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|| A || || Calling A Policemen A Pig! | || H ||
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|| B || || A New Concept From | || A ||
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|| B || || The Anarchist Cookbook | || I ||
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|| A || || | || N ||
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|| | || || Brought Forth Unto You By | || S ||
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|| H || || The Norwegian Monk | || A ||
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Calling a policeman a "pig" seems silly and must antagonize the very people
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the revolutionaries want to win over or to neutralize. But the actual
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relationships of power are such that name-calling is the only weapon available
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at the moment. Besides, name calling is an emotional outlet (and
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revolutionaries also have emotions). "Pig" is an assult, no doubt--an assult
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against the uniform which, through a fetish, is in itself a power, an assult
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against the whole power stucture. It is an assult and a crime punishable by
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law. Here is the strong policeman, heavily armed, with the entire physical and
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ideological power of the state behind him, and he is attacked by a word--by a
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word only, but it is still an attack.
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What will the "pig" do? In the last analysis it is not up to the policeman,
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who, though having a loaded gun hand, has in fact no power; it is up to the
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state to give the answer. It might not be "smart" of Sid to provoke his
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jailers by repeatedly calling them "pigs," therefore getting brutally beaten
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and put in isolation. But "pig" is the only means of defense against the
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attacks upon his humanity at the moment and gives him the chance to get
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recognition for his beliefs and as a human being.
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Basically what applies to the silly "pigs" -calling is alos valid for the
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often Hollywoodlike hijackings, the taking of hostages, and even for the more
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harmful "Anarchist cooking." These methods are not "smart"; they are
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aberriations which sometime boarder on insanity. But these methods of the
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revolutionary struggle of today are here and existing and real, and in the
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philosophical sense, reasonable. They reflect the true stage of the
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revolutionary struggle in the whole world.
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/ | | All material has been taken from | |
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| | | The Anarchist Cookbook | |
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| | | by William Powell | |
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| | | Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 71-127797 | |
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| | | To attemp to get a copy write: | |
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| | | Lyle Stuart. Inc. | |
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| | | 120 Enterprise Avenue | |
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\ | |_____________Secaucus. New Jersey 07094_____________| |
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