Resistance Is Futile

The Taser has become the sex toy of choice among American law enforcement officers, as shown most recently by the experience of this Marin County citizen. How exactly do you "stop resisting" when you're in convulsions from electric shock? (via Digby, via Sideshow) I'm reminded of a passage from Merle Miller's 1972 semi-autobiographical novel What Happened. The narrator recalls an anti-Fascist