Kurt Nimmo
TruthNews
December 4, 2007

Leave it to Fox News to set the record straight, at least for authoritarian thugs.

On “Fox & Friends,” former prosecutor Tom McKean tells us the Utah cop who tasered a motorist twice — not for posing a threat, not for acting violent, but for disobeying an order — was within his right to do so. I mean, after all, we can’t have people refusing to obey orders.

“This was an individual who was disobeying a lawful order,” says McKean, “walking away, acting in an inappropriate manner… when you are pulled over by the police, you obey them.”

According to McKean, the “officer is not out of control,” he didn’t kick the motorist, it wasn’t a “racial issue,” so what’s the big deal?

No doubt, you should probably obey every command issued by a cop, especially considering you might be tasered for not producing your ID fast enough, or for the crime of drunkenness in the backseat of a car, or for simply not cooperating, as recent videos have demonstrated.

According to Mr. McKean, the problem is not a cop abusing his authority but rather “you’ve had a lot of threats toward police officers,” allegedly by people who watched the video on the internet, specifically on Prison Planet, “and those people are acting incredibly inappropriate… and they’re subjecting themselves to legal action.” In other words, the problem is not outlaw cops zapping people on the flimsiest of pretense, but people watching a video of the ordeal and reacting irrationally.

Finally, John Richardson, a criminal defense attorney, dispensed a sagacious advice: the “lesson is treat a police officer as you would any other stranger with a taser and a gun… and be afraid.”

Indeed, especially the be afraid part, as this is what the cops want short of zapping people for the sheer sadistic fun of doing so.