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Sep 18 2007

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By Bob Boldt

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ALSO SEE: Student Tasered for Armed Madhouse Question to Kerry

The First Amendment - According to John Kerry

Thoughts on freedom of speech while watching Kerry watching a student being ejected from an auditorium at the University of Florida.

I can remember, during the run up to the Kerry win in '04, he had what looked like this goon squad of union guys from the teamsters or pipe-fitters, or whatever as a sort of an ad-hoc security force. No one was allowed into a Kerry event who had any kind of pro-Bush signage. Of course Bush did the same thing.

The worst example of this (I happened to see on TV) - was where these stooges took out a Republican who managed to sneak into a Kerry event with a pro-Bush sign. Under Kerry's gaze, five of these Neanderthals really flattened him, and probably put the poor guy in the hospital. The candidate didn't miss a beat in his speech. I was really pissed off about it and said so. No one in the Democratic Party wanted to hear anything about it at the time. I should have stopped supporting Kerry right then.

To this day, I believe he was on the take from Bush. I'm sure he promised his old Skull and Boner buddy that, if he did win, he would never serve. You may remember, old John couldn't get that concession speech out fast enough. I'm sure he had the final draft ready months before election day.

Read Naomi Klein. We are all completely shocked and awed by the authority of the military and the police. No one even stepped in to defend the guy in Florida being taken down by the campus cops in what seems to be a clear use of unnecessary force. One girl did scream at them, I guess, but no one physically interfered with the deadly force being administered. (How many more have to die before they take the tasers away from cops - especially those poorly trained rent-a-cops?)

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I sometimes get a little scared when contemplating my attendance at certain public events. When I see crap like this going down, I always feel compelled to step in - no matter what the odds. I suffer from a dangerous defect in my instinct for self perseveration in situations where someone is in need or danger. I always think of their safety as somehow being more important than my own. It has resulted in a few rather severe beatings in the past - none by police fortunately. I have never seemed to learn. At least, back in the pre-Bush days, I could usually count on someone occasionally coming to my aid and helping me out. Now, I am not so sure I can count on anyone around me to even give a damn.

Back in the "halcyon" sixties, the police had to constantly watch their backs. When attacks, like the one at the University of Florida occurred, they were, often as not, surrounded by angry, threatening fellow-protesters. The "pigs" were frequently forced to release their prisoner. Back then, few peace officers would have been dumb enough to even pull a stunt like the campus keystoners tried the other day. Kids then would even stand up to guns and tear gas. What a sorry bunch of sheep we are educating today. We have become a whole nation of bloody sheep.

In other news…

They sure shut up that old Commie, Sally Field on the Emmys the other night. I guess "God Damned Wars" is not fair and balanced enough language for the FCC. When informed of the deletion, Sally was overheard remarking to a Fox producer, "You hate me, you really really hate me!"

Peace,

Bob Boldt

PS: I just saw on the news, that a bunch of kids did show up on campus with protest signs later. They just don't seem to have the physical courage they used to. I guess there may be some cause for hope though...

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Comments (3)

1. 19-09-2007 09:33

Disgusting violence to student

Well said Bob. I've just seen it on TV eating my dinner and seeing the poor guy screaming as he was tasered. Of course hero Kerry took an active part in the Vietnam War (post-invasion excess deaths in Indo-China 13 million, mostly Women and Children; see "Body Count" via the link below) - not much free speech or First Amendment for them either under the "freedom loving" Amerikans.

http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/

gpolya@optusnet.com.auNOSPAM! ">Dr Gideon Polya

2. 19-09-2007 18:17

Constitution is Dead

While I am absolutely outraged and flabbergasted by the gestapo tactics employed by politicians, and by a university in "America?!", I can tell you that generation X doesn't believe they can live up to the level of activism and righteous indignation of the baby boomer/vietnam generation. There were battles that were fought, and enough of a difference was made that there now is an overriding question before each battle: Is this something worth fighting for, and is there another way to accomplish stated goals. The end result is a lot of wrangling inactivity, and the Patriot Act. I imagine that sooner or later there will have to be another revolution, when it is realized that the bill of rights and the constitution was diluted and reduced to a utopian idea years ago. I think the idea that you can challenge authority figures is lost on many people; they might even consider it wrong. They may say to you "well let the police take him away, he is innocent and that will come out in the end." Never actually considering that the thought of taking someone away and using deadly force against them for using unpopular speech is itself Unamerican. Then again most Americans don't know that the people in those audiences are pre-screened, invited, and told what to say; in essence the agenda of the town hall meeting is not set by the people but by the guests themselves. They tell us what is important to us, and we oblige them.

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josephs@yahoo.co.ukNOSPAM! ">ba

3. 22-09-2007 11:29

US Gestapo.

Don't be too hard on generation X as you call it. If you read some of the comments made by Thomas Merton, about propaganda, he was talking about his 'home land',pun intended, 'Propaganda makes up our mind for us, yet we continue to think we are free......'. He was frustrated at the mindless society, around him back then. But in spite of all this, the public brought about a change, and ended the madness and murder. There was a larger body count of US soldiers then, a great number of deaths in the Vietnam region, carpet bombing of Cambodia, but it was US war dead I think that was the catalyst.
Are the spin doctors better now than then, I do not know, it is amazing how folk just let the US bludgeon the World as it pleases but the likes of Merton understood. Clearly the US is sliding into Fascism, when people start to stare and do nothing when brutality is administered by goonish rent a thug, (I mean cop).
There are ways to fight thuggish regimes, because that is the US today. I think it was in Argentina that women danced with the dead. The US has made plenty of dead, we can all have a partner and dance.

Mike.

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