American Leftists Storm the Bastille
The Tyranny of a Mob
http://wcbstv.com/local/nyu.students.protest.2.939086.html
In scenes all across America, young people who have shared in Obama's victory, who have tasted first blood, are crashing the gates of civilized society. They see every institution as controlled by "the man", and they claim their "rights" to destroy them all.
Their philosophy of "freedom" and "rights" is totally unlike the American Revolution wherein we claimed that all men are created equal and from that springs our individuality and our right to pursue freedom under law.
These modern American revolutionaries follow the French model of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" wherein we are created unequal and from that springs a revolutionary desire to be freed from the bondage of institutions in order to pursue democratic collectivist utopia. This socialist model, by its nature, can only lead to oppressive authoritarian regimes.
It happened in 18th century revolutionary France (leading to the dictator Napoleon). It happened again in the early part of the 20th century with the socialist Weimar Republic (that led to the Nazis), and again with the Bolshevik revolution that led to the oppressive USSR. In the 21st century, it's happening in America.
Here, NYU (New York University) students apparently think that they can dictate terms to the institution that houses, feeds and educates them.
Institutions like NYU might have seen it coming but didn't. The philosophies long preferred in our so-called "institutions of higher learning" have been that of Rousseau, Marx, and Hegel rather than the conservative philosophies of Augustine, Locke, Smith, and Adams. They are now "reaping the wind".
American civil society, having been lulled to sleep by liberal institutions and an over-weaning government is breaking down quickly. A collectivist, socialist revolution is just around the corner and it bears no resemblance to the American Revolution. If history ever repeats itself, this revolution, this "Storming of the Bastille" will surely lead to despotism.
