Read all about it. This is like some kind of parody. We get introduced to newer PC terms like “slut shame,” “fat shame,” “lesbophobic,” along with the rising star “transphobic” and, of course, the veteran warhorse of “RACIST.” We’re also invited to ponder such deep and meaningful questions as to the role of race in the decision to wear fur. I’ve never been a PETA fan by any means, but my sympathies for them just shot way up.
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Updated News Digest February 27-28, 2010 Reply
Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com!
Community Organizing and National-Anarchism presentation by Andrew Yeoman
Tribal Anarchism Video Series Parts One, Two, Three, Four
United Anarchism Vs United Nationism
The Tyranny of “Tolerance”: Resist Politically Correct Fascism to the Death!!!
R.I.P. Joe Stack: Martyr for the Revolutionary Struggle
Quotes of the Week:
“To affirm that humans thrive in many different ways is not to deny that there are universal human values. Nor is it to reject the claim that there should be universal human rights. It is to deny that universal values can only be fully realized in a universal regime. Human rights can be respected in a variety of regimes, liberal and otherwise. Universal human rights are not an ideal constitution for a single regime throughout the world, but a set of minimum standards for peaceful coexistence among regimes that will always remain different.”
“The core of the belief in progress is that human values and goals converge in parallel with our increasing knowledge. The twentieth century shows the contrary. Human beings use the power of scientific knowledge to assert and defend the values and goals they already have. New technologies can be used to alleviate suffering and enhance freedom. They can, and will, also be used to wage war and strengthen tyranny. Science made possible the technologies that powered the industrial revolution. In the twentieth century, these technologies were used to implement state terror and genocide on an unprecedented scale. Ethics and politics do not advance in line with the growth of knowledge — not even in the long run.”
“The most pitiless warriors against drugs have always been militant progressives. In China, the most savage attack on drug use occurred when the country was convulsed by a modern western doctrine of universal emancipation- Maoism. It is no accident that the crusade against drugs is led today by a country wedded to the pursuit of happiness- the United States. For the corollary of that improbable quest is a puritan war on pleasure.”
“What could be more natural for a species that has exterminated its animal kin than to look into a mirror and find that it is not alone.”
“People need to believe that order can be glimpsed in the chaos of events.”
-John Gray
The Last Flight of Joe Stack by Paul Craig Roberts
The Joe Stack Manifesto by Christopher Ketcham
Stack’s Daughter: My Dad Was a Hero for Standing Up to the Man by Justin Elliot
The Texas Tax Suicide: A Major Turning Point by Doug Casey
Global Distribution of Military Expenditure in 2008
The Road to Armageddon by Paul Craig Roberts
Time for a Broad Based Antiwar Movement by Kevin Zeese
Grounds for Hope and Despair by Paul Craig Roberts
The GOP’s “Small Government” Tea Party Fraud by Glenn Greenwald
The Story of Private Hargrove by William P. O’Connor
Youth Insurrection in Philly by Dave Lindorff
Why Governor Patterson Should Be Applauded for Hiring a Former Drug Dealer by Anthony Papa
Secession: Getting It Right This Time Around by Jonathan Kolkey
Liquidating the Empire: Everything Must Go by Pat Buchanan
Conservatism Is a Scam by Murray Rothbard
Neoliberalism: Neoconservatism Without a Smirk by Thomas Naylor
Tea Parties and State Sovereignty Movements: Much Ado About Nothing by Thomas Naylor
The Debt Dominoes Are Falling by Andrew Gavin Marshall
Fifty Years After The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz
Ron Paul Routs the Neoconned by David Franke
Ron Paul! by Justin Raimondo
To Hell with Glenn Beck by David Kramer
Non-Interventionism at CPAC by Anthony Gregory
CPAC Sends Founding Fathers Spinning by Kelley B. Vlahos
The Right Should Not Wage a Hundred Years War by George Carey
Why Neocons Hate Muslims by Jacob Hornberger
The Flailing Falsehoods of America’s War Criminals by Glenn Greenwald
Questioning the “Special Relationship” with Israel by Stephanie Westbrook
Let Europe Be Europe by Andrew Bacevich
Fortress America by Stephen Walt
Listen to the Heroes of Israel by John Pilger
Inside the Mind of Newsweek on Terrorism by Glenn Greenwald
Attack Iran? by Robert Dreyfuss
The American Public May Be Forced to Leave TV News Behind by Gavin Dahl
Marjah Madness by Jeff Huber
The Therapeutic State Strikes in New York from Marginal Revolution
Left, Right, and Miscellaneous by Jesse Walker
Can the U.S. Win the War in Afghanistan by Ivan Eland
Marjah Aimed to Shape U.S. Opinion by Gareth Porter
American Military Policy and the War on Terrorism by Karen Kwiatkowski
Support for Imperialist War Waning by Patrick Cockburn
The Dubai Killing and European Tolerance by Michael Glackin
Neocons Attack CPAC’s War on Terror Panel by Jacob Hornberger
The Demise of the GOP by James Leroy Wilson
Anarchy As Law by Brad Spangler
Ten Things You Can Do to Reduce Incarceration
Anti-Statism: What About the Poor and Disabled? by Brad Spangler
The Imminent Demise of Government by Alex R. Knight III
Health Care and Radical Monopoly by Kevin Carson
The Digital Copying Glass is Half-Full by Kevin Carson
I.R.S. Blowback by Alex R. Knight III
Pathetic London by Derek Turner
Iran is Going to Get a Bomb-Deal With It! by Chris Dierkes
An Entrepreneur’s Approach to Resilient Communities by John Robb
Big Insurance Wins One from Obama by Sheldon Richman
Criminal Stimulus: Robbing You for the Power Elite by Wilton Alston
Is Hispanic Crime Exaggerated? by Ron Unz (a rebuttal here)
Revolution From Within: From Whence a New Conservative Movement by Red Phillips
American Renaissance Conference Held in Spite of Violent Threats by Jared Taylor
More Of…A Conversation About Race by Greg Johnson
Exposing the Southern Poverty Law Center Part Two here
Romans 13 and Anarcho-Capitalism by Jim Fedako
The Simpsons Against the State by Tom Finnigan
Doomed From the Start by Tom DiLorenzo
The Regime Owns Your Newborn by Emily Ramshaw
The Case Against College Education by Ramesh Ponnuru
Finally, A Neat Public School Project by Lew Rockwell
Another Milestone in the War on Terror by Laurence Vance
Who Are You Going to Believe-the Israeli Military or Your Eyes? by David Kramer
Police Officer Seeks Protection from the PIGS by William Norman Grigg
I’m a Better Anarchist Than You by David Rovics
Prosecuting George W. Bush for War Crimes by Russell Mokhiber
Global Warming Update by Walter Williams
Tyrants, Torturers, and Taxmen by William Norman Grigg
Israel to Honor War Criminals by David Kramer
Ron Paul Versus the Naysayers by Justin Raimondo
Why Real Conservatives Oppose the War on Terror by Philip Giraldi
The Right Foreign Policy by Jack Hunter
American Values and American Justice by Stephen Walt
The Political Philosophy of Oscar Wilde by Wendy McElroy
The Summer Anarchy Died from Infoshop.Org
Policing Protest by Jeff Shantz
Statement from the Cleveland Anarchist Black Cross on Domestic Violence
Christian Anarchism: Political Commentary on the Gospel by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
I Am An Anarchist, Says Alicia Keys by Sean Michaels
Media Reporting on Israel: All in the Family by Alison Weir
Stop Male Genital Mutilation by Dr. Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Obama’s Problems-And Ours by Pat Buchanan
“The Italians were called wops, the Jews were called hymies, I was of course a greaseball, and every Hispanic was a spic. Well, we all got along famously! It was rough, but it was fine.”
-Taki Theodoracopulos
The American Police State: You Are Not Free William Norman Grigg interviewed Scott Horton
Will Israel Abide by New Iran Sanctions Grant F. Smith interviewed by Scott Horton
“The “clash of civilizations” is, in a very literal sense, a clash of God and Mammon. The Islamic revolutionaries are driven by a fanatical devotion to their god and the promises they believe he has made to them if only they take up arms on his behalf. The nations of the West are driven by an almost as fanatical devotion to Mammon, that is, to wealth, luxury, power, pleasure and privilege. Further, the culture of the West combines this unabashedly materialist ethos with rejection of strength and discipline in favor of a maternalistic emphasis on health, safety, “sensitivity”, “self-esteem”, “potential”, “personal growth”, “getting in touch with one’s inner child”, “feelings” and other concepts common to pop culture psychobabble. Of course, the socio-cultural ramifications of this is to create a society of weaklings, mediocrities and crybabies.”
