Posted on 09/10/2013 3:07:53 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Police used a taser to electric shock a disabled man because he was standing on a bus, as he always does. The man prefers standing because of his spinal injuries, which make it uncomfortable for him to sit.
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Of course they say they were justified. Obsession with the state at its finest. Ayn Rand said it wonderfully:
“The political expression of altruism is collectivism or statism, which holds that mans life and work belong to the stateto society, to the group, the gang, the race, the nationand that the state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.”
There isn’t a situation that can’t be made worse, by the simple introduction of an LEO.
That is not the current doctrine for many police departments. They view taser on the same level as OC spray, below a baton. That doesn’t mean that this bus passenger deserved to be tased.
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