Dissident Veteran For Peace: Taser: One Cop Shopper Stopper

Dissident Veteran For Peace

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." —Alexis de Tocquevile. Democracy in America, Book I, Chapter XV.

With a nod to the Most Rev. Dom Helder Camara: When I support Palestinians some call me an 'anti-Semite', when I try to explain why I stand in solidarity with Palestinians they call me a Nazi.

"WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." —Major General Smedley Butler, USMC (ret.)

"... no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end." —character of O'Brien in 1984, part 3, ch. 3 by George Orwell.

"Every prophet has realized that nobody loves you for being the enemy of their illusions. Every prophet has realized that most of us want peace at any price as long as the peace is ours and somebody else pays the price. That is why the prophet Jeremiah said, ' "Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace,' ..." —The Rev. William Sloane Coffin. "Not to Bring Peace, But a Sword."

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Taser: One Cop Shopper Stopper

If you've been following the case of Dr. Catherine Wilkerson then you know what can happen when you criticize the police and paramedics for endangering someone's life. But what might happen if you get upset with a cop hassling you for credit card fraud when you're using your own valid credit card? Elizabeth Beeland of Ormond Beach, FL found out last month and you can, too, by watching the video below. After you've done that, take a look at "Use of Taser on disruptive store customer questioned" in the online edition of the Daytona Beach News-Journal.