Sanator Santorum's office has still not replied to my original
letter or 2 follow-up calls. It has been
18 DAYS and counting. Therefore, I have decided to recast my original request as 3 simple questions here at dKos.
read on...
- Senator Santorum, are you for or against secret taser use policies?
- Senator Santorum, are you for or against taser use policies that fail to address the use of tasers on children?
- Senator Santorum, are you for or against taser use policies that fail to address simple procedural safeguards to help prevent the use of tasers as instruments of torture?
Senator, these questions are asked in the spirit of seeking your help for a situation in your former home town of Mt. Lebanon, PA. A small, unarmed Italian immigrant who is a senior citizen was stun gunned in an ugly incident which you can read about here. Perhaps you ate in his pizza shop.
In the course of efforts by citizens to learn what the taser use policy is, it was discovered that the policy is a secret. The township answered a few questions about the policy that illustrate several serious deficiencies, including those implied in the questions above but it refused to answer all questions or make the policy public. As a matter of public health and safety the taser policy must be improved and before it can be improved it must be made available to citizens since local officials are more concerned about lawsuits than doing what's right. The weight of your office could be of tremendous benefit in helping us to protect our children, senior citizens and expectant mothers and their unborn babies.