Pacific Index

Issue date: 4/11/08 Section: Opinion

At this point I'm probably just being trendy to complain about Pacific's apathetic students. What's obvious is those of you reading the newspaper who are pissed off at the world and the system in general, who will write furious letters to the editor demanding that all writers for the Pacific Index have their hands broken, with hammers, for such insolent writing, who are already frothing, raging, and scribbling-are not who need to be roused from their oblivion.

Those of you who already care and read the paper do not need to be targeted. People, who are concerned about their civil rights disappearing, know what their rights are and what it means to have them taken away. I believe the United States' current legal trajectory could very easily lead us the needing travel papers to cross state lines; losing the right to the press, to petition, and in general freedom of thought; and finally to the immorality producing capabilities of a State with monopolistic authoritarianism.

What we don't need is more articles about apathy, or complaints about how no one else is willing to do the work in front of us for us. What we need to do is put the active back in activism. No more club meetings where everyone talks grand thoughts and continues to propagate the System by inaction. Although all revolutions start in the mind, open dissent paves the way for those who come after us.

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