Bad Cream of Broccoli
Anarchy, I think, is a word with no meaning – does anyone who is half-way intelligent really believe that any society can exist without laws?
I attended the so-called “protest” in 1999 in Eugene, Oregon. I was ready to consider the cause if it had any backbone, of course, very wary of the methodology. Then, the non-ethos of the anarchists erupted in my total dissatisfaction with their cause and modus operandi. No cause. Fight for no cause, and the anarchist is the loser. Disturb the peace, and the anarchist gets non-results. Does being arrested make one feel like there is a cause? If so, then the anarchists of yesterday had their cause – they got arrested for disturbing the peace. They got to yell. They got to scream and say bad words to the police. They got to pretend for some, small, minute moment in time that they are guardians of the Constitution of the United States.
I don’t think so. Freedom of Speech is a constitutional right. Disturbing the peace, however, is not. Try to marry the truth with lunacy and one gets the worst tasting cream of broccoli soup in the world.
Anarchists: I challenge you to act correctly. Peaceful protest for constitutional rights is the answer. Disturbing the peace for a ray of hope for attention is not, I would say, productive. Not one protestor passed out any pamphlets or venture to offer any explanation of ideology. Furthermore, in Seattle, the anarchists in 1999 threw tear gas indiscriminately on anyone who was wearing a business suit and, in Eugene, a year ago, anarchists broke store windows and windshields. I don’t think it is fair to cry foul now after you have proven yourselves to be disorderly and destructive in the past.
If one wants to have real power: “Learn to think like Socrates, speak like Pericles, and write like Sophocles.” (Professor Chandler, Howard University School of Law). Read the Constitution of the United States before calling a policeman, “a pig,” or smashing a working man’s store window or windshield. Take a class in Constitutional Law before running down the streets in masks just like the Klu Klux Klan.
Anarchy, I think, is a word with no meaning – does anyone who is half-way intelligent really believe that any society can exist without laws?
I attended the so-called “protest” in 1999 in Eugene, Oregon. I was ready to consider the cause if it had any backbone, of course, very wary of the methodology. Then, the non-ethos of the anarchists erupted in my total dissatisfaction with their cause and modus operandi. No cause. Fight for no cause, and the anarchist is the loser. Disturb the peace, and the anarchist gets non-results. Does being arrested make one feel like there is a cause? If so, then the anarchists of yesterday had their cause – they got arrested for disturbing the peace. They got to yell. They got to scream and say bad words to the police. They got to pretend for some, small, minute moment in time that they are guardians of the Constitution of the United States.
I don’t think so. Freedom of Speech is a constitutional right. Disturbing the peace, however, is not. Try to marry the truth with lunacy and one gets the worst tasting cream of broccoli soup in the world.
Anarchists: I challenge you to act correctly. Peaceful protest for constitutional rights is the answer. Disturbing the peace for a ray of hope for attention is not, I would say, productive. Not one protestor passed out any pamphlets or venture to offer any explanation of ideology. Furthermore, in Seattle, the anarchists in 1999 threw tear gas indiscriminately on anyone who was wearing a business suit and, in Eugene, a year ago, anarchists broke store windows and windshields. I don’t think it is fair to cry foul now after you have proven yourselves to be disorderly and destructive in the past.
If one wants to have real power: “Learn to think like Socrates, speak like Pericles, and write like Sophocles.” (Professor Chandler, Howard University School of Law). Read the Constitution of the United States before calling a policeman, “a pig,” or smashing a working man’s store window or windshield. Take a class in Constitutional Law before running down the streets in masks just like the Klu Klux Klan.
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