The next Insurrection
I wanted to fill you in on the next phase of Legal Insurrection.
The next four and one-half months will be devoted to defeating Obama, taking back the Senate, holding the House, and hopefully doing all of that in a way which puts in place a Tea Party/conservative counterweight to prevent the Republican establishment from straying once back in power. Or worst case scenario, electing Republicans with a spine in case Obama is reelected.
But that’s the short term project.
The longer term project is to start building counterweights elsewhere in society. The Insurrections are coming.
Because most campuses are dominated by liberal adminstrators, faculty, and student activists, conservative/libertarian students often feel isolated and alone, and up against seemingly insurmountable forces which wield power over their lives.
For many students, the risk/reward ratio says to shut up and just go along so as not to be singled out and targeted.
In reality, they are not alone. They are the silenced majority. They are a youthful Army of Davids. They just don’t know it yet.
So the next project will be …
Col·lege In·sur·rec·tion
www.collegeinsurrection.com
We will aggregate interesting and newsworthy articles and news reports from college conservative and libertarian publications around the country, and focus on the challenges conservative/libertarian students face on campus.
College Insurrection will be the place where conservative/libertarian students can find out what is going on with like-minded students on other campuses, and understand that they are the many, not the few, no matter what they are told.
There are some details to be worked out. The ”definition” on the College Insurrection banner may or may not be as on the CI holding page now. And note that for now, the links and sidebar track back to LI, but that will change when we go live.
What is important is that I have given Ed the green light, and we are doing this.
We’re looking at a live date in about 6-7 weeks, in time for the return of students to campuses in August.
I’d welcome input from LI readers, particularly within the next two weeks.
Comments
Who will Bell the Cat? Or in the words of that great Western philosopher, “Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but nobody wants to die.”
The Prime problem you will run into is the fact that the Left plays this game for keeps. The EPA administrator quote “find the first five guys they saw, and they’d crucify them” is not an exception, it is their RULE. Their Inquisitio Haereticae Pravitatis stalks the halls of media, government, and culture, seeking out that which does not fit Doctrine and destroying it. The first kid in class to stick his hand up and complain about the useless psychobabble the professor is spouting, gets smashed in the grades. Researchers who point out logic flaws in highly-touted Leftist doctrine get smeared and ridiculed. (wattsupwiththat.com). And so on.
Long ago in College, I had the fortune to only have one true Lefty (google MAPJ) professor, and he was actually a member of that endangered species who believe in fairness, my grades were a true reflection of my skills at that moment. Now the campus has become a battleground of ideas, and expressing your opinions in class has become more like a minefield. Some professors are quite fair and evenhanded, most could give lessons in party loyalty to Stalin. As a student, one of the best tools I found (other than old tests and notes) to help in class was the ability to talk to a previous student who could give me an idea of what a professor was like, if they had any Hot Button issues you should not touch, or Pet Peeves, etc… (and sometimes notes and old tests : ) Sites like Ratemyprofessors.com are a good start, and I’m looking forward to seeing how this all plays out, unless Gresham’s Law applies to teaching, in which case we are all (censored).
I hereby appoint you S-2 of the Conservative Keyboard Brigade. Go forth and gather Intel on the opponents of freedom and liberty, so that we may remain that shining city on the hill to all countries in the world.
Next up:
CHEROKEE INSURRECTION
[...] The LI folks are spinning off a higher ed edition, called (through the logic of brand extension) College Insurrection, which aims to: aggregate interesting and newsworthy articles and news reports from college conservative and libertarian publications around the country, and focus on the challenges conservative/libertarian students face on campus. [...]
we need to get these students writing also.
I know many do not have the time or ability to maintain their own blogs/articles.
however many of us offer free manner for them to speak out.
my software allows every user to have their own blog which can be tied into forum posts, all they have to do is join its free.
maybe also getting some to submit articles at new CI site, stuff like that.
make them aware we are cognizant of the issues they are facing.
get them to help put content out there to help others.
Side questions:
# Will our LI registrations carry over to CI?
# Do you have the CI Facebook and Twitter accounts set up?
# What is the CI twitter?
Registrations will carry over. Twitter will be @collegeinsurrec, and Facebook is http://www.facebook.com/CollegeInsurrection
Wow, this is awesome news!!
I’m really looking forward to reading CI and seeing it become a force for good in academia.
Kick some butt, Professor!
This is going to be fun, if not cathartic. You are a hero!
1. The next four and one-half months will be devoted to defeating Obama, taking back the Senate, holding the House, and hopefully doing all of that in a way which puts in place a Tea Party/conservative counterweight to prevent the Republican establishment from straying once back in power. Or worst case scenario, electing Republicans with a spine in case Obama is reelected.
2. What is important is that I have given Ed the green light, and we are doing this.
We’re looking at a live date in about 6-7 weeks, in time for the return of students to campuses in August.
3. At the very least there is a potential conflict between #1 and #2. Even without the unforeseen demands that new projects usually make, you may be spreading yourself too thin. IMO the election should be the overriding priority.
4. In particular, you’ve done more than I thought possible to impede Warren, but more is needed to tilt the odds definitely against her, and more beyond that for a coup de grâce.