What the hell is going wrong in america?

[ExcruciationX]

That's insane...

That guy did appear to be a jackass, but the police force used was a bit much.

[sourced]

dis is wat we al quieda in iraq hate abaut amerika!

stupihd amerikans. we whill kill you all!

Death too AMERIKA.












seriously though, that s*** is f***ed up.

[quzar]

That was one of the most rediculous videos ever. He asked a question which Kerry was quite willing to answer. Completely unreasonable force was used when the person was willing to co-operate and leave peacefully. In Britain that would never happen, we have common sense and a police force who are trained to actually deal with the public instead of doing what those cops did. America needs to reform it's political system, constitution and many many other things.

How do you figure he was willing to leave? He was resisting arrest, which (iirc) is a crime regardless of the basis of the arrest. I'm not saying it's right that they should be able to take him out for asking questions, but his reaction was totally wrong.

As for this never happening in Britain, I recall an incident somewhere between 1 and 3 years ago where an elderly man (70-85) was forcibly removed from some sort of political occurance and it caused a large commotion. If anyone else remembers this, please help me with details.

edit: found it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4291388.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4293502.stm

Now that I reread it, I find it wasn't what I remembered, and doesn't say anything about the way in which the police treat the person, but it does to a large extent show how in both America and Britain, you don't have free speech in political assemblies. By the way, he wasn't asked to leave just because he was interrupting, as evidenced by the fact that after being escorted out, he was held for some time by the police under the Terrorism Act.

[blueshogun96]

America is a f@#%ed up place now adays. 20 years ago, things weren't so bad, but now I'm afraid to bring any kids into this awful world.

[VampDude]

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[steve520]

America has been corrupted already this is just something minor showing how come it is corrupted. Wow that video totally violates the right to freedom of speech.

[VampDude]

America has been corrupted already this is just something minor showing how come it is corrupted. Wow that video totally violates the right to freedom of speech.

It is corrupted (which that guy was violated by his country), and all I can sadly say yet again is...


...John Titor.

http://www.johntitor.strategicbrains.com/

[XioN980]

i have to agree with quzar on this one, although the cops shouldn't have acted entirely the way they did, he reacted the wrong way....

The words "What did i do?" were thrown about like a 12 year old, seriously, you accuse a political leader of corruption your not gonna get a good response, if hes dumb enough not to know why they were attempting to arrest him then he probably belongs in something like prison which removes stupid people from the general public...

[VampDude]

The words "What did i do?" were thrown about like a 12 year old, seriously, you accuse a political leader of corruption your not gonna get a good response, if hes dumb enough not to know why they were attempting to arrest him then he probably belongs in something like prison which removes stupid people from the general public...

The decent thing for John Kerry to do would've been answering the question, and lie when he answered (cause that's what politicians do) because this is going to be a hot topic for some time.

[PLZKLLME0080]

oh my god. that makes me wonder wtf is wrong with America too. all though he probably could of went with them peacefully and not resisted arrest, there was no reason for them to do that to him. i hope that those cops get fired at the very least.