hmmm. Just a thought: I hate the campus police. They were no where to be found when a student (male) was kidnapped and carjacked--he managed to get out of his van when the perps got downtown (quite a ways from campus) this happened at 6pm when the parking lot is pretty effing empty. HOWEVER, these same police are there in a second to ticket someone who parks illegally (a 50.00$ fine; parking permits also cost 50.00).

I hate them.

that said, knowing that these people are wannabe's, I'd do what they asked and throw in plenty of "sir's" and "ma'am's". They require that. easy-peasy.\

Kid lacks life experience. Doesn't mean he needs to be tased. He just needs to get a life. Reminds me of Python: "Now we see the violence inherit in the system!"

ha ha ha! you're on fire today!
 

If everyone is certain there is a libertarian crisis, there is no libertarian crisis. A libertarian crisis happens when we are not concerned and not paying attention.

I was in the Libertarian Party and I was real concerned about getting the word out on the various libertarian crises happening all around us every day. You could not blink and not see another one. They were all around us. From the Polish immigrant who lost all the value of his land and thus his savings, when his backyard was declared a "wetlands" and it wasn't; to the FBI sniper shooting an innocent man's wife between the eyes at Ruby Ridge; to the average tax rate increasing from 10% to 50% over 70 years. My God, Can These Things Happen In America?

Now that I'm a little older and wiser, I notice that these are mostly not horrible trends and crises, but pockets of incompetency, injustice, How The System Actually Works, and plain old "shit happens". When combined with a little of my naivete at how things work, these became mountains.

So I guess my advice is, Don't Panic

I'll take your Python and raise you a Ghostbuster:
"Maybe now you'll never slime a guy with a positron collider, huh?"

If you define "everyone" as a small pocket of habitual internet debaters, and the alarmist, but obscure, journalistic pieces they quote, then sure, "everyone" is concerned and paying attention. I simply question whether you can project your own personal alertness on the rest of society. Not panicking out of ignorance isn't the same as an informed person, like yourself, not panicking.

I would like to see the 10 minutes before that video starts, which would give the situational context to understand why the Taser was used.

No, but if she told me to stay on the sidewalk, and I crossed the street anyway, I would expect to get tasered in my ass.

Why were they doing random student id checks in the library in the first place? Do you have to be 21 now before you can study at a library table, or something like that?

Is this tale more popular?

Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, "This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plough his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day." (I Samuel 8:7-18)

I'd say we were warned.

I don't know how things work there, but am assuming on a fairly open campus they do spot checks to make sure people using the facilities are actually students.

You would! :eek: Tasered? Man, when I become an evil tyrant I want you as one of my subjects.

Kid plans lawsuit

via Fark:via that LA Times story
Of course, none of this excuses any kind of bad police work by bad cops.

If he's on the ground, refusing to get up and leave, how is tasering him so he can't get up going to help? :rolleyes:

Just because it gets my knickers in a twist:
"Now you see the violence inherent in the system."

Didn't you ever give your little brother a pinch to shut him up and ended up creating more racket?

Not that I'm advocating that as a recommended approach for law enforcement. Sigh - it didn't work then and it doesn't work now.