Anarchy and THR

[Chainsaw]

Preacherman,

My friend was granted a permit simply because he was asked to testify in a legal matter that concerned drugs and a domestic dispute concerning his somewhat rural neighbors in which he prevented the womans spouse from beating her to a pulp. LE indicated that they wouldn't be able to protect him from the BG's buddies in crime so they suggested a permit. He agreed.

About one year later he was driving his beat-up hunting mobile home from my house late one evening (he helped me track a whitetail) and was stopped for what he later was told were no tail lights. At the time we both shot for a tavern in our area, and he had a bumper sticker in the window of his truck that advertized the bar. This along with the LEO running his plates and the permit appearing on his registration gave the LEO cause in his opinion to come to the door in full draw. That is all I know about what transpired.

As far as a lawsuit, myself and the people that I call my true friends (not aquaintances) don't sue anyone. Why complicate ones life any further.

The Claire Wolf quote.......................................................

 

[TexasVet]

There seems to be a little confusion here...

on the meaning of Anarchy. Little a, anarchy, is the entire LACK of any system of government or public restraint, such as WTSHTF. Big A, Anarchists are a motley crew (hey, sounds like a good name for a band!) with MANY varying belief systems.

For example, I am a Randian Anarcho-Capitalist. This is usually best described as a (small l) libertarian. In the utopian anarchist world the SYSTEM in effect is individual honor and respect for others rights. With the citizens doing the deciding and enforcing by common consent. Without big brother telling everyone what's "right" (legal).

Will it work? Only if a majority of the citizens have individual honor and respect for others. IOW, probably not in this life. But we can dream.

 

[Mike Irwin]

"Out of curiosity, Mike, in an anarchistic society, what "system" would they be converting?"

Tams,

An anarchistic society requires a great deal of personal buy-in and acceptance. By its very definition, an anarchistic society is one that has chosen to throw off all forms of authority, relying instead on cooperation among the entire group to ensure that society functions. This would include not only personal interactions, but also the economic structure of the society.

It is probably the most unnatural form of government (in its own way, it is a system of government), because it calls for the total suppression of the desire by the individual to wield power for either personal gain or to direct the group to one end or another.

The Oneida communities were, I believe, the closest thing the United States has ever had to an anarchistic community in the United States (or possibly elsewhere), and they had one hell of a tough time with it.

It would seem that the personal interactions are easier to fit to an anarchistic society, but the economic functions aren't. Economics were the undoing of many of these groups. One person, or group of people, feels that they and their labor are being slighted or aren't being given enough value, and they have the potential to be able to seize control of the group, in essence establishing the type of authority that the entire group has chosen to discard, and thereby drastically altering their chosen system of government through non-authority.

Phew, my brain hurts. It's been way too long since I've thought about this sort of stuff.