3 Responses to “Taser Company strikes back”

1. 1 Gene  on Nov 17th, 2007 at 7:04 pm

   Tonight during dinner we had a discussion on this tragedy. A RCMP employee was present. He says that all his colleagues are terribly distraught by what happened in Vancouver airport. One of them when asked by a fellow employee what he had to say about the tasering of Mr. Dziekanski responded something like this: “What would you have me say? Whatever my response, it is bound to be spun by the media.”

   Two comments struck me during that discussion:

   1) Responding to an observation that perhaps the public is overacting, one person curtly replied that based on what the videos show, it would be simply appalling if the public did not react with outrage. Were that the case, she added, it would mean that Canadians are now living in a violent society wherein events like the tasering of Mr. Dziekanski would be seen as run-of-the-mill stuff. Such an environment would be dangerous not only for the public but also for the RCMP officers. We should “welcome the outrage”, she said, and use it to better the system.

   2) A second commentator while not dismissing the role played by the RCMP officers in the death of Mr. Dziekanski, placed most of the blame on the tasers’ manufacturing company. He said that it was plainly their fault for marketing the tasers as a “defensive weapon” instead of what is clearly an “offensive weapon” (his words). He also observed that RCMP officers are overwhelmed with the amount of policing that they have to do and regretted that they are not given adequate training nor - and it’s plainly obvious now - the proper tools with which to do their job.

   We all agreed that tasers have got to go. At the very end, someone observed that it is ironic that we humans are beginning to be treated like cattle to be prodded just as we are learning about the need for treating animals humanely.

2. 2 Bene Diction  on Nov 17th, 2007 at 9:23 pm

   The American College of Emergency Physicans has something to say, if I can read it why can’t law enforcement?
   http://www.acep.org/ACEPmembership.aspx?id=31832 

   The tools were there.
   That is what makes this so horrible.
   His mother and her friend looked for him for hours, the airline knew that, employees knew that, someone who understood his language processed him through customs, there is a phone with 120 languages available, there were witnesses. They are trained in CPR, there were medical personnel on site.
   All through the hours leading to his death, there were opportunities.

   The four RCMP had tools.
   People.
   Us. Not ‘them.’
   And they chose Tasers instead.

3. 3 Baranowski  on Nov 18th, 2007 at 6:24 am

   Hallo Leute aus Kanada,

   ich schreibe euch deutsch, hoffentlich findet ihr jemad, der es euch verständlich macht.
   Dieser Tod des Mr. Dziekanski ist nicht nur Schande für eure Polizei (eine Mörderbande), sondern für all die offizielen Beamten, die sich bislang zu dem Fall geäussert haben: Dieses Arschloch William Elliot, der angesicht des unglaublich frechen Mordes die Frechheit an den Tag legt, mit der Untersuchung des Falles erst ANFANG FRÜHLING oder im SOMMER zu beginnen, gehört in den Arsch getreten (zumindest). Derjenige, der die Versetzung der 4 RCMP officers als Strafe für den Mord angeordnet hat, gehört vors Gericht gestellt und bestraft. Diejenigen verfluchten Banditen in der RCMP-Polizei, die zunächst das Filmmaterial über den Mord zurückbehalten hatten und diesen nicht harausrücken wollten - und es erst nach der Androhung mit dem Anwalt taten - gehören vom Dienst suspendiert und vors Gericht gestellt. Da es aber - erfahrungsgemäss - niemals hierzu kommt, da der kanadische Staat selber an dem Mord schuld ist - durch seine Scheissgestze, welche erst solche Taten möglich machen - ist die einzig richtige Strafe für diese Schandtat: die Vergeltung. Hütet euch davor, den polnischen Boden zu betreten: dort werdet ihr - kanadische Scheißkerle - bereits auf dem Warschauer Flughafen mit der gebührenden “Gastfreunschaft” empfangen. Für ein “Amateurfilmmaterial” wird gesorgt.

   Translation:

   Hello of people from Canada,
   I write you in German, hopefully you’ll find a translation which makes it understandable for you. This death of the Mr. Dziekanski is not only a dishonor for your police who were a murdering gang, but for all the officials, who expressed themselves so far toward the case: This asshole William Elliot, in the face of the unbelievably impudent murder, with cheeky  insolence to the day, puts to the investigation of the case at only of the BEGINNING (of) SPRING or in the SUMMER, (he) should have his ass kicked.
   That, which (who) arranged the transfer of the 4 RCMP officers as punishment for the murder, belongs before the court and punished.  Those accursed bandits in the RCMP police, those had first retained  the film material of the murder and this harausruecken wanted - did and it only after the lawyer threatened - belong suspended, out of service, and before the court. They have not been. 
   Since it never comes however - according to experience - since the Canadian state holds the debt of murder- by its Scheissgestze, which make only such acts possible - is the only correct punishment for this Schandtat: retaliation.
   Guards  (if) you go on  Polish soil:  there  -  Canadian chap -  already in the Warsaw airport with the be entitled “shank” (hospitality) receive. (will be entitled to the same hospitality, a shank)  For a “amateur film material” one provided.
   
   Translation: Babelfish and BD’s high school German

   Guten Tag:  Kanadier sind verärgert und auch traurig. Wir tun alle wir Dose, um zu sehen, daß die Beamten zum Gericht geholt werden, bestraft und dieses doesn’t wieder geschehen.  Street Gerechtigkeit wird nicht helfen, die Familie oder die Polizei ihre Aufgabe mit Ehre, die Kanadier tun alles, was wir können, um zu sehen diese Männer vor Gericht.  Danke. BD