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Don't Tase Me Bro by Clyde 7:56 AM Andrew Meyer went to the John Kerry forum at Florida University with the intention of stirring up shit and he got his wish! Now, I will probably get into trouble with a lot of you over this but contrary to what you hear on Randi Rhodes, Mr. Meyer is not some poor little lamb that was abused by the police. This man, he is not a kid, butted his way to the front of the line and went on a diatribe in front of his own camera. Another little factoid that Ms. Rhodes fails to accept is the fact that he did not ask an inconvenient question, he asked questions and was not in the mood for an answer. He was, simply put, trying to make a scene and he did. He was being disruptive and it infringed on the rights of the other people in attendance. There is a thing called decorum and this young man abused it as if it were a congressional page. Society demands certain behavior and that was not acceptable in my opinion. While he has a right to free speech, that does not give him the right to take what precious little time other citizens get from their elected leaders for his own amusement. Does that mean he deserved to be tasered, probably not. If in fact he was at all, in my mind at least, is a subject for debate. For someone who was supposedly lit up like the Las Vegas strip, he sure as hell was a chatty Cathy immediately following said incident. Every video I have ever seen where someone is hit with one of these "non-lethal" weapons, it takes them a few minutes to recover enough to know that their asshole has been shrunk to the size of a snow pea, let alone continuing to struggle. Not to mention, let's look at it from the cop's view for a second. Here you have a man of no small stature making a scene and being disruptive. You tell him to leave, but he continues. You grab him by the arm to escort him out and he struggles. Then you attempt to cuff him and now you have several people milling around shouting at you and he continues to resist. Is this not a scenario that could put you in danger where you have to defuse the situation in mere minutes if not seconds? What would you do if in the same predicament? Somehow, trying to get everyone to sing a rousing chorus of Kumbaya does not rank high on the list. Personally, if it were my ass in the middle of the melee, I would zap him faster than Ole Sparky at Sing Sing. Check the female cop on the video when they leave the arena. You can definitely tell she felt threatened when you watch her back her way out of the venue. Mr. Meyer is the victim of his own actions plain and simple. These were not Gestapo tactics by the police. They did not start this, Meyer did and it was through his own incompetence that it escalated to the level that it did. If Meyer doesn't know by now that when a cop grabs you by the arm it is a sign that should quit acting the fool, then he will never learn. Personally, if a cop were to lay a hand on me for some bullshit I was pulling, I would turn into Droopy on valium and live to fight another day. Sometimes it is better to concede a battle in order to win the war. If Meyer would have mellowed out none of this would have gotten to the point it did. He should have just left and brought the problem up at a later time where and when cooler heads usually prevail. Another thing that is bothering me about the whole mess is the fact that Randi and others are trying to blame Kerry. What the fuck was he supposed to do? Run the mosh pit like Pitfall Harry to Meyer's rescue? He is a fucking senator for God's sake not Dudley Do-right! He tried to get everyone to settle down prior to the supposed taser incident but Mr. Meyer was screaming too much for anyone to hear. I guess that fact is something else Randi has conveniently blocked from her version of the story. As you probably have surmised by now is that I have a problem with the way Randi Rhodes has handled this story from start to finish. Thank God Meyer is white because if he weren't can you imagine what she would be doing on the air? She would not only shout down any caller who would have the audacity to disagree with her, she'd probably climb through the telephone wire and choke them to death for not recognizing that she is always right no matter what the subject. When Bush was selected for PresiDunce, I searched the internet in hopes of finding someone on the radio that shared the same views as I did and Randi fit the bill to a T. I even went out and got satellite radio because I wanted talk radio that serves my ideology, but in the last year or so she has become increasing shrill and if I wanted to listen to someone who acts just like Limbaugh I would have just kept the old AM radio. From now on it is only Bob Kincaid and the HORN for me from now on and if you get the chance, why not tune in once in a while. It is great radio and it needs your support. They need some help with the financing so if you have a couple of bucks you could throw their way I am sure it would be greatly appreciated. Permalink :: 2 comments :: Post a Comment



	FASCIST! posted by Anonymous at 11:50 AM

	Hey anon, Who's a fascist? Your remark is a bit vague, no? And Clyde, I didn't see the video (dial up would take a week to load it), but if this dude got tased he would be drooling in his shoes for quite a while, so if he was up and sassy quickly something was wrong. Maybe they just 'winged' him, though I don't know if that's possible either. And if a cop puts their hands on you it's time to chill or suffer the concequences. He's lucky they didn't use pepper gas on him, getting zapped is a walk in the park compared to a face full of that stuff. The moral of the story is that if the cops tell you to shut up...shut up. Right or wrong, if you don't you're going to get a reaction, and getting a physical reaction from the police is never a pleasant experience. Maybe he got exactly what he wanted if people are still going on about it, I mean big deal, so he got tased, what's the hub bub about anyway? Isn't Brittany up to something more important? posted by Natural Born Killer at 11:49 PM