-Keith Preston
In France by Frank Zappa
Catholic Girls by Frank Zappa
Dinah-Moe Hum by Frank Zappa
The Three Biggest Lies Ever Told by David Allan Coe
Cum Stains on the Pillow by David Allan Coe
Don’t Bite the Dick by David Allan Coe
The Ride by David Allan Coe
Dirty Weekend by Rod Stewart
Ladies in Waiting by Kiss
(Commentary from Maury2k)
The Obama Regime As a 4-Year O.J. Simpson Trial
Neocons Continue to Slime Up Ron Paul
(hat tip to Chris Donnellan for the following links)
“Life is war and conflict, struggle and strife, from conception till death…Never shall the lion lie down peacefully with the lamb…”
“Why are those who espouse Univeral Love, Tolerance, and ‘Human Brotherhood,’ usually the most screwed up people you’ve ever met, socially and emotionally? Not to mention some of the nastiest and most self-centered narcissists around?”
-Chris Donnellan
Wayne Lutton Discusses the Southern Poverty Law Center
More Soldiers Committed Suicide in January Than Were Killed by Al-Qaeda
Dick Cheney in Hospital for Chest Pains (tick, tock, tick, tock)
Jim Traficant: “I’m Not Going to Run”
Garrett Hardin on a Global Village and World Government
Garrett Hardin on Maximum vs Opitimum Population
Garrett Hardin on Energy and Consumption
Garrett Hardin on Standard of Living and Immigration
Garrett Hardin on Diversity and National Segregation
Garrett Hardin on Overpopulation and Natural Selection
Garrett Hardin on Growth, Limits, and a Better World
Five Myths About the Labor Union Movement
Millions of Unemployed Face Years Without Jobs
Private Contractors: “Like Vultures Coming to Grab the Loot”
“Sincerely White” People Don’t Need Nazis
Postmortem Report-A New Book by Tom Sunic
The Leftist Invention of “White Privilege”
Conservatives’ Isolationist Dalliance
College Education, Good Jobs: Why Degrees Are Overrated
(hat tip to Andrew Yeoman for the following links)
“What You Believe is Not as Important as What You Do.”
-Andrew Yeoman
Man With World’s Longest Hair Dies
“The English as a Race Are Not Worth Saving.” -Jack Straw
Wisconsin Teen Goes to Jail 15 Years for Sextortion Scam
Ohio Man Kills Himself After Son Rats Him Out for Marijuana
Man Rapes Woman in Theatre, Finishes Watching Movie with Wife, Kids
1898 Race Riots in Wilmington, N.C.
Games Teaches Sex Through the Eyes of a Superhero
Obama May Prohibit Home-Loan Foreclosures Without HAMP Review
California State Legislature Establishes “Cuss-Free” Week
A Nation of Sheep, Ruled by Wolves, Owned by Pigs
The Revolution Within Anarchism
Forty Years in the Wilderness?
Liberty and Populism: Building An Effective Resistance Movement for North America
Organizing the Urban Lumpenproletariat
National Anarchy and the American Idea
“The king is most wounded by ridicule.” -Thomas Hobbes

Updated News Digest February 20-21, 2009 6
Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com!
Community Organizing and National-Anarchism presentation by Andrew Yeoman
Tribal Anarchism Video Series Parts One, Two, Three, Four
United Anarchism Vs United Nationism
The Tyranny of “Tolerance”: Resist Politically Correct Fascism to the Death!!!
Quotes of the Week:
“You’ve asked me, ‘What might you be?’ Now I answer you: ‘I am a Wobbly.’ I mean this spiritually and politically. In saying this I refer less to political orientation than to political ethos, and I take Wobbly to mean one thing: the opposite of bureaucrat. […] I am a Wobbly, personally, down deep, and for good. I am outside the whale, and I got that way through social isolation and self-help. But do you know what a Wobbly is? It’s a kind of spiritual condition. […] A Wobbly is not only a man who takes orders from himself. He’s also a man who’s often in the situation where there are no regulations to fall back upon that he hasn’t made up himself. He doesn’t like bosses—capitalistic or communistic—they are all the same to him. He wants to be, and he wants everyone else to be, his own boss at all times under all conditions and for any purposes they may want to follow up. This kind of spiritual condition, and only this, is Wobbly freedom.”
-C. Wright Mills
Statement Put Out by Man Who Crashed Plane Into IRS Headquarters in Austin, Texas (Me and the IRS by Johnny Paycheck)
Is Joe Stack a Wake-Up Call to America? by John Whitehead
America: A Country of Serfs Ruled by Oligarchs by Paul Craig Roberts
Some Reflections on the Olympics by Murray Rothbard
Why Liberal Free Speech Is Tyranny in Disguise by Alex Birch (thanks, Peter!)
The Blood Bank: Why Bank of America Fired Me from Austro-Athenian Empire
The Crimes of Goldman-Sachs by Matt Taibbi
“To the Size of States There Is a Limit” by Kirkpatrick Sale
Down With the Presidency by Lew Rockwell
The Untold History of Nullification by Derek Sheriff
Martial Law in America by Gary Barnett
So-Called “Free Trade” Agreements Are to Free Trade What the Ministry of Love is to Love by Kevin Carson
The Oathkeepers Versus the SPLC and the Neocons from LewRockwell.Com
Immigration and Race by Israel Shamir (thanks, Flavio!)
Don’t Blame Iran by Eric Margolis
Is Iran Running a Bluff? by Pat Buchanan
American Arrogance Overseas Should End by Ivan Eland
Bin Laden: Dead and Loving It by Jeff Huber
Attack on Iran Would Be Folly by Paul R. Pillar
Terrorism, Liberal and Conservative by Jack Hunter
Dick Cheney’s Taunting by Glenn Greenwald
Frightening Voters Into Submission by James Bovard
Terrorism: The Most Meaningless and Manipulated Word by Glenn Greenwald
Israel Goes Rogue by Justin Raimondo
From God to Gaia to Obama’s Nuclear Apocalypse by Alexander Cockburn
Pericles and the Athenian Ideal, Part 2 by Troy Southgate
Is This How Democracy Ends? by Pat Buchanan
I Wish Joe Stack Had Not Killed Himself by Chuck Baldwin
Colin Ward, R.I.P. by Kevin Carson
Avatar and Just War Theory by Anthony Gregory
Clinton’s Lousy Diplomacy Puts U.S. in a Hard Place by Michael Brenner
American Failure by Taki Theodoracopulos
Collateral Accumulation: Passing on the Abiding Wisdom of Empire by Chris Floyd
Pathetic London by Derek Turner
All You Need Is…a Slap!! by James Jackson
An Antiwar Credo by Justin Raimondo
Anarchism as a Brand by Keir Snow
The Anarchist Movements of Europe by Gabriel Kuhn
Our Founders Were Not Fundamentalists by Harvey Wasserman
Gerald Celente: Global Collapse This Year by Amy Judd
Capital: A Diversion? by Kevin Carson
Inheriting Proudhon from Shawn Wilbur
Piercing Shell Oil by John Robb
The CIA’s Drug War by Doug Valentine
Health Freedom: Who Decides, the Individual or the State? by Ron Paul
The Most Liberating Word is “No” by William Norman Grigg
Global Warming Is a Lie by Jonathan Petre
Real Military Heroes by Laurence Vance
New York Times Dislikes Anti-Government Movement by Lew Rockwell
Major Global Warming Advocate Does U-Turn by Michael Rozeff
Attention, Mundanes: “You Don’t Ever Touch a PIG!” by William Norman Grigg
The 65th Anniversary of the War Crimes at Dresden by Laurence Vance
Soros the Gangster by Bill Anderson
Sarah Palin: Ventriloquist Dummy for the Neocons by Lew Rockwell
Just Say No to Banning Pornography from Polycentric Order
DEA PIGS Continue War Against Medical Marijuana by Radley Balko
Who Will Be the 1000th U.S. Soldier to Die in Afghanistan? by Laurence Vance
Nevada Tea Party Bolts the GOP and Glenn Beck by Jane Hamsher
Stand Up to Census Intrusions by Walter Williams
The U.S. Conservative Movement: 50 Years Downhill by David Franke
Jim Rogers: China, Japan Will Keep Dumping U.S. Debt by Antonia Oprita
How the State Destroys Your Banking Relationships by Karen De Coster
The Ignorant Herd and the Food Police by David Kramer
CPACers Cheer Fascist by Lew Rockwell
The Judge and Angela Keaton on War by Anthony Gregory
Arkansas PIGS: Untrained, But Licensed to Kill by William Norman Grigg
The Duke Rape Case Comes Full Circle by Bill Anderson
Scalia: No Right to Secede by Lew Rockwell
Put This Pot in Your Pipe and Smoke It-Legally! by David Kramer
PIGS Arrest Elderly Woman on Her Way to a Funeral by William Norman Grigg
Georgia: Nothing Is Coming Up Roses by Justin Raimondo
Some Straight Thinking About Iran by Philip Giraldi
Pro-Torture, Anti-Civilization by Henry Porter
Iran’s “Now What” Moment by Farideh Fardi
Government in a Box in Marja by Andrew Bacevich
The War on Terrorism Becomes a War on Free Speech by Jacob Hornberger
A Real Winning Strategy in Afghanistan Josef Storm
U.S.-NATO Aggression to Win Hearts and Minds by David Alba
Yet Another Energy and National Security Myth by Charles Pena
Obama Muddling Through the Middle East by Leon T. Hadar
Obama Violates the Bill of Rights With Bipartisan Support by Thomas Eddlem
San Francisco: 2010 Anarchist Book Fair from Infoshop.Org
Anti-Olympic Riots Rock Vancouver from Infoshop.Org
The Iranian Greens and the West by Sasan Fayamanesh
King Obesity by Ralph Nader
Dysfunctional Democracy by Dean Baker
Tug of War in El Salvador by Katya Rodriguez
Elie Wiesel’s Ignoble Recruits by John V. Walsh
Evil Empire by TGGP
The Luckiest Man in the World by James Leroy Wilson
Colin Ward, R.I.P. by Roderick Long
Who’s Afraid of “Interposition”? by William Norman Grigg
The Chemist’s War by Deborah Blum
“The Italians were called wops, the Jews were called hymies, I was of course a greaseball, and every Hispanic was a spic. Well, we all got along famously! It was rough, but it was fine.”
