About the PUP Protesters

[rage963]

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They choose violence in their protest...
Those students should be banned from all state colleges and should be put to prison!!!!

They destroy tax payer's money....

They Feel that they are above the law and they are speacial!!!! and they call their selves educated....

[hulagway]

lage kamo permi tama kay para ninyo right na ninyo ang mg protest unya kung dili tagdun mg violent dayon? sakto na?

dapat ang inyo hunahunaon nga swerte na kaayo mo nga naka eskwela ug public school unya quality ang education..dili sama ninyo ang uban nga mas pobre pa ninyo ng trabaho sa mga fast food chain unya ns skwela pajud sa private school..mao unata na dapat inyo ipagpasalamt sa governo dili kay mg cge lang mo ug rally diha..

ang naka apan pa jud..ang mga rally sa skwelahan sakay sa mga laing pundok nga outsiders..mosamot ang kagubot....

so nahimo na jud d i ning nga state university nato ug breeding ground for activism? tama bana? probida..wala jud gani mo ng pasalamt sa atong governo nga maoy ng himo nga ma successful mo...unsa man tawag sa mga tao nga ingana?

[hulagway]

mr. elvan right here doesn't even know the whole truth and he's judging the PUP students, what a shame... student activism has been there for a very very long time...

i'm a proud gabriela member and guess what? almost 1/4 of my colleague's right here in the office are PUP/activist during in our college years...

btw, im working for saatchi saatchi advertising agency

and the government is been very patient about activism that until now they keep on spending millions of pesos supporting government school...woowww and then what do the government get?

[raski]

All communist sympathizers and supporters of the adage "take from the rich and give to the poor" need to read The Law by Frederick Bastiat. It is the eminent, timeless thesis in support of true democracy (individualism and liberty) and against socialized plunder (collectivism and social dictatorship).

In summary, The Law puts forward the very simple premise that socialist ideas that may sound good in theory, such as subsidized college education, are always anti-democratic and anti-liberty because in essence they involve legalized plunder. Furthermore, he argues that because socialist laws are usually enacted by legislators who seek to impose their views upon their subjects, their enactment is essentially a continuation of the imperialist ideals of the "benevolent tyrant" of ancient Greece and Rome.

He also argues that socialism cultivates a mentality of entitlement, wherein everyone participates only in the democratic exercise in order to further their own interests (or class interests, as the case may be) even if such involves what amounts to plunder. When you take from the rich and give to the poor, that is what it is: plunder. You would recognize it as theft when a poor thief steals from a rich man's house because it is contrary to law, but because socialist legislators make the law itself a tool for plunder, this form of legalized plunder takes on an insidiousness that can only come from the perversion of the law itself. This mentality of entitlement (to legalized plunder) is apparent when PUP supporters say that "when circumstances suddenly change and are now contrary to expectations, thats when people react." Notice that it is the very entitlement to subsidized schooling that the government provides that is now used as an excuse for the student's behavior, clear evidence that feelings of entitlement are now what fuel their call for even more entitlement and plunder.

It is sad that the ready credulity of pro-PUP supporters is clouding their judgment, they see the plight of the students but do not understand the very concept of legalized plunder and the evils they propagate throughout society. Let me end with a very poignant quote from Bastiat:

"Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property. But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder." (emphasis mine)