DUMB BITCH (PART TWO)

Lefty academic Australian blogger Tim Dunlop, currently residing in the USA, is all indignant that American motorist Victoria Goodwin was Tasered by police when she did not exit her vehicle as directed by police. In linking to video of the incident Dunlop notes:

I'll warn you, it's very disturbing footage, not just because of the obvious pain it inflicts on the woman, but because of what it says about the way such methods may be used, what it says about how some officers understand the notion of civil rights.

The video is indeed "very disturbing": it's very disturbing Ms Goodwin did not respond appropriately to lawful police direction even when the directing officer was pointing a Taser at her.

Dunlop is also none too happy with my original post on this, in which I referred to Ms Goodwin as a "dumb bitch":

Of course, not everyone cares. For some people, the unnecessary infliction of pain is of no concern and the woman involved was merely a "stupid bitch" who got was coming to her and ended up "flopping around on the ground". Ha ha. The same person links to the video and you get the distinct impression that he enjoyed watching it.

Dunlop's right, the pain Ms Goodwin suffered was unnecessary: all she had to do was comply with the order to exit her vehicle and everything would have been fine. The fact that she didn't and got Tasered isn't funny, it's hilarious. But, for hilarity it's hard to beat the very first comment to Dunlop's post – by Friendly Fire, concerning the officer who fired the Taser:

He's probably in the National Guard and serving in Abu Ghraib at the moment.

Jeez, the dumb bitches are thick on the ground at the moment.