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This is an electronic version of the first section of Volume 2
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Issue 1 of The Anarchives.
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If you wish to receive the real copy (which rocks) send your
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snail-mail address to:
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yakimov@ecf.utoronto.ca
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This issue's theme is on Anarchy & Marijuana
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The Anarchives
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The struggle contines...
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Sentences begin by stringing words together.
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Freedom comes from stringing ideas together
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Free thoughts constructed on free minds.
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This struggle creates Anarchy.
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Those old Greek guys (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle) believed the
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fundamental idea that all citizens could not be philosophers.
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How could an Ancient city, or even a modern one, have the
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ability to produce and prosper if all its citezenry were to busy
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thinkin. Only a select few must be free-minded, and they will
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rule over the herd.
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"What The Fuck!" you might say. "Are they saying that if there
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were to be real freedom of thought the city (nation) would
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collapse?"
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Interesting way of lookin at it isn't it? It sort of implies
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that by merely reaching for free minds we are on our way out of
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Babylon. Perhaps the chance to turn off the exploitative,
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hirarchical, liberal, twenty-four hour boob-tube.
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What we have here is a rule of destruction masked by lies of
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decency and democracy. Centuries of patriarchal domination have
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left a messed up male race, a beaten up female race, a
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devastated aboriginal race, a multi-billion dollar arms race and
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a-how-quickly can we destroy all the earth's life race. The
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freedom to be oneself and the responsibility to care for one's
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community has been lost in an unnatural order. The order is
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state, structure, symbol and you. A successful order nurtures
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the roles of individuals to be subservient to the order. The
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hegemony that has been internalized in all of us cannot be
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washed away by simply destroying state, though this would be a
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good start.
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All forms of authority shoud be abolished and replaced by the
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social self. Equality can only exist under small groups free of
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coercion. Group discussion with no onus on individuals to follow
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consensus is far healthier than mass dictated discipline.
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Where is the passion that should accompany freedom. How many
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people are aware of their consumers distributing freedom. They
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are all corrupt jurors getting lazy on their fat bribe from the
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state.
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I can't let myself become a passive spectator of history that is
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dominated by oppression.
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I make love to the darkness. I am drawn into the blues of the
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oppression and struggle that exists today. I slowly, but surely
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become aware of my own position within society, and its relation
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to the world outside the classroom. I sit in the back of the
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class and fume as I see the lies, the double-speak, and the
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occasional truth both favourable and unfavourable.
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I am drawn into the struggle. My heart, mind, and my body are in
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love with the battle for freedom. My consciousness expands and I
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become aware of my actions, thoughts, and surrounding
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environment. The truth becomes clear, and as I join my friends,
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collectively this increases.
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As potentially free minds we must come together and pursue the
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quest for truth, justice, and equality. For regaining liberty
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and community will take a nation of free minds. Freedom cannot
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be authorized. I can't tell you what it is as much as you can't
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tell me what it isn't. I can't make rules for you, you can't
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make rules for me, because the choices are inside ourselves.
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Cannabis is one method of realizing potently the stone in
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ourselves. The stone in ourselves is our energy source, what
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makes us go according to the rythym of our hearts. I don't care
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about how much of something you or I ingest. Quantity isn't a
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question of focusness. The more I climb up a mountain the more
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countryside I see. As I ascend my focus might fog. Fog is just
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dense sky between two or more parameters of myself. Many sober
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people never leave this fog. Critics of ganja smoking that I've
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come across fall into two groups. The first group are those herb
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opponents who cherish their unilinear clarity so much they seem
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fogged. The other group are those tokers who are concerned with
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questions of quantity because they ignore the stone in
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themselves. Like the cool, refreshing feeling of filtered water
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sliding down the gullet, absorbing space, activating dry energy,
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the herb enhances the world's infinite creations of which the
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self is the source.
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The answer isn't in poisons like pot or ideologies like
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Anarchism. The answer isn't in politik or ego-power or elite
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power. Time is running out for us to realize that the answer is
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within ourselves as a social species. It's time for us to stop
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the game of capitalist competition. The answer is in joining
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compassion with reason and action. All the revolution needs is
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some strong spirit.
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This issue marks the second volume of The Anarchives. As a
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periodical (newspaper, zine, rag, whatever...) we publish
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information that relates to the lives of radicals struggling for
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freedom in an exploitative system. Through The Anarchy
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Organization we hope to publish not only The Anarchives, but
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various other publications in the purpose of spreading the word
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to all our peoples.
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We are open to contributions ranging from the creative, to the
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intensely analytical. Our attitudes towards submissions reflect
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our attitudes towards life. That is feel free to give us
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whatever you want. There should be no limits to language or
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prose or intelectual exploration and development. We welcome all
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voices of liberation.
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We are planning our next issue to focus on the struggle for
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women's liberation. Please help us create a well rounded
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perspective on this issue by submitting something.
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Similarly any other help, be it labour or financial would also
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be greatly appreciated. We grow as you grow.
