i,ve been tasered twice and both times i felt my heart stop,then i came back and began to fight with the cops again.but i heard some people don't come back and that,s why it's wrong.more and more cops are using tasers for no reason other than to mess you up for back talking to them.it's that a good reason to kill someone?i guess if your a cop it's o.k.

I think Tasers are like witch burning, a savage practice that in time will be looked back on as a horrible misstep in human history. All that remains to be seen is how long and how many people die and are tortured with them before we can get them removed. They are a terrible technology that promotes the worst instincts in the user, like giving a young Hitler an easy-bake gas chamber- This machine creates fascists.

ps. I would bet Di Zazzo digs a little electro play in private, problem is he is promoting non-consensual weaponised zaps with consensual demos.

I really hate the attitude taken toward tasers (and non-lethal weaponry in general) these days. The police are given tools to inflict pain that won't usually kill you, and use those tools arbitrarily - as Johnnyboy says, sometimes just for backtalk.

Police violence has become very bad lately, and tasers only fuel that fire.

Fascists sure like their tasers, don't they? I keep hearing about the Minutemen using tasers on people. Have you seen that new indy film "This is England" about the National Front? i think it won a cinematography award of some kind. anyways, when i saw it, i kept thinking of how it could be a film about the Minutemen. The parallels between the National Front's platform and recruiting strategies and the Minutemen's shtick should totally be writen about academically.

here is a clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYvcbyZkBQ

Ouch, that video was hard to watch.

There's a certain heat to anger. Righteous anger can burn away lies and illusions, and expose its target. Anger based in hatred just burns and kills.

I was repeatedly tased by police a few years ago. That hurt like hell!! I was extremely painful to walk and breathe for almost a week. Of course, I couldn't get any medical attention until I was released from jail.

Di Zazzo strikes me as being a bit psychopathic. His weird personality just happens to converge with our own national (US) Zeitgeist which is generally one of paranoia and hostility toward those deemed "different". Perhaps the only reason that the whole Taser as torture phenomenon is getting any national attention has to do with some of the recent victims being seemingly "normal" white middle class individuals. As long as the victims could be written off as brown-skinned, mentally ill, politically subversive or terrorists, not too many Americans would even take so much as a split second to question its practice or the prevalence of Tasers in US police departments (not to mention the use of tasers by vigilantes). Not exactly a happy, uplifting comment on our society.