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Date: September 18, 2007 8:27:23 PM PDT
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Subject: Just a Coincidence Meyer Got Tasered After Asking Kerry
about SKULL & BONES?
When you see the video of this incident, watch THE AUDIENCE. Watch
KERRY. Note the blank indifference of SHEEPLE to police-state
brutality occurring right before their glazed eyes. You'll even
hear APPLAUSE!
Campus police initially reported to the press that
Meyer was being arrested for "inciting a riot"!
< Okay ... Next time Zell Miller appears anywhere and
dares to open his mouth, set tasers on BARBECUE! >
...
Police state USA:
Student assaulted
and tasered by police
for asking John Kerry
the wrong question
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
by: Mike Adams, Newstarget (TAIWAN)
http://www.newstarget.com/022041.html
Andrew Meyer, a 21-year-old student at the University of Florida,
was assaulted by police officers yesterday immediately after asking
Sen. John Kerry if he was associated with the Skull and Bones
Society. Uniformed police officers brutally assaulted Meyer with a
taser, jolting him with tens of thousands of volts of electricity
as he screamed, "Help! Help me!" to a room full of astonished
onlookers. The mainstream media is censoring the truth of this
story, refusing to report the nature of the question asked by Meyer
immediately preceding his brutal arrest and kidnapping (see below)
by assaulting police officers.
A video of the event, filmed by Kyle Mitchell, is making the rounds
on the internet and is available now at YouTube.com: http://
youtube.com/watch?v=6bVa6jn4rpE
The two-minute video shows officers grabbing Meyer's arms, throwing
him to the ground and then, after Meyer is already secured on the
ground, blasting him with a taser.
Here's a blow-by-blow account of what happens in the video. All
dialog below is from Andrew Meyer:
Meyer is at the microphone, asking Sen. John Kerry a question.
Police are standing behind him. "Are you a member of Skull and
Bones... are you in the same secret society?"
Two uniformed police officers step forward and grab his arms.
"Excuse me, what are you arresting me for?"
Officers are holding his arms and begin to march him away from the
microphone.
"Woah, woah! Is anybody watching this?"
Meyer holds his arms in the air, is shouting something to the
audience to get them to pay attention. The audio is difficult to
hear. At no point is he fighting the officers or striking them in
any way. He is merely holding his arms in the air and attempting to
stand his ground and be heard.
A large uniformed officer forcefully picks him up by his torso and
begins to carry him away from the room down the center aisle.
"Help! Help! They're arresting me! What have I done?"
When Meyer reaches the back of the room, he does what any rational
human being would attempt to do when assaulted by someone: He
attempts to flee.
"Get away from me, man. Get off of me!"
He tries to run but is grabbed by officers and thrown to the
ground. The number of officers now assaulting Meyer is six: Four
white males, one white female and one black male.
"What did I do? HELP! HELP!"
The six officers pin his arms and legs to the ground and pull out
handcuffs.
"HELP ME! HELP! They're arresting me!"
The female officer, with her finger pointed at him, screams at him,
"Stop resisting!"
He relaxes a bit and says, "If you let me go, I'll walk out of here."
The female officer says, "Quiet down! Do it now!"
Then the officers forcefully him over and thrust his torso to the
ground so that he's laying flat on his stomach, with his face on
the floor.
"Why are they arresting me? Can someone do something here?"
"What did I do? Get off me, man! I didn't do anything!"
He tries to sit up, using his arm to grasp the edge of a seat and
pull himself up. An officer pulls out a taser.
"Don't tase me bro! Don't tase me!"
The officer tasers the student, and the taser clicking is clearly
heard on the video.
"OWWW! OWWW! OWWW!"
Another girl is heard screaming in the background (unknown at this
time who it is).
"OWWW! OH MY GOD! WHAT DID I DO?"
Someone screams in the background, "Police brutality!"
Someone in the foreground (bearded man) says, "Stay back!"
Police escort Meyer out of the room and the video ends.
Welcome to the new police state
What you have just witnessed in this video is an authentic scene of
police state brutality.
The video clearly shows that:
• Meyer was assaulted by six officers, thrown to the ground and
attacked with a violent weapon.
• Meyer volunteered to leave the room if the officers would let him
go.
• Meyer did not strike any officer at any time. His hands were
always in a defensive position.
• Meyer attempted to flee his assailants (as any rational person
would).
