Define Irony...

[capitalcity]

[Usually Lurkin]

ha ha! Peace Now! Burn them all! Record it all with affordable electronic merchandise!




dude in the background confirms one of my pet theories: Sike controls us all.

[alexamenos]

the dude's in all black look to be seriously hardcore anarchists, of the proverbial bomb-throwing variety....i actually kind of admire the hardcore anarchists. not in the sense that I agree with them, but in the sense they often have a little courage to go along with their convictions.

most of the rest of the folks there are run of the mill leftwingers, you know the kind of folks that protest the rampages of corporate capitalism while sipping on their Starbucks lattes and listening to their ipods. This is to say they are what the anarchists would be if the anarchists had no principle of gumption.

come to think of it...maybe it's just as well that most leftwingers have neither principle nor character.

[bobatundi]

Originally Posted by alexamenos

the dude's in all black look to be seriously hardcore anarchists, of the proverbial bomb-throwing variety....i actually kind of admire the hardcore anarchists. not in the sense that I agree with them, but in the sense they often have a little courage to go along with their convictions.

most of the rest of the folks there are run of the mill leftwingers, you know the kind of folks that protest the rampages of corporate capitalism while sipping on their Starbucks lattes and listening to their ipods. This is to say they are what the anarchists would be if the anarchists had no principle of gumption.

come to think of it...maybe it's just as well that most leftwingers have neither principle nor character.

not much courage in wearing a mask.

[capitalcity]

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Upon closer inspection...

[Usually Lurkin]

Originally Posted by capitalcity

http://bp0.blogger.com/_pbEE7M7xDd4/...sburnuswg7.jpg
Upon closer inspection...

I don't know if it's why that dude and the girl are there, but that would make for a good "this is what idiots do" lesson.

[EricaLubarsky]

the difference between America and the radicalized Middle East-- very few of the people there are angry and in on the burning.

[Usually Lurkin]

Originally Posted by EricaLubarsky

the difference between America and the radicalized Middle East-- very few of the people there are angry and in on the burning.

how about: above, no real people were harmed.

[EricaLubarsky]

that too although there are some anarchists that really just show up at protests just to throw bricks and burn things.

[alexamenos]

Originally Posted by EricaLubarsky

that too although there are some anarchists that really just show up at protests just to throw bricks and burn things.

In fairness to the brick throwing and thing-burning anarchists, they have a little different take on things than you or I. Among other things, they don't view the destruction of inanimate objects as violence in the same way clocking a fellow upside the head is an act of violence.

...thinking back to the WTO protests in Seattle a few years back, if you recall the event, a group of anarchists there threw some rocks through some Starbucks windows, and storm-trooper clad police responded by beating the ever-livin' shit out of a bunch neo-hippies.

...or thinking of the movie, Flight Club, (which was basically a cautionary tale about anarchism)......with the exception of the Fight Club itself, all of the violence initiated by Project Mayhem was directed at buildings and things, not at people -- in stark contrast, man-breasted Meatloaf Bob get's his brains blown out by the property protecting police.

which brings us back to "just throwing bricks and burning things"....they're protesting the *injustice* of a legal/police system that protects property at the expense of people, and busting windows is a way of expressing this protest.

i disagree with them, at a very fundamental level, but I nonetheless admire their quixotic nature.

cheers

[dude1394]

thinking back to the WTO protests in Seattle a few years back, if you recall the event, a group of anarchists there threw some rocks through some Starbucks windows, and storm-trooper clad police responded by beating the ever-livin' shit out of a bunch neo-hippies.

Hoo Rah...should be the theme for an amusement park. Neo-hippies don't think about the peoples whose lively-hood they are destroying. f'em.