"There is too much state in the United States." Yes, I believe that. "I will act alone." Yes, that suits me.
How?
You will forgive me if standing in front of a tank or a phalanx of police officers is unappealing.
An anarchist assassinated American President William McKinley.
No.
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From memory, that is a picture of a rioting anarchist in Greece. Greece is good today, then? No. What good did that do?
Assassination is homicide. There is morality to think of here. Isn't there justifiable homicide? Indeed there is. Wasn't the attempted assassination of Hitler justified morally? It was. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, isn't that what we hear? It is. Conclusion: this one man concludes that the assassination of President McKinley was murder, i.e. immoral, and this one man concludes that he could never have assassinated President McKinley or any other president.
There is efficacy to consider here too. The assassination of Hitler would have been morally justified and efficacious: it likely would have ended the Nazi regime. The assassination of McKinley, or any leader of a democracy, does nothing. Assassination of a democratic head of state does not lessen that state's power because the power is in the people, the president is just their instrument. Blow up the houses of Congress and the Supreme Court too? America's founding document has it that a war of independence was justified to secure the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Liberty: the quality or state of being free:
a : the power to do as one pleases
b : freedom from physical restraint
c : freedom from arbitrary or despotic control
d : the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges
e : the power of choice
There is also proportionality to consider here in addition to morality, efficacy and precedent. Depriving Americans of liberty by depriving us of freedom of communication does not justify murder. Not of one person.
So what am I going to do? How to "attack," "bring down," "overthrow" this democracy? I don't know. I'm going to think first. I'm just going to fly the black flag for now and read Chomsky on Anarchism (free two-day delivery on account of I have an Amazon account).
How?
You will forgive me if standing in front of a tank or a phalanx of police officers is unappealing.
No.
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Assassination is homicide. There is morality to think of here. Isn't there justifiable homicide? Indeed there is. Wasn't the attempted assassination of Hitler justified morally? It was. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, isn't that what we hear? It is. Conclusion: this one man concludes that the assassination of President McKinley was murder, i.e. immoral, and this one man concludes that he could never have assassinated President McKinley or any other president.
There is efficacy to consider here too. The assassination of Hitler would have been morally justified and efficacious: it likely would have ended the Nazi regime. The assassination of McKinley, or any leader of a democracy, does nothing. Assassination of a democratic head of state does not lessen that state's power because the power is in the people, the president is just their instrument. Blow up the houses of Congress and the Supreme Court too? America's founding document has it that a war of independence was justified to secure the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Liberty: the quality or state of being free:
a : the power to do as one pleases
b : freedom from physical restraint
c : freedom from arbitrary or despotic control
d : the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges
e : the power of choice
-Merriam-Webster Dictionary
The American Founding Fathers believed that Great Britain was depriving them of liberty. I believe that our current fathers and mothers have deprived me and all Americans of liberty. The American Founding Fathers killed their British fathers and mothers over that. Therefore, I am justified in killing the president, members of congress and justices of the Supreme Court. That logic follows with these modest caveats: the American Founding Fathers had tweety birds flying around in their heads, the Declaration of Independence is an embarrassing, irrational, illogical, untrue screed the parchment of which this son of the American Revolution would not rely upon to wipe his anus.
The American Founding Fathers believed that Great Britain was depriving them of liberty. I believe that our current fathers and mothers have deprived me and all Americans of liberty. The American Founding Fathers killed their British fathers and mothers over that. Therefore, I am justified in killing the president, members of congress and justices of the Supreme Court. That logic follows with these modest caveats: the American Founding Fathers had tweety birds flying around in their heads, the Declaration of Independence is an embarrassing, irrational, illogical, untrue screed the parchment of which this son of the American Revolution would not rely upon to wipe his anus.
There is also proportionality to consider here in addition to morality, efficacy and precedent. Depriving Americans of liberty by depriving us of freedom of communication does not justify murder. Not of one person.
So what am I going to do? How to "attack," "bring down," "overthrow" this democracy? I don't know. I'm going to think first. I'm just going to fly the black flag for now and read Chomsky on Anarchism (free two-day delivery on account of I have an Amazon account).
