Welcome to Repress U!

[mandy]

Free-speech zones. Taser guns. Hidden cameras. Data mining. A new security curriculum. Private security contractors. Welcome to the homeland security campus.

From Harvard to UCLA, the ivory tower is fast becoming the latest watchtower in Fortress America. The terror warriors, having turned their attention to "violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism prevention"--as it was recently dubbed in a House of Representatives bill of the same name--have set out to reconquer that traditional hotbed of radicalization, the university.

Building a homeland security campus and bringing the university to heel is a seven-step mission:

1. Target dissidents. As the warfare state has triggered dissent, the campus has attracted increasing scrutiny--with student protesters in the cross hairs. The government's number-one target? Peace and justice organizations...

full article: http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20080128&s=gould-wartofsky

[BellisimaJ.]

The terror warriors, having turned their attention to "violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism prevention"--as it was recently dubbed in a House of Representatives bill of the same name--have set out to reconquer that traditional hotbed of radicalization, the university.

Scary, that.

Will these "terror warriors" aka the Republicans,    be unhappy until they turn the country in to a place inhabited by the ruling class (themselves   ), and the robots (the rest of us) :blinkie:  ? God, we badly need to
disenfranchise these idiots who would steal what's left of our liberties!**


** Could qualify as the understatement of the past 8 years.