I couldn't believe the video on Youtube when I saw it.
After waiting to ask his question, Andrew Meyer was given the mike and began a diatribe of comments directed at Kerry ending with a question of whether or not Kerry was in the Skull and Bones secret society. After spending 1 minute and 37 seconds to make his point, Andrew Meyer's mike was cut and police immediately attempted to grab him and arrest him.
What is this? What has our country become? You ask an elected official in a public forum an inconvenient question or use the wrong tone of voice and you are arrested, cuffed, tasered, and jailed.
:) funny how people can see things so differently!
i saw a stupid kid who was stepping outside the bounds of the allowed activity - not because of the skull/bones question, but because that is a forum where you are able to politely ask ONE question to a politician, not grandstand your own political speech.
i saw a stupid kid who didn't respect the request to step down and was rude to police.
i saw a stupid kid who didn't put his arms behind his back when told to.
i saw a stupid kid who didn't comply and got the consequences.
i didn't see this as anything having to do with the question, i saw it as an issue where an immature kid was trying to run roughshod over the norms, rules, and requests of authority.
had he not taken advantage of the mic, not shouted rudely at the police, complied when asked to leave, or not tried to escape from the police he would have avoided the problem. he just made bad decision after bad decision.
I agree he was rude, I agree he was obnoxious. Last time I checked, that wasn't against the law and definitely wasn't grounds for arrest and of all things, it was no reason for tasering.
If you watch it closely, he asks his question, they cut the mike, he steps away from the mic and the police grab him immediately. There is no warning. After one and a half minutes of speaking, he is arrested.
The whole thing makes me ill.
that is true. but resisting the police is always grounds for arrest. you may not agree with what the police ask you to do, but if you don't do it, you will be forced to.
i hope our differening opinions on this don't upset you :)
Ah... Eric... Differing opinions will never shake our friendship!! I'm always happy to engage in a conversation with you about these things. You have a good head on your shoulders and you know how to hold a conversation as well.
Your point is taken about resisting arrest, however, the point is that he never should have been arrested for speaking his mind. Moreover, the people in that auditorium (esp. Kerry) should have had the guts to stand up for what is right and demanded they leave him alone.
what were the charges ? what was he arrested for?
According to Faux News, he was charged with " resisting an officer and disturbing the peace".
Sadly, yes. This is the way things work in our country.
Again, when was being disrespectful, juvenile, or cocky to an elected official grounds for arrest? I thought we fought for our independence so we would never have to be afraid of offending our leaders, so we would be able to speak our mind.
Sure the whole conspiracy theory was juvenile, but again, he raised an interesting question and was arrested for it. Watch the video on youtube and decide for yourself.
BTW, the idea to impeach Bush isn't juvenile at all, imho. After Clinton's impeachment, we all know how low the bar is set for impeachment.
I agree with Eric. Everywhere you go there are certain customs, courtesies and rules. You shouldn't talk on cell phones in the movie theater, but rude people do. They should be tasered. People that drive like maniacs and cut in and out of traffic dangerously should be tasered. People that move to the front of the line should definitely be tasered. All joking aside, if you are invited to a function, such as this young man went to, there were rules he should have followed. If I would have been there in real life I may have felt threatened by his agressive and out of order actions. The police are there to keep order and maintain safety. I think that this guy encroached far enough into the grey area to be subdued and escorted out of the area. By the way, as Erik pointed, the guy made one stupid choice after the other.
Four dead in Ohio
He should feel dam lucky he only got tasered!!
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Maybe they were just removing him from the location...
And in the end, the moment you resist arrest, you're toast....regardless whether your guilty or not. And he was resisting it, even with multiple cops holding him down.
No, by struggling he was saying in not so many words, "look guys, this is crazy, surely you're not actually arresting me...", but before he was able to fully appreciate the reality of the situation, bang, it was too late. I mean if I was aggressively man-handled by some random people wearing uniforms for something essentially trivial, yeah, I'd probably struggle too.
All they had to do was escort him out the building. They didn't have to physically assault him and use a weapon on him. When society starts thinking this is ok and normal and such actions "protect" us, we're all in trouble. My 2 cents'.
Very true, in any country for that matter..
ok, this is just getting silly. 2012 is only an important date because it's when Britain are going to clean up at the glorious London Olympics. Especially in the rowing. Why isn't chess an Olympic sport for that matter??
well if you believe that we are going to clean up in the olympics then you are as disillusioned as somebody who doesn't believe in New World Order...oh you are!
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