UF student Tasered after questioning John Kerry

Ya wanna know what's sad?

We (myself included) have babbled on and on for 18 pages about this attention-seeking little bitch and about who is right and who is wrong, this, that and the other fucking thing. Meanwhile, we have a true grass root civil rights demonstration going on in Jena, La. and I can't find a single thread on this board about it to save my life. Not saying there isn't one here, but it's certainly not displayed front center the way that this one is all week.

And we've done the same for OJ and fucking Paris and whatever Flavor of the Month skank fucked up this week. Yet thousands have descended on this small-assed town in Louisiana to protest six black kids that were initially charged with attempted murder while the white kids that allegedly provoked them got next-to-nothing and there's no uproar whatsoever.

God damn we've got some fucked up priorities in this country.

 

It might help to give us link to story instead of just pontificating.

 

Tasers -- An overview.

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1486
"A study by the Denver Post in May 2004 found that the Denver Police Department commonly used Tasers to gain compliance, not to avoid other forms of violence. The Post additionally found that officers sometimes even shocked handcuffed suspects with the painful device.
The Portland, Oregon newspaper Willamette Week, has reported on Oregon police using Tasers on people for nonviolent offenses, such as littering, jaywalking, and failure to obey an officer."

"commonly used...to gain compliance."
There's a word for that -- torture.
This used to matter in this country. Now it doesn't.

 

Fenian,

C'mon. You gotta admit that it is kind of funny to see someone jerking and writhing and screaming.

Cops don't make that much scratch. There have to be some perks.

 

Front page of the NYTimes, Boom;

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/us/21jena.html

 

It's because Jesse and Al are involved.
Immediately, I care less what the cause is, it loses all credibility to me.

 

And that's childish.

 

In this case, apparently, that standard won't work. From what I've read, there are matters such as a "white tree" where only the white students congregated (and nooses hung in the tree the day after a black student got permission to sit there), and an incident in which some black students took a shotgun from a threatening white student and only the black students were charged. And yes, a white student was beaten by several black students. So there's plenty of blame to go around, and a racial situation that sorely needs to be addressed.

That's not even a synopsis, just a brief comment. Go read up on it.

 

How is it childish?
They are not concerned about the cause, it's that they've not been on TV lately.
Why should I give them the time of day?
I'd rather hear from those involved, not self-imposed race-baiters.

 

Those involved are in jail. If Al and Jesse are race-baiters, what do you call kids who put nooses in a tree?

 

But they are at the heart of the story, not some hypocrites who come down and pass the hat (and in Jesse, case, his seed).

 

Who is forcing you to listen to Jesse and Al?
You have decided to dismiss any and all facts involved with that case based solely on the fact that those two have picked a side. That type of reasoning is incredibly childish.