re: #122 Obdicut

Well, the ACLU fights in court to defend the constitutional rights of anyone it thinks has been violated.

I think you’re making the very serious mistake of seeing their opposition to the way tasers are used as opposition to tasers themselves. This is wrong.

And again: your claim that the ACLU would prefer to see police officers unarmed is completely unsubstantiated. Until you can substantiate it in the least, it’d be good for you not to claim that. It makes your other arguments look weaker by including it, since it’s something that can be so easily dismissed.

I’d like to point out when I said “I think the ACLU would..” I was offering my speculation/opinion not trying to claim that as a fact. It’s an opinion gained in part from the above quote from their spokesman in 1988 as well as other similar incidents.