Always reminded of what Utah Philips said about voting in 2004

This November 2nd, the overwhelming majority of the Bay Area’s anarchist and anti-authoritarian community will park their erstwhile convictions at the curb and run lemming-like into that Porta-Potty called the voting booth. Our dogma allows us to pose as the most intransigent of rebels. None of us has anything to gain in a contest between George Bush and John Kerry. But, on November 2nd, without the slightest hint of external coercion, we’ll go out of our way to show our loyalty to the political process of capitalist America, and specifically to that faction of the elite that nuked Hiroshima, founded the CIA, accelerated US involvement in the Vietnam War, gutted the social welfare apparatus, and killed more than 600,000 children in Bill Clinton’s starvation blockade of Iraq in the 1990’s.

As anarchists, our votes for John Kerry will mean that we have effectively committed political suicide — so why not commit physical suicide as well? Unlike the majority of the populace, who have wised up and won’t be voting, we are virtual lemmings in the face of one of the most transparently bogus ideological hustles that the system has to offer. So let’s get in touch with Wild Nature, like real lemmings do, and follow our democratic impulses to their logical conclusion!

Albert Camus said that the only remaining question in philosophy is the question of suicide — this November we’ll be getting way-helluv-philosophical!

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