Thursday, August 26, 2004

A Question

Isn't the phrase "anarchist leader" a contradiction in terms?

Fifty of the country's leading anarchists are expected to be in the city for the Republican National Convention, and a handful of them are hard-core extremists with histories of violent and disruptive tactics, according to police intelligence sources.

But then anarchist is really a synonym for barbarian.

Police said each of the 50 have up to 50 followers who are willing to be arrested during disturbances at the convention. This group, police say, is expected to engage for the most part in civil disobedience, including sit-ins in front of delegates' buses. They also may stage more direct-action tactics, such as vandalizing McDonald's and Starbucks.

When greenie rioters attempted to disrupt a genetic engineering conference that was held in Minneapolis about four years ago a homemade toxic gas emission device was found in the men's room of a nearby Mcdonalds.

And a 20-year-old New Yorker who allegedly leads "The Organization" is advocating shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge, and hurling bricks followed by Molotov cocktails through the windows of military recruiting stations, according to these reports. The man has four minor arrests for nonviolent offenses and the Daily News is withholding his name.

The path to peace and liberty invariably takes us over the dead bodies of thugs and tyrants, or in the case of the anarchists, thugs who would be tyrants.

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