Posted by
Tzimisce on Monday, April 30, 2007 12:59:33 AM
The founders hated the aristocratic establishment. And for good reason - who wants to pay taxes to a government that doesn't serve you? The noble estates snatched away simple things like criticism of the way they did things and fair trials. The aristocrats also set up differing sets of laws: one for them and one for the peasant classes. One glance at such grievances reveals the wisdom of the founders.
Unfortunately as time has gone on our government has become so big that there are agencies sliding through the cracks. Especially when it's as obvious as our University system but it has.
If the recent shooting at Virginia Tech and the declaration of the innocence of the Duke Lacrosse team has revealed anything, it's that the lords and ladies of Collegiate manor have seen fit to free themselves of their power limitations laid out in our Constitution. Most colleges in the wake of VT pledged hard gun bans on campus as if the Second amendment doesn't exist there. But the increasing tax bills of millions of Americans every year would say otherwise. What college is without its precious speech code? What college dares to defy the inherent racial discrimination enshrined in "Affirmative Action"? More repulsive still is the fact that every year these economic lampreys and hagfish come complaining that they're not getting enough money.
What a great business for them. Every year they get more all while producing the same brain dead research no one will ever read (except their colleagues). If you want to have no boss, answer to no one and scream about how terrible you're being treated. If you're really lucky, you're also completely unfirable giving you the powers not even Don Imus is blessed with. (Tenure, who the hell thought that idea up? Next brilliant idea: giving nukes to Iran, that way we can avoid that whole "cold war" thing.) Hate Americans and love al Quada? Teach it and put it on the next test or make your class right a paper about it. We'll call it "balance". It's the perfect Lefty job.
But what happened to the Constitution in this blind spot? They are bound to it aren't they? Some would argue that there are private schools that don't have to hold to that standard. But even private schools can't help themselves from sucking up government grants. Ask any active on campus Christian group what you can and can't do with that money. When was the last time any of us got money with no strings attached? Why are the feudal lords and ladies off the hook?
Don't worry, even after this rant nothing will be really be done. The job of university system is to crank out good little Liberal Democrat voters. Until no longer do that, they'll be safe.