• Meyer committed no crime whatsoever. At no point did any law
enforcement officer accuse Meyer of committing any crime other than
"resisting arrest" (which is not a crime when the arrest is illegal
in the first place, see below).
• Meyer was arrested for merely exercising his Free Speech rights.
It is every citizen's duty to resist false arrest
There is no such crime as "resisting arrest." This is a fictitious
crime dreamed up by law enforcement to accuse a citizen of a crime
when they refuse to surrender to the illegal demands of the police.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on numerous occasions that
resisting a false arrest is not merely a citizen's right, but his
duty! In fact, the Supreme Court has gone so far as to rule that if
a law enforcement officer is killed as a result of actions stemming
from a citizen's attempts to defend themselves against a false
arrest, it is the fault of the officer, not the citizen.
Here's a short collection of relevant court rulings on false arrest
and resisting arrest:
"When a person, being without fault, is in a place where he has a
right to be, is violently assaulted, he may, without retreating,
repel by force, and if, in the reasonable exercise of his right of
self defense, his assailant is killed, he is justified." Runyan v.
State, 57 Ind. 80; Miller v. State, 74 Ind. 1.
"These principles apply as well to an officer attempting to make an
arrest, who abuses his authority and transcends the bounds thereof
by the use of unnecessary force and violence, as they do to a
private individual who unlawfully uses such force and violence."
Jones v. State, 26 Tex. App. I; Beaverts v. State, 4 Tex. App. 1
75; Skidmore v. State, 43 Tex. 93, 903.
"An illegal arrest is an assault and battery. The person so
attempted to be restrained of his liberty has the same right to use
force in defending himself as he would in repelling any other
assault and battery." (State v. Robinson, 145 ME. 77, 72 ATL. 260).
In other words, Andrew Meyer would have been justified in using
whatever reasonable means necessary to defend his life against his
assailants. The gang of six individuals who assaulted Meyer,
regardless of what clothing and badges they were wearing, were
threatening his safety and his life. They assaulted him with a
dangerous and potentially deadly weapon, and they kidnapped him by
forcefully removing him from the room against his will.
Was Meyer being annoying to others by taking up air time at the
microphone? Perhaps so. But being annoying is not a crime. If it
were, John Kerry, President Bush and practically elected official
in the country should be arrested. They're all far more annoying
than Meyer.
Additional information from the courts:
"Each person has the right to resist an unlawful arrest. In such a
case, the person attempting the arrest stands in the position of a
wrongdoer and may be resisted by the use of force, as in self-
defense." (State v. Mobley, 240 N.C. 476, 83 S.E. 2d 100).
Why did the bystanders not assist Meyer?
The most astonishing thing about this video is not merely the fact
that six police officers brutally assaulted and arrested Meyer for
his "Free Speech crimes," but that this room full of onlookers did
nothing while Meyer screamed for help.
In 1964, a New York resident named Kitty Genovese was stabbed to
death, screaming for help, while hundreds of her neighbors watched
and did nothing. No one called the police. The case of Kitty
Genovese became a lightning rod for psychological research that
attempted to understand the madness of crowds and why a group of
people would do nothing to help an innocent bystander.
Today, in Florida, a room full of fellow students looked on and did
nothing while their classmate, Andrew Meyer, was brutally attacked
by an armed gang, right on the floor in front of them. They watched
and did nothing. Not one person attempted to rush to the aid of
Meyer who was screaming "HELP! HELP ME!"
Do individuals have the right to come to the aid of another
citizens being falsely arrested? You bet they do. As another court
case ruled:
"One may come to the aid of another being unlawfully arrested, just
as he may where one is being assaulted, molested, raped or
kidnapped. Thus it is not an offense to liberate one from the
unlawful custody of an officer, even though he may have submitted
to such custody, without resistance." (Adams v. State, 121 Ga. 16,
48 S.E. 910).
And on the issue of actually killing an arresting officer in self
defense:
"Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an
arresting officer's life if necessary." Plummer v. State, 136 Ind.
306. This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United
States in the case: John Bad Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529.
Why onlookers did nothing
The sad fact of this matter is that the onlookers did nothing
because Americans have been terrorized by their own government to
fear authority and follow orders. Americans fear their government.
That alone is a dangerous situation, since the balance of power in
a free society actually depends on a government fearing the people!
