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kind of drunk and disorderly free for all that animal house documented so well women were locked up in their dorms and sororities after 1 am friday and saturday nights and after 10 30 pm without special permission extending until midnight the rest of the week of course we had work arounds but these were variously uncomfortable and inconvenient trust me makin love in the green grass behind the stadium sounds better when van morrison sings about it than it felt in real life what with ants rocks grass stains and all so what changed the times to quote another oldie my awareness of the changes dates to the free speech movement at uc berkeley though nobody knew what would come of it at the time back in 1964 uc students apparently starved for intellectual debate and free expression demonstrated rioted and as i recall burned at least one police car in central illinois it mostly puzzled us not being aware that our first amendment rights were in any danger besides for most of the year the weather was too nasty for us rabble to hang around outside and be roused but those events marked if they didn t create a shift in the culture t here was the specious argument that if 18 is old enough to be drafted then it s old enough to drink booze vote whatever lower drinking and voting ages the end of campus purdah for women radical politics as part of college life all followed then the pill interesting drugs and anti war demonstrations pretty soon it was the 60 s that everyone remembers and in loco parentis was gone for a while anyway time passed the students of my generation got to be in charge and campuses were liberalized in every sense of the word my generation s now retiring our children are running things and our grandchildren are students how s that working out well binge drinking and drugs we never imagined are common and cheap sex ditto don t believe me read the news or better texts from last night women participate as enthusiastically as men well some anyway it s hard to tell since those that don t don t text about it at the same time the news is full of rape culture stories how booze and drugs fuel the abuse of innocent but foolish young women it s hard to tell how real or how serious this is since all the headline stories turn out to be lies how about free speech open discussion of controversial issues yeah that s fine as long as those ideas are progressive try to introduce social or fiscal conservatism or even some aspects of libertarian philosophy and you re guilty of hate speech sure you can say controversial things like maybe we shouldn t kill babies but only in the designated free speech zones those are somewhere behind the stadium where the green grass was torn up to build a parking lot for the new lbgtq center in that center the intellectual consensus is typified by the idea that the vagina monologues is discriminatory because it doesn t include women without vaginas i e transgendered men if by some chance there is a conservative faculty member or student who speaks out that person is treated pretty much the way communists were in the 50 s don t believe it ask teresa wagner mike adams and james enstrom ask ruth malhotra and orit sklar two brave young women who were vilified and threatened when they sued georgia tech over its speech code where were the men well you may ask what s the upshot welcome to in loco parentis on steroids for sex there are affirmative consent protocols requiring question and answer routines at every stage of sexual involvement pretty soon we ll have forms to be signed and notarized at each juncture bringing a whole new meaning to threesome as to speech now there are trigger warnings required in classes so students can flee with their ears covered in case they might hear something that invalidates their experience students need safe spaces in which they can blow bubbles squeeze play doh and watch puppy videos to recover from the trauma of disagreement students even need to be protected from microaggressions seemingly innocuous comments that might be interpreted by the ultra sensitive as some sort of put down consider the new ithaca college tattletale policy for instance question such dehumanizing idiocy even if you re a card carrying liberal feminist and you get the same kind of treatment the conservatives do ask laura kipnis in short what we have is the university acting in loco of the very worst kind of helicopter parentis making what is laughably called higher education into the very worst kind of preschool swaddling for almost everybody that is there seems to be one exception to all this tender concern jews colleges readily invite the most vile antisemitism on the part of boycott divest and sanction advocates that s under the cover of sympathy for the poor distressed palestinians you know the ones who shoot rockets into israel the ones who celebrated in the streets on 9 11 01 hamas hezbolla those people jews apparently don t need safe spaces and are ineligible to report micro or even macro aggressions colleges are on the one hand infantilizing a whole generation of students and on the other breeding a new generation less disciplined but just as enthusiastic of hitler youth no it s not the 60 s anymore welcome to 1933 here s one that wasn t it s worth noting that it didn t happen at a frat party and wasn t reported by the woman who might have been drugged it hardly fits the rolling ston e model and since the accused rapists are black i doubt if there ll be any liberal white media outrage posted by provocateuratlarge at 11 07 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday april 10 2015 i m back sheepdogs revisited again preface i m back why the long hiatus because i felt that i didn t have anything unique to say amidst the multitude of crimes horrors disasters humiliations and follies visited upon the world by preening elites spittle spewing ideologues and their mass murdering followers words failed me so why now because several people all at least as smart as i am and all demonstrably more accomplished in important ways said they wished i would so in all humility here goes i trust that my friends colleagues and thoughtful readers will correct any mistakes and not be shy about offering contrary opinions after all that s what being a provocateur is about sheepdogs revisited again you might remember my earlier essay about the sheepdog concept the idea that we armed citizens are or should be protectors of the peaceful passive fearful sheep who comprise most of the population i thought it was a bad idea then and still do on march 25 in cobb county a suburban area northwest of atlanta a local man proved to be an ideal sheepdog capturing a bank robber and holding him for police according to the story he followed the robber outside retrieved his pistol from his car and held the robber prone at gunpoint until the law arrived so far so good if i was that citizen i d have rushed to the nearest convenience store and bought a lottery ticket just one because with luck like his one is all he d need there were many possible outcomes to this story all bad our citizen got the only good one let s consider this incident step by step 1 in the bank the robbery takes place probably via the crook handing a threatening note to the teller the news doesn t mention a weapon in his hands and most bank robberies seem to happen this way the robber then runs out pursued by our citizen question was anyone