We see dozens of cases of kids getting into trouble at school for their writing (often their off-campus writings), their speech, their defiance of rules that make no sense. You’ve heard me say time and time again that when the TSA orders you to take off your shoes and turn your back and leave your luggage unlocked for them, to insist that, if you’re going to be needlessly searched, it happen in a manner in which you at least have control over how much you are manhandled and how much you can guard your own possessions.
These are not irrelevant to each other. They are on a continuum that can best be expressed by the age-old phrase “question authority.” I could go on about the importance of standing up and being true to your right to freedom, of not letting authority figures bully you around, and the historical necessity of resistance. But that would just go down a road in which I eventually compare GWB to Hitler, and then I’ll have triggered that age-old rule about arguments on the Internet and the Nazis.
Instead, I’ll give you a link that shows why questioning authority should be palatable even to the most conservative person.
What’s that I hear? Do I hear thousands of conservatives finally leaping on the bandwagon of individual freedoms?