The recent Taser incident at the University of Florida has created a large amount of controversy – too much controversy in the opinion of this conservative.
Certainly, the outcome of the event was not without design. It can be clearly seen that Andrew Meyer’s purpose with his outrageous display was to create a distraction from the more pertinent issues of the day.
Such actions should not be tolerated by the general public.
We must all recognize one profound truth about politics – liberals are provocateurs of the most heinous kind, disregarding all concepts of decency so long as it means that their message is carried across public airwaves.
A civil discourse, such as the one being conducted with Sen. John Kerry at UF, requires only a few minor things – tact, courteousness and the understanding that controversial questions must be avoided at all costs.
Surely this liberal student violated all three of these in his rash discussion of such trivial issues as voter disenfranchisement in national elections and, Lord help us, Skull and Bones. How can we expect our government officials to conduct themselves in a proper manner when people are constantly probing into their personal lives?
People who are concerned about these sort of things should not be taken seriously, and therefore not given the opportunity to have their questions asked, let alone addressed publicity. Tasering was the least law enforcement could do.
What was Meyer implying, in any case? That Kerry, a senator for more than 20 years and a Vietnam War vetran, is somehow dishonest or hypocritical? What nonsense and what disrespect. I simply cannot recall such an instance where people were reduced to attacking a senator’s sincerity in public.
What would have been alleged next, had his psychotic, atheistic diatribe been allowed to continue? That Sen. Kerry’s military service was questionable? That his awards were perhaps ill-gotten? Preposterous! Outrageous, even!
We conservatives would never allow this kind of rhetoric from within our ranks, unlike our counterparts. Of that you can be sure.
Such baseless insinuations, as those demonstrated by Meyers, have no place in our political discourse. It is the opinion of this writer that those who engage in such useless diatribes should not only be Tasered, but promptly imprisioned so as to save us all from this distaste of dealing with them any longer.
Society, and indeed the whole world, would be better off for it.
Matthew Krichner is a junior English major.
