File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2001/anarchy-list.0104, message 232


Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 05:55:28 -0700
Subject: Re: (en) Solidarité: A Quebec Diary
From: Howard R Olson <howard.olson-AT-juno.com>




On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:36:58 -0400 (EDT) Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca> writes:
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> > From: "Shawn Ewald" <shawn-AT-wilshire.net>
> The following is my account of the Anti-FTAA demonstrations in 
> Quebec 
> City; let me begin by saying that it was one of the most amazing and 
> 
> inspiring events I've ever witnessed or participated in and it was a 
> 
> clear victory for everyone who participated.
> 
> As for those who were not there and who have criticisms about the 
> violence, I only have this to say: We were there to do a job, and 
> that 
> job was to stop or disrupt the summit by any means necessary.This 
> was a 
> meeting where the lives and futures of everyone in north and south 
> america are being sold down the river wholesale -- what was done in 
> Quebec City was an act of collective self defense. There is no room 
> for 
> discussion and there is no room for debate on that, in my opinion. I 
> 
> certainly haven't the slightest interest in debating it. If you 
> *were* 
> there and you saw the viciousness and brutality of the police and 
> you 
> think the response was anything but appropriate, I have nothing to 
> say
> to 
> you.

   Of course you don't . Violence is indefensible.....

    This is an inappropriate and authoritarian manner to cut off debate
within the anarchist movement. Violence in any form is 
intrinsically statist. Your arguments are indistinguishable from those of
police psy-op operations. This is precisely what a provocateur would say
to prevent nonviolence from being carried out next time. 
     Demonstrator violence is ineffective at self-defense anyway
and so it is a pathetic argument to say that it was "necessary".
It is time that ALL anarchists learned mass non-violence techniques
instead of playing into the hands of statist stereotypes of anarchism. I
don't know if my politically incorrect reply will be heard but I had to
make it clear that Violence is NOT anarchism!

                                     Howard R Olson PhD
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