From: "john bechtel" <dsidnt-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: That damn american election thing
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 00:56:40 GMT



Somebody wrote...

.  We can spread a positive
>>message(people over
>>profits).

To which activist Scott replied...

>The most
>important things you do ARE THE THINGS YOU DO, the actual mutual aid you
>engage in, the actual refutation of hierarchy in your own life, the actual
>practice of freedom.

Well, Scott, voting is more than many people do. Is just showing up to a 
demonstration (Seattle, D.C.) showing ones dissatisfaction with the status 
quo that much more important than casting a ballot for a third party? It 
sends a message, however small, to the powers that be. Anarchism, like 
enviromentalism or antiracism, begins in the home, as you rightly point out. 
But it does no good for mankind to end it there. If anyone feels that voting 
for Nader (or whoever) is somehow contributing in some small way to the 
betterment of society than who are we to say otherwise. As has been pointed 
out by ChuckO et al, it is probably high time to smash windows, but don't 
dismiss others for their attempt to change things through other means.

                               Later, dude, John
>

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