This isn't a matter of free speech, you morons. This is a matter of the student disobeying direct orders of police officers. In an attempt for EVERYBODY to have a fair chance to speak, EVERYBODY was held to time limits. What about the rights of the other people who wanted to speak? He should not, and did not, have free reign at the microphone. He had every chance to leave after he disrupted the event by causing problems before and while speaking. You do NOT start resisting a police officer and jump around when you are being ushered out CALMLY. You can tell how crazy this guy is when he starts saying that the police are going to kill him and just make him disappear. He is clearly partially insane, as he tells people to go to the police station to ask where he is. He also tells the police that people have seen him there, and they can't just make him disappear and die without people knowing. If he had for one second shut up and stopped jumping around and fighting the police, they could've heard Kerry's voice saying he would answer the question and to let him go. It is completely his fault, and I do not feel bad for him. Maybe he will get the help that he needs. A normal person does not start saying that he is being turned over to the government to be disposed of simply for asking slightly critical questions of John Kerry. That's absurd.

The founding fathers stand solemnly, heads lowered, looking into the freshly dug grave in which rests the tattered remains of the constitution.

It is amazing that there is condemnation for the one who spoke, and praise for the ones who so forcefully stopped him.

The Republic is dead when we are violently attacked for excercising our first ammendment rights. I weep for the future...

"Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither" - Ben Franklin

Uh, what most seem to be missing, and was something that I picked up from another blog (not that they are the wherewithall of total accuracy) but the video wasn't turned on until sometime _after_ the officers were up by the microphone. Seems that it might have been going on for some time. The officers were not up there just to protect the equipment.

Just because your seeing the video, it sometimes does not show the whole event in it's entirety.

Geez. This is scary stuff. Sure the kid is rude and loud, but he is asking topical questions.
This is police state stuff, send in the goons to shut someone up. And to think it happened on a college campus, supposedly a bastion of free speech where people are supposed to ask questions and make mistakes without fear of brutality.
The university should be ashamed of itself. That boy should sue the s--- out of school and the cops.

Kerry has the money to pay this peasant's legal expenses, but he shouldn't and here's why:
When peasants get out of line, it's necessary for the tattooed pack of police to take action. There needs to be about six unscrupulous police for every peasant, this ratio held true in relation to this incident. Uppity peasants are increasingly starting to behave as if they have rights, and this must end. I think the Orwellian O'Brien Shock Treatment should be mandatory for anyone who gets out of line--tazer voltage needs to be doubled or tripled to really send a message to the intransigent peons' central nervous systems. STOP ASKING QUESTIONS AND GROVEL BEFORE YOUR MASTERS!

Mike, you're missing the larger point: leftists are so ardently obsessed with the theory of free speech that they have utterly no idea how to make free speech practicable. What you end up having, then, is a million people screaming at each other without inhibitions (and without even getting their message across). Remember, for the left, speech is not about reason or argumentation, it's merely an avenue for human beings, as highly advanced apes or whatnot, to collectively blow off some steam.

Um...did the police answer his question of, "Why are youd doing this to me?"

Habeus Corpus, anyone?

Kerry condemnation is too little too late. He should have intervene right away. The abuse of power was OBVIOUS. I am glad Kerry didn't get elected. This show how arrogant he really is. period.

The guy kept flailing around and shouting. He acted like a sissy, a narcissist and a jerk, shrieking BEFORE he was tasered as if he were being stabbed to death! He was RESISTING even tho' he was in the grips of several officers. Do NOT feel sorry for him!

He deserved the tazing he was way out of line he already had his chance on the open mike why did he make a mockery of the police by not doing as he was told in the first place

Kerry lied about his scratches and conned the military into giving him 3 purple hearts. Lowest of low, john Kerry

Kerry is simply defending one of his loony cult followers.

This was grand stand for this wannabe politico's website.

"I was not aware that a taser was used until after I left the building," said Senator Kerry.

Give me a break. Does the man ever tell the truth? Watching the video it is impossible to not know about the taser. Kerry went on the Meet the Press on Sunday and continued to lie about the actions of his party. Thank God Senator McCain was there to squash his lies and propaganda.

Kerry did NOTHING to intervene. What an asset he'd be as president in fighting terror. Limp and arrogant, phlegmatic weakling loser.

Some these comments are really out there...

The point here is that the kid was forcibly removed by police for asking questions and being disruptive.

The police became physical for no noticeable reason. The student panicked, reacting with force and is ultimately tazed and dragged away.

Who among you thinks it's OK to forcibly remove non-violent people?

Who among you believe that this kid didn't need to be told why he was being arrested?

Now that you've answered "me" to the previous questions, let me ask: who among you are in the Kremlin?

Here is proof that the police have become the bad-guys.
Neither I, nor anyone I know, have ever been helped by a police officer... only harrassed, accosted, and/or assaulted... especially in jurisdictions that place quotas on their police officers. Law enforcement has become a source of revenue generation, rather than the defenders of the populace.
Further, it is beginning to look like the vast majority of people going into law enforcement do so not out of duty, but to acquire power over their fellow citizens.
There are weekly reports, around the country, of crimes committed by police officers, including drug abuse, theft, racketeering, falsifying evidence, entrapment, and assault. Investigations invariably find the officer(s) innocent, because the city/county/state government does not want to waste their precious tax dollar on compensating the victims of the officer(s) crime.
If a citizen criticizes a police officer (or his/her actions), they are invariably labeled as bad people, or unpatriotic, and everyone who is afraid of those labels ceases to publicly question the matter... its like a bunch of third graders' name calling.
The courts and the government stonewall these cases because they do not want to have to admit any form of liability.

Whatever happened to "defending the Constitution of the United States of America?" What ever happened to "Serve and Protect?"

The cops overeacted.

This was just some college kid. Who cares, let him finish his question.

The reaction of the police looks like something out of the Prague Spring.

Was the end result worth it? You taser someone who is beating the crap out of someone, or a robbery suspect. But a college kid asking a politcal question.

Maybe they just didn't like his question.

Yeah... Kerry really did something about it while it happened. That kid got Swift-boated. This goes to show what kind of integrity Kerry has. Like liberals, they are all talk and no action. Way to go John..Way to stand right there and let it happen. Why do you guys keep putting these weak-kneed people into office?

I guess we should just let anyone take over a political discussion if he/she wants. His ramblings and going over the allotted time violated the free speech rights of everyone else in the room that wanted to make orderly comments. Should the loudest and most obnoxious among us be the only ones that have rights?