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Winter Soldier at the University of Florida

2008-12-01T14:54:58Z

University of Florida - April 8, 2008 - Winter Soldier

Former Army Sargent, Maggie Martin speaks out against the Iraq war.

UF Students Against War meet with local Veterans for Peace

2008-10-19T15:29:58Z

Gainesville, Florida - UF Campus 6/26/2007: VFP Chapter leader, Scott Camil meets with a University of Florida group who have formed "STUDENTS AGAINST WAR" -- a group of about 150 members who are working to end the illegal occupation of Iraq. Their leadership requested a meeting with the local Veterans for Peace group in Gainesville, Fl to begin a cooperative campaign to end the Iraq war and bring the troops home.

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TASERS - Militarization of Police and Officer "Friendly"

2008-10-18T03:29:29Z

TASERS - Militarization of Police and Officer "Friendly"

WARNING: Tasers are being purchased and deployed to "authorities" by the thousands.

THE MILITARIZATION of OFFICER FRIENDLY in PREPARATION for DECLARING MARTIAL LAW on US CITIZENS.

A TASER is a terrorist instrument of social control designed to intimidate the masses by punishing one individual in a public forum.

TASERS have failed to replace firearms as lethal force but instead, have been added to the arsenal of "preemptive" weapons to "KILL" your First Amendment rights through a national campaign of intimidation.

TASERS are a license for the practice of legalized SADISM by bad cops who can shoot you with a jolt of excrutiating electronic pain with impunity.

The presence of "police" in a public forum has come to mean that you risk consequences of extreme pain, arrest, humiliation and a threat of death if you are otherwise inclined to speak truth to power.

Immoral and illegal practices at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison mirror our corrupted federal government's civilian agenda for the incremental and insidious Orwellian intimidation of citizens to would "dare" to excersize Constitutional First Amendment rights on US soil.

In sharp contrast to the UPD TASERING incident, police are not even allowed to be on a school campus in the UK and elsewhere in Europe.

TASERS show potential for police brutality on a massive scale.

TASERS have become little more than public pornography resulting in a creeping degradation of the human spirit.

The medical consequences of ndividuals susceptible to mental trauma and PTSD at witnessing a friend or peer group member screaming and writhing in extreme pain have been completely ignored in a rush to deploy more and more TASERS -- particularly when the punishment by TASER is inflicted on a person who is perceived by the public to have COMMITED NO CRIME.

The TASER is a de-humanizing weapon of social control. Demand that TASERS be removed from college campuses and police depertments while you still can. The indiscriminate use of TASERS and recent legislation is your warning that the government plans to declare MARTAL LAW for any reason they choose.

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TASER as a weapon against political dissent

2008-10-17T21:30:43Z

Increasing militarization of police in the US employs mass intimidation to the exercise of Free Speech when an entire group is witness to the delivery of writhing pain to one group member by police using overwhelming force.

The number of agencies using TASERS in the US is up from 500 to an astonishing 11,000 during the years of the Bush administration largely due to federal cuts to the COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services) program. This step backward has effectively moved funds away from CRIME PREVENTION into the more draconian practice of CRIME CONTROL. The TASER allows enforcement agencies to employ preemptive military tactics against "suspected" law violators.

The Bush administration targeted the COPS program for budget cuts every year since 2001. In fact, in 2003 Bush proposed eliminating COPS altogether. In 2005, Bush sought a staggering 86 percent cut for the COPS program with none of the remaining funds set aside for hiring officers causing massive layoffs. This policy has left law enforcement weaker at a time when national security should have called for more funds for COPS prevention and more police on the streets.

The result could not have been more predictable than if the Bush administration had planned it: The US has suffered a predictable increase (2%) in violent crime with firearms reportedly used 70% of the time.

This degrading trend is expected to create leaner, fewer and meaner police willing to overlook critical First amendment issues in order to stop even peaceful forums from escalating into the aggressive exercise of free speech on a college campus by political activists armed only with only a book and a rare opportunity to speak truth to power.

The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) says Andrew Meyer is a "Threat To Society." Why would local FOP rep., GPD officer Jeff McAdams, subscribe to this libelous statement?

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Andrew Meyer to Appear on Countdown without a Taser

2008-10-21T21:29:41Z

Kieth Olberman will have Taser "Bro", Andrew Meyer as a guest on Tuesday's, Oct. 30, 2007 show - "COUNTDOWN"

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ASSAULT ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN AMERICA

2008-10-24T09:29:45Z

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Randi Rhodes: Free speech belongs in a cage these days

2008-12-01T14:48:40Z

"This isn't a country where we torture people for being obnoxious. This is a country where we torture people for being Muslim." -Randi Rhodes

http://www.therandirhodesshow.com
http://www.myspace.com/randirhodes

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Headzup: The Unknown Candidate on Tasering Students

2008-10-24T15:29:37Z

Who is the Unknown Candidate? Today, he discusses the "Tasering" of an University of Florida student at a John Kerry Speech.

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University of Florida student Tasered at Kerry forum

2008-10-20T03:29:25Z

A University of Florida student is Tasered and arrested after asking some questions at a town hall forum, which featured Senator John Kerry, at the UF Auditorium on Sept. 17, 2007.

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The Rise of a Catholic Town: Ave Maria, Florida

2008-12-01T14:53:17Z

Dominos Pizza founder Tom Monaghan spent more than half a billion dollars to create a planned Catholic Community from scratch: Ave Maria, Florida.

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