officers were placed on leave
with pay after using an electronic stun gun to subdue a student who was
questioning Sen. John Kerry at a campus forum, the school's president said
Tuesday. Student Andrew Meyer is surrounded by university police in Gainesville,
Florida, on Monday. But the student's behavior and past activities are prompting
questions about whether the incident was part of a stunt."

It is good to know that there are going to be investigations and that there might be charges. The student was clearly out of line, he was provoking an incident. The police should have handled the situation better though, they had enough officers, and had him on the floor in cuffs when they tasered him.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Was the tasing of the moonbat a publicity stunt?

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Was the tasing of the moonbat a publicity stunt?:

"CNN’s all over it. He gave a video camera he’d brought with him to the student
next to him and asked her to film him — right before he started laying into
Kerry. His demeanor “completely changed” once he was in the squad car and away
from the cameras, say the cops; “you didn’t do anything wrong,” he allegedly
told them — before asking if there were any cameras in the jail they were taking
him to. He had no ID on him at the time of the arrest according to what he told
the cops with 1:57 left in this afternoon’s video — but he did have a business
card for his dopey vanity website, per the CNN report."

There seem to be plenty of these kind of journalism students at my school too - I am a journalism major so they are in my classes. They hate the government and think that it is evil and corrupt. They hate the media and think that it is biased and stupid. What I don't understand is why they want to be journalists, working in the media, talking to the government. The other interesting point, is how they seem so blinded by their own hatreds and feels of moral uprightness that they don't see their own bias. This is a publicity stunt, plain and simple, he was not asking questions. He was verbally attacking Kerry.

You know Kerry hasn't got this much press since the 70s.

Political Radar: Kerry Condemns Heckler Arrest

Political Radar: Kerry Condemns Heckler Arrest:

"ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday comdemned the arrest
of a University of Florida student at one of his speeches, saying that he was
engaged in a 'good healthy discussion' with 21-year-old Andrew Meyer when he was
Tasered and taken into custody."

Could and should have Kerry attempted to do more to stop the arrest and the subsequent violence that followed. He verbally attempted to calm the situation, and said that he wanted to answer the question. However should he have been more forceful or come off the stage?

STUDENT TASERED FOR ASKING SEN KERRY ABOUT VOTER SUPPRESSION

McCain caught lying about Iraq report

Kerry slams Boehner again over the GOP leader's outrageous "small price" comment - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

Kerry slams Boehner again over the GOP leader's outrageous "small price" comment - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth:

"'Assure him that for any parent, it is not a small price for any
community in America that's been attending those funerals, it is not a small
price, and I'd like to see the Republicans show the same kind of outrage that
they seem to reserve for partisan purposes for as outrageous a comment as that,
that suggests dying in Iraq is a small price.' He said."

There are no small prices in war. That being said, if 100 soldiers die, if a thousand die in Iraq today, to prevent an attack on America that could kill thousands, and wound even more, what costs more. The words that he choose were poorly chosen and he should have expressed himself better. The message that he was trying to put out there, is that the soldiers know that their lives are put on the line to save their country. The country that is worth more to them.

American Voters, Please Don't Throw Me In The Briar Patch

American Voters, Please Don't Throw Me In The Briar Patch

In the run-up to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, when it was not yet
clear who Bush's opponent would be that November, Rove and his aides had begun
to fear that their most dangerous foe would be then-Sen. John Edwards of North
Carolina... But instead of attacking Edwards, Rove's team opened fire at
Kerry.Their thinking went like this, [Rove lieutenant Matthew] Dowd explained [after the election]: Democrats, in a knee-jerk reaction to GOP attacks, would rally around Kerry, whom Rove considered a comparatively weak opponent, and make him the party's nominee.

There are two things that I want to say about this, first of all it looks like this tactic worked. While we will never know who would have won if another choice had been made by republicans. The second thing, is that while many on the left are going to get upset about this, don't blame republicans, blame yourselves. If you voted on ideas, and who you thought would be the best leader for the country, this ploy would have been useless. In the future you can be sure that they will attempt other such tactics. The easiest way to get the best candidate is to vote for the person you think will do the best job.

John Kerry on Jon Stewart's show