Come and get your "Don't TASE me, Bro" T-Shirts.

Brought to you by the performance artist and self promoter.......errr, I mean, victim of fascist oppression.

If he's putting something on a T-shirt that I think makes sense why shouldn't I buy it? And why should I moan if other people buy it? He's hardly a poster child for political awareness but there's nothing wrong with printing T-shirts.

:sarcasm:

I know not what course others may take, but as for me: Give me Liberty or Buy my Tshirt!

At least five of the following are necessary for a diagnosis (as with many DSM diagnoses, they must form a pervasive pattern; for example, a person who shows these criteria only in one or two relationships or situations would not properly be diagnosed with NPD):

1. has a grandiose sense of self-importance
2. is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3. believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by other special people
4. requires excessive admiration
5. strong sense of entitlement
6. takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
7. lacks empathy
8. is often envious or believes others are envious of him or her
9. arrogant affect.

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Meyer did not deserve to be tasered and, still, he is no one to look up to. I would like to see the video of all of the other students who were asking questions after having listened to Kerry until Meyer barged in and pushed himself to the front of the line. The other students may have asked equally or more challenging questions.

Some people here don't want to look at this incident in context!

We now have a poster boy for anti-police state activities. If you show what this was really about it just undermines our ability to use him for our own pet philosophical issues.

:D

... looks an awful lot like a pet philosophical position in its own right, and a somewhat problematic one at that...

I take the position that it's bad form to electrocute prats. His confirmed prattishness does not exonerate the silly and potentially highly dangerous arrest tactics. In fact, his prattishness makes him even MORE of a poster child, his behaviour is a perfect example of the sort of thing people are increasingly classifying as "acceptably oppressible" behaviour. It is NOT acceptable to use potentially fatal weapons on people who are merely irritating.

Was he tasered or was he screaming Ow Ow Ow without being tasered. If you are tasered you can't scream Ow Ow Ow.

The fact that he is an ass and has a history of being an ass and an attention seeker for his blog AND the fact that he laughed in the cop car with the officers saying "You guys didn't do anything wrong" all lead to the possible conclusion that this is not what it seems.

Tasering should be discouraged, but all the facts aren't out yet. The philosophical arguments about free speech and comparisons to Rosa Parks we have seen over this incident are ludicrous.

I'm not interested in the free speech or Rosa Parks angle, which I agree is silly.

......current that wouldn't affect his speech. I wasn't aware of this but, according to some MSNBC "analyst", there is another setting that doesn't release the probes - it uses the tip of the gun. It's used for "pain compliance" and not meant to render the victim immobile. Supposedly, it's less dangerous as it localizes the current..........again, take it for what it's worth from some MSNBC talking head ex-cop.

I don't agree with it but there ARE "acceptable" procedures to inflict pain to gain compliance. Another technique is to beat the back of the legs with a billy-club -the old fashioned way. Both pretty bad if you ask me.

On one hand, the mere thought of "pain compliance" creeps me out because it sounds a lot like torture. On the other hand, as a trained wrestler and student of Judo, I understand how hard it can be to manipulate someone's arms when they are fully resisting........according to above mentioned talking head, a half-handcuffed suspect is not a good thing if he breaks loose and starts swinging a handcuff around as a weapon.

On the whole, I don't think the TASER was justified. I think police use it FAR to often. He was 99% subdued and under control with no less than 6 cops on or around him.

I can't sympathize with the police either. Nor does Kerry come out looking good in the incident. Really, what a story, with no heroes, everybody looking bad.

But this kid. He commandeers otherwise good positions, or questions, and in his incoherent, belligerent presentation makes a mockery of them. In a story with no heroes, he's at the bottom. I think the 'bro' comment is particularly loathsome. A privileged white kid attempting to claim hip kinship with a black person—a black cop, no less, in a situation like this—is pathetic. The kid needs help, more than his t-shirt selling friends can give him.

I've no idea who the anti-Meyer people think they're arguing with, of COURSE he's a fool, the point is in a civilised society that SHOULDN'T MATTER.

"I'm just really still sort of numb, hearing that my grandson is in jail," Lucy Meyer said.

She added: "He gets very, very overcome with passion for whatever he is feeling. Maybe the passion took over."

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Sounds like Taser Kid has a history of tantrums.

for all the people who were happy that Myers got tased.