-Taki Theodoracopulos
National Defense Without the State Sheldon Richman interviewed by Scott Horton
Antiwar.Com Versus The New York Times Jason Ditz interviewed by Scott Horton
On Agrarianism by Matthew Raphael Johnson
Interview with F. Roger Devlin by Tomislav Sunic
“The “clash of civilizations” is, in a very literal sense, a clash of God and Mammon. The Islamic revolutionaries are driven by a fanatical devotion to their god and the promises they believe he has made to them if only they take up arms on his behalf. The nations of the West are driven by an almost as fanatical devotion to Mammon, that is, to wealth, luxury, power, pleasure and privilege. Further, the culture of the West combines this unabashedly materialist ethos with rejection of strength and discipline in favor of a maternalistic emphasis on health, safety, “sensitivity”, “self-esteem”, “potential”, “personal growth”, “getting in touch with one’s inner child”, “feelings” and other concepts common to pop culture psychobabble. Of course, the socio-cultural ramifications of this is to create a society of weaklings, mediocrities and crybabies.”
-Keith Preston
A Unique Perspective on Gay Rights
Reflections on American Race Relations (Part 2)
The Process Church of the Final Judgement
The Processean by Electric Wizard
(Commentary from Maury2k)
Deconstructing the Reagan Cult
Cherry Bomb! Or Going Down with the Tea Party
(hat tip to Chris Donnellan for the following links)
“Life is war and conflict, struggle and strife, from conception till death…Never shall the lion lie down peacefully with the lamb…”
“Why are those who espouse Univeral Love, Tolerance, and ‘Human Brotherhood,’ usually the most screwed up people you’ve ever met, socially and emotionally? Not to mention some of the nastiest and most self-centered narcissists around?”
-Chris Donnellan
Australia’s Traditional Anglicans Vote to Convert to Catholicism
Bus Fightin’ Man Already an Oakland Legend
How Illegal Immigration Hurts Black Americans
Obama: The Bankers’ Best Friend
(hat tip to Andrew Yeoman for the following links)
“What You Believe is Not as Important as What You Do.”
-Andrew Yeoman
Woman Tied Up, Raped for Three Days
Boyfriend Charged With Punching Sharpton Daughter
Idealistic Italian Female Sets Out to Get Herself Killed in a Muslim Land and Succeeds
Duke False Rape Accuser Charged with Attempted Murder
Man Faces Jail Time for Taking Daughter to Church
Retiring Senator Evan Bayh Advocates Electoral Shock to Broken System
Caring for Pets Left Behind by the Rapture
The Paranoia of the Leftoids Knows No Limits
Single Mum Lives in Mansion at Public Expense
Crushing U.S. Debt Is too Great a Problem to be Left Unresolved
A Nation of Sheep, Ruled by Wolves, Owned by Pigs
The Revolution Within Anarchism
Forty Years in the Wilderness?
Liberty and Populism: Building An Effective Resistance Movement for North America
Organizing the Urban Lumpenproletariat
National Anarchy and the American Idea
“The king is most wounded by ridicule.” -Thomas Hobbes

Elderly Man Kicks Hoodlum's Ass on Transit Bus 3
Anarchist Rifle Association Reply
John Stossel: More Anarchist Than Most Reply
http://www.takimag.com/article/john_stossel_more_anarchist_than_most/
By Gavin McInnes
The Anarchists in Vancouver are not happy about the Winter Olympics being held there and recently marched through town smashing windows, covering their faces, and yelling about everything from capitalism to the seal hunt to indigenous land. Some of their beefs are valid. The Olympics is a big waste of taxpayers’ money and in a city where one junkie dies every day, the local government could afford to be focusing on more serious problems. However, when reading the “manifestos” of today’s anarchists, one thing becomes abundantly clear, they hate capitalism more than they hate government.
I grew up going to anarchist conventions and don’t regret the various A’s I have tattooed up and down my arms in the slightest (in fact, I just got two more). We looked exactly like the 2010 Olympic protestors when we did things like protest outside the Chinese Embassy for China’s human rights violations in 1988. But back then, only a handful of anarchists would cover their faces. It drove us nuts because we were out there screaming about government ineptness and guys are acting like our adversary knows what he’s doing. “You realize your assumption that they are recording your face and putting you in some kind of massive database implies they know what they’re doing, right?” we’d ask them. This seemingly small detail is actually indicative of a much bigger split in the anarchist community: government aptitude.
“Politics is Hollywood for ugly people and the White House is just a big DMV with Greek columns out front.”
Anarchists with covered faces smashing the windows of retail stores are in fact, communists. Sure, the wage discrepancy between CEOs and factory workers is disgusting. I also hate the way big business ships in illegals and lowers the minimum wage to zero but if anyone has dealt with government at any level in their adult life they’d realize big business is the lesser of two evils by a long shot.
Today’s anarchists want money out of entrepreneur’s hands and into government hands where it can rot. They advocate unions like it was the 1930s and guys with tweed caps needed to get compensation for black lung. Nice sentiment but today’s teacher’s union is the most powerful political lobby in the world and has more cronies on both the Democratic and the Republican side than any other group in Washington. These unions are essentially mobsters who shake down anyone who dares pay electricians less than $50 an hour plus time-and-a-half for overtime plus double time-and-a-half for holidays. That’s more than architects and doctors make when they start out. Is $700 a day the fair wage the anti-capitalists want for the workingman? It’s more money than I ever made and I’m rich.
I often visit the anarchist squat Dial House where the founders of anarcho punk, Crass set up shop in the early 70s and are still there today. I had a seven-hour argument with the patriarch of the commune, Penny Rimbaud because I had the gall to point out it was ridiculous Mugabe was still alive and said if I was a Zimbabwean, he would have been blown up long ago. The Taliban did a seamless job of assassinating Massoud and all it took was a trick camera so why can’t the MDC do something similar? Like all anarchists, Rimbaud was stunned I didn’t know this wasn’t all part of the big government plan. “Zimbabwe is needed to cart diamonds out of South Africa,” he explained. “America needs him there the same way they need Iraq to get oil out.”
