Wilbur on Churchill
I don’t know ODE Reporter Nick Wilbur very well, but I really do enjoy most of his stories. (Sorry student government types!) His article on Ward Churchill today is a great example of why:
He often asks his students, “What is it you do free of regulation?”
“You are free in this country,” Churchill said. “Absolutely free in this country. Free to do absolutely what you’re told.”
From sleeping to bodily functions, he said, there are rules for every activity a person can engage in.
He told the audience to try sleeping in a park.
“Try sleeping out there tonight; see if there’s not rules,” he said.
He added that he tells his students, “stand up there and take a dump on the floor. There are rules for (that), too.”
Repression by the state and educational institutions reinforce each other in maintaining that “order,” he said.
Fucking fascists! The right to shit on the floor is clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights, right next to the right to piss on a police officer! And hell, it’s even implied in the fifth amendment, if you want to play semantics.
Although I couldn’t make it due to my daily crazy asshole quotient being filled, there were some people from the Commentator at the speech so we’ll hopefully have another post or two on the subject later today.
