New Movie "The Hangover" Contains Taser Torture Porn Scene

[Cowpunk]

Just a word of warning to those like me who are sickened by the attitude of so many that watching people get zapped by high voltage weapons is good clean fun, except when the victims shit themselves, of course.

I just got home from a sneak preview of "The Hangover" and maybe it's all that popcorn "butter" I ingested, but I'm feeling a little queasy. There's this scene in the movie that rubbed me the wrong way, and I can't seem to put it out of my mind. All three main characters get nailed with tasers, while police officers and grade school children sit and laugh at them. A couple of the kids even get to try out the cops' neat toys on our heroes. Pretty hilarious, crowd-pleasing stuff. Not as funny as this, of course. Nothing beats the real thing.

Here's Digby eloquently commenting on our society's casual acceptance of torture in its many forms:

It's chilling in the same way the OLC memos were chilling --- the use of modern, bureaucratic, "medical" language to couch unspeakable, barbaric cruelty. Her piece shows how fully we've accepted over the past three decades the concept that unruly teenagers can be ritually tortured to force them to conform. We think nothing of it --- just last week, after all, it was revealed that they commonly shock 14 to 18 year old boys with 50,000 volts of electricity at that Florida prison.

If you add in the random tasering of citizens all over the country and the horrors of our prison system (including the exaltation of its famous sadists like Sheriff Joe Arpaio)it's pretty clear that we are awash in torture, often using it against people who have been convicted of nothing more than being unwilling or unable to conform to authority.

I'm sure the usual cynics will harangue me for being a silly old fool as usual for not recognizing what a torturing society this is long before now. And I would have to admit there's a kernel of truth in the fact that this is not something I probably wanted to know. However, this current debate has made it impossible to ignore any longer: the United States of America tortures its own children. It tortures prisoners. It tortures average citizens whom any policeman believes is failing to smartly comply with his orders and it tortures suspected terrorists. We just call it (in true Orwellian fashion) "Tough Love."

Torture, in fact, is one of our defining features. The only really surprising thing, considering its ubiquity, is that the number of people who openly support it isn't larger. I suppose that's some sort of comfort

[ZombieHorde]

1. You may wish to avoid the movie "Living Hell". nt

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Yup. Saw the scene in a preview today and it cracked me up.

Movie looks great.

[Cowpunk]

4. If you're lucky...

Maybe they'll make a movie about this.

[Drunken Irishman]

5. I can only hope!

[Forkboy]

8. LOL.. that's the only sane answer to that post.

:)

[roody]

3. Let's change our culture.

[4lbs]

6. I guess you haven't seen either the two "Jackass" movies or the MTV show of the same name.

Those dudes on that show always do outlandish and painful things to each other and themselves.

[mackerel]

7. Jackass was drunk as hell. He's sober now and doing

dancing with the stars.

[Forkboy]

9. I still blame the Three Stooges for my jail time.

How was I to know you couldn't actually hit someone over the head with a sledgehammer?

[Cowpunk]

10. Funny.

And how were these guys to know you shouldn't run 50,000 Volts through a child?

Two more state prisons have acknowledged incidents in which guards zapped visiting children with handheld stun guns, bringing to three the number of facilities where the unapproved demonstration was used on “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.”

On Friday, the Department of Corrections said that several kids visiting Franklin Correctional Institution in the Panhandle on April 24 were shocked by a guard who was demonstrating what corrections officers do at work. On Tuesday, the department revealed that children visiting Indian River Correctional Institution in Vero Beach and Martin Correctional Institution in Indiantown were also zapped with 50,000-volt electronic immobilization devices.

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The Department of Corrections did not release the number of children, or their conditions or names. But Matthew Foster, an attorney for one of the children who was injured at Franklin, said that more than six children were shocked at that facility.

His client, a 12-year-old girl, sustained abrasions and trauma when the powerful jolt knocked her to the ground, requiring a doctor’s treatment, said Foster, who asked that neither the child nor her father be named. Her mother works at the prison and gave permission for the demonstration, according to Foster, but the father, who is separated from the mother, did not approve and has sued.

“These devices are designed for stopping dangerous prisoners and can cause injury or death,” Foster said. “They are not for experimenting on children.”

[Forkboy]

12. Please, stop.

:rofl:

[rcrush]

11. Looks like a funny movie to me.

I saw the preview where Rob Riggle tazes the guy in the face and then laughs and acts all crazy about it. I found that scene funny cause thats how I imagine cops acting when they taze people.