Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:28:00 -0700
Subject: Re: Protest Groups Breach Security at Quebec Summit


On 24 Apr 01, at 18:50, roger wrote:

> tacitus put it succinctly:  Who will guard the guardians?
> 
> but i respect taking to the streets with a point of view, as in
> otterwall.  NTO was fun as hell here in seattle (course we only had a
> few hundred cops while now the man mobilzes thousands; the state
> learns fast).  focused dissent can be both cathartic for the
> participants and generative of popular conscienceness in the society
> at large.  legends are no less real for not being real.
> 
> mostly, i miss f. leon.  he had a point.  the mardi gras seattle riots
> and the cincy mess are all too indicative of the ill health of our
> body politic.  very troubling.

I think it's a good sign. Rioting for the hell of it, voter apathy,  all 
good signs.

When people start to feel alienated, they react by either getting 
apathetic about voting ( "it does no good"....heh ), or they get 
destructive.

Voter apathy and nihilism is the first step on the road to revolution.

I think joe average is starting to realize that he is oppressed, and is
lashing out now at random. This needs to be encouraged, and some
good directions for this anger need to be suggested.


> 
> roger
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Old Goat 
>   To: Chuck0 ; anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu 
>   Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 2:09 PM
>   Subject: Re: Protest Groups Breach Security at Quebec Summit
> 
> 
>   Yeah but, guys, if we do away with The State who will enforce trade
>   restrictions and embargos?  Who will say, "no" to free trade?  Who
>   will bell the cat?   Who will put the "bop" in the bop - she - bop? 
>   
> 
>   Or have I misunderstood, is it just the "rich guys" we wanna be rid
>   of?  I'll go for that if you'll let me define "rich guys".
> 
>   M. Vieux Bouc
> 
> 
> 


Regards,

Kristopher K. Barrett