People v. State

To the So-Called 53%: Stop Embarrassing Yourselves, by Kevin Carson at the Center for a Stateless Society (republished in its entirety below):

One of the corporate establishment’s favorite tricks for countering dissent is fake populism — dismissing as “class warfare” any critique of genuine privilege while misdirecting the working class’s resentment toward the underclass.

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[with apologies to Benjamin Tucker]

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I have a confession to make. One of my early posts on this blog was ripped off in its entirety from an article by Thomas Knapp at the Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS). In my defense, his article was titled “Steal This Column.” Also in my defense, the C4SS encourages such wanton theft:

Take our content, please!

All content on this site is available for republishing under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license.

We want you to copy and distribute this stuff as widely as possible. That’s what we’re here for!

You don’t have to ask our permission. That’s what the Creative Commons licensing is for. Everybody has permission already. Just do it.

If you want to be nice, you can include a link back to us, but the only requirement is to provide attribution to the author and C4SS.

Because the authors at the C4SS so often say things I wish I’d said, I plan to take them up on their offer and steal their content more often. And I couldn’t begin my thievery with a better article than the one posted today by Kevin Carson and copied and pasted in its entirety below by me:

Bradley Manning: One Soldier Who Really Did “Defend Our Freedom”

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