threatened at this point no the robber was fleeing question was the robber armed at this point it s unknown what we do know and what our citizen should have known is that lethal force is only justified morally or legally if there is a threat of death or severe bodily harm to the defender or another e g a bystander or victim question was our citizen justified in proactively pursuing the robber and by the way brandishing his pistol no 2 outside the bank details are sketchy but it seems our citizen ordered the crook at gunpoint to halt and get on the ground there are photos taken by a passerby with the story question what would have happened if our crook had been armed and had fired on the citizen it doesn t look like either took cover so it s reasonable to imagine a running gunfight would ensue unlike the movies most bullets in these situations miss their targets they wind up somewhere though since the photographer was driving by we can assume that there was a street in front of the bank which means traffic and likely homes or shops around there s at least a reasonable chance bullets would have wound up in some passers by some shoppers somebody even if not in the proverbial busload of gifted orphans and nuns further it wouldn t matter if the bullets were fired by our good citizen or the felon because the citizen initiated the fight he would at least share responsibility with the crook question what would our citizen have done if when ordered to stop the crook took off running police can t legally shoot under those circumstances and neither can anyone else so there s our would be sheepdog looking silly with a pistol in his hand yes i am assuming our citizen isn t stupid or depraved enough to shoot the robber in the back now imagine the police roll up on a bank robbery call nothing good will happen here question what woul d happen if the crook turned and physically attacked our citizen if there had been a disparity of force e g if the crook were enough bigger than our citizen or there were two or more crooks shooting might be justified if the crook were armed with a contact weapon a knife club monkey wrench or whatever again there s justification but remember our citizen initiated the conflict and was visibly armed i don t know what a lawyer might make of that but in no way is our citizen going to get sent home with a handshake oh and there s still the problem of all those stray bullets an ignorant person might argue that an unarmed person wouldn t refuse to obey someone holding a gun wrong it happens to police all the time 3 after the robbery question suppose our citizen for one reason or another shoots the felon suppose further this being georgia that the district attorney and or a grand jury rule the shooting justified home free right not so fast welcome to ferguson with every race pimp in the country denouncing our good citizen as an evil bigot who jumped at the chance to cut down a black man yes he is look at the photos our dead or merely wounded felon is now a troubled youth or a disadvantaged striver beaten down by the evil racist capitalist system question how would you like to have your home surrounded by a hostile mob chanting black lives matter if they can invade trendy brunches in painfully progressive decatur ga they can show up in our hero s subdivision and his place of work for that matter imagine how happy his family neighbors boss and coworkers would be question how prepared do you suppose our citizen is for a protracted lawsuit if the felon is wounded he and his family might well sue if he dies the family certainly will a plaintiff s attorney costs them nothing remember sure our citizen will likely win but it will make him miserable for a long time and cost a fortune question how do you suppose our citizen having shot the felon will do in the press already prejudiced against gun owners remember the mob and the race pimps above add tv news and print reporters with their various agendas sound like fun 4 my advice question so what should our citizen and by implication you do in a situation like the one we re discussing in the absence of an active threat memorize details of the robber s appearance and behavior if you can safely observe a getaway car assuming there is one get a description make model color license number then call 911 and give this information to the police you ll likely have to give this information to the officers that show up and could very well have to be a prosecution witness not the stuff of movies but a good citizen s duty nevertheless in preparation get some training learn to tell the difference between a situation requiring violent acton one requiring careful observation and those in between read news articles and the nra s armed citizen column imagine yourself in those situations planning in advance what you d do visualize alternative scenarios guided by legal moral and tactical realities not action hero fantasies get feedback from people who know join the armed citizens legal defense network and study the material they send with membership also unlike our citizen keep your gun with you if the robber was really violent if he produced a weapon and started ordering customers into a back room if he hurt someone that s when you need to take action that gun in the car might just as well have been on mars for all the good it would have done in the face of real violence they re called concealed weapons for a reason finally take off the collar you re not rin tin tin which was kindly picked up by greg ellifritz for his excellent active response training blog and then referenced on the defensive carry com forum posted by provocateuratlarge at 6 56 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday september 6 2013 syria don t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft theodore roosevelt i hesitated to write about syria because i have neither military nor foreign policy expertise but then neither does the guy ostensibly in charge the one whose metaphorical commander in chief uniform fits him like a clearance bin halloween costume and promotes just as much respect so here it is the question is whether to intervene is syria s civil war or not the case for intervention rests on assad s alleged uniquely brutal use of chemical weapons on the civilian population this action is so terrible so inhumane so revolting that it demands retaliation that is whenever we get around to it someday maybe when all the speeches are done imagine this four corpses murder victims lie at your feet one was shot one stabbed one blown apart by a bomb and one poisoned which one is more dead right so why are we in such high moral dudgeon over these killings when we ve ignored all the others that can be unambiguously laid at assad s door if we re to intervene at all it has to be for a good reason defending the vital interests of the american people and our allies causing death and suffering to avoid even more in the future is justifiable however gut wrenching it may be to most of us ask harry truman or william t sherman before we do anything to cause such suffering to our own people as well as others we have to have a clear objective and a plan for realizing it so far i ve not heard any from either the executive branch or congress don t ask me to trust the judgement competence or even the good intentions of any of them not when obama kerry and the leaders of both parties have been engaged in 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