SERENITY NOW! Almost in time to protect the Texas N.O.W. State Conference for International Peace, Austin Police Chief Stan Knee has announced the creation of volunteer security patrols as part of our own Homeland Security Division. Our town has had more than its share of anti-Enduring Justice protests, so perhaps our anarchist population makes security concerns all the more important. I rather doubt it, though. They're mostly pretty lame as revolutionaries go, like their fearless leader Robert Jensen. To my knowledge, the most damaging thing they've ever done was keep Kissinger from speaking at UT a couple of years ago.
Speaking of professors, The Austin-American Statesman found one at Sam Houston State University to say that our volunteer patrols are unnecessary:
Sam Souryal, a professor at Sam Houston State University's Criminal Justice Center, said he's heard of no other law enforcement agency in the state with such a program, and he questioned whether the measure was appropriate."I find it very legitimate in wartime," he said. "Would the conditions we are in today justify wartime precautions and provisions? I think it's open for discussion."