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Intellectual Socialism
By Tyson Wynn | November 15, 2008 | Print This Post
Under socialism, the producers pay for the non-producers. Apparently, at Langston University, the responsible thinking persons pay for the brain-dead losers.
In a story on NewOK.com, it is reported that because some skull-full-of-jello fired a gun on the Langston University campus, rules are being changed to improve safety on campus. The changes?
- a safety hot line,
- hiring more police officers, and
- a random apartment search policy.
Absolutely none of the above measures will do anything to make campus safer. A safety hotline (isn’t that 911) and more police may help clean up after someone’s been shot. And the random apartment search is ludicrous in a free society. But I’m sure everyone feels better now that there’s a new policy.
And to illustrate how maligned guns are in this society (instead of the morons who accidentally fire them (by the way, guns do not go off accidentally unless they are seriously damaged)), just pretend that, because they found some crack or meth or weed on campus, university officials decide there will now be random apartment searches. See the disparity?
Students, time to move off campus where you can legally have a gun for protection (kept out of reach of idiots who “accidentally” fire them) and where you are safe from your “protectors” searching through your personal effects to make sure you don’t have a gun (or maybe eventually a Bible, or maybe pen and paper, Winston). This is just an example of how the government will erode your rights for your own good if you will let them. Sure, we’ll help you afford college. Sure, you can live on campus. Oh, but wait, you cannot defend yourself with a gun if someone attacks you. But, it’ll be OK because we have an emergency hotline you can call and get one of our many police officers to mop up the blood. Oh, and we’ll be pilfering through your things on a regular basis. We’ll only need this phone hotline until we get the telescreens installed. Now don’t you feel safe?
I’ll be interested to see if the many who have been writhing in anguish over eavesdropping on terrorists will make a peep about this.
P.S. Anyone who’s ever tried to get an open record from a university is probably laughing (if it didn’t hurt so much) at this whole situation. One must move heaven and earth to have access to documents that are public by law, yet the university regularly tramples students’ 2nd and 5th Amendment rights with no outcry. I think I’m gonna be sick.
Topics: 1st Amendment, 2nd Amendment, Legal, My 2¢, News, Oklahoma, Open Records, Rants, Socialism |
November 15th, 2008 at 7:23 am
I often find myself thinking of the old adage,”Dial 911 and die.”
It’s not that 911 and “hotlines” are useless, it’s that they just can’t take the place of being able to defend yourself on the spot.
November 16th, 2008 at 8:25 am
That was exactly my point. They may be of some use after the fact, but criminals aren’t likely to standby patiently while you lift the receiver and make your emergency call.