don't_tase_me_bro Strideo Oh look! A can of worms! Let's open it! Okay, this video has been all over You Tube of this student named Andrew Meyer who was tasered by University of Florida campus police when he resisted arrest for disturbing the peace at a speaking engagement where John Kerry was speaking and answering questions. Quite frankly I am disturbed by the large number of people saying that Andrew Meyer's free speech rights were violated or that he was being censored. Clearly there are many people that don't have a firm grasp of the concept of free speech. Yes, you have the right to express your views but you don't have the right to take over someone else's venue to do it. If anything this might be a police brutality issue but really Andrew Meyer could have said what ever he wanted if he chose the appropriate time and place. When the moderator/event personnel started telling him that his time was up and asked him to stop then he should have been respectful of their wishes and stopped. Instead he kept talking and when they turned off his microphone he started shouting sarcastically "Thank you for cutting my mic! Thank you!" and two campus police officers came to escort him from the room, one of them calmly saying to him "Stop. Stop." At this point he started to shout and wave his arms and the police eventually restrained him. So why isn't it censorship or a violation of free speech? Well, the government didn't restrict his ability to speak. It was a member of the staff who was helping coordinate a private event which was open to the students that asked him to stop. He had no more right to hog the mic there than he would at a wedding toast or a poetry reading or some other privately run event, open to the public or not. There is some question as to whether or not it was necessary for police to use the taser on him when they did because he was surrounded by at least six officers so I'll concede that there is plenty of room for legitimate debate there. ... 070925 ... The Old Man From Scene 24 meanwhile the falafel fetishist who claims "I don't do personal attacks" in between his usual flow of personal attacks gets on TV and proclaims the "don't tase me..." guy to be "The biggest wimp in the united states" Of course, as is typical of people of his particular ilk, he feels free to talk shit about the guy having never been tased himself (which i might even pay to see) 070925 ... loofa mitt romney the_factor 070925 ... Strideo "He famously got Tasered and arrested, though according to the police report, he later told officers, 'I am not mad at you guys, you didn't do anything wrong, you were just trying to do your job.'" - MSNBC allDAY Hmmm, maybe Andrew Meyer really was just doing it as a publicity stunt. ... 070925 ... Lisa my bro is so uncoool 070925 what's it to you? who go blather from