… only cut and paste from a 100 year out of date screed that was used to motivate some pseudo intellectual idiot who could not make it in the real world.

The Russians had Communism for about 80 years which implementation was based squarely on Bulganin [The Great Anarchist], Stalin [more of the same], Lenin [his great vision was actually happening], etc, in which the “Whole of Production” was to come under State Control, i.e., NO PRIVATE PROPERTY, just the benevalence of said State in which anyone and everyone could just take from the Great State Controlled Pile what he/she needed. Surprise! Surprise! Seems the State suddenly did not work very well for an awful lot of people and some MILLIONS OF THE CITIZENS starved to death while the Newly Ordained Leaders got first crack at all the goodies.

Wot the hell happened to this Workers Paradise? What do you think? Sounds a lot like Capitalism in its worst form, I’m thinking. Then, my thought in progress goes something like this,

when Senarchus gets his overthrow of Society what does he think is going to happen? Each individual in the new Society will do what? Don’t anyone be silly and think that individually we/he will come into our Great Native Hunter-gatherer mode and produce any and all we/he/she needs to survive. It would take someone like me about 24 hours to start getting some kind of order in such a place; order that people would accept and follow “for their own good”. This is because people are NOT INDIVIDUALIST’s, they are instead a Social gathering of individuals, each having strengths and weaknesses of his own. No one can or does have it all; even the most primative culture ever known has its own form of social order and a well developed sense of what is “right and proper”.

Strangely enough, an Anarchist would do well initially
in such a setting but only because he/she/it would without doubt try to get some grouping to go along with what his new situation called for, and note carefully, that as soon as that occurred the Anarchy State of Being would immediately be over; A sub-grouping formed from individuals would have just come into being and a New Society would begin to form! Individuals to the rear, we have things to get done and all of us will be needed to do it! Either lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!

In conclusion, if there ever was a start, Anarchy is really a contradiction in terms, it is unworkable because it is contradictory to all knowledge of human existance. Furthermore, it is not possible to form a Society without someone/everyone giving up some of his personal autonomy and joining with others for the betterment of the group; and, a Society will be formed no matter what else a group of individuals will find to do. Why so? Because human beings, from all experience, are just built that way.

The Max-train stops at the Rose Garden. Two police officers for every cart walk on, take a quick look at every passenger, meeting in the middle, and then walk off the train.

I tend to scratch my head.

can’t remember the last time I saw a Tri-Met rider who didn’t look either unusual or sneaky. Americans on public transit always look sneaky because it’s Not Polite To Stare, so we avoid direct eye contact.
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Tom Leykus’s show diverted away from the usual t and a act yesterday. It’s helpful to know that Rudy Giuliani showed up on CNN, and the television news network immediately went to a sort of “New York” centric coverage of the event.

At one point, a caller came in saying that we need to bomb the enemy. “Who?” “The Enemy! Islam!” “Huh? Give me the coordinates. Bomb a Mosque in L.A.??” “No! Hit them over there!” “Over where? What — are we suppose to hit every country that starts with an ‘I’?”

Pretty much, it seems.

Bush: I don’t–I don’t think we can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that the–those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in part of the world, let’s put it that way.

Which always striked me as basically the truth. Excepting… well… the best I can come up with with the War In Iraq is that Kuwait now lets women drive cars. (That’s why it’s all worth it, you see. Freedom is on the March.) [One step forward; two steps backward, and the corruptible “Fly Paper Strategy” is shown as the farcical rationalization that it is… beyond which.)

I used to be surprised we didn’t have suicide bombers in the USA. It’s an easy, low-cost method of Terrorism that anyone and their brother can do. But now that I think of it, perhaps it just stylistically does not fit. Bin Laden (who I’ll guess is in Pakistan — and remember the recent “I think we know where he is — but we must recognize nations’ sovreignty” statement) prefers a big Event… and I guess al Qaeda is still centralized enough to the extent that they’ll occasionally throw out a “Big Event” in the Western World…

… at a time of their own choosing, I may as well add.

