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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Posted by: Matt Lewis at 8:54 AM

I posted this last night, but I think it deserves another look. This kid asks several wacky questions of John Kerry. His punishment for asking a politician some crazy questions: Being tasered and arrested for "inciting a riot."
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Rogue writes:	Tuesday, September, 18, 2007 10:31 AM
All is not as it seems on the video
Michelle Malkin has posted an email from an eyewitness...guy was determined to marytr himself. “Come see the violence inherit in the system. HELP! HELP! I’m being repressed!” http://michellemalkin.com/2007/09/17/student-tasered-at-john-kerry-forum/ However, while Senator Kerry was responding to a student’s question, all of a sudden Meyer rushed to the microphone with cops in pursuit. At that point no one knew what was going on. Could he have a gun, a bomb? Immediately, Meyer began yelling into the microphone that he had been waiting in line forever and that Senator Kerry should “spend time to answer everyone’s questions!” Senator Kerry tried to calm the student down by telling him that he would “stay here as long as it takes to get the questions answered.” The police approached Meyer who began taunting them by saying “what! are you going to taser me? are you going to arrest me?!” The police grabbed Meyer, but Senator Kerry asked the police to let him go and that he would answer his question. Senator Kerry finished answering the other student’s question and then proceeded with Meyer. (This entire scene is not in any video I can find so far. This is why 2 cops are seen right behind Meyer at the start of some videos).
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shrinkgovernment writes:	Tuesday, September, 18, 2007 10:09 AM
Why didn't Kerry cut the kid off?
seriously. Asset some authority, bro.
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roho writes:	Tuesday, September, 18, 2007 10:03 AM
I am no fan of John Kerry, but is
this the face of the "Free Speech" for the 21st Century?
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the fonz writes:	Tuesday, September, 18, 2007 10:01 AM
Got what he deserved
If you watch the whole thing they did cut off his mircophone, asked him to leave, tried to escort him out, tried to hand cuff and carry him out all before tasering him. I think they should have hit him with a baton before tasering him, but over all this moron got what he deserved.
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Grapson writes:	Tuesday, September, 18, 2007 10:01 AM
Freedom of speech for me not for thee
Now we know what John Kerry thinks of the First Amendment. The kid sounds like he was a Kerry supporter who was asking dumb questions. For his support of Kerry, the kid got tasered. Notable is Kerry's utter lack of response to the tasering. At no time does he call for its cessation; at no time does he ask any questions about it. He continues droning on and even says, of the kid, "Unfortunately, he's not available to come up here and swear me in as president," and, to the audience, "I'm sorry we weren't able to finish ... in here." Absolute and utter indifference to the welfare of young man who seems to be a supporter. Even if the guy were a disrupter, this is America. We have freedom of speech. In the exercise thereof, no man should be tasered. Ii guess Kerry has given us an insight into what our constitutional lot will be under a future Democrat government. This is America, for goodness sake! Not China or Russia!!
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shrinkgovernment writes:	Tuesday, September, 18, 2007 9:55 AM
Couldn't they just cut off the kid's mic
and made fun of him instead of the TASER?
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