File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0004, message 688


Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 01:59:58 +1200
From: The Lorax <lorax-AT-inet.net.nz>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Mike Flugennock's Account of the Black Bloc


ed.stamm-AT-excite.com wrote:

> Don't you think it's just a little weird for anarchists to compare
> themselves to the Marine Corps and the Green Berets?  Is the Black
> Bloc planning to napalm some civilians at the next demo?
>
> Yeah, it's not that Fred and I and many others are upset that anarchism
> is now understood to be vandalism and rioting.  That all our efforts
> to get our positive message across have been trashed.  We're just
> jealous that you people are getting all the press coverage.
>
> If you were doing all this "strong arm" stuff as Wobblies instead of
> anarchists, I honestly wouldn't give a damn.  Just marching together?
> Where have you been Jamal?  Don't you understand the difference between
> a march and a riot?  Or is smashing stuff up and shutting down meetings
> just routine these days?
>
> Ed Stamm
>

I can understand your suspicion of anything militaristic seeming, but I can see
a quite substantial difference between the black bloc and the brownshirts or the
marines.
I think that people are scared of the cops in the U$, and have been for some
time.
This is because they are a bunch of murdering goons.
I'm all for peaceful and constructive ways of preparing alternative social and
economic structures to the establishment, but remember this:
Almost all of us on this planet live under a corrupt, violent and stupid system
of greed and repression.  If any peacefully organized opposition ever starts
gaining any kind of foothold, they will attempt to stop it by anything up to and
including murder most foul.
If anyone is willing to defend themselves and others against such a system then
I commend them.  Chucking things at a bunch of cops with the full power of the
fucking state (ptooey!) behind them is hardly a fascist act of heinous violence
against a bunch of innocent people.
The day the black bloc starts using pre-emptive lethal force with guns and sharp
things and burning torches etc against percieved enemies is the day I will
denounce it's activities.
That said, it was an anarchist organization that came into and faded out of
existence as it was needed.  In the future we may well see something calling
itself the "black bloc" wreaking hvaoc with no good reason simply because
they've pinched the name.  Which I wouldn't put past the pigs.
Until then, my solidarity goes out to them all.

The Lorax



   

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