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    Sep 25, 2007, 11:25 AM
    Can someone post the eye-witness account here. I can't read it because of the firewalls on my computer.

    Elliot
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    Sep 25, 2007, 11:54 AM
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    JOHN KERRY:
    "and to continue to pile name upon name upon some wall in the future for a strategy that has failed - that's the distinction.
    Sir (Points to Andrew Meyer at microphone)"

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "I fir..I first and foremost want to thank you for your time. You spent a lot of time talking to us here today. I want to thank you for coming and being open and honest. Uh, you recommended a book to us earlier, I wanted to recommend a book to you it's called 'Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast'"

    JOHN KERRY:
    "Yeah, I have it actually..."

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "Yeah, he's the top investigative journalist in America..."

    JOHN KERRY:
    "I've already read it..."

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "and he says you won the 2004 election..."

    JOHN KERRY:
    "Right..."

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "Isn't that amazing! Isn't that amazing, you won in 2004! In fact, there were multiple reports on the day of the election of disenfranchisement of black voters in Florida and Ohio."

    FEMALE OFFICER:
    (to Andrew Meyer)
    "Ask the question. Ask the question. Last question. Ask the question."


    ANDREW MEYER:
    "I'll ask my question. Thank you very much.
    I'll ask my question. I'm going to preface it.
    He's been talking for two hours, I think I could have 2 minutes.
    Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.
    Alright I'm gonna ask him my question... I'm going to inform people and them I'm going to ask him my question.
    So there were multiple reports of disenfranchisement of black voters on the day of the election in 2004 there was also voting machines, electronic voting machines in Okaloosa county in Florida that counted backwards.
    So amidst all these reports of phoney, bogus stuff going on, how could you concede the election on the day?
    How could you concede the 2004 election on the day?
    In this book it says there were 5 million votes that were suppressed and you won the election.
    Didn't you want to be President?
    I'm not even done yet. I have 2 more questions
    If you are so against Iran how come you're not saying
    Let's impeach Bush now.
    Impeach Bush now before he can invade Iran.
    Why don't we impeach him? Impeach Bush.
    Clinton was impeached, for what a blowjob, why don't we Impeach bush?
    Alright..
    Also, are you a member... were you a member of Skull & Bones in college with Bush? Were you in the same secret society as Bush?
    Were you in Skull & Bones?
    (Mic Cut)
    (Andrew steps away, back and left, from the mic)
    Thank you for cutting my mic.
    Thank you."


    (Female Officer grabs Andrew Meyer's right arm)

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "Are you going to arrest me?
    Excuse me?"

    (Female Office grabs Andrew Meyer's left shoulder)

    FEMALE OFFICER:
    "Stop. Stop it son."

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "Excuse me?
    What are you arresting me for?"

    (Male officer grabs Andrew Meyer's right arm with both hands and forces him forward)


    ANDREW MEYER:
    "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!"

    (Female officer leading Andrew Meyer away on left side with both hands holding left arm, Male office leading Andrew Meyer away on right side with both hands holding right arm)

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "Is anybody watching this?
    I'm not doing it!"

    (Inaudible)
    (Audience applauds)

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "Get off me! Get off Me!"

    (Andrew Meyer pulls back)
    (officer's grab the front of his shirt)
    (Third officer pushes him from behind left shoulder)

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "Hey!
    What the are you doing?
    Hey!
    What are you doing? What are you doing?
    What is going on here? What is going on here?
    I want to stand and listen to the answer to my question!
    Why are you arresting me for asking...?"

    (Black Officer lifts Andrew Meyer by the waistband)

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "HELP! HELP! HELP!
    Are you kidding? They're arresting me!
    HELP!
    What have I done?"

    (4 Officers pin Andrew Meyer to the floor)

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "HELP!
    Get off of me. I didn't do anything.
    HELP!
    HELP ME!
    HELP!
    They're arresting me!
    Taser?"

    MALE OFFICER:
    "You will be tased if you do not comply!"

    FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:
    "He's got a taser on his chest I mean..."

    CAMERA WOMAN:
    "This really is ridiculous..."

    ANOTHER FEMALE VOICE OFF CAMERA:
    "He's an idiot."

    MALE OFFICER:
    "You will be tased if you do not comply."

