Dead-tree media monkeys still trying to sanitize the disloyal opposition, this time with an idyllic fluff piece about a conclave of moonbats and terror-enablers near Pittsburg.To someone walking through Schenley Park in Oakland
(PA, a suburb of Pittsburg)
yesterday, the gathering at the Anderson Pavilion might have looked like any other Fourth of July picnic -- food, kids, Frisbees and fun, even a three-legged race.
A scene straight out of State Fair, just plain folks those Anarchists.
Of course, there also was that big black banner with giant letters proclaiming "Anarchy."
"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"
The third annual anarchist picnic -- an alternative Fourth of July event -- attracted about 85 people, more than in past years. It might be a reflection of the growing movement. Or it might have been just a really nice day.
85? 85! A flea circus or a ten percent discount on toilet paper would probably attract a bigger crowd than that in Pittsburg, yet the dead-tree monkey sees it as evidence of a growing movement.
Alex Bradley, 27, of Bloomfield, has been involved in all three of the picnics and was one of the three speakers who addressed the gathering, sharing the message of the voluntary association of individuals rather than life under a coercive government.
"Some animals are more equal than others" however.
"This is the largest anarchist event that happens in Pittsburgh each year, especially nonprotest," Mr. Bradley said. "It's an all-ages event, where everybody is welcome."
We want to start the indoctrination young.
Those attending were members of many socially minded projects in Western Pennsylvania, including the Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh Organizing Group, Free Ride, "Rustbelt Radio" and Food Not Bombs.
Yes, our arsenal of bombs, used to oppress Al Qaeda and other advocates of non-coercive association, has certainly led to widespread starvation in this country. We saw this in the emaciated bodies of Katrina victims.
"A lot of people here work on really different projects and they don't get the chance to interact a lot during the year," Mr. Bradley said. "One group feeds the homeless, another works for peace, others are involved in the political process. They have different, divergent purposes."
Anyone working to free Cuban political prisoners? End censorship in Venezuela? We know the answers.
Jessica McPherson, 27, of Garfield, works with "Rustbelt Radio," a weekly radio program that covers "news from the grass-roots that is overlooked by the corporate media."
"mostly because we make it up ourselves and they run only the stuff they make up," she added.
She's also part of Free Ride, a bicycle recycling program. "There are a lot of different groups and people with different ideas here, but there is an over-arcing similarity," she said. "And it's nice to get in touch with people with similar ideas who are doing similar work that I might not see day to day in the projects I work with.
"It's also nice to have an alternative celebration. There's a lot of blind patriotism about the Fourth of July and not a lot of introspection.
She knows this because, like most moonbats, she not only believes in clairvoyant powers but assigns great range and depth to her own, so much so that she reads millions of minds at at time.
People need to remember what it means. We're celebrating freedom, but are we taking away freedoms?
Quite a few AQ killers have had their freedom to breathe taken away, no thanks to these self-important wankers. We're celebrating democracy, but are we building democracy or damaging democracy?"
You are definitely damaging it, Jessica.
Mr. Bradley acknowledged that there is a "popular perception" about anarchists that works against them and their cause.
Also facts, history and logic but those are constructs of the white male hegemony anyway.
"We're pretty much like everyone else, when you get down to it," said Mr. Bradley, who works 40 hours a week in a post office. "We're not about living in the woods and writing crazy manifestos.
Postal? He probably pulls down about 100K a year from the gummint he wants to abolish and that oppresses him so.
"A lot of people think it's about violence, disorder, chaos, people doing whatever they want.
| Why would the public think that anarchy is about violence, disorder and chaos? |
Again, some animals are more equal than others. They're anti-hierarchy. People get that confused because most organizations are hierarchical."
by definition in fact.
In fact, a little organization can be a good thing, he said, especially when putting together a picnic. "You need some communication and organization," he said. "That way we don't have 25 bags of chips.
Hey, they can organize a picnic, let's hand the country over to them.
"I would have preferred that there had been some hot dogs. But it's pot-luck and people can only bring so much. I ate a lot of brownies."
I'll bet, probably a lot of Oreos too.
And the anarchists' Fourth of July message? It's anything but anti-American.
We have a monkey's word for this, it must be true.
"Just because I have issues with the U.S. government now doesn't mean I want to bring the king of England back," Mr. Bradley said.
The Caliph of Cairo or the Commissar of Resource Allocation maybe, but not the King of England.