[Peace-discuss] Tasers and thuggery [2]

[Carl Estabrook]

[More on Tasers and the venal thug Bush wants to head the US Gestapo.
--CGE]

...the Wall Street Journal has raised questions over the recent sale of
$4.4 million in Taser stock by Bernard Kerik, Bush's pick to head the
Department of Homeland Security. Kerik who serves on the board of the stun
gun manufacturer sold off his stock in the company on Nov. 11 -- more than
three weeks before he was nominated for the homeland security post. But
the sale also came just two weeks before a Nov. 26th article in the New
York Times that questioned whether recent government reports had actually
proven the safety of the stun guns. In the weeks before the article was
published the entire Taser board, including Kerik, as well as several
executives, sold off more than $90 million in the company's stock. The
Journal estimates Kerik made a profit of $4.4 million on his stock sale.
After the Times article was published, the company's stock plunged 7
percent. [Democracy Now]