[Video] Student gets tasered at john kerry speech

[The Dude]

http://anonym.to?http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2007/9/student-tasered-at-john-kerry-speech.wmv

NO SUCH THING AS FREE SPEECH ANYMORE :(

Disgusting!!

[ft3ssgeek]

Dude, the kid was fighting the police...what did he expect...it's not like he got beaten or anything...There's a difference between exercising your right to free speech and being a nuisance...
(As a US military veteran speaking) - I guarantee you this stupid kid never served in the military or knows what it takes to guarantee his right to free speech...what he was doing was not exercising free speech but trying to get himself out of trouble while calling "free speech" but fighting the cops...
nope...I don't believe him one bit...no sympathy here...

[MidiMagic]

He opposed John Kerry. That was enough.

[jasimp]

I do agree that fighting the police is very different from free speech (he was fighting them) but to me it looked like he was already cuffed, what is the point of tasering him when he is already cuffed?

[Sturm]

>guarantee you this stupid kid never served in the military or knows what it takes to guarantee his right to free speech

And invading other counties guarantees our right to free speech how?

[jasimp]

Good point. Right to free speech is given to us under the constitution.

[Squires]

Free speech does not give you the right to fight the cops. The kid got what he deserved because this was nothing more than one of his planned publicity stunts. Had he not resisted the cops would have took him outside and let him go.

[ft3ssgeek]

>guarantee you this stupid kid never served in the military or knows what it takes to guarantee his right to free speech And invading other counties guarantees our right to free speech how?

Don't be naive, the war in Iraq is not the only thing our military is doing right now...It just gets the most attention...I served in the military during the war in Iraq, participated in many missions vital to national security and never once set foot in the Middle East...
While it's true that I don't necessarily agree with how the administration is handling the war that's going on over there, I do believe that we needed to invade...
Free speech is, of course, one of the core foundations of our contry and I would not presume to infringe on anyones decision to exercise that right...but I believe that with that right should come the responsibility to exercise it responsibly...

[Sturm]

>I do believe that we needed to invade...

Why is that? Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

>Free speech is, of course, one of the core foundations of our contry and I would not presume to infringe on anyones decision to exercise that right...but I believe that with that right should come the responsibility to exercise it responsibly...

Of course. The student tazered probably deserved it.

[Ezzaral]

Free speech is, of course, one of the core foundations of our contry and I would not presume to infringe on anyones decision to exercise that right...but I believe that with that right should come the responsibility to exercise it responsibly...

Responsibility seems to be a fading concept these days.

[jwenting]

he was manhandled and tazered for trying to ask a question Hanoi John didn't like.
Of course he resisted...

[Lardmeister]

he was manhandled and tazered for trying to ask a question Hanoi John didn't like. Of course he resisted...

Why do you always have to insult our public representatives? I don't do that to your country. Are you anti-american!?

[jasimp]

Is it really a big deal if he does?

[Lardmeister]

Yeah, I am a patriotic American and don't like my country being insulted all the time. To me John Kerry was Vietnam war hero, like so many other Vietnam vets!

[Sturm]

I have never understood patriotism...seems like a tool used by the government to direct blind hatred and fear towards other countries. Many people are anti-american, including me, get over it.

[jasimp]

Yes he was in the Vietnam War but he is in a public office. It is expected that he will be insulted. I think George W. Bush is an unintelligent person who is not fit for office and is leading America down a path of turmoil and destruction. He is the worst president ever. People in public office are insulted all the time and people need to get over it.

[Lardmeister]

jasimp, I agree with you. I just feel slighted when someone attacks John Kerry on his outstanding war record, and not his poor performance as a presidential candidate. After all, this gave us another four years of you know whom.

[EnderX]

Outstanding war record? Even though he, on the evidence I've seen, only served a few months of what should have been a year-long tour of duty? Even though afterwards he decried our soldiers as, what was the term, 'baby-killers'? Even after he went so far as to throw away the medals he'd earned (an action which was apparently faked, showing he wasn't even committed to his own derogatory and degrading rhetoric)?

[Sturm]

Not that Bush did anything when he was in the army.

[Lardmeister]

Next to Dick and Bush Kerry with all his flaws was a genuine war hero! Something the ultra right propaganda machine can't ignore.