UPDATE: Student Tasered at Kerry Engagement

Included here is the shocking video of the tasering and assault of a student peaceably asking questions of John Kerry during a speaking engagement at the University of Florida.  Cynthia McKinney's comments point to a clear problem faced by all Americans as events like this become more frequent in the USA.  The video clearly shows an obvious criminal act perpetrated by police and a violation of the students Constitutional rights.

"That University of Florida student asked one of the central questions that the American people deserve to have answered. 

Not only residents of the United States are being subjected to illegitimate authority due
to two stolen elections in 2000 and again in 2004.  The entire global community
is suffering because of it.  When John Kerry, 2004 Democratic Nominee for
President had the opportunity to tell us and the world why he didn't fight for
his own victory that the voters of this country gave him, John Kerry proceeded
to talk while the student who asked the question was violently tasered by the
police. 

That University of Florida student asked one of the central
questions that the American people deserve to have answered. 

Kerry didn't even fight for the victory that the U.S. voters had given him.  He
remained mute as the Libertarian and Green Parties demanded to know what
happened in Ohio.  And took their meager resources to investigate election theft
by Republicans in Ohio.  And all of the revelations that have come out since
then can be placed at the feet of these two Parties, and not the Democratic
Party that would have benefited.  It was the Libertarian and Green Parties, not
the Democrats, that demanded that the will of the voters be respected.

A student gets the taser for asking a simple question.

But what's more frightening is the reaction of those in the audience who sat through the screams
of the student being tasered, listening  to Kerry who obviously became a man
bereft of his senses. 

The student was harassed even as he attempted to
ask his question, referencing Greg Palast's work, "Armed Madhouse."  Pointing
out the huge disfranchisement of black voters that marked both of Bush's "wins,"
he asked Kerry, "How could you concede the election on the day?"

He asks why Kerry is not in favor of impeachment, then the students applaud when the
police attack him at the microphone.  From the video, it appears that he is
literally picked up by the police and carried to the back of the room where he
is put on the floor, handcuffed, tasered, carried out, and in the background one
can hear Kerry talking--not trying to get the police officers to stop attacking
the student--but blathering on, reminiscent of George Bush when the towers were
hit.

No police officer should be in the business of denying
Constitutional rights to anyone; I am particularly chagrined when it appears
that a black police officer participated in this attack on an innocent student. 


What is happening to us????  How much more will the people accept??  I
was outraged as early as 2000 when Florida was stolen and the Democrats said
nothing!!!!  Now, innocent students get tasered just for asking questions.


What kind of US Senator do we have who can't or won't answer a
question about his own election that affects all of us???

We must channel
our efforts into the kind of movement that has been successful in the past in
our country.  A movement that unites us all, regardless of the labels usually
used to divide us.  We the people must run for office and vote the current,
non-representative crew out of office.  We must become the government that is
supposed to represent us.  It is time for all of us to become involved now. 
There is room for everyone in this movement.  I shudder to think what our
country will become if we fail to act."

-Cynthia McKinney