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UF Police Cleared In Taser Incident Charges May Be Filed Against Student   POSTED: 12:19 pm EDT October 24, 2007 UPDATED: 12:48 pm EDT October 24, 2007   GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- University of Florida police have been cleared in the use of a Taser gun against a student on campus. A report by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said the officers were justified when they used the Taser gun on Andrew Meyer. Police have said Meyer refused to stop questioning Sen. John Kerry at a campus event last month. The videotaped altercation and Meyer's cries of "Don't Tase...

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has released a 300-page report on the infamous zapping of University of Florida senior Andrew Meyer, whose rowdy actions, catch-phrase and police Tasering during a John Kerry town hall forum made international headlines. ''Don't Tase me, Bro,'' Meyer, 21, squealed after police put the screaming, combative student down on the ground and relaxed him with 50,000 volts from a Taser. FDLE has determined that University of Florida police did nothing improper in subduing Meyer after he resisted arrest. A statement from University of Florida President Bernie Machen and links to the FDLE report can...

Is it all a conspiracy? A report claims that a Florida student that was arrested at a question and answer session for John Kerry is reportedly a Ron Paul supporter. Now while those that believe Ron Paul is just another long shot crackpot will get a chuckle out of all the "nuts" sticking together the incident in Florida did have its moments. When the student was being arrested, he screamed, "There are people that know I'm here. You can't do things like that." The paranoid student then seemed to believe he would never be heard from again. "Oh my God....

<p>Abbie Hoffman interrupted The Who's performance during Woodstock 1969 to attempt a protest speech against the jailing of John Sinclair of the White Panther Party. He grabbed a microphone and yelled, "I think this is a pile of shit! While John Sinclair rots in prison..." The Who's guitarist, Pete Townshend, cut Hoffman off in mid-sentence, saying, "Back off! Back off my f-ing stage!" He then struck Hoffman with his guitar, sending the interloper tumbling offstage, to the roaring approval of the crowd. Townshend later said he actually agreed with Hoffman on Sinclair's imprisonment, though he made the point that he would have knocked him offstage regardless of his message.</p>

The FUnniest thing about the VIDEO of the publicity hound University of Florida student being tasered wasn't his obvious theatrics. It was the fact that John Kerry passively stood by on the stage and kept on droning while the cops arrested Meyer and tasered him. Most of Kerry's droning was drowned out by Taser Boy on the video but he did absolutely NOTHING at the time to stop the arrest and tasering although he belatedly criticized it when his passive role in the incident was questioned. Yeah, John Kerry has your back...NOT! Even many on the Left, such as...