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May 13,1970 THE CAROLINA JOURNAL Page 11
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The War Comes Home
The deed is done, and the tale
is told.
The deed has left dead, 11
wounded, and students across the
nation polarized toward the left.
In fact, to be quite callous
(though accurate), it can be said
that the incident at Kent State,
combined with the movement of
U-S troops into Cambodia has
been the best thing to happen to
the left in a long time. The
Vietnam Moratorium Committee
Was dead, it has been given the
breath of life again. Radicals
needed a new issue to continue
their campaign to polarize the
student, they now have it. For it
is just such incidents as these that
cause the student, indeed anyone,
to question the present system
(tightly so) and then, because no
one else speaks up, to opt to the
left.
Meanwhile cries have gone up
as to how the present regime (in
all its supposedly imperialist and
^Pitalist glory) is trying to
destroy the youth movement. But
actions such as we have seen
'ately, and always will see
Perpetrated by the state no matter
V'^at its form, have only served to
abet the movement, not hurt it.
^ow more than ever students will
ally to the call of "right on" and
°ther useless rhetoric. Yet,
^mehow it will translate itself
J’to action, that action will be
^companied by more rhetoric
rne of which will be anything
nt useless and quite blunt in its
cssage: Bring the war home!
Bring the war home, students
^ave chanted, and they have been
/iswered. Kent State is but one of
any answers and but one of
^any battles to come. In fact, the
ar has been home for some time
J^ith the Free Speech Movement
* Berkeley, that allowed no
Pinion but its own, to the riots
g Columbia, to the streets of
^aitimore two weeks ago that saw
cop ambushed and killed. And
at is but the start as the action
ntinues to the chant of "right
"right on!"
There can be little question
that the war is home to stay, and
yet it should be noticed that the
battle lines have been drawn up
between two factions, no matter
how far apart they may look, of
the same group. That group is the
authoritarians, or, at the risk of
being redundant, the statists.
Government in the form of the
Nixon regime, is recognized
clearly, by many, as opposed to
the freedom that we all desire.
Few have had the same clear
vision as regards the Left. Few
have stopped to consider that the
Left is offering but more of the
same with a slightly different
slant. In their society, the
bureaucrats, technocrats, and
other usurpers of freedom would
wear longer hair, groovier clothes,
and would command by virtue of
their belief in "power to the
people. And let us consider, is
this anything basically different
from what we have now? No. Is
the philosophical premise new or
even different? No. Both refuse to
look upon people as rational
thinking individuals; they look
upon them as cattle, or so many
sheep to be herded about as the
shepherd, the state, sees fit. The
Left is merely advocating a change
in those who dictate instead of an
end to the oppression of the
individial. In this light, the Left
appears as it really is - as
reformers not revolutionaries.
These are the students and
demonstrators that have said the
system is at fault, when what they
really mean is that they think the
leaders of the system are at fault,
because they do not m^e the
By D. Gary Stone
system even more powerful and
far reaching. This has been shown
in the attack upon president
Nixon, accusing him of the deaths
at Kent State. The leader has been
attacked, not the system that
allows force to be used against the
individual, because the use of
force against the individual is a
basic tenant of the Left.
Consider what actions are
capable by the system which the
Left advocates and ask yourself
this: have they set about to free
people or to enslave them with
another state? Do they advocate
freedom for all people or just
some of the people?
Take a long look. If you are
advocating freedom for some then
you advocate it for none. If you
are fighting for the destruction of
the present state only to replace it
with another then you are a
reformer not a revolutionary, and ■
you will be plagued by the
problems that the present system
faces, and must be held
responsible for denying freedom.
The only way to end oppression is
to eliminate the belief from which
It spawns - the belief that force is
justified in any instance other
than self-defense. It matters not
whether it is disguised as "for the
public welfare" or is open
coersion; it stems from the same
philosophical base that says a man
has a right to another man's life,
liberty or property. Until the
immorality of this is recognized
we will have more of the same; we
will have more Kent State's.
The time has come to stop the
problem - authoritarianism and its
child the state.
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