cowpies and roadkill are excluded from this offer
obey authority mindlessly

OK, this is has to be the most elitist thing I've read, since, well, iZac's suggestion they should use private thugs security services to quell critics of the adminstration. My irony detector is going off, (it doesn't help that it's on a Harvard server) but its entirely possible he's playing devil's advocate.

Posted by McChris at April 9, 2003 11:29 PM
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I can't call this one. I don't sense irony in it but, as you know, I'm notriously poor at detecting it.

Posted by: loophole at April 10, 2003 09:48 AM

"We should teach middle class kids to obey authority mindlessly because that's what they'll have to do anyway." Heh heh. In Usenet this sort of inflammatory thing is called trolling.

Greenspun's modest proposal reminds me of an old friend who grew up Jewish in South Africa and subject to the regimne's requirement that he get a good Christian education. He said he thought compulsory religious education was an excellent practice, because it turned kids into atheists.

Posted by: Prentiss Riddle at April 10, 2003 05:30 PM

Twisting my words. What I said was that if private business wished to avoid constitutional issues, they should hire private security firms to deal with protestors who are bent on destroying private property. The protestors are still free to file civil suits for assault, battery, etc.

Posted by: iZac at April 11, 2003 06:03 PM
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