Which is Par for the Course.

In the interest of due dilligence, the alert has been changed from:

to

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Just part of every blogger’s Patriotic Responsibility…

One man is holding a sign saying “Marriage Equals One Man + One Woman.”

The other guy is holding a sign with what I guess is a boulder – like bomb smashing its imprint into a skyline of buildings, with the words “Pray Before Destruction Comes.”

I assume they see a connection between the two.

“Hey Emo Man!”

I don’t look over, because I’m not “Emo Man”. At least I assume I’m not Emo Man.

“Hey! Emo Man!”

I look over, becuase… well, if they’re persistent, perhaps they consider me “Emo Man.” As I look over, I see next to me the person who they are obviously calling out toward as Emo-Man. He has headphones on (I assume listening to, quote-in-quote “Emo” of some variation or other, maybe even something that doesn’t strictly fit the category which dorks can dissect over.)

“No! You’re not Emo Man! You’re —- Man!”

I did not catch what category of clique they put me in. Which is a disappointment. I kinda actually want to know.

From the Oregonian Letters to the Editor Page:

It is time to end the war. With the liberal left assaulting our troops verbally rather than supporting them, it is time to put an end to this conflict, through the only means that wins a war: total resolve.

Our 21st century politically correct tactics are failing against an enemy that uses the oldest weapon in the book — guerrilla warfare. They know the land and use it to their advantage.

In 1864, in an effort to break the Confederates’ resolve in the Civil War, Gen. William T. Sherman began the March to the Sea, destroying a swath of land about a mile wide from Atlanta to Savannah, Ga. It worked. Atlanta fell to the Union army.

So why are we trying to tiptoe around this? It’s time to take the march and clean out the terrorist insurgency in Iraq. By taking a 21st century “March to the Sea” through Iraq, and wiping out anything and everything that stands to support the insurgents, we would end this conflict in one-quarter of the time that we would need by fighting the war we are now.

We outnumber the insurgents, so if we commit to total warfare, even though our losses would be higher than they are currently, their losses would be higher still and even more critical, and we would break their backs.

The war would be over in a year, and Iraq would be able to safely establish a full working government that would not be challenged by men with guns.

RYAN BERGER Molalla

I suppose the future of warfare is just to annhilate every person and burn every piece of land within the nation you’re fighting with, for, to, against, (what is the proper preposition in this instance).

To a large degree, I personally don’t have the foggiest how one proceeds in the Great War We Shouldn’t Have Entered, but which I for don’t want to face the consequences of the Worst Possible Outcome Within. Except for one thing, which apparently pops up in an editorial once a year (David Ignatius at the Washington Post wrote it last year; The American Prospect has it — at least in blog-form– this year). I guess I could hammer it home by mentioning it at every opportunity I end up on this discussion…

The Iraqis… don’t have reliable power. They don’t have reliable light. They don’t have air conditioning. This is for the third straight summer. It’s hot over there in the summer, I hear. It also gets dark at night.

Every so often on Raed in the Middle’s Blog’o’ Schaudenfruedia, you’ll get a picture of … say… a college student at one of the triumphantly (re)opened Iraqi colleges (by way of the happy “We’re making great progress despite what the liberal media is telling us” mass-emails) trying to study by candlelight.

It’s … maybe a bigger deal and a bigger grievance than the abstractions of democracy and freedom (even psuedo-puppet democracy and freedom by gunpoint.)

Something which always annoyed me: Iraq. Not Afghanistan. Did not have a third world economy until the 1990s.

The US Occupational Authority should have been able to figure out how to give them reliable electricity sometime, budgeted somewhere in the frequent $87 Billion supplementals we’re sending for the ongoing effort… oh I don’t know… before last summer.

But perhaps I’m talking up my ass, like the letter writer to the editor is.