Wednesday, July 16, 2003
Stop, Thief!
Good ol' Tom Bates, my favorite politician, is getting around to trying to make stealing free newspapers illegal. It's not going to be meaningful, though. The District Attorney has already made it pretty clear that it will have no part in prosecuting such "protest crimes," leaving disciplinary action against students in particular to the university, which has also made it pretty clear that it will no longer try to enforce the code of conduct concerning protest crimes.
All this begs the question: How can we abuse this situation? We could vandalize the DA's office and say it's in protest of its refusal to prosecute protest crimes (as we rely on that refusal to get off the hook). Or, alternatively, we could start disrupting classes with other classes. (e.g. burst into an anthropology lecture and teach calculus: "The protest wasn't disrupting education. It was education!" "We will scream without compunction, teaching you to graph the function!") Yes, it's a golden age for pranks with a cause. Hell, we could go set Kevin's dumpster on fire again and call it a protest against the high waste levels of our society.
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