OPINION:
Dec. 10’s Geopolitics section photo headlined “Fire of fury in Britain” contained no story by a savvy journalist. There was no lengthy description of its context - just a raging fire with the Big Ben clock tower in the background and a bunch of people taking photos with their cell phones. The fire itself looked straight out of the World War II blitzkrieg of 1940.
The caption described a student protest in Parliament Square over an increase in university tuition. My feeling is that this type of disturbance is not led by students at all. The ones speaking to media types surely seem a lot older than students would be. My great concern is not just the tepid response by the socialist British government but the total lack of response by British institutions of higher learning that tolerate criminal misconduct by their students with no punishment for their actions. This failure to act seems to prove what we have believed for quite a while: that too many college and university professors are nothing more than Marxists and anarchists posing as keepers of learning.
Any student who would engage in such violence should be expelled from his institution of higher learning and prosecuted to the full force of the law. Foreign students studying on a visa should be deported. Any professor guilty of inciting a riot should be terminated. An expelled student would suddenly have the question of tuition - or any other fees - answered for him.
WILSON FARIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
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