UF student Tasered after questioning John Kerry

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers. People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them.

 

Hondo REALLY REALLY REALLY does love me.

Man, I never thought I'd see the day.

My kid's a bouncer at his university pub. He says 99 times out of 100, you can talk even the drunkest student out of the pub. He'd consider it a failure on his part if he had to use force.

 

You know Zeke, all this guy had to do was scream "Do it to Julia!" and I'm sure the cops would have let him up.

 

Let me guess, though: You're fine with the hero George Bush sitting in his chair for seven minutes for as much "My Pet Goat" as possible after being told "America is under attack."

Right?

And before anyone rips me for bringing Bush into it, it's no more ludicrous than attacking Kerry over this.

 

Kerry's put out a statement on the situation saying he didn't know the guy was tasered. Also, just as an FYI, UF's having a PC on this at three.

 

After checking the time stamps, DD and I are on some kind of spooky freaking mind meld.

 

Well then, did he by chance mention what he did think was happening when he suddenly heard the rat tat tat sound accompanied by the dude screaming ow ow ow and girls screaming "why are you doing that?"

 

That's awesome. DD, you just made my day.

 

Gotta get down to it
Cops are tasering us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew him and
Found him dead on the ground
How can you run when you know

 

Young JR is nice...until it's time to not be nice.

 

Knowing where your kid goes to school, I can attest that handling drunk students is no easy task!

 

The police weren't trying to arrest him at first. They were trying to escort him out for disrupting the meeting. He resisted their "guidance", shall we say.
Try this in any public circumstance and see what the cops' reaction will be. It goes from escorting you to another place to subduing you and taking you away. How much you resist -- and this kid NEVER stopped -- determines how the police will proceed.
The police had no way of determining how great a threat this kid was. And he was determined to convince them he was an extreme threat.