Leftists "Protecting" Philadelphia

Emulating the Wall Street protesters in New York, a few hundred leftists have gathered today in Philadelphia around City Hall to vent their anger at Corporate America. (One of the most prominent signs was for the "Democratic Socialists of Pennsylvania").

This morning, one of the local Fox reporters interviewed an organizer of the protest, a Ph.D. student in musical composition at Temple University. "What's so bad about life?" he asked, "You're a student, you're married, what do you have to be upset about?"

After repeating some collectivist platitudes about social justice and whatnot, she said, "My parents raised me to protect others."

Who, I wonder, specifically asked her for protection from Corporate America?

I'm not normally a poetic person, but I immediately remembered a piece Leonard Read once quoted in his speech, "How to Advance Liberty." It goes:

And so I hold it is not treason
To advance a simple reason
For the sorry lack of progress we decry.
It is this: Instead of working
On himself, each man is shirking
And trying to reform some other guy.