New Revolutionaries: Pretenders To the Throne

I just found an excellent commentary on the new breed of “revolutionaries” - those die-hard activists and protestors that command such media attention. The author, Kat, from The Middle Ground, has done a find job of noting the excesses and eventual de-legitimization of formerly worthwhile causes. An excerpt:

Except for the extremely devoted, there can be no denying the outcome of leaving South East Asia to the Communists. Not simply due to the spread of Communism, but in the bloody aftermath. Whomever one will blame for that outcome, it is a fact that millions died there while millions more here patted themselves on the back, self congratulatory and self satisfied that they had “ended a war”. It’s still a matter of debate of whether interference was right or wrong, but the death of entire tribes, communities and peoples are a matter of record. Whether watched live on TV or seen in a history program, the image of indegenous people scrambling to leave Vietnam, begging Americans to take them away, the thousands of “boat people” that came after and the killing fields of Cambodia have left an indelible mark on our social conscious.

And more…

For several weeks now, Mother Sheehan and other organizers of the “anti-war” activities and march in Washington, DC have lamented the lack of attention to their cause due to the twin devestating hurricanes of Katrina and Rita. The truth must be much harder to swallow for these pretenders to the throne. That truth is, this is not 1970. Their causes do not resonate with middle America. They are not real revolutionaries. They do not face concerted efforts to suppress them. They are not harassed, assaulted and arrested. They do not face barking dogs, water cannons or brutal police assaults with batons.

Even more so, they do not resemble the revolutionary fore fathers. Men like Jefferson, Adams, Franklin or even Hancock who pledged their fortunes and lives to revolution against a real tyranny where their very lives and property would be forfeit should they lose. There are no gulags, secret police, torture chambers or extra judicial executions with a silent, unmarked grave at the end. They don’t risk hanging much less a stiff prison sentence. They are unlikely to get much more than a few hours in jail and a flimsy fine for destroying property or refusing to obey lawful orders. They are pretenders who risk nothing and pledge nothing but destruction, false causes and false morality while pretending to be “oppressed” by pretend tyrrants.

After four years, the pretend revolutionaries in their pretentious prancing, choose to ignore one of the most important issues in their failing to achieve real wide spread support: the average American remembers the excesses of their forebear protestors against the military and what it did to our fathers and even our mothers who served.

The entire essay is excellent. I urge you to go read the whole thing. If you’re a thinker, it’s well worth it.

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