On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 19:57:35 -0400 Tim Beelen <tim@diffalt.com> wrote:
So, pay attention : human/natural rights exist PRIOR TO ANY FUCKING GOVERNMENT.
I concede to that point.
Fine. Now work out the logical conclusions that follow from that premise. Here's one : any violation of such rights is criminal.
So, I happen to know a few people that are marines. They don't like killing and are generally very agreeable. Would you like to meet one?
Not really. And I happen to live outside the direct 'jurisdiction' of the US government. Now, if you want to send one of your friends, unarmed, to my house, I might talk to him. From a safe distance and while pointing a gun at him, just in case.
It might be your observation but also generally not true for actual marines. And actually not true in any sense. So. There's that.
There's what? There's a neocon in this mailing list? Basically anyone you actually get to meet and say hello to. What do you think they are? Big bad bulky continuously angry men?
They are people who kill other people when ordered to. That's all that counts.
Nope, that's not anarchy. Okay, lets try Bakunin, because for a guy who does not no anything about Anarchism I sure know about him. He claims to "organize from below, through local structures interlinked on a federalist basis". I agree with Bakunin on this point. It also happens to be a form of direct democracy.
If individuals are free to NOT participate in such organization if they wish, then yes, it's anarchy. If individuals are subjected to such organization against their will then no, that's not anarchy, bakunin or not. And since you like dictionaries http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/anarchism?s=t "a doctrine urging the abolition of government or governmental restraint as the indispensable condition for full social and political liberty. " Oops. Government and anarchy just happen to be mutually exclusive concepts. (That of course shouldn't be news...) J.