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    Quote Originally Posted by xGriffox View Post
    Your generalizations about the black panthers being violent and far too radical are indicative of (from what i can observe) your status-quo ideological outlook.
    so how were they not violent and radical?

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    Quote Originally Posted by xGriffox View Post
    seems like you really didn't absorb much then considering the fact that you seem to totally misunderstand the tenants of anarchism and liberation ideologies as a whole.
    I understand anarchism fine, you are moulding the tenants of anarchism to fit your idealistic and unrealistic view of the world.
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    Quote Originally Posted by xGriffox View Post
    well then you would probably have to meet him. He is a competent mechanic, computer tech, essential encyclopedia on mathematics and radical theory, and a wonderfully eloquent speaker and writer.
    I'm glad you have such a high opinion of him, but I'd still have to doubt someone's qualifications if they're completely self taught since there's no real easy well to tell that someone is qualified without an independent and unbiased source such as a degree or a qualification.

    Though i have used this example already and though it was some years back, the Black Panther Party served this role for a decent period of time before they were picked off by the powers that be.
    I said successful.

    The fact that you are considering locking a human being away for a quarter century for a non-violent crime astounds me.
    I guess you didn't read what I said.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xsecx View Post
    yeah you still ignored one, but hey.
    uh, they can't really save people when it isn't in scope of the law, if it did, you'd be crying the other way about abuse beyond authority just in a different direction.
    I was arguing that they are oppressing people in the name of the law in the same way they are helping them.

    Can you also use things that are at least within the last 20 years if you're going to use them for examples
    The Green Scare (currently still going on), The G8 Summit in '99, Sean Bell being shot over 50 times, the individual shot and killed whilst handcuffed in Oakland, the murder of union organizers by Coca-Cola, the already mentioned destruction of homes and murder of lower-class South Koreans, the continued targeting of radicals by governments world wide, and so much more than i can come up with just from memory.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mouseman004 View Post
    I understand anarchism fine, you are moulding the tenants of anarchism to fit your idealistic and unrealistic view of the world.
    really? tell me in which way i am corrupting the ideals of anarchism.
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    Quote Originally Posted by xGriffox View Post
    I was arguing that they are oppressing people in the name of the law in the same way they are helping them.
    but they aren't. Using the authority that the people gave them to protect them is totally separate from the abuses of the system you're talking about.

    The Green Scare (currently still going on), The G8 Summit in '99, Sean Bell being shot over 50 times, the individual shot and killed whilst handcuffed in Oakland, the murder of union organizers by Coca-Cola, the already mentioned destruction of homes and murder of lower-class South Koreans, the continued targeting of radicals by governments world wide, and so much more than i can come up with just from memory.
    and these all pale in comparison to the number of lives and property that are protected daily on a global level, you just ignore that because it doesn't fit your agenda. In most of those cases where the people responsible acting according to the law? No, they weren't. They broke the law and were punished for it. They weren't rewarded for it, which for your point to be valid, they'd have to be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by xGriffox View Post
    The fact that you are considering locking a human being away for a quarter century for a non-violent crime astounds me.
    how is burning a car non-violent?
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    Quote Originally Posted by xGriffox View Post
    absolutely everything. The entire purpose of anarchism is to make things better for humanity as a whole; to truly liberate everyone and to allow for truly fulfilling lives free from coercion in any form.
    I believe that was the original idea from Bakoenin, what i heard he was one of the founding people of the anarchistic ideas.
    That idea was probably formulated for a good purpose but ,it has been said before, its pretty naive. It would demand of every human being to treat another like they'd be treaten themselves. (where did i hear that before... the Bible perhaps?)
    Another scenario could follow the basic rule of the strongest, but then again the strongest would want more power and you'd end up in a system all along.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fake View Post
    What do u think about anarchism?? to my mind, its a very interesting political philosophy
    I like the idea, no affence to anybody who doesn't, but I think that the whole idea of "only the strong shall survive" is the totally best way to express idividualality.
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    Quote Originally Posted by xsecx View Post
    duh anarchists don't have to make sense or be consistent.
    Very true. Most "anarchists" iv met could only loosely be called such, I personally do not consider armchair anarchists as true advocates of there chosen political ideal.

    Quote Originally Posted by Wicked Brown
    I like the idea, no affence to anybody who doesn't, but I think that the whole idea of "only the strong shall survive" is the totally best way to express idividualality."
    The idea of only the strong survive is the mindset of the fascist, the Nazi and the totalitarian. When only the strong survive, the weak must die. Not fail to succeed, but must die. The disabled child, the mentally challenged, those with an IQ below average and the many other situations people cannot control, why should these result in there death? Why is it right for us as a spectacularly advanced species to leave anyone behind? We have the technology to end world hunger. To house every family and educate every child. But we don't. Because of the idea that only the strong survive. There is no reason for hardships in this world other than sickness and death and even sickness is one that we have beaten down to a minimum, but one human sees it fit to deny another the right to access of it. Did the inventor of the drug or treatment think to him self "Now to hoard these drugs and scientific miracles"? No. The business man did. The government man did. And on what basis? They are valuable. They can make money. What about the mother with no husband or partner to support her? Will she work her days so her and her child can barely survive, and then who will raise the child? Who will pay for school?

    In this environment, how can any individuality be expressed? Who has decided what is strong? Don't you need to conform to this in order to survive? When a man decides that instead of working, he will dedicate his life to art, who will pick up there bill? Seems to me in a strong survive society, there is no room for this man. What about the musician? In order to get work to live they need to have an audience. Where is the individuality when they must conform to the marketable sound? Even the individual them selves, must not they dress appropriately to get a job to work in the strong survive world? No self expression allowed in this world.
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    Anarchism could work.
    I also refuse to debate it, i am sick of being interrogated every time i voice an opinion.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Segadoway View Post
    Anarchism could work.
    I also refuse to debate it, i am sick of being interrogated every time i voice an opinion.
    Yeah but that just looks like you can't back your opinion up. You want to say it can work but won't explain how it can work and wont explain why the reasons people are saying it won't work are wrong.

    I don't see why you have such a problem with people questioning opinions you voice? You should be thankful that people are taking the time to point out elements that you may have missed that could change your opinion to one that holds more strength.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Segadoway View Post
    Anarchism could work.
    I also refuse to debate it, i am sick of being interrogated every time i voice an opinion.
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    Quote Originally Posted by xGriffox View Post
    really? tell me in which way i am corrupting the ideals of anarchism.
    that was a misstep on my part. I don't necessarily think that you are corrupting the ideals of anarchism, you are just holding them up to a standard that human nature will never allow.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mouseman004 View Post
    The pacific ocean is made of chocolate. But I refuse to debate it.
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