November 24, 2007

Tasers a form of torture, says UN

TASER electronic stun guns are a form of torture that can kill, a UN committee has declared after several recent deaths in North America."The use of these weapons causes acute pain, constituting a form of torture,'' the UN's Committee against Torture said."In certain cases, they can even cause death, as has been shown by reliable studies

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree... Batons and Pepper Spray are also torture IMO.

Hell... even handcuffs hurt a little too much.

Just give the cops one tool, their gun. They can just use that in every situation and put criminals out of their misery without any unpleasant torture ;) .

ladybroadoak said...

Obviously, the 1924 Geneva Convention is totally being IGNORED.

These days we are far beyond the pepper spray stage .. and we don't even know WHAT we are being sprayed with .. and that is covered under weapons using GAS.

But the TaZers are far more insidious as they are going into the hands of every lumpenproletarian (thugs, bullies), pseudo cop (who is secretly a psycopath), any immature person can get one.

As for batons and plastic shields, at least this makes the morons THINK before they employ them and give someone a chance to think before being Zapped!! and no one dies of suffocation or injury to their brain cells, well usually.

There really must be a HUGE effort to get police trainining up to par and the TaZers taken DOWN and OUT.

TaZers really are a weapon of mass destruction and we treat animals better than the victims of these tools of the arrogant and their trained DOGZ of repression. Making money off them be illegal would be a real good start.

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