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Tasers Can Kill! Shocking!

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Taser, concerned for liability issues for police officers [note not for the company..] is recommending officers avoid the chest area;

Taser International advised them to stop aiming at the chest because of a slight risk of cardiac arrest when the electrified darts hit there.

The company has advised the police to instead aim for the belly or the back of the legs.

Taser International has always assured police officers that the stun gun can never cause problems with the heart, no matter how many times it is used on someone.

This is apparently resulting in some officers leaving the weapon in their lockers. We can only hope this is the beginning of the end of these devices.

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10 Year Old Tasered in Arkansas

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When I was young I said I would never have children. Part of that, a large part, was because I had already seen so much viciousness in the world. Today as a mother of six I often feel guilty for having had children and bringing them into this shithole of a world.

This story doesn’t do anything to change that.

According to a report by Officer Dustin Bradshaw, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, police were called to the Ozark home Nov. 11 because of a domestic disturbance. When he arrived, the girl was curled up on the floor, screaming, the report said.
Bradshaw’s report said the girl screamed, kicked and resisted any time her mother tried to get her in the shower before bed.

“Her mother told me to tase her if I needed to,” Bradshaw wrote.

Note to all child abusers out there the police are more than happy to help you out!

Apparently the father, who hopefully has more sense, is trying to seek full custody. Let’s hope he gets it.

Sickening story in full

Shocking Fashion Trends

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Leopard TaserWhat do you give the friend who has everything? How about a leopard print Taser™ with a holster that is also an MP3 player?

The Taser C2 models retail for between $US349.99 and $US379.99 ($435) depending on the chosen design. The Taser C2 holster with MP3 player costs $US72.99 ($83).

If one must carry a potentially lethal weapon, one may as well be chic and entertained at the same time.

The Taser C2, which shoots two electrically charged darts with the same shocking power as the police version, was launched last year. It previously came in four colours – silver, black, blue and pink. The company said Monday that it would also make the guns available in leopard print, “fashion” pink, and “red-hot” red.

“Women want whatever they’re carrying – from a lipstick case to their eyeglass case to their Taser – to look nice and be something they won’t mind if it falls out of their purse,” Holran said.

Now you can tell Mr. Holran really understands the female mind. We all want a weapon that may potentially be used against us to look nice.

I wonder what Mr Holran would make of these?

Wavering, Arizona-based company, Taser Provincial announced its new product today, the taser/vibrating dildo. The C5 taser/vibrating dildo is different from other models in that it is designed take care of all bedroom needs instead of possibly just one. Depending on which end is used, it can provide its user hours of uninterrupted fun.

Yet another death at the hands of police

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Robert Knipstrom, 36, died early Saturday in hospital, four days after two officers used pepper spray, a taser and their batons on the Chilliwack, B.C., resident, who reportedly was acting erratically in a Chilliwack rental store.

{the Globe}

My family and I along with other activists from Bread and Roses attended the rally to remember Robert Dziekanski and to demand an investigation into his death.

As was stated at the rally this is no longer just about 4 officers, or TASER™’s this is about a culture and climate of political change which has allowed and encouraged the police to see the general public as an enemy to be subdued.

This fits very well with the right wing cultish approach to politics. Creating a society of sheeple ready to agree without question to the demands of their leader. {as an aside I wonder how right wing foetus fetishers will react to the first case of a pregnant woman who gets TASERED™?)

Those in attendance at todays rally were for the most part ‘older’, ‘well-dressed’, and well-heeled. The sort of Canadian that cons might see as the average “don’t have time for protesting” sort.

Perhaps Harper et al will find it surprising that Rush Limbaugh politics don’t play well in Canada (Free Dominion a distasteful exception.) most of us though are not surprised that the average Canadian does not want to fear the police. Many Canadians, in fact, came to this country to escape that very type of culture.

So yes we demand an immediate halt to any further use of TASER™, but we also demand an end to the use of our police forces as execution squads.

The Smoking Gun

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Taser™ is using any and all despicable tactics to threaten, intimidate and otherwise try to warn off those who would bring the potentially deadly outcomes of their product to light.

Into the fray walks Pam Schreiner,

… who worked for the Arizona-based maker of the electric-shock weapons in 2004, says she was threatened and intimidated, including her home being shot at, after she saw company officials intentionally shredding Taser injury reports during a legal proceeding, according to court documents.

“Since leaving Taser International, I have lived in fear of what Taser International will do to me. The company has enormous resources and connections through law enforcement,” Ms. Schreiner says in an affidavit sworn this summer and filed in a court in Georgia.
Taser International says it “aggressively defends our products in all litigation brought against the company.”

“I have been verbally threatened by people hired by Taser to harass and intimidate me. I was told by the two Chandler [Arizona] police officers that they had conducted surveillance of my residence, followed me around and gone through my garbage,” her affidavit says.

“I was confronted at the grocery store by someone I had never met and told that it would not be a good idea for me to be testifying against Taser. In the summer of 2005, shortly before giving my deposition in [a previous case against Taser], a window was shot out of my residence.” {read the rest of this article}

Hmm.. lawsuits, threatening, intimidation, suppression of facts….. Where have we seen this before?

h/t Allison@Creekside

No to tasers in Canada

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Please take a moment to sign the Petition

Your names on this petition will be included with a letter to the Prime Minsiter along to his hundreds of MP’s demanding an end to the use of tasers and demand answers to our questions.

It is our duty as citizens of this nation to ask Canadian Government to act now with an immediate moratorium on taser use by enforcement agencies in Canada.

Here is the petition:

http://newsnet.ca/phpPETITION/

Thanks to Beijing York for posting this link