(Gainesville) On a college campus in Florida, a student is manhandled for daring to ask tough questions of Senator Kerry. University of Florida police pinned him to the ground, refusing to answer why they felt justified in laying hands on him in the first place. Watch the video. He struggled and tried to move away. He'd didn't throw a punch. He asked to be allowed to hear the answer to his question. He asked to be allowed to walk out of the room. Then out comes the taser.
It's disgusting. And the only thing as appalling as the police is ineffectual, clueless Kerry droning on in the background. Cracking jokes while police quell free speech. Telling everyone to calm down while the cops tackle a man who waited for two hours to ask a question about the suppression of the black vote in 2004.
Whatever scrap of respect I harbored for Kerry evaporated watching this three minute assault. Kerry epitomizes the weak-kneed response of so-called progressives in the face of an escalating police state, the wholesale dismantling of civil liberties, where torture is acceptable, wiretaps routine , the suspension of habeas corpus just the price of doing business in the "war on terror".
Send a check to ACLU.
Call 352-273-3301 and (352) 392-1111 and let the University know they have disgraced their institution.
Invite this young man to speak on campus somewhere. Anywhere. Make the attempt to silence him a megaphone.
Rate this YouTube video as high as possible so more people see what is happening in our country.
-Nadine Smith, Equality Florida
2 comments:
Kerry needs to resign. It really is that bad.
Well-written blog, Nadine!
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