Protecting us from non-ID carrying dark skinned people

From the Daily Bruin:

An incident late Tuesday night in which a UCLA student was stunned at least four times with a Taser has left the UCLA community questioning whether the university police officers' use of force was an appropriate response to the situation.

There's a video at the site that starts playing right away. Its pretty disturbing. By the way, the UCPD says they shocked him because he refused to leave and then "encouraged library patrons to join his resistance". Yep.

The LA Times has an article too, but whereas the Daily Bruin article has quotes from people at the scene and a description of what tasers do to people, the LA Times ends with a bunch of quotes about how the campus is so peaceful and a second year saying the cops are "really good".

The LA Times article also describes the video as "grainy". It might be poorly shot, with most of the action happening off frame, but it isn't grainy. It is actually surprisingly sharp!

Total coincidence, nothing to see here, move along…

Guess what, after three years in custody, a nine-month trial, and some three months after its end, Saddam Hussein's verdict and sentence will be announced on Sunday.

Iraq’s Defense Ministry, bracing for possible violence, announced Friday that it has canceled all military leave and placed the country’s forces on heightened alert ahead of the verdicts on Mr. Hussein and the other defendants. “We are on alert for any possible emergency,” said Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Shaker, the ministry’s spokesman.

Isn't this great news, really makes you see the Iraq invasion was a good idea. Hey, isn't something else happening next week? The New York Times article doesn't mention it, but I think there was something important...What is that crazy-ass Hussein defense team?

It has been reported that the fifth of this November will be the date of announcing the verdict in the so-called Dujail case, so that the verdict will precede the date of the U.S. Congress elections, which are scheduled to take place on 7 November 2006. ...We are sure that President Saddam Hussein is innocent and we do not accept anything less. The legal procedures to which the court should base itself to, in any decision it would take, should be perfect. The court and the trial are still going on in their gross violations to humanitarian laws and International human right laws and their applicable provisions. (The last and not the least) of these violations is that the court is still procrastinating in receiving the final defense submissions which were prepared by the defense lawyers, although these submissions were sent to the court on the 4th of October 2006. This procrastination constitutes a violation to a guaranteed right of defense in the national law, the Iraqi Constitution and international law.

Oh yeah, the US ELECTIONS! That's right. Well, these people are obviously nuts, I mean, they are defending Hussein, think he is innocent, and should get a fair trial! We don't have to acknowledge their baseless charge that the verdict date for his trial would somehow be manipulated for US political purpose. I mean, would our government be that craven to hold on to power?! Besides, if there was anything to this, we would have heard someone in the media mention the closeness of these two events. Right?

By the way, did you hear about Kerry disrespecting our troops?! I was going to vote Democratic, but after that and Micheal Fox's horrible lying, I'm going with the other guys!