I remember reading about this case when it happened. I can absolutely see how this could happen. I've been the sleep deprived mom dropping my son at the daycare half asleep after a night up with with the little one, before going into work. Scared the hell out of me when I first read this story. It still does, although both my kids are now old enough to unbuckle the car seat & I've taught both to unbuckle & honk the horn if they ever get trapped in a car.
My immediate reaction when I heard of the Ayers story is that McCain's early association with Keating is a lot more dangerous to his campaign than Ayers is to Obama's. Unless, of course, they manage to paint him as the "dark skinned terrorist" which is where I think they're going.
On the upside the plagiarism thing is pretty weak (he cited the article the first time he quoted but not later, in law school; and he cited the author multiple times but did not cite it once in a speech in the 88 presidential race).
On the downside, he's pro-RIAA, and he was one of the advocates for the evil bankruptcy bill. I'm not happy with Biden. But as someone upstream said, I'd vote for Obama if his running mate was Sauron. The Supreme Court is balanced on a knife's edge, and the liberals are older & sicker than the conservatives. I really would like to keep Roe v. Wade, and some right of privacy.
I'm much more disturbed by the fact that both of the people who asked for the badge numbers of the officers were threatened with being tazered as well.
Add to that the command "stand up or you'll be tazered again" when it's pretty well known that tazers lock up muscles. Between the tazer muscle effects and the fact that it's hard to stand up wearing handcuffs, they were giving him instructions impossible to follow, and tazered him repeatedly when he failed to comply.
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