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Recently, students at UCSC protested military recruiters on campus. The military recruiters left. There's been a lot of noise about this nationally, about what bad people the students were to protest the military recruiters and what a bad school UCSC is for not grinding these kids into dust for doing it. It's important to note that the protest was a normal peaceful protest such as college kids have been engaging in for a long time, not a riot, not an intimidation exercise (both of which we must admit college students have been known to engage in too).
By way of Daily Kos, I find that Michelle Malkin, that elfin purveyor of feverish hate, has been whipping up her nasty followers to call up the students personally and threaten them. Here's more. And more.
And then, because she's now aware that there is a college town on the coast of California, she's reading the Santa Cruz Senile. She's decided that the town is composed of "moonbats." She's not the first person to disparage us: Ronald Reagan called my alma mater a "cross between a hippie craash pad and a whorehouse," while I was there (or maybe the year before I got there,I forget). And don't forget, the Homeland Security folks, whoi can't be bothered to investigate or prosecute the right-wing militia types who actually murder people, have called these kids a "credible threat." Malkin has been very excited today about the fact that a crew of black-clad bicyclists vandalized a street full of SUVs, slashing tires and writing anti-SUV and anti-oil-guzzling slogans on them. The local tv news made a big deal of this story, because (1) KSBW is really really into property-rights and vandalism stories in general and (2) there was a keen human interest angle -- one of the SUVs runs on biodiesel, one of the SUVs belongs to a single mother, one belongs to an old lady, and there's this guy who fixed all these cars for his neighbors.
Not to mention that the thought of ninja-clad SUV-tire-slashing bicyclists is kind of, well, dramatically cool. Don't lie. If you saw them rampaging through an Alan Moore comic, you'd chortle.
All right, all right, I'm outraged at the crime against property. Real life is not a comic book. Happy now?
Not Michelle Malkin.
By way of Daily Kos, I find that Michelle Malkin, that elfin purveyor of feverish hate, has been whipping up her nasty followers to call up the students personally and threaten them. Here's more. And more.
And then, because she's now aware that there is a college town on the coast of California, she's reading the Santa Cruz Senile. She's decided that the town is composed of "moonbats." She's not the first person to disparage us: Ronald Reagan called my alma mater a "cross between a hippie craash pad and a whorehouse," while I was there (or maybe the year before I got there,I forget). And don't forget, the Homeland Security folks, whoi can't be bothered to investigate or prosecute the right-wing militia types who actually murder people, have called these kids a "credible threat." Malkin has been very excited today about the fact that a crew of black-clad bicyclists vandalized a street full of SUVs, slashing tires and writing anti-SUV and anti-oil-guzzling slogans on them. The local tv news made a big deal of this story, because (1) KSBW is really really into property-rights and vandalism stories in general and (2) there was a keen human interest angle -- one of the SUVs runs on biodiesel, one of the SUVs belongs to a single mother, one belongs to an old lady, and there's this guy who fixed all these cars for his neighbors.
Not to mention that the thought of ninja-clad SUV-tire-slashing bicyclists is kind of, well, dramatically cool. Don't lie. If you saw them rampaging through an Alan Moore comic, you'd chortle.
All right, all right, I'm outraged at the crime against property. Real life is not a comic book. Happy now?
Not Michelle Malkin.
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