Pretty much the entire blogosphere has weighed in on the Kerry heckler at the speech in Florida.
I agree with the inimitable LawDog's take on the matter. The kid was an ass who wanted his 15 minutes of fame. Well, he got a little more than he bargained for, and now he's crying like a schoolgirl with wet panties.
Boo fucking hoo.
Look, to those out there who use the "there were six cops and only one guy", what the fuck did you want the cops to do? Strongarm the kid into compliance? Oh, yeah, that would have gone over just fucking swimmingly - give the asshole 10 - 20 seconds of pure gold video of six burly cops wrestling with poor Mr. "Help! Help! I'm Being Repressed".
Bullshit.
This was a sponsored event, so knock off the First Amendment crap, too. Someone PAID for Kerry to speak, and that same someone told shit-for-brains that his time was up. There's no squelching of political speech here; it's a simple case of market forces - the guy who paid for the mike wants it back.
99.99 times out of 100, the person is asked to leave and complies. Or they are quietly escorted out. They don't have friends with video cameras placed in the fucking audience so their little drama play can go up on YouTube minutes after he's done "fighting the man". Had he left when asked, this wouldn't have been a story.
Were the cops wrong to taser this doofus-maximus? What are the other options the police could have taken?
1. Strongarm - force the kid into cuffs. Oh yeah, that would have had every Kossack and his comrade just SCREAMING brownshirt.
2. Let him go. Uh, no.
3. Wait him out. Why? Why should everyone else in the room be held hostage to a publicity seeking boor?
4. O.C. - in that crowd? Are you fucking serious? Let one - just one - student catch a single droplet of capsicum spray and the lawsuits would be flying.
5. Pain compliance technique - i.e. taser/nightclub. Folks, the cops went really fucking easy on this kid. They would have been perfectly within their rights to bodily drag him, kicking and screaming, out of the room. They could have stepped on his neck. Bent his arm back. Forced him bodily into submission. A shock with the taser to a subject who continues to resist is relatively mild.
And one last thing: Anyone claiming this dorkasaurus was a Republican because he questioned Kerry needs to
a) Learn how to fucking read; and
b) Get a fucking clue.
That is all.
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Since you'd mentioned that you were considering a move into the law enforcement field, I was wondering what your take on this was.
Yeah, I'm pretty amazed at the, er, Wussies out there who are aghast that any sort of enforcement was used other than "Simon says" or "if you wouldn't mind...". Sometimes, they don't comply, folks. And 6 people dragging away someone who is struggling against can lead to physical injury (and wouldn't the anti-enforcement folks love THAT lawsuit).
In the old days, he'd have been tazed & then taken outside where he'd have been given a quick attitude adjustment so as to ensure that he'd never think about doing it again. Now, he's got the publicity he so cherished and you just know the next wannabe is planning his move. Fame for a few minutes of 50K volts is a pleasurable deal, for some.
And to beat it all, dollars to donuts the college drops the charges. I mean, it's not like he was protesting an abortion clinic or anything....
In the old days, *ONE* cop would have grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and hauled him out of there.
And the first elbow he threw would have been his last, because he'd have been unconscious after it...
My take is that anyone that resists a police officer is in for a bad time. Plain and simple.
This douchebag was in it for the political theater, absolutely no doubt about it.
He is DAMN lucky the cops were as professional as they were - of course, a lot of that has to do with the 24/7 surveillance nowadays. And that's a good thing - just witness the @$$hole cop who tried to make stuff up in (where the hell was it again?) Keuhnhein I think the name was. Xavier Thoughts has info.
Personally, I would have preferred that instead of a taser they would have just knocked the shit out of him; that sort of thing tends to teach a lot better.
C'mon Jay... don't hold back your feelings. Suppressing like that could cause you trouble later in life, make you loose your hair... ;)
Oddly enough, my take is the same as yours: kid needs to learn that freedoms come with consequences. He got a 50K volt lesson, but i doubt that it'll stick. And, as I comented on LawDog's post: somebody that moonbatty ("somebody follow, so they don't kill me") is in desperate need of some "adjusting"...
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