Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 09, 2024

The campus police finally got a chance to put those smart aleck eggheads in their place!

Don’t have a cow, man!

Obviously Zippy missed getting tasered, it would definitely increase his intelligence!!

I was just doing a filtered joint (hey, I’m older) got to hacking!

At least it wasn’t the National Guard, storming onto campus with guns blazing (Kent State, 1970).

I think even his uncle should be able to tell the difference.

Send in the cows ….. Don’t bother, they’re here

I remember when they were The Fuzz

well Zipper, weren’t you there to get your fair share of abuse?

As Mick Jaggar said, “I went down to the demonstration, to get my fair share of abuse.” – You Can’t Always Get What You Want

According to a thing I heard once, when a francophone wants to be derogatory toward law enforcement, the equivalent to ‘cows’ is preferred. “mort au vauches” or something close.

I lived under martial law a couple of times while in college. A police ricochetk from an unsecured weapon killed a student. Even though the police knew within 24 hours that it was their bullet, they waited three days to release the news and made no effort to stop speculation he had been killed by a sniper. Governor Reagan thought The Revolution had started and called out the National Guard, who occupied our small town for two weeks. A police Captain was dismissed after reckless use of tear gas from a helicopter and a number of other irregularities. Campus radio covered the Civil Service hearing live. It was a whitewash. He was reinstated with back pay. Surrounding county Sheriff Departments sent notice that they would not participate in any further operations in which he would be involved. He was transferred to a desk job.

I was tear gassed while minding my own business working inside a Taco Bell. The experience changed my attitude toward police. Now, if I need directions, I will ask a “hippie”. I might not get where I am going but I will also not get bludgeoned.

Recollections such as those above were what inspired the 1996 film The War at Home.

Zipper’s brains got scrambled, which is a shame, because he didn’t have much to start with.

Mooove out of the way.

At Moo U, farm animals were actually involved.