I don’t get it. If government is such a powerful monster, why do anarchists want to give it The Gap’s profits? They can’t seem to decide if the government is this elaborate network James Bond reports to or a quaint group of intellectuals who want to empower the poor. The truth is. It’s neither. They are not all-knowing they are know nothings. They are not a “secret society” (as Crass once said) they can’t even keep an infidelity secret. Since the president got caught using a cigar as a dildo, we’ve learned: John Edwards was screwing his biographer, governor Mark Sanford was boning his Argentinean mistress, senator Larry Craig was fishing for blowjobs in the bathroom, and Spitzer was fucking prostitutes with his socks on. Politics is Hollywood for ugly people and the White House is just a big DMV with Greek columns out front.
Danny Schechter’s new book Plunder! Investigating Our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, makes it crystal clear: the government is everything bad you can say about big business but without the “employing people and manufacturing stuff” part. This sentiment is what drew me to the anarchist movement in the first place—not Marx’s intellectual claptrap about his “dialectic.”
This is why, as an adult, I’m drawn to libertarians like John Stossel. Sure there’s flaws like a love of open borders which I see as a chance for big business to go on an exploitation bender (anarchists also want open borders which I never quite got), but Stossel’s show spends 90 percent of its time pointing out government incompetence and exposing the way they oppress the everyman. During each episode he holds up a tiny book that’s about half the size of the communist manifesto and explains this is the bill of rights and the constitution combined. Then he shows us the endless piles of documentation the government uses for even the most insignificant rule. “This is all we need,” he says holding up the small book. That’s the closest I’ve seen to a plausible anarchist goal in America—ever.
Then Stossel gets specific. We learn about swimming pools that have diving boards revoked because of impending danger and then cause more accidents because kids no longer know where the deep end is. We hear local governments in Texas are strangling restaurants with insanity like “No Outside Dancing” laws (a bizarre rule New York’s previous mayor used to close down clubs he didn’t like). Stossel is very vocal about big money firms like Goldman Sachs and how much they’ve benefited from Obama’s new big government plans. From daycare workers being muscled into joining unions to California being bankrupted by bureaucrats, John Stossel has done more to mobilize hatred for government than any punk kid in black sweatshirt could ever hope to.
If the fashionable punks in Vancouver really cared about personal freedom and really wanted to abolish as much of the government as possible, they would swallow their prejudice, tune into Fox, get over his moustache, and take notes from the most articulate and driven anarchist in America today. In short, it’s time for crusty punks to Get Stosselized!
(I’m trademarking that so don’t even think about stealing it.)
American Renaissance Conference Canceled Due to Threats of Violence 16
Read about it on David Yeagley’s blog.
Isn’t it ironic that leftoids who are always complaining about their opponents’ alleged efforts to “silence” the voices of their favorite groups (minorities, feminists, gays, transexuals, etc.) do not see any need to extend what they hypocritically demand for themselves to those who do not share their own ideological biases?
The American Renaissance conference was repeatedly relocated and then canceled due to threats of violence against the employees of the hotel hosting the conference. So much for these leftoids’ commitment to “workers’ rights.” We already know how much they value freedom of speech. Theirs is the standard Communist line of support for free speech only when out of power. Now that cultural leftism is becoming the mainstream social norm, they have no qualms about showing their true colors. It should also be remembered that violent intimidation of opponents was a tactic of the German Nazi movement even before it took power and overthrew the Weimar regime. This kind of behavior by lefto-fascist “anti-racists” is even more common in Europe.
It should also be pointed out that American Renaissance is not a fascist nor neo-Nazi organization. Its founder and leader, Jared Taylor, has taken only two public positions on race: repeal of antidiscrimination laws which many libertarians view as an abridgement of private property rights and freedom of association, and a moratorium on Third World immigration, whose critics have included such prominent neo-Nazis as Ralph Nader, the late African-American politician Barbara Jordan, and the black writer Carol Swain, who has written critically but objectively on the white nationalist movement in the U.S. Past American Renaissance conferences have featured Jewish speakers like Paul Gottfried, Michael Hart, Michael Levin, Rabbi Mayer Schiller, and even anarchists like Joe Sobran. David Yeagley, an American Indian, was scheduled to appear at this year’s conference.
What the lefto-fascists object to is the mere fact that some people are holding a meeting to discuss or promote conservative views on racial issues. Whatever one thinks about these questions, if the lefto-fascists are successful in these kinds of effort to silence opponents through violent and random threats, it is quite likely they will start using similar tactics against other ideological opponents as well. If they can deny freedom of speech and association to racial conservatives, why not pro-lifers, conservative Christians, opponents of gay marriage, Second Amendment advocates, critics of environmentalism, economic conservatives, men’s or fathers’ rights groups or anyone else who is outside the totalitarian humanist paradigm.
It is also likely that as totalitarian humanism/political correctness/Cultural Marxism becomes ever more deeply entrenched into institutions that “law enforcement,” law and order liberals like the SPLC, and extra-legal, lefto-fascist, Communist and anarcho-leftoid hoodlums will start bending towards one another and establish a more cooperative relationship. Be prepared.
Caste Systems, Forced Marriages, Book Burning, and Blasphemy Trials 6
Where? In Saudi Arabia? Iran? Afghanistan? Pakistan? No, in enlightened, progressive, tolerant and humane England, France, Finland, and Germany. Otherwise known as the agenda of Totalitarian Humanism. As I have previously written:
The ultimate aim of multiculturalism is the creation of a totalitarian state ordered as a type of caste system where individual privilege is assigned on the basis of group identity and group privilege is assigned on the basis of the position of the group in the pantheon of the oppressed.
Here are some examples:
Thought Police Muscle Up in Britain
In September 2006, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, Codie Stott, asked a teacher if she could sit with another group to do a science project as all the girls with her spoke only Urdu. The teacher’s first response, according to Stott, was to scream at her: “It’s racist, you’re going to get done by the police!”… According to her mother, she was placed in a bare cell for 3 1/2 hours. She was questioned on suspicion of committing a racial public order offence and then released without charge.
A 10-year-old child was arrested and brought before a judge, for having allegedly called an 11-year-old boya “Paki” and “bin Laden” during a playground argument at a primary school (the other boy had called him a skunk and a Teletubby). When it reached the court the case had cost taxpayers pound stg. 25,000.
So schoolgirls and children are being arrested for “crimes against the racial order”? Where have we seen that before?
Sarkozy Hints at Forced Interracial Marriages
Fall of the New World Order 4
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Updated News Digest February 13-14, 2010 Reply
Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com!
Community Organizing and National-Anarchism presentation by Andrew Yeoman
Tribal Anarchism Video Series Parts One, Two, Three, Four
United Anarchism Vs United Nationism
The Tyranny of “Tolerance”: Resist Politically Correct Fascism to the Death!!!
Quotes of the Week:
“Kirk called conservatism ‘the conservation of a particular people at a particular place at a particular time.’ While I don’t generally call myself a conservative, there’s a good deal of value here. Yet I don’t share the paleos’ commitment to particularity to the point of denying abstraction outright. Some principles are unconditionally valid. Yet they apply differently to different peoples (and persons) at different places and different times. For instance, one may be an anarchist (or socialist or small-d democrat, etc.) and take this to be an unconditional value, but only an idiot (though there are certainly plenty of these) would say we have to model anarchy in 21st century America strictly on the basis of Civil War era Spain. I suppose this is largely the point of tribal anarchy, panarchy and “anarchism without adjectives.”
-Ruhollah James
“After almost ten years of Americans whining about 9/11 [something that happens in the rest of the world almost weekly, usually due to American or American-financed bombing], lately amplified by the shrill, effeminate shrieks of Bloomboig’s New Yoikers about the “terra-trial” [held quite successfully and safely in London and Madrid], how refreshing to hear the words of “The Hero of the XXth Century” [Yockey]: ” I owe my life to pure chance. What difference does it make if I sit or stand?
