MARINA DEL REY, CA -- When the Democratic National Convention meets next week at Los Angeles's Staples Center, it will be besieged by thousands of protestors united under banner slogans such as "Human Needs Not Corporate Greed." These protestors are united by something else as well -- hatred, said a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute.
     "These protestors, representing more than 70 different Leftist and Socialist organizations, hate freedom, capitalism and progress -- everything that allows human needs to be satisfied," said Edwin A. Locke, author of The Prime Movers: The Traits of the Great Wealth Creators. "The protestors will argue that capitalism denies 'social justice,' because every person and every country does not make the same amount of money. They view the rich as immoral and regard the United States as the guiltiest country on earth, because it is so wealthy. What the protestors want is to drain the wealth of the producers and give it to those who are not productive."
     "What the socialists want in the end is an unjust world, a world where they forcibly harness the able, the competent, the hardworking -- the productive -- in order to reward those who are not productive. What the protestors refuse to acknowledge is that capitalism is the only system of genuine 'social justice.'"
     Locke said that the protestors' choice of the Democratic convention as a venue is completely in keeping with their ideological agenda.
     "The protestors know where their ideological home is," He said. "The Democrats have always championed the 'little guy,' which has often meant penalizing those who made it big. But as philosopher Ayn Rand once noted, there are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them."