The Politics of Revolution which Temper and Harden the Breast

Paul Belien, Vice President of the International Free Press Society, has an article up in the Brussels Journal about Kurt Westergaard's reception at Yale and Princeton. After I heard Westergaard present his story at Princeton, we shared a ride back together to NYC, with members of the IFPS, and one of the things I said to him was "What I found really sad about your account is that in your speech you said that this was 'just another day at work,' and then all this happened to you."

Belien writes about the hostility and complete lack of empathy the Princeton and Yale students had towards Westergaard, who has to live in a barricaded home and under 24-hour security for the rest of his life.

It is surprising, and disheartening, that young people cannot even feel any sadness that a member of their society (at large, yes) has to live under such inhuman conditions. Yet they are ready to stand by a foreign god and his foreign followers, something which has nothing to do with them, their history or even their current life, except to be part of the liberal ideology which they so readily espouse.

Here is a quote from Burke's excerpted book I read on my trip to New York:

The worst of these politics of revolution is this; they temper and harden the breast, in order to prepare it for the desperate strokes which are sometimes used in extreme occasions...This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man, that they have totally forgot his nature.