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