I was just currious about peoples perception of the Modern Anarchist Movement. What you think it is. What youve heard about it. And the positives and negitives of it ever coming to be. KOBE, I would really like your imput on this one.

-- Dick Tator (inneedofliberty@yahoo.com), December 06, 2004

Answers

A lot of misguided but concerned youths, and a few well-organized but disgruntled and sinister adults trying to make a point about something they can't quite get a grip on, but are very passionate about.

Bazooka Joe

-- 2 (1@3.4), December 06, 2004.

People disillusioned with the system, which I can totaly understand, hoping more to increase awareness on issues and affect change rather than take over. They are known for their loud, wild protests, which for the mast part say fairly peacefull, although the occasional moltov cocktail is let loose and the occasional window is broken. Occasionaly, a more ballsy group of anarchists will toch a Hummer dealership or break the windows of a factory that makes bombs and stuff, which really doesn't bother me but makes a lot of people uncomfortable (they start to think "oh shit, what if my Lexus dealership is next???). I've met a lot of anarchists at punk shows and the like, mostly in DC. Mostly good people. Some are a little crazy, but overall I'd say they're a good bunch of guys that are unhappy with the system and want change...most of them really don't believe in "anarchy" in the classic sense...they see it more as a tool to bring down the establishment so a new system can be created.

-- Anti-bush (Comrade_bleh@hotmail.com), December 06, 2004.

LOL, yeah, the creating a new system is where the rub comes in! It's the same thing as the 60's in a way, change the establishment. Unfortunately, when you BECOME the people in charge of the establishment, you need to make sure trash gets picked up, water and electricity flow, cops and firemen are out there, buttloads of other government functions get done, etc.

One day you realize that "the establishment" was actually doing a lot FOR you, and now you are doing the same thing for some ingrates who don't know better. That's how it goes, much like a grandparent gets to laugh at their kid suffering with their grandkid's antics - what comes around goes around.

Bazooka joe

-- 2 (1@3.4), December 07, 2004.

I like how you put that, Joe. I dont see what I want to happen ever coming true. I do however see aspects happening. Like truth being told. Lies not being fed to us begining as children in school.

-- Dick Tator (inneedofliberty@yahoo.com), December 12, 2004.

One thing life has told me is that secrecy is bad, whether it's in the .gov or the Catholic church or the stock market or whatever. The more transparent things are to the public, the less abuse occurs. When you get things that are too secret for the public to know, when someone is doing something for your good without you having access to it, that's when the trouble starts.

Bazooka Joe

-- 2 (1@3.4), December 14, 2004.

Bush has had one of the most secretive Presidencies since Nixon. He did everything he could to stop the creation of an independent 9/11 commission, and then made it really hard for them to do their job once it was created. He even tried to get Henry Kissinger appointed as head of the commission! Yeah, that would be objective...

-- Anti-bush (Comrade_bleh@hotmail.com), December 14, 2004.