On 2006-06-14 14:49:00, Anonymous wrote:
""...When compared with the suppression of anarchy every other question sinks into insignificance. The anarchist is the enemy of humanity, the enemy of all mankind, and his is a deeper degree of criminality than any other. No immigrant is allowed to come to our shores if he is an anarchist; and no paper published here or abroad should be permitted circulation in this country if it propagates anarchist opinions." Theodore Roosevelt, 1908
Teddy would have loved this site and its anarchists.
To say this site promotes a freedom that is endowed upon us for positive purpose in an effort to discover truth, is completely laughable.
An insult to those who concieved the idea, and to all who have defended its inception.
"
One of the best ways to eliminate an enemy is to make them look ridiculous, or vilify them as being evil. That is what Teddy was doing. In 1908 there was an anarchist movement in this country. Look up Emma Goldman. Look up anarchy in Wikipedia.
The myth is that anarchists are violent and wish to violently overthrow the government. The truth is that anarchists believe that all forms of authoritarian hierarchy are inherently unjust. There are anarchists who are pacifists.
Governments have to be against anarchy for the simple fact that the anarchist does not believe in legitimate authority. What gives any person, or group of people the 'right' to tell another person or group of people what to do? Nothing. It boils down to force. Even in a democracy,
"... a slave to the majority is still a slave."
- Max Stirner
With that philosophy, anarchist thinking is the greatest danger to government, authority, and repression. Since there is no logical refutation, governments have no choice to but to fight these ideas by banning books (like Max Stirner's) and calling anarchists "the enemy of all mankind." In other words, they resort to using fear and propaganda.
[ This Message was edited by: AtomicAnt on 2006-06-14 19:53 ]