Monday, September 17, 2012

Young Anarchists Go To Trial Due to Possession of Books.

http://thesoundandnoise.com/2012/09/14/young-persons-called-to-private-grand-jury-for-owning-books/ I'd read of this issue, and addressed it, on my blog. http://libertariansocialist.blogspot.com/2012/08/police-go-on-fishing-expedition-based.html I think that it's a horrid shame that this has gone to trial. I also think that the federal government should specify whom the enemy is. During the Civil War, in which President Lincoln assumed emergency powers, such as suspension of habeas corpus, it was only applied against those deemed to be Confederates. Not abolitionists, of whom a number took part in John Brown's raid, and were in violation of the Fugative Slave Act, which was still in effect, at the time, and not even socialists, whether they be Marxian, or Fourierist. Anarchists have been a presence in American thought, from earliest times. Including men such as Josiah Warren http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Warren , Lysander Spooner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner , and women such as Voltairine de Cleyre http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltairine_de_Cleyre. After hearing of this, I will never let any police into my personal place of residence, not without a warrant anyway. I have "Understanding Power", by Noam Chomsky, and "The Radical Reader". I wonder if perhaps that deputy sheriff who came straight to my property, after someone reported hearing automatic gunfire, might have been hoping to have been permitted to look into my trailer, under the pretext of looking for weapons. Growing up, as an evangelical Christian, I was brought up to prepare myself for the event that a tyranical regime might come looking for Bibles, if the practice of the Christian religion were to become prohibited. But now that I've become a libertarian socialist, I might have to fear them coming after me due to my anarchist literature, and views. I never seriously imagined that the American authorities would ever abuse their power like this though. Not this blatantly, and not in my lifetime anyway.