    (Commotion noises and inaudible voices and inaudible John Kerry)

    MALE OFFICER:
    "Roll on your stomach... Put your hands behind your back or you will be tased."

    FEMALE OFFICE:
    "Push down... Do it now!"

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "Please don't!"

    JOHN KERRY:
    "I think if everybody would just hold on a sec(INAUDIBLE)
    This situation (INAUDIBLE)..."

    MALE OFFICER:
    "You don't have an option!"

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "Let me just stand up!"

    MALE OFFICER:
    "Roll on your stomach!"

    (Andrew Meyer rolls over and 6 officers - 4 on torso 2 on legs - push him down to the floor on his stomach)

    JOHN KERRY:
    "I'll answer his question, and um, well, unfortunately he's not available to come up here and swear me in as President."


    (Andrew Meyer's right wrist is handcuffed behind his back)

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "Why are they arresting me?
    Would somebody do something here?
    I'm being Arrested!"


    JOHN KERRY:
    "Uh, Let me just say that, because it is a very important question..."

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "What did I do?
    Get off me!"

    MALE OFFICER:
    "Give me the other hand!"

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "Get the off me man!
    I didn't do anything!"

    MALE OFFICER:
    "Tase him!"

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "Don't tase me bro!
    Don't tase me!
    I didn't do anything!"

    MALE OFFICER:
    "Roll over!"

    (Taser clicking 3 seconds)

    ANDREW MEYER:
    (SCREAMING)
    "Ow...Ow...Ow...Ow...Ow...Ow...Ow...
    Let me go... let me go..."


    FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:
    "Stop! Stop it! Stop!"

    MALE OFFICER:
    "Get back now!"

    FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:
    "No. Why?... Why are you doing that?"

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "Oh my God!
    Why are you guys doing this?
    What did I do?"

    FEMALE OFFICER:
    "Back up Back up!"

    FEMALE AUDIENCE MEMBER:
    "Why are you doing this?
    What did he do?
    Why?"

    (Officers lift handcuffed Andrew Meyer and force him out the door)

    ANDREW MEYER:
    "What did I do?
    What did I do?
    What..."


    __________________________________________



    Bobby
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    #64

    Sep 25, 2007, 12:43 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by ETWolverine
    Can someone post the eye-witness account here. I can't read it because of the firewalls on my computer.

    Elliot
    Here's the Daily Kos account Bobby linked to:

    "I was at the Kerry speech today, sitting 2 rows away from all the action. I'll let you know how it really went down.



    The forum was going to be over at 2 pm, and Kerry spoke for so long that the Q and A portion had to be shortened. He only got through about 7 of the 50 people who were waiting to ask questions. While the final question was being read, some douchebag ran down the aisle, grabbed the mic from the other side of the room, interrupted the kid who was talking, and started yelling at Kerry, demanding that his questions be heard. He started ranting about how Kerry talks in circles or something, and everyone was getting annoyed. The cops are all over him in no time and try to escort him out, but he starts yelling and resisting. Kerry insists that they let him stay and even agrees to answer his question.

    After the interrupted guy's question was answered, Kerry keeps his promise and lets the angry guy talk. This is the point where people started taking their cameras and phones out. All the videos floating around youtube start around here. You can see in the videos that his questioning gets kind of inappropriate, so somebody cut his mic. Instead of shutting up, he starts yelling and making an even bigger scene. He struggled all the way up the aisle, and started violently trying to free himself. They threatened to taze him and he wouldnt stop fighting, so he got tazed. They only had to arrest him because he was causing a disruption and wouldn't leave peacefully. He wasn't being silenced for asking tough questions, trust me.

    It's a shame that they had to taze the guy, but he had a chance to calm down and didn't take it. He probably didn't pose a physical threat to anybody in the room, but someone can't just hijack the floor of a forum like that and expect not to get kicked out. This wasn't some poor guy who was brutalized for trying to ask some tough questions. He's just an obnoxious guy who had a fit when there wasn't time for his questions and refused to be calm even when he was given the chance to speak. He was looking for trouble, and everyone applauded when he was forced to leave.

    Nothing pisses me off more than hearing stories about power tripping cops abusing their power, unnecessarily tazing or arresting people, etc. It's a huge problem and I'm glad it's being discussed. Just don't mistake this for one of those cases."
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    #65

    Sep 25, 2007, 12:54 PM
    Now you can buy the t-shirt...


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