File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2001/anarchy-list.0106, message 119


Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:01:39 -0400
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: Re: [anarchism] Tree Spiking


Steve wrote:

> But what is more distressing is this belief that tree spiking works
> *regardless* of who is responsible for workers' injuries.  Tree spiking
> doesn't work.  It has been shown time and time again this is so.  There
> are plenty of direct action tactics that don't even involve the workesr at
> all that are effective that Earth First!ers us use.  Why the continual
> defense of a tactic that is as much of a lemon as an Edsel?

I do it to get a rise out of you guys.

I've bust my butt every day from the time I get up to the time I go to bed on
anarchist movement stuff. I'm getting sick and tired of reading this lists where
folks will argue some arcane topic into the ground when they could be using
their time to do something constructive to fight the state and capitalism. I
have no hope that this situation will change, because I've learned from
experience that every time I introduce an important topic to a list, folks
ignore it and continue debating crap ad nauseum.

I've got better things to do with my time, which is why you see very few post
from me on this list anymore.

<< Chuck0 >>

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An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said, "I was
told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese was to
shout ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ If he shoots, he’s unfriendly. So I saw this
dude and yelled ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ and he yelled back, ‘To hell with
President Johnson!’ We were shaking hands when a truck hit us." 

(from 1,001 Ways to Beat the Draft, by Tuli Kupferburg).

   

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