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Bill O'Reilly and the Constitution
2008-01-08 05:19:00 You've no doubt heard about and likely seen a video clip of Bill O'Reilly at an Obama rally in Nashua, NH on Sunday. O'Reilly took exception to an Obama staffer who was blocking O'Reilly's camerman's shot of the event. O'Reilly "gently" (O'Reilly's term) pushed the staffer out of the way. I just saw a clip of this on The Factor, and it will likely be all over YouTube soon.There's no doubt that O'Reilly did put his hands on the staffer, and pushed him out of the way. It was certainly not overly violent, but it was physical.What interests me most about this event was O'Reilly's justifcation of his actions. He pushed the Obama staffer out of the way, O'Reilly said on The Factor tonight, because he was standing up for "the Constitution".What part of the Constitution would that be?The First Amendment, and its insistence that Congress make no law abridging "freedom of speech or press"?Well, let's allow that O'Reilly and his camerman were press, and their freedom to vid...
By: Infinite Regress
Don?t Tase Me, Bro
2007-12-31 09:00:00 Funny thing, society. It is mechanical, following the same routing over and over again. We’re accultured to this. Anything out of the ordinary, breaking through the monotones stays with us, echoing in our lives. This is just an example. We usually take stuff like this for granted, consider it something funny, but what is really ...
Don?t Tase Me, Bro
2007-12-25 07:46:00 This is phenomenal: Top 10 t-shirt worthy slogans. http://www.time.com/time/specia-ls/2007/top10/article/0,30583,1-686204_1686303_1690284,00.html?-cnn=yes
Don't Praise Me, Bro
2007-10-31 16:15:00 Andrew "Don't Tase Me, Bro'" Meyer may be a narcissistic asshole and media whore but he makes a point on his "Today" show interview airing tomorrow. The first day of November sweeps! "I haven?t seen any mainstream news outlet once dissect the questions I asked the Senator [Kerry]. Everything is about me personally or the taser. This is the type of tabloid journalism prevalent in America today. When my story is over, they won?t start covering Blackwater or Ron Paul. It?ll be Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, business as usual."The big news yesterday: all charges were dropped against Meyer. Permit me to add to Andrew's rant. Terrorist journalists intentionally promulgating fear. Case in point: Fox News. The android anchors posited more than once that the California wildfires might have been the work of al Qaeda. It turns out one of them was set by a kid playing with matches. CNNWith the first TV writers strike in nearly 20 years looming, network news ops are expected to to fill the ...
By: Chickaboomer
?Don?t Tase Me Bro? Writes Letter of Apology to Students/Faculty af UF
2007-10-30 16:27:00 Andrew Meyer has addressed an apology letter to UF students, UF President Bernie Machen and Student Government for his “failure to act calmly” during a Sept. 17 forum with Sen. John Kerry. Meyer wrote that he “stepped out of line” and felt he had tarnished UF’s image. “In society, as in life, there are consequences for not ...
By: The Hot Joints
University Police Cleared in ?Don?t Taze Me Bro!? Incident
2007-10-24 23:48:00 University of Florida police were justified when they used a stun gun called a Tazer against a student who refused to stop questioning U.S. Senator John Kerry at a campus event, according to a state investigation released Wednesday. A summary of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement report was released by the University of Florida ...
By: The Hot Joints
Awaiting FDLE verdict in the Andrew Meyer tasing incident!
2007-10-23 03:17:00 The FDLE's report is due out any day now on the Andrew Meyer tasing incident. So far, President Machen hasn't said a word about anything, you'd think that by now the report would have been released and he would have sided with the officers for doing the right thing. Hell, he should have done that after it happened. No, he didn't compliment his fine officers for trying to keep the peace, instead he joined the bandwagon of those who claimed it was an issue of free speech.Now we've got this committee on campus, a committee of faculty, three undergrad students and a law student meeting to decide the future of safety and tasers on campus.Please.....anyone seen who is on this committee? No offense but not a single person with any law enforcement experience. Not the people I want deciding how the police should do their jobs.I just know my pal Nicole and her fellow officer will be cleared, I know it, because they were in the right. And I have a feeling Andrew Meyer is going to regret h...
