| desc: | After asking John Kerry one tough
question too many, UF student Andrew
Meyer was arrested and tasered by UPD
officers.University of Florida student
Andrew Meyer for continuing to ask
Senator John Kerry about impeaching the
president, and whether Kerry and Bush
were members of Yale’s secret society,
Skull and Bones, was a classic assault
on the First Amendment. He was waving
the recently released paperback version
of investigative journalist Greg
Palast's Armed Madhouse and recommended
the book to Kerry before asking him
about his early concession to the 2004
Presidential Election.
"He says you
won the 2004 Election, isn't that
amazing?" proclaimed Meyer, referring to
Palast's claims in the book. The
21-year-old student continued on to
speak about "multiple reports of
disenfranchisement of black voters in
Florida and Ohio on the day of the
election" and "electronic voting
machines in Volusia County, Florida,
that counted backwards."
"So amidst
all of these reports of phony, bogus
stuff going on, how could you concede
the election on the day?" he asked as
security guards surrounded him. "How
could you concede the 2004 election on
the day? In this book, it says there
were five million votes that were
suppressed. Didn't you want to be
President?!"
Under First Amendment
law, you can loudly question, disagree
with, or heckle a speaker—unless you
make it impossible for the speaker to
continue. That’s called “the
heckler’s veto,” and is not
protected by the First Amendment.
In
this case, as the insistent Meyer’s
own speech was fractured—his
microphone cut off, college police
wrestling him to the ground, handcuffing
and then Tasering him—the speaker,
Kerry, was saying, “That’s all
right, let me answer the question.” |
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