We are not purely Anarchist. More Insurrectionist. But that's beside the point. We believe America needs drastic change. A change that can't be made by a complicated, inefficient system in the next four, eight, or even hundred years. Our economic and foreign policy are far from great, and just look at our social status. People who don't work a day in their lives reap all the benefits of the hard working men and women here. We get no help from the government, while we make up society's backbone. The prison system is a joke as well. Cable, decent meals 3 times a day, gyms, and recreation rooms? Prisoners are supposed to be paying for their crimes, not enjoying a vacation. I could go on and on listing what I believe is wrong with this country. If you have any interested in joining our affiliating with us, email me at risingdawna@aim.com or IM me on AIM at Mirelurking. I won't be posting here again, so don't waste your time trying to burn and criticize me.
Cool, although I disagree about prisons. How many people do you know who have actually been incarcerated call prison a vacation? The current prison system needs to be abolished, not reformed.
So far I have seen no evidence that prisons actually prevent crime from being committed in the first place. They are basically just an attack on the symptoms of a social problem rather than a cure for it. Sure, prisons keep certain 'dangerous' people off the streets. But in terms of actually rehabilitating and helping those people, they don't really make that much of a difference. I recall one set of statistics showed that, for every inmate released after serving his or her sentence, one third improved their behavior, one third stayed the same, and one third got worse. In my opinion, those are not very good odds. If we really want to make our streets and our societies safe, then we need to address crime at its roots. The vast majority of crimes these days stem from basically three causes: mental disorders, lust for power, or a deprivation of basic human needs, such as food and shelter. Until we address these issues, which I think we can only do successfully by reforming our entire social and economic way of life, crime rates are never really going to change significantly, no matter how many more police we put on the streets, no matter how many new prisons we build, no matter how different many threats and punishments we come up with.
Nopers, not at all. In fact, an anarchist group is exactly what anarchism is about. Groups of people, communities, using mutual aid. United for a common goal: in this Capitalist society, that goal would be to destroy the State/Capitalism and to build a new society in the shell of the old. An anarchist society with a president, though, is an oxymoron. Or, as we call it, anarcho-capitalism.
