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An Angel of Light

November 09, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Albert Jay Nock, Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau, Ioz, John Brown

I spent the time I was going to use writing this post instead re-reading Henry David Thoreau’s A Plea for Captain John Brown. Here’s an excerpt that’s particularly interesting to me as a lawyer and that explains the nature of Thoreau’s “Plea,” but read the whole thing and be reminded that great heroes have lived and died in America:

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“the reed separating my perpetually-balkanizing-minarcho-socialism from your anarchy”

November 03, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Ioz, John Hasnas

My comment responding to the above phrase in a comment from la Rana at IOZ’s blog is probably the concisest expression yet of my “political” ideals:

That’s a thin reed indeed, and in fact I see no separation whatsoever. Anarchy prevails betwixt the governments of the world. What is an individual laying claim to a house and a yard but a little government? My prescription for what ails the world: balkanization (all the way down to that schlub in his castle) and confederation mediated by Georgism.

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“Are you indignant that the plain text of the First Amendment has been so thoroughly obviated?”

October 26, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Freedom of Speech, Ioz

“Well, of course it has been.  There is no contract between the state and its subjects; the contract is with itself; the First Amendment isn’t a constraint on the power of government to fuck your shit up; it is a mere New Year’s Resolution; having used up that January membership at the gym, fatty is going to take a day off . . . two days off . . . well I’ll go back next week . . . mmmm are those double-stuff oreos? . . . nom nom nom crunch crunch crunch.” — Monsieur IOZ

“Perhaps you consider a skeptical pacifism childish; I say to you the moral life of children is superior in every way to a perpetual adolescence. Endorsing violence except at the uttermost end of need is monstrous; cheering it, even then, is evil.” (Updated)

August 29, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Ioz, Warmongers

“It is notable that the loudest cheerleaders of this war do not actually desire anything remotely resembling a revolution.  ‘As much as possible of the current bureaucracy, police and army should be retained,’ says Juan Cole, which unintentionally illustrates the truth: that this was not a revolution, not from the Euro-American perspective; it was a hit.  If Qaddafi were quite the Hitler he’s now supposed to be, or to have been, or whatever, then it would hardly do to keep his party apparatus in place.”

So says IOZ.

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“Thou art the I in Me”

August 07, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Ioz, Religion

I got in a religious debate of sorts in the comment thread on this post by IOZ, whose commentariat is comprised of commenters who, like IOZ himself, are in the main extremely clever and educated atheistic anarchists. There is an historic and understandable connection between anarchism and atheism (despite the fact that the founder of Stoicism, Zeno of Citium, who taught that the deity is an immortal and perfect living being and the providential “father of all,” is also regarded as the father of anarchism). Anarchism by definition means without rulers, and so would seem naturally inclined to reject the existence of a God whom we should obey and acknowledge as our Lord.

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IOZ is back with a vengeance . . .

August 03, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Ioz

. . . after “quitting” more than two months ago. Highly recommended:

What’s This Day of Rest Shit?

Ascribery

The Youkranian Famine

Some of my favorite bloggers are gay.

April 19, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Glenn Greenwald, Ioz

Glenn Greenwald

IOZ

Justin Raimondo

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