Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:23:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jamal Hannah <jah-AT-iww.org>
Subject: Re: Unabomber


On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Nicolas G. wrote:

> Personally, I don't much care for the Unabomber, but that's primarily 
> because I, honestly, hate the whole primitivist anti-technology movement, I 
> just have trouble understanding it.
> 
> What I object to is the whole "bombings and murder" are unjustifiable, or 
> something to that effect that I read on a post a little while ago.
> 
> Frankly, to say that it's vanguardist represents a very first-world 
> pseudo-democratic outlook on things.  The fact of the matter is that in many 
> cases, isolated acts of resistance, against the property of the enemy or the 
> enemy itself, is the only weapon available to the people to resist, as 
> massive movements are not possible due to repression, etc.
> 
> And also, who decides when it is murder, or when they are legitimate 
> casualties in the course of a war, be it a class war, a war of national 
> liberation, or others.  For example, the mainstream media paints the actions 
> of ETA (M) as terrorism, and their targets as innocent victims.  In my book, 
> military, police, and representatives of the parties that defend spanish 
> imperialism are legitimate targets in a war.  No foul in my book.
> 
> Letting the enemy dictate the rules of the game doesn't seem like good 
> strategy to me.
> 
> Redskin greetings,
>     Nicolas G.

But the problem is, there's no organizational base for anarchists in the
US right now, besides perhaps the web pages and mailing lists on the
internet.  People who commit violent acts would most likely do them for a
spur-of-the-moment thrill or based on some crazy, mixed-up ideology, like
primitivism.  I suppose there's nothing we can do about the crazies in our
movement, but the least one can do is criticize the type of actions that
are terroristic.

I cant see how you can side with ETA.. they are a nationaliost
group... why is it so important that the Basque region becomes a country
of its own, when it just means a different ruling class will exploit it's
own working class?  ETA are statists.

 - Jamal