Coming to Bill O'Reilly's Defense about Restaurant Comment: Ridiculous not
2007-09-26 17:27:00 I think Bill O'Reilly's comments about eating in a Harlem restaurant - "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.'" - are regrettable and tasteless, but not a capital media offense. Unlike Imus' remarks, which were directed at college students and were personally insulting to them, O'Reilly's remarks are at worst general, racist banter. They bespeak an antiquated, general bigotry - which many white people in my father's generation suffered from, which presumably far fewer do now, and which O'Reilly claims he was actually critiquing in his comments. Whatever his intentions, his remarks were inappropriate (if only because they could easily be taken out of context), but so general as to be laughable rather than really damaging to anyone.Of far more concern are O'Reilly's statements and attitudes about many other things - including his ridiculing remarks about Andrew Meyer's taserng in Florida last week, in which O'Reilly said...
By: Infinite Regress
Florida Student Andrew Meyer Tasered at John Kerry Forum
2007-09-21 23:58:00 Andrew Meyer went up to the microphone at a political forum and left with a police escort. He is a journalism student who was attending an event with Senator John Kerry. When he got to the microphone he went on for some time and made a few long points. Then asked several questions back to back. The situation escalated to the point where there were a handful of university cops who ended up shocking Andrew Meyer with 50,000 volts of electricity. He was tasered in front of everyone and now seen by millions on the internet and rebroadcast on the network news stations. You can see the video of the event below. Watch this video of my reaction after I saw the kid get toasted! Some are suggesting it was all a set up. If that is true, god bless the kid, because when he screams as they are tasering him, I feel the pain. DONT TASE ME BRO !? Check out the original footage. Video
By: Hot Conflict
Andrew Meyer followup
2007-09-21 20:40:00 This is the form letter being sent to people who contacted the U of F police department to voice their disturbance over the video of the student tased at the John Kerry talk:Thank you for sharing your thoughts and concerns with our agency. I have made a formal request of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to review this use of force action. I have full confidence in their ability to objectively investigate this incident.As a professional organization, it is important that we remain open to and encourage feedback from the community we serve. Once this investigative process is complete, we will take everything into consideration as we move forward with our analysis and reviews of protocols and procedures.Again, thank you for your comments.Chief Linda J. StumpUniversity of Florida Police Dept.51 Museum RoadPO Box 112150Gainesville, FL 32611-2150(352)392-5445(352) 392-0539 Faxlstump@ufl.edu
By: In-the-Weird
Former Homicide Detective Rod Wheeler on Hannity & Colmes Tonight: "Anyone
2007-09-21 06:50:00 "Anyone listening to John Kerry should be tasered" - that "joke" from a former homicide detective, one Rod Wheeler, who Fox News chose to have as a guest on Hannity and Colmes tonight.Wheeler said a lot more - that Andrew Meyer clearly deserved to be tasered, that he was clearly threatening the police who were escorting him away from the microphone - even though the videos of the event clearly show otherwise.But Wheeler is entitled to his erroneous opinion of what happened.He's of course also entitled to his misguided sense of humor. I guess we should at least be happy that someone with his values is a former rather than a current homicide detective.But where was Sean Hannity's outrage or even disagreement with his guest for taking such a tasteless shot at John Kerry's supporters, at a time in which tasering and politics and freedom of speech have become sadly intertwined?Now, more than ever, we need candidates like Ron Paul who respect both the First Amendment and the necessar...
By: Infinite Regress
O'Reilly Sinks to New Low: His Site is Giving Away "Please Don't Taze Me, B
2007-09-21 02:43:00 There seems to be one aspect of the tasering of Andrew Meyer at the University of Florida, after he was pulled away by police in the middle of asking a series of questions of John Kerry, that most people at least acknowledge if they do not strongly agree with: Meyer should not have been tasered.There is much disagreement about whether Meyer was deprived of his First Amendment rights (I think he obviously was), but few disagree over the inappropriateness of the tasering.Not Bill O'Reilly. Apparently the tasering of a person already down on the floor and totally under police control is of so little import to him, and indeed such an occasion for humor, that he is allowing 'Please Don't Taze Me, Bro' bumper stickers to be given away on his site, with every purchase of a pen, books, or whatever else some lucky fan may decide to acquire.You can hear Andrew Meyer saying "Don't taze me, bro" to the police, several times - right before they tasered him.This plea not to be hurt is a sou...
