Tasers are bad Tasers are not “non-lethal.” Since June 2001, more than 150 people in the United States have died after being struck by tasers. I do not believe a taser should have been used on me. Tasers are portable, easy to use compliance devices. But more insidiously, they are now being used as a …
by Howard Ditkoff By now, most of the country has seen the widely played video of University of Florida student Andrew Meyer being held down and tasered by policewhile screaming “Don’t tase me, bro!” after asking some questions of Senator John Kerry in a rather heated tone at a forum. I am not going to give …
By Stewart N. Thorpe of Citizen Press Revolution I have analyzed video footage of Andrew Meyer, student who was tasered by police at an event where Senator Kerry was speaking. And I have discovered a few facts in the video footage itself that has been completely glossed over by corporate media and even in the blogosphere …
photo courtesy JWFrank.com Three games into the 2007 football season, and the Gators have trounced their opponents by a combined score of 167-54. To the surprise of no one intelligent, Tim Tebow can indeed throw, and the Gator offense has been slicing through defenses like my Dad through a Rosh Hashanah brisket. By the end of …
We hear it on the news almost everyday. “At least 18 people were killed when two car bombs exploded in a busy market…” It happens so frequently at this point that we have become desensitized to the message. “Eleven more died when a minibus blew up in the Karrada district, while a suicide attack…” Iraq …
Before I get started, I wanted to acknowledge that yes, I read Bill Simmons. He is in fact my favorite sports writer. But let me be clear: I am not stealing his opinions, and I never will. The reason I like him so much is that he thinks much the same way I do. We …