When the people fear their government, that government has complete
power over the people. And our government in particular has used
fear as a weapon of mass terror against the American people for
several decades now. The U.S. government now has Americans so
scared of fictitious threats that the citizens have submitted to
the most insane security processes, such as surrendering bottles of
water at the airport before boarding an airplane, or submitting to
random searches of vehicles at roadside checkpoints.
In this particular video, we are watching a group of terrorized
onlookers sit in their chairs and do nothing while a fellow citizen
is arrested and assaulted for committing no crime.
If all this sounds familiar, it should: You probably read it in the
novel 1984 by George Orwell.
In a police state society, the citizens are turned against each
other. Each looks out for only his own survival, ignoring cries for
help by fellow citizens who are being assaulted or killed by the
state-run police forces. No one comes to the aid of another because
they, too, would then be arrested for "resisting arrest" and
charged with some bogus crime (or simply locked away and
"disappeared").
Don't think this could happen in the USA? You just watched it
happen. You are witnessing the reaction of a nation of citizens who
live in fear. There is no more rational reaction to police
brutality in this country. Everyone simply watches it, tolerates
it, and says nothing.
From this point there is no limit to the degree of police powers
abuse that can now be perpetrated against the citizens of this
nation. The sheeple have surrendered to fear and submitted to the
false authority of so-called "law enforcement" gangs who actually
have no respect whatsoever for laws.
Andrew Meyer deserves to be seen as a hero for his courageous
actions in the face of police brutality and complete abandonment by
his fellow students. His video serves as a powerful reminder that
the citizens of this nation have already lost their freedoms, and
if they do not wake up and start to protest, exercise free speech
and fight against police brutality, they will never regain the
rights and freedoms that once existed in this nation.
It is no coincidence that the police made an example of Andrew Meyer
One more thing worth remembering here: In a police state society,
the state must, from time to time, remind the citizens who's in
charge. This incident serves as a powerful reminder to those who
might dare to exercise their Free Speech rights and ask tough
questions of Senators or Presidents: Those who refuse to follow the
propaganda will be assaulted and arrested!
The wild popularity of this video on YouTube only serves to remind
millions of viewers of what might happen to them if they, too,
decide to speak out and actually tell the truth at a public gathering.
Remember, the first rule of tyranny is that you've got to stop
people from speaking the truth. The second rule is to punish anyone
who dares to speak the truth, and the third rule is to make sure
the people don't help each other resist false authority.
You saw all three rules played in in today's YouTube video. Watch
it again at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6bVa6jn4rpE
Thankfully, we're not yet in a full-on police state, or else you
wouldn't be able to read this article. We still have some time to
reverse this situation and take back our freedoms. I encourage you
to do so in every non-violent way possible. Speak out! Protest!
Tell the truth in an auditorium! Refuse to remain silent. Refuse to
submit to fear and false authority.
Remember: The only way to protect Free Speech is to exercise it.
Use it or lose it.
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USA: That's what free speech looks like
by via torun.indymedia.org
Tuesday Sep 18th, 2007 7:00 PM
meyer-armed-madhouse.jpg
During an “open meeting” with John Kerry (former candidate for USA
president) at the University of Florida, a student, Andrew Meyer,
asked him about the falsification of elections in Florida for the
2004 presidential election. Six officers brutally pulled Meyer from
the microphone after his 90 seconds of questions to Kerry, and
since he resisted, threw him to the ground and tasered him. The
taser is becoming more and more controversial, since despite it’s
so-called “safe disabling”, in the USA and Canada a few hundred
people have already died from the effects of tasering. Most people
in the room failed to react to the attack. A video of the incident
is HERE
Today, a more than 200 person solidarity picket with the detainee
and against the limiting of free speech and the user of taser by
university police took place. Banners were carried saying “Freedom
of speech is not a crime”, “Stop using tasers”. Firing the security
guards from the university was also demanded.
Andrew’s three questions:
he showed Greg Palast’s book Armed Madhouse and asked about the
faking of voting in Florida during the 2004 US presidential election
he asked why Kerry didn’t call for impeaching Bush before Bush
attacks Iran
he asked if Kerry was in the same secret group Skull and Bones at
Yale University with Bush (it’s already known that both are members)
Editing is open
http://torun.indymedia.org/4050
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Cynthia McKinney Comments:
Another Outrage --
Aren't Students Supposed to Ask Questions???
by Cynthia McKinney
Tuesday Sep 18th, 2007 6:09 PM
Cynthia McKinney comments at her website today:
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, obviously 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. 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.
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