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Escape from Babylon...
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The Force told me that Haase, Jennifer <HAASEJ@MUSIC.LIB.MATC.EDU> wrote:
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> Any artist out there; fans of Star Wars, who could create a sketch
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>of Darth Vader? Would apperciate it "mucho"
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> -Jen
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Here's one done by Lennert Stewart (I think that's what the LS stands for, my
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apologies if it isn't LS :)
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War on Human Being
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"Give me crack, anal sex;
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take the only tree that's left
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stuff it up the hole in your culture.
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Give me back my burning wall,
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give me Stalin and St. Paul
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I've seen the future brother
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and its murder."
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- Leonard Cohen "The Future"
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The governments of most States are waging war on human beings.
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this war is often waged through "laws" which are supposedly
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designed to protect human welfare but are actually instruments
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of repression and violence. the laws around drugs are an
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excellent case in point. A small group of people, the power
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elite, have deceived the majority regarding the use of
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marijuana. The power elite, and thus the state are waging a
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violent war on peaceful human beings who wish to explore other
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forms of knowing, forms which the power elite want repressed.
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These "other" forms of knowing threaten the forms which the
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state relies upon to maintain power. The power of the state
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derives exlusively form psychological manipulation, or to put it
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frankly, its all in your mind.
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The first thing that happened to me when I began using pot
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seriously (ie, past that teenage phase when you get wrecked with
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the gang and giggle for two hours but a serious experiment of
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prolonged periods) was I began questioning everything that I
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once held as true or that once held me from thinking. More than
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that, I began to push my intellect farther because I no longer
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feared it. Imagination opened up as the ordered thought broke
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down.
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Deregulating Drug Use
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an anarchist perspective
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The debate about drug use in this country is usually framed in
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terms of continued criminalization vs legalization. the
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positions in this debate mean continued harassment, including
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arrests, imprisonment, theft of property, and possibly in the
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near future, execution of drug dealers and users, vs legal
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regulation of drug use and sales, similar to that of alcohol and
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cigarettes, including heavy taxation, and restraints on where,
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when and to whom drugs can be sold. Both of these positions are
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based on the same assumption, government has the right to tell
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individuals what they can and cannot do. While legalization
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would surely be preferable to continued criminalization, there
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is a third alternative: decriminalization and deregulation.
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Decriminalization and deregulation of drugs would mean no laws
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against drugs, no government regulation of drugs sales and use,
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no arrests, no prisons, no taxes. Eliminating drug laws, instead
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of simply replacing them with different laws, would produce a
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free market in drugs where people would be free to sell,
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ingest, or inject whatever they wished, without government
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interference. Drug use is a voluntary, non-violent activity, and
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should be an individual decision, the business of no one but the
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user. Government has taken it upon itself to regulate drug use,
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just as it regulates alcohol use, restricts abortion, and
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registers and drafts people. in order to better control people.
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Criminalization of drugs has produced, just as prohibition of
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alcohol did, an enormous amount of violent crime. Most of this
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crime is motivated by the need to obtain money to pay the
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artificially inflated price of illegal drugs. This
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drug-associated crime is then used as an excuse for police to
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indiscriminately harass young black men, stopping and searching,
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and frequently arresting them on the street, for no reason other
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than that they live in a "high crime" area. Doing away with drug
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laws would dramatically lower the cost of drugs and thereby
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eliminate most street crime, as well as remove the excuse police
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use to terrorize black people.
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Decriminalization and deregulation and the resultant competitive
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market in drugs would produce purer and safer drugs, eliminating
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much of the death and illness associated with drug use, most of
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which is caused by contamination of drugs or needles, and
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unreliable drug strength, not by the nature of the drug itself.
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Heroin is no more dangerous than aspirin if it is carefully
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prepared without dangerous additives and injected with a sterile
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needles. And aspirin overdose can kill as easily as heroin
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overdose, it just takes longer and feels worse. Decriminalizing
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needle use would virtually eliminate the transmission of AIDS
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among IV drug users, as has been the experience in the 38
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American states which do not restrict sale of sterile needles.
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Needle exchange programs are not enough; there need to be more
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needles available to eliminate needle sharing.
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Besides abolishing laws against recreational drugs, eliminating
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government regulation of "therapeutic" drugs would also benefit
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people. The FDA prevents many drugs from reaching the market,
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including treatments for AIDS, cancer and other serious
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illnesses. And those that do eventually become available are
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delayed for years by FDA rules, while thousands die. The
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government is currently responsible for restrictions on
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aerosolized pentamidine, a drug which prevents Pneumocystis
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carinii pneumonia. the most frequent cause of death in people
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who have AIDS. Just as drug laws lead to deaths associated with
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street drugs and keep people from obtaining sterile needles to
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prevent transmission of AIDS, drug laws are killing people with
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AIDS by denying them effective treatment. Drug laws in this
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country are also preventing marketing of newly developed
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abortifacients, drugs which induce abortion early in pregnancy,
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freeing women from their current reliance on the medical
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establishment for abortion services. these drugs would put the
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decision about abortion where it belongs: with the individual.
