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Canadian Lawmakers call for Taser Ban
Posted Nov 16th 2007 6:58PM by Jeff Hoard
Filed under: Politics, Video, Canada
Last month a Polish man named Robert Dziekanski was killed at the Vancouver Airport after RCMP tasered him. Yesterday a video surfaced from a witness who recorded the event on his cell phone, now the story has really taken off. Google has hundreds of news stories related to Robert, so go ahead and pick your poison. The video below is from CBC The National has some pretty good nuggets of information, like how 286 people have now died from Tasers. Who would have thought 50,000 volts of electricity could be so dangerous? Well Canadian lawmakers are now calling for a moratorium on Taser use, I simply think cops should go back to using the old reliable lasso, what do you think about Tasers?
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31. TO: Earl, Dan, Melinda,Harry L., Kevin (a man over 40?..your point?)and David S. You need to wake up and see what is REALLY going on here. Listen to yourselves. This is all about control soon they will be in your home, they already listen to phone calls, watch everything on your computer. Do you think you have rights? What are you going to do when for some small idiotic thing this happens to YOU!! Go ahead sheep..baah...baah. You are on your way just like the jews in the halocaust.Each one of you is AFRAID, see you are already under their control, if you speak out you could get tazzed bro, remember this ISN'T AMERICA any more. NO MORE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, NO MORE CONSTITUTION, NO MORE RIGHTS. The puppet masters have used the media to seep into your brains, can you? no do you think for yourselves anymore? Whos going to save you idiots NOT US, NOT GOD. You shall perish with all the evil now running this WORLD!
Martha at 11:43AM on Nov 18th 2007
32. TASER is better then the option of the ole billyclub or blackjack. or the Bullet. The problem in that International Airport is the lack of multilingual personel whether it be lawenforcemnt or any other available translator.
Mike at 12:04PM on Nov 18th 2007
33. Hey Hoard, is it true that the Canadian Parliament is going to end each session now with "Don't Taz me Bro"...?
Willet at 1:47PM on Nov 18th 2007
34. My sources are telling me "no" willet...then again my sources consist of a closet full of drunken midgets...I dont trust them on this issue. So you could be right.
Jeff at 4:51PM on Nov 18th 2007
35. Martha, with all due respect, I believe you are attributing grandiose motives to street cops. I'm sure there are many instances of cops using tazers for malignant purposes, or using them indiscriminately or too quickly. However, I do not believe the average street cop is trying to be the Gestapo when dealing with common street criminals. I believe that, for the most part, when a cop uses a tazer s/he expects an enraged and violent suspect to fall to the ground and be restrained.
I am also reasonably certain that the average street cop, like the average office or factory or retail worker, wants to do his job and go home to put his feet up at the end of his shift. This has nothing to do with the Holocaust, Martha.
Captain Negative at 7:01PM on Nov 18th 2007
36. oh man,
i totally missed this post!
lizard and somber in a metaphorical snuggle match?
did someone over-medicate lizard again?
oh GDI!
is this going to be on PPV?
or can i just tivo it?
man.../pouts
we need to have a newsletter or something!
till next time..peace.
Enoch D.D.S
enoch at 12:55AM on Nov 22nd 2007
37. Kevin....You are an IDIOT !!!!
traveler at 9:33AM on Nov 23rd 2007
38. My fellow citizen Claudio Castagnetta died last September, a few hours after being tasered. A doctor in Economics, head of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Québec city, he was far from being a criminal. One day, he merely displayed what Canadians call an "erratic" outburst in a store. His behaviour, quite normal in Italy, is in fact considered criminal over here, and worthy of being tasered. He did not break any law, and a simple talk with a culture-savvy mountie would have solved the situation. I wish the RCMP spent less money on tasers, and more on honing the cultural and negotiating skills of its officers. That would have also helped Zofia Cisowski, mother of Robert Dziekanski, welcome her only child into the beacon of civilization we call Canada.
Alberto at 12:13PM on Nov 29th 2007