Students Riot in London Over Tuition Fees. Tuition Fees?

Old Man Marx must be rolling over up on Highgate. Tuition fees just don't have the ring of the worldwide proletarian struggle, although I'm confident the anti-Western hatred driving these folks will become increasingly extreme. Where's Baader Meinhof when you need 'em?

Matthew Rothschild at The Progressive — 'I Don't Believe in Patriotism'

I really spoke too soon!

I knew there was something like this out there this weekend. I just missed it earlier. See, "Why I Don’t Celebrate July 4." And I have no response other than I doubt Rothschild even likes apple pie:

You can call me unpatriotic if you’d like, but really I’m anti-patriotic.

I’ve been studying fascism lately, and there is one inescapable fact about it:

Nationalism is the egg that hatches fascism.

And patriotism is but the father of nationalism.

Patriotism is not something to play with. It’s highly toxic. When ingested, it corrodes the rational faculties.

It gulls people into believing their leaders.

It masks those who benefit most from state policy.

And it destroys the ability of people to get together, within the United States and across boundaries, to take on those with the most power: the multinational corporation.

Plus, it’s a war toy, wheeled out whenever a leader needs to improve his ratings by attacking some other country—often after invoking God’s name, too.

It’s been so since the Spanish-American War and World War I and right up through the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War.

American patriotism has also gotten in the way of solving global warming. Many in the United States, which consumes 25 percent of the world’s resources but has just 4 percent of the world’s population, believe we have the God-given right to use up all the resources we can. And there is an all-too-common attitude that we don’t need to listen to any other countries, or the U.N., or obey any international agreements because we’re Americans, and we’re better than everybody else.

We’ve got to get over patriotism, and we’ve got to cure the American superiority complex.

So celebrate the 4th if you like.

But as for me, between God, country, and apple pie, I’ll take the apple pie.

Come to think of it, I will add this Moonbattery quote: "If his previous articles are any guide, Matthew Rothschild is a one-man parade of progressive left douchebaggery."

Protesters Blast Israel at G8/G20 Summit in Toronto

One of the things we've learned in recent years is that demonization of Israel has become the central foundation of all hardline radical anarchist/socialist anti-capitalist gay-rights mobilizations. Below is the screencap from the Canadian Jewish Congress' Twitter page (via Lumpy, Grumpy and Frumpy):

And check the background discussion at Business Week, "G-20 Protesters Burn Cars, Smash Starbucks Window."

RELATED: Here's Justine Apple and Bernie Farber on Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA):

“Apartheid” is not a term thrown about lightly. Apartheid is a crime against humanity, a despicable, discriminatory and disgusting regime supported only by irredeemable racists. Thus, Israelis and the vast majority of diaspora Zionist Jews are tarred by the brush of horrific racism, systemic oppression of human rights and visceral hatred.

QuAIA targets Israel with this dangerous and invidious libel, positioning the world's only Jewish state as the racist successor to white supremacist South Africa. International pressure brought down apartheid's racist oppression. Now, anti-Semites use these same tactics to soften up international public opinion and pave the way for Israel's destruction.

Be sure to RTWT.

And check the roundup at CBC, "Toronto's Tarnished Image." Also, Mark Steyn, "Spectators in Body Armor," and iOWNTHEWORLD, "Those Friggin Tea Partiers!!!" Added: See also Pirate's Cove, "Moonbats on the March: Violence at G20."