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08 June, 2005

Anarchy in the UK

May have to hang out with some anarchy scum on Saturday and give them even more money than I already do through my taxes. There's a benefit gig with some cool bands playing, it's just a shame about the setting. Then again, why bother?
Dumb people with strong, irrational convictions have really started to bore me.
No one is ever going to change the world by chucking a brick at some pigs, it is pointless and at best misguided. Being on social benefits certainly isn't anarchy. They should all quit moaning and go to Colombia to join the FARC or something worthwhile like that, instead of trying to change the minds of millions of middle-class citizens who certainly won't be persuaded by a bunch of Spanish tramps drinking cider and shouting outdated slogans, whilst pointing the finger at the authorities who provide them with healthcare, education, freedom of speech and all the other basic human rights which are so blatantly ignored elsewhere in the world. I am not suggesting they get a job (god forbid they should have to pay for THEMSELVES), merely that they focus their energy on where it's really needed.
I can understand why they don’t, though. You can get killed squatting a property outside of Europe or the US, getting 'your' place hooked up with running water and gas/electricity can be a near impossibility, and let's face it, as meagre as it is in Europe, social benefits are non-existent elsewhere. How would they pay for cider? I doubt a tribe of Amazon people are going to show up to a benefit do, pay hard-earned money to enter, and then get accosted by drug-dealers, ketamine casualties and mentally deficient political preachers.
It may be true that most anarchist activists are from middle-class backgrounds, but hell they should know better. Saving the world is great, and the day someone does that by getting arrested after a scuffle with police during a protest is the day I'll take it all back.
Fighting political and financial violence with simple, brute violence is a dead end.
You will never turn the people around by representing an image they dislike.
In the case of activists, not all publicity is good.
So keep fighting, but don't bite the hand that feeds you, and chose your battle and your weapons with more consideration, hell why not try applying some intelligent thought while you're at it?
The world is run by dumb people, I don't want it taken over by even dumber people who think freedom is being able to take ketamine, receive benefits and occasionally shout at the police.

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