Don't Taze Me Bro!

Don't Taze Me Bro

After viewing this video, which was quickly spread across the internet, I just wonder, what did this kid do wrong exactly? He asked some harsh questions maybe, but so what? Its his right to ask questions. If he wasn't suppose to speak at that time, there was no reason to arrest him and taze him. Freedom of speech is a fundamental right in this country. He was not inciting a riot or disturbing the peace, he was simply asking Senator Kerry some questions. It is our right to ask questions.

Some of the things that occur in this country upset me. We have rights. The authorities might not like them, but too bad. A nation that supposedly protects liberty, should look at some of the things that go on within its own borders and look to its police.

And what is Senator Kerry doing? Don't tell me that he can't put a stop to this arrest. Rather, he just drones on and on in the background, answering the guy's question, but not doing anything to stop the arrest, thus facilitating the censorship of the student. I wonder if Senator Kerry actually wanted the student to hear the answer to the question.

The student in question did not need to be tazered, he needed to be let go. There was no point to this arrest.

In other news, I read an article in Newsweek in which General Petraeus is changing strategies in Iraq. He is throwing out the guns-blazing strategy that, while it toppled Baghdad in 3 weeks, failed hard in the over all war and replacing it with a better strategy. Rather than relying on all out force to gain control of Iraq, he is instead working with the Iraqis, Sunni and Shiite alike. The idea was that, instead of killing people, we work with them. We get on their good side

And it is common sense. Terrorism cannot be fought with fire. It is an idea and bullets cannot kill ideas. If instead we can get the Iraqis to work with us, perhaps we can get them to work with each other and if not like each other, then at least live with each other.

"Go young Fred" -Lord Mayor of Pepperland, Yellow Submarine (1968)

J Kuhl Signing Off