Only in Murka.
I’m sure that Dick Cheney caught some major wood just from the CONCEPT of there being an ACTUAL “terrorist” at one of those subversive, librul, atheist-humanist, feminism-mongering UNIVERSITIES.
I’ve never seen an administration, or even a regime, show such an active, rabid hatred towards learning than this one, at least not since the Dark Ages.
But like the bumpersticker says, “The last time that knowledge was dangerous and religion owned the government, they called it The DARK AGES.”
This poor guy. Spends his life trying to bring enlightenment to the world, and gets pilloried on his own turf for RECYCLING and BEING NOT-WHITE at the same time. We’re not just through the looking glass, we’re beyond the frame and ass-end-up in a black hole of ignorance and surreal glorying in herd mentality.
]]>In my defense, my college days were during the Vietnam War at its most unpopular, and the ROTC guys probably caught hell from other students just for being military of any sort. That didn’t excuse some of the worst of them when they made full-blown, certifiably nutso statements. But it may explain a lot of their behavior.
FTR, I did not personally give them grief, anymore than I would have given my classmates who (thank God) returned from Vietnam any grief. It’s my nature to direct my ire at my adversaries, and I never perceived our troops as adversaries in that insane war, or at any other time before or since. (The government at the time came in for a lot of criticism from me, though.) But it was IMO an unusual time for the ROTC members to make the choice they did, and some of them were, in fact, passing strange people. In fairness, some would say that “passing strange” described the whole student body at Rice at the time…
]]>It’s also pathetic that the university police didn’t think to look at their own parking permit database, as a white VW convertible with out-of-state plates should have leapt out at them.
]]>But really, this has only incidentally to do with ROTC. If anyone downstream of the ROTC member had behaved sanely, this would never have been an incident. Paranoia isn’t a response to trouble; it’s the source of trouble.
We live in interesting times. Somehow I think the current government likes it that way.
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