SUPPORT THE TASED STUDENT, CONDEMN KERRY/ACADEMIC FASCISM

I am infuriated at what this nation has become. Today or yesterday a student was beaten, tased and arrested for daring to speak without the permission of the official speaker, John Kerry. Having watched the video I do not know why the student was attacked. There is no obvious order to do so. It seems that the student mentioned several things that are generally not
to be discussed in the company of bona fide Republicans and Democrats. He mentioned the
stolen election of 2004 and Greg Palast's book. He insisted that George Bush be impeached and
he asked about Kerry's experience in "Skull and Bones", a Yale secret society Bush and Kerry were in at Yale.

Maybe this, in your face presentation, of generally avoided topics is that was punishable by electrocution, beating and arrest. It sure looked like it to me.

I hear that three hundred students at that university have already protested, there should be a demonstration on every campus, condemning harsh police practices in the community and at public events like this. We need to campaign at the constant increase in police powers at every
level of government. Law enforcement is becoming a bloated and cumbersome bureaucracy whose growth adds less and less per dollar invested. Besides a continuously growing police state
will intervene more and more in the private lives of citizens and be available to spy upon them and otherwise control citizens, in a fascistic way. We are becoming a nation of police personnel
and servants of the police state.

This young man was tortured for having a brain and trying, trying, to exercise a supposed
right, the right to free speech. For this he was tortured and arrested. But 300 students cannot
be so easily silenced!

It is time to see this sort of violence for what it is, the relentless efforts by our
ruling elites to make this a fascist society where a handful of billionaires profit from their
overseas investments and domestic monopolies while the rest of us live in a nation in decline,
without democratic parties, without a mechanism for the people to have their will implemented.

Our cruel rulers hope to put the fear of being tased, beaten or arrested into the hearts
of any average american who dares exercise her free speech. Yet every act of violence by the
rulers simply sets them apart from the rest of America. They are our rulers and they are oppressing us and others throughout the world more and more each day.

I don't think this young student was intimidated. You could see that he stood strong and persisted in the struggle despite the great pain inflicted upon him. Now three hundred courageous students have already added their voices to his. This jack booted repression should make the blood of every freedom loving American and human being boil. How dare we not act? How dare we not dare? How can we do nothing to contend with the poison preaching reactionaries that dominate politics, media and culture?

All of us should follow this student's brave example. Like him we may be beaten, tased or worse. We must denounce these bought and sold politicians as well as their principle sponsors. At the end of a perhaps long, perhaps short struggle our rights will be restored and, yes, advanced.

Speak out against reactionaries everywhere and by any media necessary. Let's get the police
out of our politics and engage in open debate rather than fearful questioning in the presence of
armed enforcers of servility before neither Republican nor Democrat candidates.