I’ve probably avoided more fights by simply using subtle techniques to intimidate the other guy into not taking a swing than I care to think about. My 5′7″ former police officer brother on the other hand had to resort to overt threats on occasion (working the pump on a 12 ga pump action shotgun is VERY effective for that) to encourage people to surrender without putting ether of them at risk of injury.

There is no First Amendment right to free speech on private proptery.

Once he resisted, all bets are off. The police have a right and an obligation to protect the publuic and themselves. The resist was the trigger for that.

A perfectly acceptable reaction by the police.

“He was thrashing about because they were acting unfairly and unlawfully.”

No they weren’t.

“I’d fucking trash about if some pig tried to drag me away from a microphone.”

And you would be tasered or even asped.

Taserboy was being watched by the cops because he insisted on going to the front of the line, Kerry afforded him that cause the kid was being an asshole to his fellow students.

You have a right to say what you want, but that doesn’t guarantee there will be no consequences. For example, we have the right to sue someone that exercised their right to free speech, it’s called slander. You can tell your boss to f’ off, but your boss can tell you to look for other employment.

Taserboy is shown very clearly disobeying the police..

That conservative talkshow host must have really made an impression on you..I can tell by how many times you referred to him by name.

Shame on me for what?

His point was: It doesn’t matter how obnoxious the questions were or if he went “over” his time limit…because Kerry is on tape repeatedly saying he’ll answer the question.

His time limit was thus extended by Kerry himself.

And we should ALL be a bit concerned that the police – the representatives of the state – taser a man who is only practicing his first amendment right of free speech.

He wasn’t threatening to Kerry, he didn’t have a weapon…he was only speaking and they tried to drag him away as he was using his right of free speech.

He was thrashing about because they were acting unfairly and unlawfully.

I’d fucking trash about if some pig tried to drag me away from a microphone.

Wouldn’t you?

And the Con talk show host said all Cons who make light of this should be ASHAMED.

Shame, Peejz. Shame.

3- Robert, he can try to sue, but I really don’t think that it will go too far. If you look at the video link from start to finish, he became physical with the cops on at least 4 occassions. There are numerous eye witness accounts that state that the kid pushed himself to front of line…I guess he never learned to wait in line? I may not like him, but lets not forget that Kerry is a U.S. Senator, and he is rightfully afforded protection. This kid may have thought he was cute, but he was clearly not in control of his own actions!

Now he can sue, he is an Internet video rock star, and he has achieved instant fame and status with the wacko anarchist moonbat crowd who are screeching about his “rights” while forgetting that he was trampling on the free speech rights of others by his planned actions.

So not only do I not feel sorry for him, I think he deserves every bit of scorn, ridicule, mocking, and laughter he gets. I heard a version of the audio played on a local radio station that had Kerry’s ~1971 statement before Congress (where he backstabbed and sold out his fellow Vietnam Vets) mixed in. It was funny; you hear Kerry’s calm, measured deliberate, lying voice talking about “wires connected to genitals” and “razing villages” with Taserboy shrieking in the background. It was classic.