Tasers. A harmless little tool for our friendly neighborhood police officer/government protection worker to subdue the unruly, thus saving the use of deadly guns and saving lives. Sounds great, right? Wrong. Dozens of people have now been murdered by this "harmless" tool.
Ask the family of Mark Backlund, now deceased for being "uncooperative" (whatever that means) and getting a little taste of sparky. Ask the mother of Robert Dziekanski, who had to bury her son because the Vancouver RCMP got a little trigger happy. It appears now that the police, who no doubt have a difficult job, are now substituting public safety for their own safety and for, well, convenience sake. Its easier to just jolt someone who is mouthy, crazy or just a pain in the ass than actually take some effort to do their jobs, for some police, or so it seems. The mindset of the person using the taser, as this excellent article by Christopher Manion at Lew Rockwell.com illustrates, makes it difficult to continue to justify the use of tasers.
It doesn't look like the taser is the only tool "to protect" us that we have to fear.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is now researching the use of chemical weapons and stress contagions to keep us "free". And subdued.
Is the water getting hotter, little froggy? There is still time to jump out of the pot, if we speak out now.
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