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Eliminating drug laws would greatly increase people's options in
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the areas of pleasure and health. It would also reduce crime,
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reduce death and illness associated with illegal drug use, and
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reduce deaths from AIDS and other serious illnesses. Individuals
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should be free to make their own decisions about drug use, and
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all other aspects of their lives, without the interference of
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government or "the community".
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Boston Anarchist Drinking Brigade (BAD Brigade)
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PO Box 1323
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Cambridge, MA 02238
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Internet: bbrigade@world.std.com
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Chomsky On Universities
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In its relation to society, a free university should be expected
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to be, in a sense, ``subversive.'' We take it for granted that
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creative work in any field will challenge prevailing orthodoxy.
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Aphysicist who refines yesterday's experiment, an engineer who
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merely seeks to improve existing devices, an artist who limits
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himself to styles and techniques that have been thoroughly
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explored, is rightly regarded as deficient in creative
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imagination. Exciting work in science, technology,
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scholarship,or the arts will probe the frontiers of
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understanding and try tocreate alternatives to the conventional
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assumptions. If, in somefield of inquiry this is no longer true,
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then the field will be abandoned by those who seek intellectual
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adventure. These observations are clich\'es that few will
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question---except in the study of man and society. The social
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critic who seeks to formulate a vision of a more just and human
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social order, and is concerned with the discrepancy---more
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often, the chasm---that separates this vision from the reality
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that confronts him, is a frightening creature who must
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``overcome his alienation'' and become ``responsible,''
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``realistic,'' and ``pragmatic.'' To decode these expressions:
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he must stop questioning our values and threatening our
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privilege. He may be concerned with technical modifications of
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existing society that improve its efficiency and blur its
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inequities, but he must not try to design a radically different
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alternative and involve himself in an attempt to bring about
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social change. He must, therefore, abandon the path of creative
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inquiry as it is conceived in other domains. It is hardly
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necessary to stress that this prejudice is even more rigidly
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institutionalized in the state socialist societies. Obviously, a
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free mind may fall into error; the social critic is no less
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immune to this possibility that the inventive scientist or
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artist. It may be that at a given stage of technology, themost
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important activity is to improve the internal combustion engine,
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and that at a given stage of social evolution, primary attention
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should be given to the study of fiscal measures that will
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improve the operation of the sytem of state capitalism of the
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Western democracies. This is possible, but hardly obvious, in
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either case. The universities offer freedom and encouragement to
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those who question the first of these assumptions, but more
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rarely to those who question the second. The reasons are fairly
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clear. Since the dominant voice in any society is that of the
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beneficiaries of the status quo, the ``alienated intellectual''
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who tries to pursue the normal path of honest inquiry---perhaps
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falling into error on the way---and thus often finds
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himselfchallenging the conventional wisdom, tends to be a lonely
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figure.The degree of protection and support afforded him by the
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university is, again, a measure of its success in fulfilling its
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proper function in society. It is, furthermore, a measure of
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the willingness of the society to submit its ideology and
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structure to critical analysis and evaluation, and of its
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willingness to overcome inequities and defects that will be
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revealed by such a critique.
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Huxley on The Capitalist "Free Press:"
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Today the press is still legally free; but most of the little
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papers have disappeared. The cost of wood-pulp, of
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modernprinting machinery and of syndicated news is too high for
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theLittle Man. In the totalitarian East there is political
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censorship,and the media of mass communication are controlled by
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the state. In the democratic West there is economic censorship
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and the media of mass communication are controlled by members of
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the Power Elite. Censorship by rising costs and the
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concentration of communication power in the hands of a few big
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concerns is less objectionable than State ownership and
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government propaganda; but certainly it is not something of
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which a Jeffersonian democrat could possibly approve.
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In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal
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literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the
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propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not
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foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our
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Westerncapitalist democracies -- the development of a vast mass
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communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the
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true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less
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totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account
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man's almost infinite appetite for distractions
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Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties, and only
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those who are constantly and intelligently on the spot can hope
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to govern themselves effectively by democratic procedures. A
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society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time,
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not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future,
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but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and
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soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it
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hard to resist the enroachments of those who would manipulate
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and control it.
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In their propaganda today's dictators rely for the most
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part on repetition, suppression and rationalization -- there
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petition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true,
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the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the
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arousal and rationalization of passions which may be used in the
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interests of the Party or the State. As the art and science of
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manipulation come to be better understood, the dictators of the
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future will doubtless learn to combine these techniques with the
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non-stop distractions which, in the West, are now threatening to
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drown in a sea of irrelevance the rational propaganda essential
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to the maintenance of individual liberty and the survival of
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democratic institutions.
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Aldous Huxley, 1958
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"Brave New World Revisited"
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From: John Oleynick <juo@klinzhai.rutgers.edu>
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\/ \/ jterpstra@trentu.ca `_^_'
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