Tuesday, November 01, 2005
I can wait all day
Can the world wait?
Gavin Alle Raders has too many names to be taken seriously, even if you ignored his comments.
After he walked away, a debate erupted about the disruption of class and what forms of protest are legitimate. Let us be clear: This is an issue about the denial of human rights, not academic freedom.
Well, if that was the case, maybe you should've protested in a different way. Like many things, this also may come as a shock: Sometimes, more than one issue is relevant to a situation.
Professor Yoo did not merely lecture on the merits of torture as an interrogation technique, he and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales are the architects of the legal validation for torture. This fact is tremendously significant, as the Bush Administration is seeking to make the U.S. the only government in the world that can legally torture other human beings.
I'm unclear as to how that's tremendously significant in changing the nature of the protest.
That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn (maybe in a Constitutional law class)-or be forced, to accept.
This is also a line in the full-page ad (see below). But you know, if you accept it, then it's not really a problem, is it?
How horrible must things get before good, intelligent people decide to act with the moral certitude that comes from knowing that we have truth and right on our side?
Clearly much more horrible than they are now. Is asking dumb questions for which the answer is absolutely obvious the standard for World Can't Wait folks?
The launching of this movement on Nov. 2 to force the Bush regime to step down is the culmination of five years of utter travesty. We extend a hand to all those law students who have courageously called for John Yoo to recant or resign, and we implore everyone to join the millions of us who are determined to change the course of history.
Yes, calling for John Yoo to recant/resign is very courageous and will help drive the Bush regime from power. Meanwhile, over in reality...
Anyway, the World Can't Wait folks took out a full-page ugly-green ad in The Daily Cal, advertising their day of OMGACTION!!! tomorrow, when a couple folks will skip out on work or school. Some highlights:
The beginning is a list of "Your government does something bad" comments, which can only suggest that the World Can't Wait folks aren't Americans, since it isn't their government. Do we really care what non-Americans think about America? Ha! We don't even care what Americans think about it.
The stuff about fighting Bush with Democrats isn't going to work. Therefore, the true way to fight is to "walk out of school," "take off work," "come to downtowns and town squares," and shout really loudly. That'll definitely work. It'll work so well that the exact same giant sentence pair appears twice, in two different paragraphs. This suggests that the folks who edited it actually believe they're hearing something new even when they're hearing the exact same thing as before, which actually fits rather well with the way anti-Bushies act.
"NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!"
Heh. I'm sure you will, tiger. You can even become president if you really want to.
One of their endorsers is "Anti-Flag."
The plan is to assemble on Sproul at 9 am (haha! Yeah, sure), and march through campus demanding folks join them, and reach the BART station by 11 am. It's advertised as "No School! No Work!" I have more important things to do, like stare at walls, but if anyone wants to cover it, it'll be a great opportunity to get into blogging.
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