-James J. O’Meara
It Is Now Official: The U.S.A. Is a Police State by Paul Craig Roberts
Secession Is in the Air by Kirkpatrick Sale
Secessionist Sentiment Is Rising by Pat Buchanan
Wars Sending U.S. Into Ruin by Eric Margolis
Left Behind: Liberals Get a War President of Their Very Own by Murray Polner
The Hypocrisy of Politically Correct Vermont Neoliberals by Thomas Naylor
That Magical Water’s Edge by Kevin Carson
Nullification, Secession, and the Human Scale of Political Order by Josh Eboch
Nullification and Interposition by Clyde Wilson
What Has “The Union” Ever Done for Colorado? It’s Time for Secession! by Mark Crovelli
Secession: A Solution to the Washington, D.C. Debt Threat by Ron Holland
I Don’t Mean to Say I Told You So, But…. by Stephen Walt
The Orange Revolutions, Peeled by Justin Raimondo
The Bosnian Threat to the Empire by Nebojsa Malic
Destabilizing Pakistan: Echoes of Cambodia by Pratap Chatterjee and Tom Engelhardt
Obama Surge Driving Thousands From Their Homes by Chris Floyd
Obama, the War President by Helen Thomas
The Terror-Industrial Complex by Chris Hedges
Where Has the Antiwar Movement Gone? by Ryan Jaroncyk
Another Election Goes the Wrong Way for Uncle Sam by Neil Clark
Repeating Pentagon Lies Over Gitmo Recidivism by Andy Worthington
AP Article Fuels Iran War Hysteria by Jason Ditz
North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il Makes Denuclearization Pledge by Jon Hershkovitz and Ben Blanchard
The Media’s Tall Tales Over Iraq by Brendan O’Neill
Fear of Peace Will Be the Death of Israel by Bradley Burston
The Apartheid Will End When Israelis Have to Face Its Costs by Tony Karon
The Lessons of Iraq Have Been Ignored-The Target Is Now Iran by Seumas Milne
The Middle East No Longer Matters by Jay Hatheway
Why Does Sarah Palin Want More War? by Karen Kwiatkowski
Same Empire, Different Emperor by Laurence Vance
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Think Things Through by William Norman Grigg
Middle-Class Rage by Jack Douglas
The Financial Crisis Versus Students by Christian Eubank and Peter Schiff
You Have No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in the Police State of America by Declan McCullagh
Out of the Mouths of Our New World Order Masters by David Kramer
The Green Gestapo Is Here by William Norman Grigg
Global Depression: The Real Problems Will Start in Japan by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Role of the Organic Homo by James J. O’Meara (see related commentary by Alisdair Clarke and Keith Preston)
Remembering Plaxico by Manuel Lora
Guns, ID Cards, Weed: Nullification Is on the Rise by Michael Boldin
Obama, Hands Off China: Get Your Own House in Order by Chris Clancy
CIA Abets in the Murder of Christian Missionary by David Kramer
Cop Does a Good Deed by William Norman Grigg
Feds Attempt Espionage Into Internet Viewing Habits of Citizens by David Kramer
The Kid, the Pimp, and the Spineless Media by Kelley B. Vlahos
Some Thoughts for the Coming Year and Beyond by Kevin Carson
You Must Be This Tall to Overthrow the Government by Roderick Long
News Flash: “We No Longer Control Our Government” by Kevin Carson
Give the Commons Back to the People by Francois Tremblay
Tea Partiers Versus Ron Paul by Brian Doherty
The Bankrupt PIGS of Europe by Pat Buchanan
Anarchism and Voluntary Cooperation by Barefoot Bum
An Anarchist’s Strategy to Dismiss Every Foreclosure in Florida from Matt Weidner
Visiting a Modern Day Slave Plantation an interview with Nancy A. Heitzeg
Crime Pays: How NYC Bosses Rob the Working Poor by Michelle Chen
Property Is Theft? from Infoshop.Org
Institutionalizing Howard Zinn by Ralph Nader
LaGuardia and the Truth About Marijuana by Fred Gardner
Sarah Palin’s Lapel Pin by Stonewall
The Secret to Long Life: “Right Tribe” by Christopher Donovan
The State Is a Deadly Virus by Butler Shaffer
Who Shows Up at Tea Partys? by James Ostrowski
Secession: The Ignorance of Chris Matthews by Thomas DiLorenzo
Sarah Palin Drinks the Neocon Kool-Aid by Lew Rockwell
PIG Jokes About Murdering Citizens Exercising Their Right to Bear Arms by William Norman Grigg
How to Beat the War Party by Justin Raimondo
Liberty Versus Patriotism by Ivan Eland
America’s Veterans: The Anatomy of Homelessness by Monica Nilsson
The Mythical Potency of Terrorism Fear-Mongering by Glenn Greenwald
Leon Wieseltier, Anti-Semitism, And Israel by Daniel Luban
Bombs Away: Conservatives Embrace War by Doug Bandow
Specks and Beams in U.S. Foreign Policy by Jacob Hornberger
Lebanon Backs Hezbollah Against Israel by Jason Ditz
Obama Copying Bush-Era Detention Policies by Thomas Eddlem
The Cold War Is History by Doug Bandow
Obama’s Green Police by Norvell Rose
“Yes, I Can Break the Law: I’m a PIG, Damn It!!” by William Norman Grigg
Loyalty Test by Lew Rockwell
PIGS Steal Private Arms Collection by William Norman Grigg
Are First Amendment Rights Also Natural Rights? by James Leroy Wilson
The State As Absentee Owner by Francois Tremblay
Can the Real Estate Predators Fight Off the Oil Company Predators? by Paul Craig Roberts
Books 2 Prisoners: Volunteer Program Connects Prisoners with Reading Materials from Infoshop.Org
The Battle for Marjah by Patrick Cockburn
The R.E.A.L. Ghost Busters from The Occidental Quarterly
The Weathervane as Metaphor by Justin Raimondo
Talking Our Way Out of Afghanistan by Jeff Huber
The Obama Disarmament Paradox by Greg Mello
Paul Goodman Essay Contest (hat tip to Joel Schlosberg)
Never Heard of the Pearcy Massacre? by Nicholas Stix
This Is What Muslim Children Are Taught in Britain
Hispanic Gangs Ethnically Cleansing Black Neighborhoods in L.A. by Brenda Walker
Does Harvard Hate White People? by Paul Craig Roberts
Troops Randomly Patrol Streets in Pittsburgh, Respond to “Domestic Disputes” from PrisonPlanet.Com
Taxes an Unnecessary Compromise on Marijuana by Thomas Knapp
Obama: Enemy of the Working Class by Sheldon Richman
Indications of Open-Source Economy by John Robb
Obama Takes a Blue Pencil to the Bill of Rights by A. Barton Hinkle
The President’s Power to Kill Citizens by Philip Giraldi
Torture Is a Crime, Not a State Secret by Matthew Harwood
In the Land of the Stoner Cops by Nir Rosen
The Goat in the Clearing by Alexander Cockburn
The Economic Velociraptors by Andrew Cockburn
The Taliban Isolated Bin Laden by Gareth Porter
That Which Cannot Be Spoken by William Blum
I Cut My Hair, But I’m Not a Terrorist by Dave Lindorff
Obama’s Drug War Budget: Looking a Lot Like Bush’s by Bill Piper
The Erotic Theater of the Mind by Dr. Susan Block
Politics, Corruption, and El Salvador by Charles R. Larson
Kevin Carson and Richard Stallman Discuss Intellectual Property from Infoshop.Org
Help Noam Chomsky Find His Inner Anarchist by Roderick Long
Pericles and the Athenian Ideal, Part One by Troy Southgate
The Persecution of Kevin MacDonald by Greg Johnson
Heidegger “The Nazi” Part One by Michael O’Meara
Heidegger “The Nazi” Part Two by Michael O’Meara
Heidegger “The Nazi” Part Three by Michael O’Meara
A Warning to the Tea Party Nation by Chuck Baldwin
“The Italians were called wops, the Jews were called hymies, I was of course a greaseball, and every Hispanic was a spic. Well, we all got along famously! It was rough, but it was fine.”