By: Infinite Regress
Andrew Meyer Supports Ron Paul: Your Thoughts on Tasered Student?
2007-09-20 20:57:00 You may have read recently of the unfortunate student, Andrew Mayer, who was tasered at a recent John Kerry event. Reports are claiming that the Florida student was a Ron Paul supporter, which is quite intriguing in that both have been stopped from broadcasting their opinions through the media in some way. I feel as though ...
By: Product Reviews
Bill O'Reilly about Andrew Meyer: "I Was Tasered, and It's Not that Bad"
2007-09-19 15:05:00 Did you see Bill O'Reilly's take last night on the tasering of University of Florida student Andrew Meyer?O'Reilly revealed that he, too, had been tasered once, and it didn't really hurt that much. Meyer was therefore hamming it up, according to O'Reilly.Well, one thing O'Reilly's revelation can teach us about tasering: it obviously doesn't knock much sense into your head about the First Amendment, and what it means for freedom of speech in this country.The First Amendment certainly does not say or mean that it's ok to interfere with speech, and taser a speaker, as long as the pain is not that bad. No pain is acceptable if meted out by the government or its agents. No interference with free speech by the government or its agents is acceptable. Period.Now the University of Florida police might not have been the Secret Service or the FBI. But they were still acting as agents of the government - that is how any police force, however local, derives its powers. The 14th Amendmen...
By: Infinite Regress
Andrew Meyer: ?Don?t Taser Me Bro?
2007-09-19 09:25:00 Great amateur video of University of Florida student Andrew Meyer who animatedly asked a few questions too many to Senator John Kerry during a political Q&A forum.Police try to escourt Meyer out of the building, before tackling him to the ground, and then tasering Meyer as he begged, “Don’t taser me bro!”. The amateur video (above) ...
People are F@#KING PISSED Over The Tasering of Andrew Meyer At The Kerry Sp
2007-09-19 06:30:00 In case you didn’t hear a bunch of cops at a John Kerry Speech at the University of Florida didn’t like Andrew Meyer’s question, and decided they were going to arrest him. In America, cops aren’t allowed to arrest you for what you say in an open forum, especially a political forum like this. I ...
By: WikiProtest Blog
Student Andrew Meyer Tasered During John Kerry Event
2007-09-18 21:09:00 Andrew Meyer, a 21 year old student, screamed and struggled in pain on the floor of the John Kerry Event auditorium when police tasered him whilst trying to restrain him. The shameful reasoning for this happening to Andrew Meyer is apparently due to the intense questioning he offered John Kerry regarding why Kerry hadn’t moved to ...
By: Product Reviews
Andrew Meyer?Tasered by Police
2007-09-18 20:07:00 3min 52sec The University of Florida taser incident is an event on September 17, 2007 in which police from the University of Florida forcibly removed twenty-one year old student Andrew Meyer from a forum with Democratic Senator John Kerry. Meyer reportedly asked Kerry why he did not contest the 2004 presidential election and why Kerry has ...
By: Current Era Blog
Andrew Meyer Speaks Out
2007-09-18 19:43:00 In the following Shocking video, student Andrew Meyer is Tasered while attempting to exercise his right to free speech. During a Question and answer period at a recent speech by John Kerry at San Francisco University, one of the students ( Andrew Meyer ) demonstrated just a little too much passion in voicing his opinions ...
YouTube As A Check on Police Brutality
2007-09-18 08:36:00 How many of you have seen the tasering of University of Florida student Andrew Meyer? He was tasered by police after he was pulled away from the microphone by the same police, in the middle of asking John Kerry a series of questions about why he did not contest the election results of 2004.If you haven?t seen the video of the incident, you can see it here -Now, I?ve actually wondered about the same thing myself - about why Kerry didn?t contest the counts in Ohio, and several other states. Given the closeness of the election, and the stakes involved with a war going on, John Kerry should have erred on the side of leaving no stone unturned or possibility at large that either deliberate or accidental miscounting cost him the election.But that?s not the point of this post - which is, bravo to YouTube for making videos of police brutality, such as occurred with Andrew Meyer in Florida, more accessible than ever to the general public.Video allowed the public to see the Rodney King beatin...
By: Infinite Regress
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