What's going on right now outside the RNC in St. Paul, Minn., is NOT being perpetrated by
anarchists, though some of the sound-bitten, short-handing press and even
the local police keep calling them that. And some of the vandals are apparently calling themselves that, which is maddening. No; though illegal, messy, expensive and inconvenient, this isn't the anarchy movement. (Is it all that unbearable heat and humidity up there compared to Denver, or is it an anti-Republican thing? Tough call...) These ninja-hooligans are not protesting anything, and they're not standing for anything, unlike the larger faction of protesters who are there to exercise their 1A rights. There's
a history to anarchy in America that should be understood and respected. The primary point is NOT about smashing out the windows at Macy's and overturning cement trash receptacles. Anarchy is not mindless destruction with deliberate violence.
There is a point to genuine anarchy -- it's not as "everything-is-nothingness" or bastardized Zen as the underfed hoodlums would have the viewing public think it is. What they're doing in St. Paul is opportunistic jackassery. The only intellectual or philosophical preparation involved was strictly wardrobe-related.
-- KT
What's going on right now outside the RNC in St. Paul, Minn., is NOT being perpetrated by anarchists, though some of the sound-bitten, short-handing press and even the local police keep calling them that. And some of the vandals are apparently calling themselves that, which is maddening. No; though illegal, messy, expensive and inconvenient, this isn't the anarchy movement. (Is it all that unbearable heat and humidity up there compared to Denver, or is it an anti-Republican thing? Tough call...) These ninja-hooligans are not protesting anything, and they're not standing for anything, unlike the larger faction of protesters who are there to exercise their 1A rights. There's a history to anarchy in America that should be understood and respected. The primary point is NOT about smashing out the windows at Macy's and overturning cement trash receptacles. Anarchy is not mindless destruction with deliberate violence. 
There is a point to genuine anarchy -- it's not as "everything-is-nothingness" or bastardized Zen as the underfed hoodlums would have the viewing public think it is. What they're doing in St. Paul is opportunistic jackassery. The only intellectual or philosophical preparation involved was strictly wardrobe-related. -- KT
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