Another out-of-control Bushist police incident

In BushAmerica, don't criticize Bush.

In fact, don't even criticize Bush's opponents for not doing enough about Bush. Because look what happened at the University of Florida when John Kerry came to speak there.

A 21-year-old student asked Kerry some tough but fair questions. For instance, why not contest the 2004 "election" Bush stole? And better yet, why has there been no move in Congress to impeach the embattled dictator?

Fair questions, don't you think? John Kerry even thought so, because you'd have to be a nut not to. But when the student asked these questions, all hell broke loose.

There's a video on YouPube that shows what happened, another video from WTVJ-TV in Miami, and yet another video at the Ocala Star-Banner website. The young man was reasonable and polite. In his questioning of Kerry, he cited a book by Greg Palast and said, "He says you won the 2004 'election.' Isn't that amazing?" Brief applause can be heard. Apparently somebody then heckled the questioner, causing him to ask the heckler to give him 2 minutes to speak.

By this point, police were already seen commiserating among themselves about how to handle the student. Around the time of the heckling, the female officer approached the questioner and tried to get him away from the microphone, but then returned to the back of the room. The young man then asked Kerry why he conceded the 2004 "election" so early. More applause can be heard.

At the end of the set of questions, Kerry then started answering him. By the time the answers began, however, it was clear where this was going. The student's questions were busting wide open the whole system of the 2 major parties being merged at the feeding trough. The questions threatened to expose all the arm-twisting that goes on in Washington.

That type of dissent against the Bush order is not tolerated. Right at the end of the questions, 2 cops ambushed the young man without warning. The officers grabbed him by the arms, and the male cop appeared to be trying to bite his arm. At least 2 other officers appeared, and the cops literally dragged the questioner out of the auditorium, brutalizing him throughout. (One account says there were 6 officers.)

From watching 3 different videos of the altercation started by the police, all of that is indisputable. Several other facts are also beyond dispute - most notably, that the group of police officers violently wrestled the student to the ground and tasered him. By that point, the melee had drifted upwards into what appeared to be some type of hallway with loose chairs, and it's unclear whether Kerry or most of the spectators at his speech could even see or hear what was going on, because this was so far from the stage. Several other people were clearly heard screaming.

The fact that the student is completely innocent of any wrongdoing is also perfectly clear. However, one of the male cops accused him of inciting a riot - which is a lie, because really it was the cops who incited a riot. (This happened right after the female officer apparently misquoted a Joe Raposo song.) Some folks who witnessed the incident then offered to testify in favor of the student.

The student was charged with resisting arrest and disturbing the peace - even though all 3 videos prove he's innocent of these charges too.

According to one report, John Kerry acknowledged the fairness of the questions, and there's no justification to blame Kerry if the police can't control their own Bushism. However, if the Democratic Party doesn't at least condemn the cops' illegal actions, then the party is part of the problem, and it just goes to show just how merged at the trough they are with the Republicans. We don't expect the Republicans to condemn similar violence at Bush events, because Bush thugs actually encourage it. (There's probably at least 30 stories like this from Bush rallies we haven't gotten to yet - and that doesn't count the ones we already have.)

I guarantee you I would have acted the same way the young man in these videos acted after being snared by the police - and the cops would face a lawsuit to boot.

Only a Bushist would support the police's attacks against a man for questioning why an allegedly Democratic Congress has surrendered to the swinging dick of the Republican Party.

(Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/241219.html;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqAVvlyVbag;
http://video.nbc6.net/player/?id=157250;
http://www.ocala.com/article/20070917/NEWS/70917006/1053/BREAKING_NEWS&source=photoclick)