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September 18, 2007
Asking political questions = Tasering offense?
There are many disturbing things about this segment:
1) The student is forcibly removed from an auditorium for asking a (politically embarrassing) question
2) No one tries to help him
3) Other students applaud the suppression of said speech. (To be fair, many of them were probably tired annoyed with the speaker for making a speech in the form of a question)
4) A US Senator watches this suppression of free speech and makes no move to intervene. (again, to be fair, he does state that he would like to answer the questions)
5) The police use a taser on a student who cannot possible resist them.
Those are the ones that jump to mind. Perhaps the worst thing of all was the utter complacency of the student body. The bedrock principles of democracy were violated before the watching eyes of these students and they applauded that the annoyance was removed from their midst. Perhaps this isn't the death knell for democracy, but it sure isn't a promising sign...
Posted by Andrew at September 18, 2007 12:31 PM