Contact: Paul@propagandamatrix.com     Copyright © PropagandaMatrix.com 2001-2005. All rights reserved.
• Yahoo Instant
Message
• E Mail Paul
• E Mail News Articles
E Mail This Page

• AOL Instant Message
Join the Mailing List
Enter your name and email address below:
Name:
Email:
Subscribe  Unsubscribe 
Subscribe to the Newsgroup
FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
Get Alex Jones and Paul Joseph Watson's books, ALL Alex's documentary films, films by other authors, audio interviews and special reports. Sign up at Prison Planet.tv - CLICK HERE.

Tasers Can Kill

Houston Chronicle | December 30 2004

The public arms police with stun guns because it wants to give officers a nonlethal edge over out-of-control suspects. Not every suspect shot with 50,000 volts from a Taser, however, has been out of control. Some have been in custody when repeated shocks ended in their deaths.

Amnesty International has documented 74 Taser-related deaths nationwide since 2001 and asked police to stop using the guns until testing proves them safe. Taser International of Scottsdale, Ariz., blames other factors and backs medical examiners except when they contradict the company's position. ...

Meanwhile, more than 5,000 police departments own Tasers. In November, the Transportation Security Administration said they could be used aboard commercial airliners. ... When they work, Tasers save lives. ...

The technology, however, is too new to know for sure what effect it has on the heart, particularly when drugs are involved. Studies should continue, and departments should review Taser guidelines. Tasers are supposed to be better than guns. But if they kill when police believe them to be harmless, they are worse than guns.