Kerry Denounces Tasing Of Student At His Speaking Event

Ken McCracken • September 19, 2007

“In 37 years of public appearances, through wars, protests and highly emotional events, I have never had a dialogue end this way,” Kerry said in a statement. “I believe I could have handled the situation without interruption, but I do not know what warnings or other exchanges transpired between the young man and the police prior to his barging to the front of the line and their intervention. I asked the police to allow me to answer the question and was in the process of responding when he was taken into custody.”
“I was not aware that a taser was used until after I left the building,” he continued. “I hope that neither the student nor any of the police were injured. I regret enormously that a good healthy discussion was interrupted.”

I maintain that this was a righteous tasering, for all the reasons I laid out last night, and I believe that Kerry is only distancing himself from it as that’s the least controversial position to have on the subject for someone like him. After all, he isn’t going to tick off the moonbat hordes that are holding this mental midget up as some sort of free-speech martyr now, and going the “I’m sorry it happened” route is probably the safest bet.
But what’s interesting is that he says he didn’t know the kid was being tased…until he left.
Here’s the video again:

I find it bloodly unlike that John Kerry didn’t know what was going on.
Regardless, that’s a tough spot for any politician to be in. There’s really not much of anything to pin on Kerry other than this ex post facto bit of grandstanding.
The kid was being an idiot. He was disrupting the event, he was asked to leave, he wouldn’t leave, he resisted police officers called in to escort him out and he was subdued for this using the tools provided to the police officers for this purpose.
What’s more, it’s a bit tiresome to hear people keep saying over and over again that the “cops” grabbed this kid. I mean, they did, but at who’s behest? Something tells me the cops were responding to a complain from event organizers, not acting of their own volition.

Tags: Domestic Issues, Freedom Of Speech, Politics, The Loony Left

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Odd, I must have missed the part where Kerry instructed the officers to leave the man alone and let him finish his mindless diatribe.
Mr. Mxyzptlk

That was hilarious. What a pussy.
robert108

…label him a soldier…

That’s not the way it works, but the fact that you think so speaks volumes.
http://www.freerepublicans.com/ FreeRepublicans.com

Scratch the comment about him being a College Republican.
http://ewebsmith.com/ ews48

Was this the Karate Kid or something? Why not just shoot him? The chances of dying from a taser are a little less but not much.

This is a kid in need of a little discipline and perhaps some counseling. Of course, you could put a gun in his hands, label him a soldier, and send him to Iraq.

Did anyone notice that the protesters at the Petraeus hearings were removed with out the use of lethal weapons and with fewer officers?
WETBACK

Yea, the way the lady and man cop? looked to the left, it appears they where given orders to take him before he began his last question. I don’t think the taser was necessary, they had enough officers to detain him.

Do any of you think theres anything to this skull and bones, masons, trilaterals,illuminati thing?
Dave

What the hell is wrong with you people? Why don’t you move to China if this is police conduct that you consider acceptable? The way this kid was treated was flat out un-American.

And I think it’s hilarious that people are calling him an “idiot”. He’s going to walk away from this with a nice sum of money in his pocket. I predict that within the next few days, at least one of those cops will be suspended without pay.
halatbis

The ranters and ravers are setting the agenda and what speech may be heard/not heard. There is acceptable public behavior–it is time that these events–Liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican–be allowed to proceed with decorum. The public has seen too much of this and it is time to set the limits. Drag the protesters out on their heels–taser them if they fight the people charged with keepng order. We have coddled these thugs too long.
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How was he being an idiot?

How about screaming “Help” like a little girl from the time they simply took his arm to escort him from the room?

And did you notice the smattering of applause from the audience of Kerry supports when they started to remove this clown from the microphone? It would tend to indicate to me, that they had sat through this guy’s whole diatribe and not just the last question he posed on tape before being escorted out.
Or do you believe that John Kerry supporters are so intolerant of even a single question with which they disagree, that they would applaud the removal of the questioner?

Perhaps the entire context and not just the edited tape would tell a different tale?
Pomerdorgrad

The Michelle Malkin posts are very good.
http://www.freerepublicans.com/ FreeRepublicans.com

The kid was being an idiot. He was disrupting the event, he was asked to leave, he wouldn’t leave, he resisted police officers called in to escort him out and he was subdued for this using the tools provided to the police officers for this purpose.

How was he being an idiot? Asking about Skull&Bones doesn’t make someone a kook.

This was a public university, he probably pays tuition (and I’d bet is a College Republican)…David Horowitz’s group Students for Academic Freedom and F.I.R.E. (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) are gonna have a field day with this.

This kid is gonna hit the jackpot because this video will be shown in a lawsuit and compared to the famous “firehose” videos of the 60′s.

The school wastes the student’s and taxpayer;s money to bring these leftists in and somehow the kid is an idiot? I think not.
http://www.graemesblog.com/ Graeme

supposed small government people supporting big government pigs. hilarious.
robert108

Dave: Free speech isn’t an entitlement; it’s a responsibility.
Michael

They should have tasered Lurch instead.
robert108

supposed small government people supporting big government pigs. hilarious.

Typical leftie disdain for the rule of law.
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FreeRepublicans.com – How was he being an idiot?

Cutting in line, asking question after question after question, not allowing for a response, being told to get off of the podium and ignoring the organizers, and finally – being told to leave and ignoring the police order.

He was an idiot about ten times over in a very short time.

Is his kind of behavior appropriate where you’re from?
Pomerdorgrad

From what I read, the jerk did rush forward as questions were being ended and grabbed the mike to make his little speech disguised as a question. That quick movement would have looked threatening to any police officer, so they were on their toes.

But he wants to be a martyr, he’s going to need to be maimed. I recommendation self-mutilation.
robert108

It’s about time this so-called “protest”(which is really intimidation) is identified and prevented. I just wish it would be applied equally to those who try to intimidate Republicans and conservatives when they speak publicly.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Excellent take on this by “Jack Dunphy” of NRO:

The Adventures of Taser Boy

There is an axiom in police work that goes something like this: If you have a lawful reason for wanting someone to behave in a certain way, first you ask him, then you tell him, then you make him. In the case of Andrew “Don’t Tase Me, Bro” Meyer, the man now enjoying the waning moments of his Warholian fifteen minutes, the asking and the telling came up shy of the mark for the cops, thus bringing on the making. And the Tasing.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

The AP describes the crybaby as:

A University of Florida student with a history of taping his own practical jokes…

Anyone want to give odds as to whether the camera he was taped on was his own?
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Why don’t you move to China

Wow! Another in the collection of Dave’s Deep Thoughts! Those are the only two alternatives, Dave? Accepting the behavior or moving to China?

Take a breath. Take a Valium. Take yourself as seriously as we take you!
There! Doesn’t that feel better?
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What the hell is wrong with you people? Why don’t you move to China if this is police conduct that you consider acceptable?

Again, I don’t think this was the police acting of their own will. My guess is that they were called in by the organizers of the event to remove an unruly participant. Which they did, using non-lethal force when he resisted.

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