Jonah Goldberg, who is visiting Alaska during an historic cold snap, ran across a story about the Occupy Wall Street protesters are coping with -36 degree temperatures. Some have found a penumbra of a halo of an aurora of an implication of a new right in the U.S. Constitution:
Baccala and other protesters contend the First Amendment’s protection for free speech implies a right to stay warm in the process. The Fairbanks North Star Borough, which maintains that protesters are squatting on downtown space, prohibits camping in its parks, except specific camping sites.
The Occupiers, who are already getting free cold-weather gear from misguided retailers, complain that they can’t change the system under these circumstances. See the unfairness inherent in the system! See the unfairness inherent in the system!
