Trying to get a handle on the protests going on in our major cities for the past month is not easy to grasp.

To have clearer meaning of mobs, mobocracy and civil  unrest, one should read Ann Coulter’s new best seller Demonic.

Thanks to YouTube and the Internet, we are able to have a more accurate description of what has been unfolding in these protests than if we only listened to the major media networks.

Notwithstanding the fact that there are legitimate issues to be addressed as a result of this Occupy movement, the education establishment has produced a generation of students totally unprepared for their life’s vocation.

Many of the protesters are in their mid to late 20s. If the testimony many of them are making is any indication of the education they have received, it may be time to take a good look into how effective higher education is in preparing young people for their future.

A look into the past shows many men in their 20s and 30s had already reached fame in their own right.

Michaelangelo, at the age of 33, began painting the fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel; Charles Wesley at the same age had helped found the Methodist Church and had time to write more than 7,000 hymns, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” being just one that is revered to this day by Christians worldwide.

Other famous persons: Beethoven; DeBussey; Gutson Borglum, sculptor of Stone Mountain and Mount Rushmore; as well as Steve Jobs of Apple Corporation, all became famous in their 40s and 50s.

Our present generation of protesters with a warped sense of how to change society will never help this nation to maintain its greatness as well as keeping freedom from succumbing to socialism and communism.

Few of the protesters who adhere to the mob mentality will aspire to being anybody but angry agitares whenever the occasion arises.

The role of protests in America is ingrained in our fabric and should be encouraged from time to time.

The Tea Party movement is an example of how to mobilize for change. Unlike the Occupy protest, the Tea Party was spontaneous and started as a peaceful force and it ended that way.

Its influence swung an election and its message is resonating more powerfully today than when it began.

With reasonable objectives and a central focus on one theme, the Tea Party is methodically reaching its goal.

The anarchy in Oakland, Calif., last week is reprehensible and cannot be condoned under any circumstances.

Nancy Pelosi and some union bosses fanned the flames and the mayor of that city encouraged city employees to leave work and participate in the fray.

It came back to bite them and, as a result, the largest seaport in the country was shut down and nearly a million dollars in damage was done to the city’s commerce and infrastructure.

If the SEIU and other unions do not come down hard on anarchy with severe penalties, then 2012 will become a very bad year for America.