I was watching A Current Affair tonight, waiting for a story about the rollout of Taser Guns to the grunts out on patrol with our Police force. Seems ACA thought it was a good enough story, the presenter volunteered to be shot with a loaded Taser Gub, delivering 50,000 volts of electricity via 2 barbed prongs.

Not sure what the presenters name was, Chris Kenny I think, but the man deserves a bloody medal!

Seems the boys in blue have been waiting for months for the results of a preliminary report on the vesability of implementing Taser Guns into the protective arsenal now being utilized by South Australian Police. And them(Police Bigwigs) where delaying the implementation for some bullshit reason.

Anyway, the reporter was shot under strict control with a Taser and hit the ground as if he had been king hit in a pub brawl. It didn’t last long, maybe 5 second before he started to come round. I’m not sure why he volunteered, but thereis no way I will ever volunteered.

But, I would much prefer to get shot with a Taser, than being shot with a 357 Magnum handgun. At least with the Taser I will get up and be none the worse for it. Get shot with a handgun and the chance of ever getting up is pretty slime and if you do, it will take months of extreme pain before you will be well enough to get on with your life.

Give them the Tasers! Let them shoot as many bad guys as they want. As long as one hormone pumped up cop doesn’t lash out and use it on some poor bastard that dared to mouth off at them while under the influence of booze.

Ican see that we do need to monitor how the Tasers are used but I still would prefer the Taser over a handgun. If you have been such a diskhead that a cop felt he or she needed to us it on you, then you deserved all you got. If I was acting in a threatening way and the person I was playing up to feared for their lives, they deserve to protect themselves the best way they can. If that means shooting me with a Taser, go for it. But I had better hope that the cops who have to bring me down have Taser’s and not a loaded handgun.

I wish some of these bloody do-gooders saying that Tasers, and tools like these should not be used by the Police, would go out and do a shift with the Police. See how they would handle some blonde chick screaming blue murder as 2 cvops trying to arrest her drug dealer boyfriend. Would they just sit back an watch the same blonde smash a full bottle of Vodka over your partners head? Or would they want to pull their batton or piston? Or would they feel less threatened if they had a Taser, knowing that putting the blonde chick down in the longterm would be less traumatic and would solve a dangerous situation? The answer would be if they were even close to being human, would be to use the Taser and would happy knowing that the blonde chick was no longer a threat and was very much alive because fatal force was not needed.

I would prefer to be shot with a Taser and I hope that the SA Police get the guns they need. What do you think?

Gangs of youths roam our streets at night, rolling innocent people, robbing and injuring them for money, jewelery and mobile phones. Not content to rob them of money, these gang members take great pleasure in bashing a near killing their victims.

I was watching the telly the other day and on Channel 9’s A Current Affair they ran a story on the growing problem of young thugs who were members of violent gangs in Sydney or Melbourne, I’m not sure what city they were in but, it doesn’t matter much because the gangs are in every state of Australia. The guys they interviewed were from two rival ethnic groups. One being from the Pacific region and the other from a middle easterm origin. (more…)

I was reading the Sunday Mail(Adelaide Sunday newspaper) and came across a story claiming that a convicted murderer serving a life sentence was given Ciallis because he was having problems getting it up.

Ban Spencer von Einem, was prescibed this impotence drug for a sexual functionality problem he had. This sexual predator was having problems getting an erection in goal? What the? Why would you give such a man a drug that would make sex possible for him. Wouldnt you be wanting to actually cut his dick off?

People! von Einem is one of the worst sexual predators this country has ever produced and it boggles my mind as to why he would want the drug in the first place. He is in goal. In a gaol full of men!

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As a follow up to my topic on cyber bullying, a rumour is spreading around Adelaide mental health circles that a group of Adelaide youths have made a suicide pact and so far 6 teenages have committed suicide.

Kept hush, hush apparently there are fears a group of eastern suburbs youths have rallied together and made an oath to kill themselves. An anonumous source said that a number of mental professionals know of this secret pact and are now investigating the rumours. If true, one has to ask ones self, why would a number of youths give such a pact and what frame of mind were the six deceased pact members in when they made that fatal decision. (more…)

I was reading our local Community Paper last night and was shocked to read an excert claiming Cyber Bullying in our suburb was a growing problem in our State Schools.

Cyber Bullying if you don’t know, is the use of mobile phone, internet and chat service in particular to bully and harass and intimidate vulnerable kids and teachers by bullies. They use the the protection of the internet to remaim anonymous while they attack a child or adult with verbal or written text messages threatening to hurt them or spead rumours which are not true, but while cause the child or adult to feel bad about tyhemselves.

Some of these attacks are so severe, they cause long term problems, with some of the most severe attacks particularly with teenages, contributing to suicide.

Earlier this week I wrote an article called “50 years of the ABC”. It highlighted a trend within our younger generation of violence, especially towards other teenages. Cyber Bullying as just another violent act targeting vulnerable people especially on the net and mobile phone users. State Schools have noticed a growing trend in pupils becoming more violent, in particular over the internet and text messaging. (more…)

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I watched the ABC tonight and they were showing a program called 50 years of Televison and being a child of the 60’s, I was moved to see stories I grew up with. From Cyclone Tracy blowing Darwin into the Timor Sea on Christmas eve of 1974 to Aboriginal Rights and the change over of pounds, shillings and pence.

Geez I feel old. I was born in the year of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games and I have lived through the Vietnam War, Fauklands War, Desert Storm, 911, Pakistan and now the War in Iraq. What makes men justify such horror?

911 was one of the most horrific things I have ever witnessed in my life. Each and every night, news broadcasters broadcast more and more stories stained in blood and pain. But one of the most traumatic stories that shook me to the core, was aired on A Current affair a few weeks ago. I think it was called “Happy Slapping”.

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