[news] Shocked in Death, Shocked in Life: More Than a Taser Story

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

The world saw a video last week of [RCMP] officers using a Taser against a Polish man in the Vancouver [airport]...It turns out that...[44]-year-old [**Robert Dziekanski**] didn't just die after being shocked -- his life was marked by shock as well...Dziekanski was a young adult in 1989, when Poland began a grand experiment called "shock therapy" for the nation. The promise was that if the communist country accepted a series of brutal economic measures, the reward would be a "normal European country" like France or Germany...But for young workers such as Dziekanski, "normal" never arrived. Today, roughly 40% of young Polish workers are unemployed. Dziekanski was among them.  


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