File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2001/anarchy-list.0109, message 283


From: "res02iqa-AT-gte.net" <res02iqa-AT-gte.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:39:13 -0700
Subject: Re: some thoughts


On 25 Sep 01, at 19:37, Ze Sprout wrote:

> 1
> 
> roger asked (i think) why all so centred on state authority ? do we need
> to rethink our position ? i allways thought anarchism to be about
> (against) power relations (state and personal). anarchist thought existed
> far before states existed. states come out of authoritarian relation. as
> anarchists we should fight all authoritarian relations. in the process
> states should disappear
> 
> since we don't know anything yet we have to take that the attacks on the
> wtc where done either by authoritarians (hidden agenda?) who want to
> create a society of fear, or by mad people (then there is really no why).
>

Mad ( insane ) Authoritarians. A good definition of any religious 
Fundamentalist.
 
> how can anarchists respond ? well, by pointing out that the action was
> against "freedom" and that the reaction is also against "freedom".
> 

By doing ones best to get folks to limit reaction against only those 
insane statists ( now there's another redundant term... ) 
responsible, and to point out that the local State's participation in 
"The Great Game" has contributed to making us all targets.

> 2
> 
> "they had it coming" does not mean they deserved it. nobody deserves what
> happened. but usa (and their -european- allies) do need to think about
> what ground they create where such awful ideas could grow.
> 

Don't confuse the people living in this region for those who actively 
support and work for the State that controls this region. Don't think 
of States as individuals. Only individuals are individuals, and must 
bear *all* of the responsibility for their actions.

> 3
> 
> being affected personally i find it hard to write coherently. i hope
> kindness will win in the end. i doubt it. 
> 

The kindist thing to do for the Afghanis is to encourage individual 
talibs to go home and foment religious strife there instead. Places 
like Afghanistan and Kashmir have become the various Arab 
States' dumping ground for their own violent fundamentalists.

Hopefully, the folks working in the US government will get a clue, 
and resist the urge to carpet bomb other victims of the same bunch 
of fanatics.


Regards,

Kristopher K. Barrett

   

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