-Taki Theodoracopulos
American Third Position Party Chairman William D. Johnson interviewed by Dr. Tomislav Sunic
Modern Feudalism and the Persistent Threat of Totalitarianism Michael Kleen interviewed by Dr. Tomislav Sunic
Lock the Bush Team in Prison Francis Boyle interviewed by Scott Horton
Helping Iraqi Children Injured by U.S. Aggression Cole Miller interviewed by Scott Horton
We Who Dare Say No to War Murray Polner interviewed by Scott Horton
Free Speech Is Dead Brendan O’Neill interviewed by Scott Horton
On Agrarianism by Matthew Raphael Johnson
“The “clash of civilizations” is, in a very literal sense, a clash of God and Mammon. The Islamic revolutionaries are driven by a fanatical devotion to their god and the promises they believe he has made to them if only they take up arms on his behalf. The nations of the West are driven by an almost as fanatical devotion to Mammon, that is, to wealth, luxury, power, pleasure and privilege. Further, the culture of the West combines this unabashedly materialist ethos with rejection of strength and discipline in favor of a maternalistic emphasis on health, safety, “sensitivity”, “self-esteem”, “potential”, “personal growth”, “getting in touch with one’s inner child”, “feelings” and other concepts common to pop culture psychobabble. Of course, the socio-cultural ramifications of this is to create a society of weaklings, mediocrities and crybabies.”
-Keith Preston
Fistful of Love by Black Oak Arkansas with Ruby Starr
Baby, I’m Amazed by Ruby Starr
Levity Ball by Alice Cooper (1968)
This Is the Day by Captain Beefheart
Big Eyed Beans From Venus by Captain Beefheart
This Ain’t the Summer of Love by Blue Oyster Cult
Junior’s Eyes by Black Sabbath (with Savoy Brown’s Dave Walker on vocals)
Man on the Silver Mountain by Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow (with Ronnie James Dio on vocals)
Oh No by Frank Zappa
Oh no
I don’t believe it
You say that you think you know
The meaning of love
You say love is all we need
You say
With your love you can change
All of the fools
All of the hate
I think you’re probably
Out to lunch
Oh no
I don’t believe it
You say that you think you know
The meaning of love
Do you really think it can be told?
You say that you really know
I think
You should check it again
How can you say
What you believe
Will be the key to a
World of love?
All your love -
Will it save me?
All your love -
Will it save the world
From what we can’t understand
Oh no
I don’t believe it
(Commentary from Maury2k)
Overpopulation Is More Than Just a Third World Thing
George W. Bush: Miss Me Yet? Hell, No!!
When the Immigration Debate Gets Mean
(hat tip to Chris Donnellan for the following links)
“Life is war and conflict, struggle and strife, from conception till death…Never shall the lion lie down peacefully with the lamb…”
“Why are those who espouse Univeral Love, Tolerance, and ‘Human Brotherhood,’ usually the most screwed up people you’ve ever met, socially and emotionally? Not to mention some of the nastiest and most self-centered narcissists around?”
-Chris Donnellan
Japan: The Despised Ainu People
The Least Trusted Banks in America
Ten False Flags That Changed the World
How TV Frames the Working Class
Supply Side Economics for the Wealthy
Ralph Nader: How Corporations Gained Control of the U.S.
Ralph Nader: The Negative Effects of “Free” Trade
14 Percent of U.S. Adults are Illiterate
New Research Rejects 80-Year-Theory of “Primordial Soup” As the Origin of Life
Crowd Psychology and Manipulation
An Enquiring Curmudgeon Wants to Know
(hat tip to Andrew Yeoman for the following links)
“What You Believe is Not as Important as What You Do.”
-Andrew Yeoman
Ten Most Incredible Abandoned Mental Asylums
Police State in King, North Carolina ?
Tel Aviv Cult Leader Enslaves Women
Democrats Are Dropping Like Flies
Subversive Groups Must Now Register in South Carolina
Dumb Bitch Kills Kitten in Oven: Taunts Animal Rights Protestors
Military Men Take Part in Extreme Jungle Survival Training
Comic Book Collector Jailed for Six Months
Race and Gender of Judges Make Enormous Difference in Rulings
A Nation of Sheep, Ruled by Wolves, Owned by Pigs
The Revolution Within Anarchism
Forty Years in the Wilderness?
Liberty and Populism: Building An Effective Resistance Movement for North America
Organizing the Urban Lumpenproletariat
National Anarchy and the American Idea
“The king is most wounded by ridicule.” -Thomas Hobbes

AlternativeRight.Com to be Launched on March 1 4
AlternativeRight.Com (it’s not up yet) will be launched on March 1. Pass the word. And if anyone would like to donate or knows any potential donors, then email Keith Preston at kppgarv@mindspring.com and the information will be passed along to AltRight’s editor, Richard Spencer.
Other contributors to this project will be Patrick Ford, Alex Birch, Srdja Trifkovic, Paul Gottfried, Richard Hoste, Kevin De Anna, Dylan Hales, Derek Turner, Alex Kurtagic, Marcus Epstein, Mark Hackard, Jack Donovan, Nina Kouprianova, Scott Locklin, and hopefully many others. Quite a diverse (in the genuine sense) and impressive roster. Be there on March 1.
Ad Hominem Argument: A Classic Example 5
Carol Moore is someone who deserves credit for helping to publicize the secessionist cause. See her website here. Unfortunately, she has delivered a classic example of an ad hominem argument against Yours Truly in response to my suggestions that the radical Left should seriously consider the possibility of adopting a secessionist outlook. You can see Ms. Moore’s response here. Here it is in full:
While Preston’s article seems rational, if you look at the list of articles he’s published he also promotes “National Anarchism” which is against “miscengenation” and promotes (as opposed to merely accepting) separation of the races. He also promotes revolutionary violence, including by Tim McVeigh. FYI.
The ad hominem part of this is obvious. What Carol is saying amounts to is: “Yes, Keith Preston makes reasonable arguments as to why the radical Left should consider secession, but he’s also a bad guy, so this refutes or at least dimishes his arguments.” A response to the charges is in order:
“…he also promotes “National Anarchism”…”
Guilty but proud. See my discussions of National-Anarchism and related views here, here, and here. National-Anarchism is a freshingly interesting and vibrant current when compared with the dull conformists and predictable lefto-losers associated with the mainstream anarchist movement.
“…which is against “miscengenation”…”
There’s no “n” in this term, but as something of a serial miscegenator myself I don’t really care what views National-Anarchists may or may not hold on “miscegenation.” See John Derbyshire on this one. I don’t really adhere to any of the Christian taboos about “adultery” or “fornication” either, but I’ve also promoted Christian secessionist or separatist groups in the past. I’ve even promoted Mormon polygamists. To demonstrate the absurdity of this kind argument against the National-Anarchists, imagine if a Muslim, an Orthodox Jew or a Seventh Day Adventist were to make an argument like this: “Yes, Preston makes reasonable arguments in favor of secession by Muslims, Jews, and Adventists, but he also promotes individuals and groups that eat pork, drink alcohol, and refrain from keeping the Sabbath…..”
Enough said on that point.
“…and promotes (as opposed to merely accepting) separation of the races…”
As an anarchist, what I actually advocate is a concept I call “separation of race and state” on the same model as the Jeffersonian idea of “separation of church and state.” If racial and ethnic integrationism of the kind favored by liberals and leftists can take place on its own without the coercive apparatus of the state to compel it, and without the economic pressures generated by state-capitalism and imperialism, then so be it. On the other hand, if the kind of racial separatism favored by “racial conservatives” (for lack of a better term) is indeed normal or natural, then that’s fine by me as well. My guess is that there would probably be some of both, with the degree of extremes on either end depending on other factors like local culture, institutional forms, ideological currents, economic factors, population size, geography, history, individual personalities and so forth. Imagine if Carol were to instead make an argument like: “Preston promotes (as to merely accepting) separation of the cultures and religions where hippies, Christian evangelicals, Catholics, goth-rockers and Jehovah’s Witnesses simply do their own thing-what a god-awful thing this is!”
What leftoids just can’t seem to accept is that some of us just flat out don’t give a damn if races are “separated” or not. Indeed, some the present-day “anti-racism” hysteria is starting to sound a lot like the anti-commie panic of the 1950s or the “Satanic panic” of the 80s. If Joe McCarthy were alive today, no doubt he would be talking about the evil cabals of racists who’ve infiltrated American institutions. If Dana Carvey were just inventing his “Church Lady” character today, he’d have to make her a PC liberal: “Satan?…Racism!!!!!”
Enough said on that one.
