"Demonstration"

***JohnnyCache*** · Posted On: 4/29/2007 3:34pm

Why do you have to call yourself an anarchist to sign petitions and vote? I can do those things with no anarchist affiliation at all.

**SFGOON** · Posted On: 4/29/2007 3:43pm

Because it's the cool thing to be politically active in South Dakota - and calling yourself something hardcore like an anarchist gets you plenty of hairy hippie chick cooter.

**Robstafarian** · Posted On: 4/29/2007 4:14pm

Originally Posted by SFGOON

Because it's the cool thing to be politically active in South Dakota - and calling yourself something hardcore like an anarchist gets you plenty of hairy hippie chick cooter.

The hairy hippie chicks I know are aware of what "anarchy" actually means; they give anarchists sermons, not cooter.

**SFGOON** · Posted On: 4/29/2007 6:21pm

Then you need to meet some new hippy chicks. Being a poser is pointless if it doesn't get you laid!:lol:

**Robstafarian** · Posted On: 4/29/2007 6:56pm

Originally Posted by SFGOON

Then you need to meet some new hippy chicks. Being a poser is pointless if it doesn't get you laid!:lol:

The only poseur in the scene I described was the anarchist.

EDIT: Just in case you're confused, I'm not the anarchist.

**Killbot** · Posted On: 4/29/2007 9:06pm

Originally Posted by bad credit

BTW, political anarchists don't want a Mad Max future. They want direct democracy, where every citizen gets an equal vote on every issue, instead of voting for a leader to make every vote on every issue according to a party line for four years. I think we could have a voting system to do this with the internet. It couldn't be any more corrupt or less secure than those damn electronic voting machines.

Hey! I'm kind of an anarchist at heart. But I won't wear black hoodies and show up at protests. Protests suck in general. But I think Democracy is the worst political system.....except for all the others....still to close to mob rule to me like, but it'll do.

Besides, I'd love it if the world went batshit Mad Max crazy. :5nuclear: :5nuclear: :5nuclear:
But I'm a little nutz anyway...:bduh:

**Don Gwinn** · Posted On: 4/29/2007 10:42pm

The most educated person I know is a friend of mine from college who has a Ph.D. in Sociology. He identifies with Anarcho-socialism.

Hmmm. I see what you did there. First you said something very sad, and then you threw in kind of an oblique mention of an oxymoron.
Neat.

**TEA** · Posted On: 4/30/2007 8:36am

Originally Posted by JohnnyCache

man it would be funny to me if the anarchist members of this forum and the LEO members of this forum had a sort of informal throwdown at a protest.

That would amuse me.

That would amuse me, as well.

I find it disturbing that the police have the attitude that it is innevitable that they will need to beat up the protesters and that so many forum members find this desirable. :5squeeze:

"Help, help, I'm being repressed! Quick, come see the violence inherent in the system!"

**Naszir** · Posted On: 4/30/2007 10:12am

This is nothing like the 300, unless by Spartans you mean armed and trained police able to operate with a certain latitude concerning force and by Persians you mean a group of untrained and unarmed for the most part protesters who, unless you live outside the US, pose no real threat to law enforcement outside of annoyance and forcing the municipality to pay overtime. In that case, yeah, Leonidas, you're standing tall against the invaders. Future generations will sing of your brave sacrifice to ensure the country is not lost to the patchouli scented horde.

**Robstafarian** · Posted On: 4/30/2007 10:44am

Originally Posted by TEA

I find it disturbing that the police have the attitude that it is innevitable that they will need to beat up the protesters and that so many forum members find this desirable. :5squeeze:

"Help, help, I'm being repressed! Quick, come see the violence inherent in the system!"

Originally Posted by Naszir

This is nothing like the 300, unless by Spartans you mean armed and trained police able to operate with a certain latitude concerning force and by Persians you mean a group of untrained and unarmed for the most part protesters who, unless you live outside the US, pose no real threat to law enforcement outside of annoyance and forcing the municipality to pay overtime. In that case, yeah, Leonidas, you're standing tall against the invaders. Future generations will sing of your brave sacrifice to ensure the country is not lost to the patchouli scented horde.

Many thanks to both of you for posting the above. I got so distracted by the "anarchist" that I forgot follow up on the '68 Democratic National Convention reference.