Roy Said What?

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I wanted to share a video here of a kid getting tasered at the University of Florida. It is enough to make you cry, if you let it, to see where we are as a society.

This kid, someone’s son, was viciously manhandled and tasered while in handcuffs by the authorities and everyone sheepishly sits there and allows it to happen.

The buffoon, John Kerry, (who could have shown some leadership, if he only knew what that was) was the only one in the assembly that could have ended the situation. But, if you listen carefully, he just keeps rambling on. As though the cries for help from this young man are nothing more than some static in the line. He has since claimed that he had no idea the young man was tasered.

It made me ashamed to see the students just sit there. Near the end, there was a young woman screaming at the cops, but she gets warned off. Threatened off is more like it.

Was that something?

Interestingly enough, I was involved in a discussion over the weekend with a new friend’s 20 year old son. After awhile we cautiously ventured into this subject of governmental authority.

And before I realized what was happening, like a master swordsman with sword unsheathed, he was deftly wielding Romans 13 about without regard for life or limb.

I was struck by the swiftness and his almost robotic response, as he bandied about biblical Roman law; that we are required to submit to authority, since all authority is ordained of God.

“After all,” he said, “they don’t carry the sword for nothing.”

It was the old, “if you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear” routine. So, I countered with, what must have appeared to be a most meager parry,

“So, you mean that we mindlessly, like sheep, need to submit to that authority and never question it.”

Clearly, I was not interested in a bloodfest, after all, we just met and I really liked this kid, so we moved on gingerly to other topics.

Eyeing each other warily, of course.

Reflecting on this discussion is why I found it extremely interesting to see this playing itself out in the real world. Authority stomping the rights of the individual and no one doing anything about it.

Seeing the comments to this video on YouTube, where this individual is demonized and the police are lauded as heroes protecting our national security.

My friend’s son firmly believes that all authority is God’s authority and clearly he is not alone.

I’ve spent the better part of the day trying to figure out why these people can’t see the signs of totalitarianism all around us.

I’d think it was obvious that the police are no longer public servants and that their jackbooted trampling of our rights is now the norm. More and more they respond from a position of supreme authority.

They’ve become the public masters and see themselves as the keepers of the law that we lowly “citizens” need to bow down to. These laws are constantly being revised under the guise of public safety, that bestow upon the police all the rights, while ours are being taken away.

This leads to the question:

The truth is I think the answer is both, if by “rule” we mean they are to prevent the violation of the rights of individuals. That’s when the government rules justly, by serving.

You see the government doesn’t grant me rights, they are endowed by the Creator, to every man. I am no man’s servant by decree.

These rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights are inalienable. Meaning that they cannot be abridged or suspended, they’re unchangeable. Clearly stating where the governemnt does or doesn’t have authority.

But then I started looking at the comments on YouTube to this video.

So many people think this kid got what he deserved. “How can this be?”, my heart cried out.

As a believer in the Constitution of the US, I thought that all laws would respect our rights, I had no idea that Florida law does not allow you to physically resist even an unlawful command of a police officer. If you don’t submit, you are guilty, period. Check it out here.

Are you kidding me?

Don’t you see that you have been classified as a non-equal to the police officer? Not all men are equal, but we are the servants of the government.

I’ve always assumed that while I should be expected to comply with an officer’s reasonable actions, I also assumed I would be allowed to defend myself from unreasonable, excessive force used by the officer.

I mean I possess a God-given right against unreasonable search and seizure. It’s guaranteed and can’t be legislated away.

That my friend is totalitarianism.

If they can make it a crime to not comply with law enforcement, we are in a police state, where we are rendered powerless.

I’ve posted a few other videos documenting police brutality, just so you don’t think this is a random occurrence.