Oppression is the default government-to-citizen relationship in socialist Venezuela. Corruption, police brutality, violation of civil liberties–all of these are commonplace in the people’s paradise that is post-Hugo Chavez Venezuela.
However, some folks are fighting back. News recently emerged that a group of Venezuelan college students thought they could fight back against the violation of their liberties by–what else?–taking nude pictures of themselves and posting the photos online.
This naked protest movement comes in the wake of an attack on students by a group of government-allied militants known as “collectivos” who view themselves as “defenders of revolutionary socialism.”
I like that cute little name, “collectivos.” How delightfully Stalinist! Or, should we say, Chávezist? (Don’t even try to pronounce Chávezist, by the way. You will injure your tongue.)
We have no love for the collectivos of the world here at The College Fix. And we are sympathetic to the cause of the student protestors. But we do wonder what adding a few more naked pictures to the porn-saturated internet is going to do to stop these thugs from robbing people of their freedom.
Anyway, if you are interested, the naked kids are readily visible online under the hashtag truism #MejorDesnudosQueSinLibertad (better naked than without liberty).
The slogan is solid gold. You can’t argue with that logic. Being pantless is indeed far better than being libertyless.
Take that, bad oppressive government!
Just imagine if the founding fathers of America had adopted a similar philosophy during the drafting of the U.S. constitution. Madison, Hamilton and Washington could have rid themselves of those tight breeches and stifling collars. What a difference that would have made. With such a palpable sense of freedom, the delegates would probably have overcome their differences and ratified a new constitution in a matter of days rather than months.
Alongside freedom of the press and the right to vote, freedom to post naked selfies to the internet would have been enumerated as a constitutional right.
On second thought, perhaps the decision of America’s founding revolutionaries to keep their clothes on was for the best.
Read (and see) more about the Venezuelan protestors at Reason.com
Nathan Harden is editor of The College Fix and author of the book SEX & GOD AT YALE: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad.
Follow Nathan on Twitter @NathanHarden
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