This essay doesn't say very much, and what it does say, it says poorly. The Gump analogy strikes me as utterly, utterly ridiculous.
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My local paper, the Shenandoah Valley Herald, ran a front-page article yesterday about a truck driver who was tasered to death less than ten miles from my house on June 20th because he would not submit satisfactorily to the local police queries. He was pepper sprayed, then tasered multiple times until he expired. I don’t know what crimes he committed, but I suspect they will be recorded as many and most serious.
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I was particularly struck by how this paragraph has nothing to do with the whole thing. I went and looked up the incident.
http://www.dailynews-record.com/svh_...D=5051&CHID=43
A pickup truck rolls down an embankment and into a person's back yard at 10:30 at night. The home owner goes and checks on the driver, who is not hurt, but is "incoherent". He calls the cops. When the cop arrives, the driver attacks the cop, and it takes the cop plus three non-cops to hold the driver down even after pepper spraying. Other cops arrive and try to control the guy with tasers. They hit him with the most powerful stuff they have, but he still resists. Finally he just suffers some sort of malady and slumps over and passes out. Emergency personnel fail to revive him and the guy dies at the hospital. Thirty people witnessed the tasering.
Karen Kwiatkowski read that same story and determined it was evidence of a libertarian crisis in her area.
She's clearly not very bright, is she?