“He also promotes revolutionary violence,…”
It is quite unlikely that the existing regime, ruling class, and empire is going to let territories within the U.S.A simply walk away without a fight. So, on that great day of reckoning, it is indeed quite likely that secessionist movements will indeed need defense organizations of a “fourth generation” nature. See Hezbollah, Hamas, the FMLN, or the Peoples’ War Group. See 1776, 1861, or Spain 1936. Pacifism doesn’t interest me.
“including by Tim McVeigh“
McVeigh got an “A” for attitude but an “F” for tactics and good sense, in my book.
Enough said on that one.
Updated News Digest February 7, 2010 Reply
Why Read the Sunday Papers When You Can Read AttacktheSystem.Com!
Community Organizing and National-Anarchism presentation by Andrew Yeoman
Tribal Anarchism Video Series Parts One, Two, Three, Four
United Anarchism Vs United Nationism
Quotes of the Week:
“To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.”
“Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.”
“From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.”
“Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.”
-Mikhail Bakunin
“Don’t ask, don’t tell” is an appalling policy, one that has nothing to do with justice and everything to do with the most primitive prejudice. But what else can one expect of an institution such as the military, particularly the US military in the Age of Empire?
Also, the idea that the concept of equality means that everyone should have the “right” to join an institution that is currently rampaging over the earth, invading countries hither and yon, and causing in incalculable amount of human suffering and material destruction would be laughable if Americans — particularly gay Americans — didn’t take it so seriously.
No one should join the military — not gay people, not straight people, not any people. In a free society, the military would be just another job — working to ensure the defense of the country. In today’s America, however, that is most definitely not the function of the military, which has been turned into an instrument of oppression and worse. To say, therefore, that everyone has the “right” to participate in, say, what went on at Abu Graib — in the name of “justice” — is self-evidently absurd.”
-Justin Raimondo
The Secessionist Campaign for the Republic of Vermont by Christopher Ketcham
The Antiwar Secessionist Movement by Tom Barnes
The Political Economy of Monarchy, Democracy, Secession, and Anarchy by Hans Hermann Hoppe
Texas Nationalists Say Sovereignty or Secession by Mark Anderson
Is Secession Constitutional? by Brian Stanley
Softening the Transition to a Stateless Society by Darian Worden
Third Parties I’d Like to See by James Leroy Wilson
The Crisis Is Not Over by Paul Craig Roberts
Unintended Consquences: A Feature, Not a Bug by Kevin Carson
We Don’t Need a State to Protect Us From Foreign Aggression by Morris and Linda Tannehill
Reading List on Law Without the State by Walter Block
Statism Is Not Socialism, Pro-Market Is Not Pro-Business by Kevin Carson
Obama’s Budget: Record Spending, Record Deficits by Andrew Taylor
America’s Rudderless Ship of State by Chuck Baldwin
The U.S.A.: An Aggregation of Nincompoops by Alex Massie
Forget Global Warming, It’s the Economy Stupid! from Pew Research Center
The Tea Party by John Robb
The Left: Going Downhill Since 1960 by Alexander Cockburn
If You Were in a Secret Prison by Joanne Mariner
U.S. Agrees to Time Table for U.N. Gun Ban
Why Inflation Will Come? by Gary North
The U.S. Can No Longer Afford Its Empire by Ivan Eland
On the Claimed “War Exception” to the Constitution by Glenn Greenwald
When the Military Serves As Police by Jacob Hornberger
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell-Don’t Go! by Justin Raimondo
Will Obama Play the War Card? by Pat Buchanan
Will the Chinese Dragon Awake? by Justin Raimondo
Light at the End of the Afghan Tunnel? by Eric Margolis
The Dangers of State Surveillance by Henry Porter
Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan is Counterproductive by William R. Polk
Insulting China by Robert Dreyfuss
U.S. Sponsored Regime Change in Iran by Ardeshir Ommani
Terrorism in Any Color by Jack Hunter
The Defense Industry is Pleased with Obama by Laura Flanders
Lawyers Appeal Guantanamo Trial Convictions by Andy Worthington
World Isn’t Buying Israel’s Explanations Anymore by Aluf Benn
Why Does the U.S. Turn a Blind Eye to Israeli Bulldozers? by Robert Fisk
Zionism Laid Bare by Kathleen Christison
CIA Has Program to Assassinate U.S. Citizens by Thomas Eddlem
The New Pentagon Budget: Paying More, Getting Less by Winslow Wheeler
The Pentagon Goes Intellectually AWOL by Franklin Spinney
Surveillance Can’t Make Us Secure by Julian Sanchez
More Airport Security Won’t Do Much to Stop the Terrorists, Leaving the Middle East Would by Jeffrey A. Miron
The Inalienable Right to Secede by Scott Lazarowitz
Nullification: It’s Already Happening by Derek Sheriff
Thousands Protest U.S. Military Presence in Japan from The Daily Mail
WW2 Is Over: Bring Our Marines Home by Pat Buchanan
Federal Marijuana Supremacists by Manuel Lora
Ron Paul and the Pro-Life Movement by Christopher Manion
The Pro-Life Assault on Ron Paul and the Constitution by Laurence Vance
Astroturf Verses The Tea Party Movement by James Ostrowski
Blair Lied, Thousands Died by Laurence Vance
Blair Regretted Nothing, Learned Nothing by Michael Glackin
Tony Blair and His Oh-So-Clean Conscience by Robert Fisk
Blair’s Monstrous Inconsistency by Daniel Larison
The Case Against Tony Blair by Patrick Cockburn
The Neoconservative Empire by Ron Paul
Israeli Female Soldiers Break the Silence by Ira Chernus
The CIA in Afghanistan by Doug Valentine
Obama, Military Growth, and Retirement by Bede
North Korea: The Last Racialists by Richard Hoste
The Road to Disunion: The Secessionists of 1854-1861 by Hunter Wallace
History Ain’t Bunk by James Jackson
Viewers Are Flocking to Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theories by Daniel Perdomo
Growing Movement to Disband Police Departments by Mike Shedlock
The Left’s Double Standard on Race by Anonymous Attorney
This Is a Man: The Defiance of Omar Deghayes by William Norman Grigg
Neat, Painless Perpetual War by Mike Tennant
Patriot Act: Eight Years Later by William Fisher
Spinning the War on Terror by Adam Serwer
Foreign Handouts: More Harm Than Good by William P. Hoar
Hollywood at War by John Payne
Playing Charades with Terrorists by Fred Cate
No Defense for This Budget by Katrina Vanden Heuvel
Forgotten History: The Real Tobacco Wars by Dostoevsky
Roman Catholic Church to Split in America? by Weaver
Banning the Homeless in Colorado Springs by Kathy Kelly
War, Budgets, and Blind Ambition by Chris Floyd
Who’s Who in Mexico’s Narco-Wars? by John Ross
Israel is Criminalizing Dissent by Jonathan Cook
Copwatch: Guerrilla Video Primer
The Hidden Inspiration of Vampire Weekend by Gavin McInnes
The Problem With Constitutionalism by Thomas Knapp
Uber-PIG Joe Arpaio Interrupted by Students Singing Bohemian Rhapsody by David Neiwert
Waging War on the Environment by Darian Worden
Controlling the Growth of the State by Ian Bertram
Howard Zinn, R.I.P. by Roderick Long
Our Wise Leader and the Wise Pundits Who Comment Upon Him by Roderick Long
Rothbard and the Free Spirits by Gary Chartier
McCarthy on Belloc by Sheldon Richman
Onward Christian Soldiers, Again by Philip Giraldi
Sun Tzu and America’s Way of War by Jon Basil Utley
U.S. Out of Yemen by Ron Paul
Confessions of a Middle-Class Anarchist by Harry Mount
Top Ten Ways to Avoid a Tax Audit by Kelly Phillips Erb
The State Lives to Control and Humiliate Us by Anny Shaw
Weapon of Mass Destruction Found in NYC Elementary School by David Kramer
Time Flies When They’re Building a Fascist State by David Kramer
Sweden Has Been Neutral in Foreign Wars for 200 Years (Good for Them!) by Lew Rockwell
Mass Murder: The Key to a Successful Presidency by William Norman Grigg
Why Global Democratic Revolution and Mass Immigration Won’t Work by F. Roger Devlin
Markets and Regulation by Paul Craig Roberts
The Glitter, the Gays by Mandolyna Theodoracopulos
Master of Treachery: Kissinger on Iraq by Barry Lando
Philadelphia Community Rallies Against Murderous PIG by John Kalwaic
The Work of Porn in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Kristian Williams
Retirement Armageddon by Gary North
The Man Who Shouldn’t Be Alive by Bill Sardi
My $4000 Sneeze by Jeffrey Tucker
Financial Tsunami by Ambrose Evans Pritchard
“The Italians were called wops, the Jews were called hymies, I was of course a greaseball, and every Hispanic was a spic. Well, we all got along famously! It was rough, but it was fine.”
