UPDATE below

Friedrich Nietzsche once remarked (in German) “Power makes stupid.” Recent articles about the overly enthusiastic use of tasers by cops (the term ‘police officer’ overly dignifies these thugs) are a good confirmation of his observation. My example is not isolated. Here is another example.

As usual the cops are exonerated. Big organizations look after their own. They always do. Just ask the Catholic Church.

One wonders how police officers managed to do their work before the damn things were invented.

When an officer uses a gun he has to write the incident up, and there are many controls as to when lethal force is appropriate. In other words, in most cases he has to think before using it, as befits someone who voluntarily took a job serving the public. Falsely thought to be nonlethal, tasers are less regulated, enabling thugs in uniform to freely use them on serious threats such as pregnant women. And not just once. See here and here .

Apparently some guys are in love with their ability to inflict excruciating pain when ever their fragile egos demand it, and get away with it. So, whenever they get back talk, or what they think is back talk, ZAP!

I suggest a simple solution. If tasers are not to be treated by police as being as serious as using a gun, then an officer will get three ‘free” tasers of citizens when he says he feels threatened. There should still be an investigation, but as I said… After the third incident, he gets tasered. Now he’s back to square one. Three more shots, and he gets it again.

This post was inspired by the always good John Cole at Balloon Juice, Cole is perhaps the only intellectually honest and intelligent conservative prominently on the web. I certainly know of no others.

UPDATE

Thanks again to Balloon Juice and also Radley Balko for two more examples (here and here) of brutal imbecility committed by our boys in blue. The first case involves cops tasering a naked guy wrapped in a bath towel in his own home, a guy who was telling the cops that he had just gotten out of the bath and he couldn’t hear them as he needed his hearing aid. (The cops broke into his house because of a false call.)

Proud to be an American? Not me. Not yet. Maybe someday, when this country returns to occasionally doing things meriting taking pride in it.