I ordered the book.
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I admire his tenacity and think the judgement and behavior display on the part of the rent-a-cops is both disgraceful and not surprising. I wish the questioner could have found another way to play through this situation a bit more smoothly though. His devolving into screaming and cursing doesn’t help his case over much for people who are just casually watching this – even if it *is* obviously very damning. He needs to master himself first and communicate this valuable message to people afterwards.
The words “I am not resisting arrest” came to mind as I was watching them take him away.
Excellent marketing for the book, in any case.
You’re right. I certainly don’t believe the kids actions were exemplary in this situation – although, as you did point out Time Botcher …. I did end up buying the book.
This stuff happens all the time (college kids getting tazed) and I’m always thinking to myself “yeah, well what did you expect?”. It always makes me feel defeated.
For some reason, this video really got to me though.
I think that although his behavior was far from mastered, there was something old fashioned and empathetic about how unprofessional( but motivated by passion )the kids actions were. Something old school ‘American’ – like in Field of Dreams when Kevin Costner’s wife stands up at the school board meeting when they are trying to ban books.
I’m also amazed with Kerry. How he just keeps going on with the boring speech and doesn’t even flinch about the fact that the kid is being tazed in the background. I’m sure if he would of told the security to calm down and deal with it peacefully, or said *something* they would have scaled back the aggression. Apparently when the kid came running in there in the first place, Kerry agreed to answer the question which stopped the cops the first time. How hard would it have been to have tried to intervene the during the
ELECTRIC SHOCKS ?
I think his lack of action speaks a lot to how ineffectual he is as a leader.
This is not a rhetorical question, but a serious question: Do we believe in democracy anymore?
something old fashioned and empathetic about how unprofessional( but motivated by passion )the kids actions were. Something old school ‘American
Yeah, absolutely!
You know what I think the stupid thing is though: how this kid had to throw in the Skull & Bones crap, when he had a perfectly awesome question to begin with. He only detracted from it by adding that.
Do we believe in democracy anymore?
I’m getting more and more into the Founding Fathers lately, the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution, etc. I want to read the Federalist Papers, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin. Their ideas about democracy were not, in a lot of ways, aligned with the more modern context we have wrapped them in.
I know I believe in universal human rights, and this video shows a complete failure of respect for the sanctity of a human person – whether or not he was asking stupid questions or being disruptive.