I was one of the first people I know to heart Obama. I wore my “I heart Obama” T-shirt all last summer, feeling very pre-dawn in it too. I tend to get a little cynical now that Obamania has hit and everybody is goin’ gaga over the man. I recoil from being part of a crowd. (And from finding out about his cosiness with the nuclear power industry. And what's he doing hanging out with Zbigniew Brezinski?) But. Please watch and compare the two videos below. The first is of Barack, reacting with saneness as people faint at this rallies (from the heat, emotion, whatever). He stops his speeches. He calls for help. He acts like a responsible good person. The second is of John Kerry doing absolutely nothing as a young man is arrested and TASERED IN THE NECK by cops at a speech at the University of Florida last September. The young man’s crime? He asked some uncomfortable questions. About Skull and Bones.

www.breitbart.tv/html/48404.html

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVa6jn4rpE

Tasers kill, by the way. By electrocution. They’re part of a class of weapons known as “non-lethal,” but that is a misnomer. In fact, the military refuses to call them “non-lethal,” preferring the more accurate—if more Orwellian—“less-than-lethal.” They’re now a part of the routine belt paraphernalia carried by most American law enforcement. Close to 200 people have died as a result of tasering since 2001.

Police officers typically use tasers to “subdue” such terrifying suspects as prisoners, drug addicts, and the mentally ill, along with protesters. (On October 9, 2006, tasers were used on demonstrators at a Rick Santorum fundraiser in Pittsburgh, just one example.) They have also been used on children and pregnant women. The idea that they supposedly "don't kill" has encouraged their use and over-use.

Taser International, the biggest producer, has built a monopoly through savvy marketing as well as the hiring of former police and military muckety-mucks such as disgraced former Homeland Security chief candidate Bernard Kerik. The 9/11 attacks were a boon to profits. After the Towers fell down, everybody wanted tasers.

In March of 2006, Amnesty International called for the suspension of taser use. Unfortunately, this has done nothing to deter the demand for these sinister weapons.