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University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally
An anonymous reader writes "During a political rally at the University of Florida, an annoying student was tasered while attempting to ask Senator Kerry (D-MA) some questions regarding the 2004 election. Police are looking into whether excessive force was used to prevent the student from going over his alloted question period." There are also several YouTube videos available of the incident.
So if they'd told him repeatedly "Stop resisting or we'll pump you full of lead.", they would have been justified in doing so ?
What they did amounted to torture.
Mod: -1 Exaggerating for effect
When are you people going to learn that your rights do not trump the rights of others?
Kerry and his supporters were peacefully gathered and exercising their right to free speech. This jackass came in and disturbed their gathering. He does not have a right to do that.
He trampled their right to free speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of association. He doesn't have a right to do that.
Neither his rights nor your rights over ride the rights of others. Your rights end where the rights of others begin. His right to free speech ended when they decided they didn't want to listen to him and he was disturbing their assembly. You have a right to free speech, but you do not have a right to an audience and can not force other to be an audience against their will.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
FUCK, WHERE ARE MY MOD POINTS!!!!!! +10 to you, anonymous hero.
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This reminds me of the Stargate Episode where Carter gets transported to another reality where the StarGate program was released to the public. A guy starts yelling about freedom because in that world all freedoms were lost in the interest of security and he ends up either being shot with a zat, or got with one of those goauld torture sticks.