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Tasered for Talking Truth

In Colorado, Carolyn Bninski gets arrested in Congressman Mark Udall's office and serves a jail sentence for spending more ten minutes reading names of the dead among Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers, and now, tasereda college student gets Tasered in Florida at a University-sponsored event for spending less than two minutes asking a couple of probing questions of Sen. John Kerry at a public forum. His apparent crime? Thanking Senator Kerry for coming to the forum and then talking to Kerry about how he'd actually won the 2004 election, and then asking about his membership in Skull & Bones, a secret society George W. Bush is also a member of.

His questions are ones many Americans would still like to know the answers to, given the voting irregularities kept the Bush administration in power while engaged in international war crimes and other abuses to carry out their agenda of global imperialism and apparent plans for wars without end.

Are people waking up to the fact that our democracy is being rapidly dismantled? Apparently, we're not to speak of this in polite company, and oh, by the way, it could get you ousted from a university led by neo-cons and their supporters if you say anything about it, so shhhhhh.....

Or not.
But gosh, it seems that Carolyn was lucky. In Washington, D.C. in one of the congressional office buildings where a public hearing was being held, a minister was blocked from entering the room, apparently for wearing a button showing concern for the Iraqi people. He was then taken to the ground , the police broke his leg in the process, and arrested, and the people in the hallway who cried out in his defense were also arrested. What was his crime? Wearing a button?
So let's see, these days in the United State of America, you can be arrested and even subject to electric shock and broken bones for talking for more than ten minutes against the Iraq war in a Congressman's office, asking a pertinent question of an elected official about voting irregularities in the presidential election in a university auditorium, and wearing a button expressing concern for the civilians in a country the Bush Administration has occupied.
What's next? Shall we all just take a "wait and see" approach, or is it time to stand up to protect our Constitution and our rights in a democratic society?