-Taki Theodoracopulos
The Accused Must Have Fair Trials Glenn Greenwald interviewed by Scott Horton
Bring the Guard Home Michael Bolding interviewed by Scott Horton
Sanctions Against Iran Are a Bad Idea (Unless You Want a War) Muhammad Sahimi interviewed by Scott Horton
“The “clash of civilizations” is, in a very literal sense, a clash of God and Mammon. The Islamic revolutionaries are driven by a fanatical devotion to their god and the promises they believe he has made to them if only they take up arms on his behalf. The nations of the West are driven by an almost as fanatical devotion to Mammon, that is, to wealth, luxury, power, pleasure and privilege. Further, the culture of the West combines this unabashedly materialist ethos with rejection of strength and discipline in favor of a maternalistic emphasis on health, safety, “sensitivity”, “self-esteem”, “potential”, “personal growth”, “getting in touch with one’s inner child”, “feelings” and other concepts common to pop culture psychobabble. Of course, the socio-cultural ramifications of this is to create a society of weaklings, mediocrities and crybabies.”
-Keith Preston
Dirty Water by The Standells
Talk Talk by The Music Machine
Psychotic Reaction by The Count Five
Pushin’ Too Hard by The Seeds
Dazed and Confused by The Yardbirds
Mary Mary (It’s To You I Belong) by The Birdwatchers

(Commentary from Maury2k)
The Cult of Political Correctness-It’s Real Uses
How Uncle Sam Almost Lost World War Two
Howard Zinn and the Strategy of Self-Castration
Racist Genie Out of the Bottle
The Tactical Moxie of Kai Murros
(hat tip to Chris Donnellan for the following links)
“Life is war and conflict, struggle and strife, from conception till death…Never shall the lion lie down peacefully with the lamb…”
“Why are those who espouse Univeral Love, Tolerance, and ‘Human Brotherhood,’ usually the most screwed up people you’ve ever met, socially and emotionally? Not to mention some of the nastiest and most self-centered narcissists around?”
-Chris Donnellan
British Author Calls for an Assisted Suicide Panel
Man Arrested for Peeing on Steaks at Wal-Mart
Asian Girl Has Surgery to Look Like Jessica Alba for Boyfriend
Fifth of Swedish Population Foreign
The 6 Weirdest Things Women Do to Their Vaginas
New Basis for U.S. Asylum Claims: Homeschooling
Earth Religions Get Worship Area at Air Force Academy
Argentine President: Eat Pork, Spice Your Sex Life
New Zealand Virgin Auctions Herself Off for Tuition
Turkish Girl Buried Alive for Talking to Boys
What Makes Right-Wing Mobs Tick
The Amish: A People of Preservation
Justice Department Wishes to Hire Mentally Ill, Mentally Retarded Lawyers
Aliens Visiting Earth Will Be Just Like Humans, Scientist Claims
Auschwitz Survivor: Israel Acts Like Nazis
Last Mitford Girl Bemoans the Demise of the Stiff Upper Lip
Mexicans Fighting Blacks in L.A. Jail
Black and Mexican Race Wars in L.A.
Commanding Heights: American Empire
The Dystopia Conservatives Built
(hat tip to Andrew Yeoman for the following links)
“What You Believe is Not as Important as What You Do.”
-Andrew Yeoman
Teen Hit Man Confesses to Murdering Class President’s Mom
Colorado Springs Cuts Basic Services
Berlusconi Wants Israel in the EU
Letter of Marque: Privateering and The Private Production of Naval Power
Bay Area National-Anarchists: Communities Directory
France Refuses Citizenship Over Full Islamic Veil
Children Prisoners of the U.S. War on Terror
A Nation of Sheep, Ruled by Wolves, Owned by Pigs
The Revolution Within Anarchism
Forty Years in the Wilderness?
Liberty and Populism: Building An Effective Resistance Movement for North America
Organizing the Urban Lumpenproletariat
National Anarchy and the American Idea
“The king is most wounded by ridicule.” -Thomas Hobbes

Forget Global Warming, It's the Economy, Stupid! 1
So Says the Pew Research Center. So how can Alternative Anarchists and Pan-Secessionists use this to our advantage? Is Carson’s “Political Program for Anarchists” the way to go? If so, how do we get these ideas out there? If not, what? This is what I have previously written on this question:
Our main focus should be on the working class itself, the kinds of folks who work in the vast array of service industries that comprise the bulk of the US economy.
This is the “center” part of our strategy. I am not advocating a return to old-fashioned labor unionism of the type championed by the classical anarcho-syndicalists. I believe the decline of unions is permanent in nature and while traditional labor unions might still have a role in play in a twenty first century class struggle, it will only be on the margins. Instead, the economic foundation of class struggle in the future will be alternative economic enterprises and service delivery arrangements operating independently of state and corporate structures. Foremost among them will be worker-owned and operated enterprises and non-state social or health services originating from what is called the “independent sector”. This is an essay on political strategy and not economics so I will not go into a great deal of detail here except to say that the main political implication of this is that organizations formed for the defense of such economic institutions against state repression or state-imposed monopolies will be vital part of any future radical coalition.
As for the broader question of the relationship between the state and the economy, we need a populist economic program that favors elimination of state intervention into the economy on behalf of privileged interests and the reduction of taxes starting from the bottom up. This is an issue that dissidents from across the spectrum ought to be able agree on, from socialists to libertarians to paleoconservatives to Greens. Kevin Carson’s “Political Program for Anarchists” provides a good overview of how to approach this. As anti-state radicals, we should take a position of rejecting the welfare state as a means to poverty relief, while at the same time rejecting the scapegoating of the poor common to the talk-radio right-wing. We should instead be quite outspoken about the damage to done to poor communities (particularly rural farmers and inner-city minorities) by state interventions such as agricultural policy and urban renewal. As an intermediate stage to full abolition of the welfare state, we might consider the “negative income tax” suggested by Milton Friedman back during the Nixon era, whereby the costs of welfare management could be cut back drastically by distributing cash payments or vouchers directly to the poor and eliminating the bureaucratic middle-men that absord most of the welfare budget. With this approach, it might even be possible to increase subsistence payments to the poor while simultaneously cutting back significantly on both bureaucracy and taxes. The writings of Murray Rothbard, Karl Hess, Hans Hoppe, Kevin Carson and Larry Gambone also contain some interesting ideas on how to go about “de-statizing” those industries and services presently operated by the state.
It is of the utmost importance that the working masses view us as the champions of their economic interests. Nothing less will be sufficient. Our populist coalition must include rank and file blue collar workers, working class taxpayers, union members, small businessmen, farmers, the self-employed, the urban poor, single moms and the homeless. We do this not by promising entitlement rights to all, but by eliminating state-imposed obstacles to economic self-determination and self-sufficiency, placing state or state-corporate industries and services directly into the hands of the workers and consumers, developing alternative economic arrangements independently of the state, eliminating taxes from the bottom up and gradually phasing out archaic state-assistance programs, with poverty relief and social security programs being the last to go once the corporate state has been fully dismantled. This is precisely the opposite of the “cut taxes and regulations at the top, eliminate subsidies to the bottom” approach favored by the right-wing corporatists. Our approach should be “cut taxes and regulations at the bottom, eliminate subsidies to the top”. On these matters, authentic fiscal conservatives and authentic class war militants should be able to agree. We should describe our economic program as neither “conservative” nor “socialist” but as simple “economic justice”.
I might add to this that the antiwar movement, the anti-police state movement, the anti-drug war movement, the anti-prison industry movement, the anti-globalization movement, the anti-immigration movement, and the pan-secessionist movement are all necessary parts of an economic resistance movement. The various international and domestic wars, the police state and prison industry, mass immigration and so forth are serious drains on the economy. Secession from the political, corporate and international institutions that perpetrate these things is a necessary corrective step.






