Grizzly Groundswell

By  BillWyldfyre

Dear Star Tribune,

I normally don’t write to you, I have found your paper and website to be extremely biased, however, this time I feel I need to say something. I am very concerned about a local group that wants to disrupt the Republican National Committee in September.

I am a law abiding citizen, and I am a Conservative Republican and yes one can be both. I read articles about a certain protest group, which I will not name because they do not deserve print space, buying taser weapons to attack citizens with at the RNC convention in September.

Being the kind of citizen who likes to be informed I went to their website and read the rhetoric and I found myself sick to my stomach. This group is “An anarchist / anti-authoritarian organizing body preparing for the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.”

Their goal is to use their freedom to assemble in order to protest the Republicans, which is legal and appropriate. Where the danger here is, they want to harm other people from peacefully assembling, only under a different philosophy, in September, and that is not legal and not right. To put it simply, they want to use their rights to infringe on the rights of others, but yet, they call for anarchy?

“An anarchist/anti-authoritarian organizing body” I wonder if this group knows what that means? Anarchy is defined as “a: absence of government b: a state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority c: utopian societies of individuals who enjoy complete freedom without government.”

I really wonder if this group that wants to disrupt the RNC Convention really wants anarchy? The government is what makes life possible in the USA, so to have complete anarchy means, we would be completely without government. This means that if someone wanted to dump pollution in Lake Calhoun, they could without penalty because there would be no government to stop them.

Let’s continue this line of thinking shall we?

If someone wanted to shoot people randomly on the street, they could because there would be no government to stop them.

If someone wanted to smoke in a public restaurant they could because there would be no government to stop them.

If you used your freedom of speech someone could kill you, harm you or imprison you without a trail or anything because, there are no laws in an anarchy.

If someone wanted to simply wanted to lock you away, they could in an anarchy.

If someone wanted to kill abortion doctors…well that is ok in anarchy.

If someone wanted to break into your home and rape you or a family member…that is ok in anarchy.

If someone wanted to oppress people because of race, sexual orientation or gender…that is ok in anarchy.

In true anarchy anything can happen at any time, or not happen, for example, without government, who would protect the environment? The government has ISO 14001 that governs the Environmental Management System “Organizations of all kinds are increasingly concerned with achieving and demonstrating sound environmental performance by controlling the impacts of their activities, products and services on the environment, consistent with their environmental policy and objectives. They do so in the context of increasingly stringent legislation, the development of economic policies and other measures that foster environmental protection, and increased concern expressed by interested parties about environmental matters and sustainable development.” (ISO 14001)

With anarchy, all regulations will be gone. Of course the corporations will be gone too, so things like, food, clothing, homes, electricity, heal care items, etc will also be gone.

Think about it, with true anarchy the government regulations that protect us with medical advances, like ISO 14385, or 21 CFR 820, which govern medical devices, like stints used for heart patients, or even machinery like CPAP machines, or even the common band aid, would not exist. You could not get flu shots, or even take an aspirin because the FDA would not exist either.

There would be no research of Stem Cells for example, of course, who cares right? With anarchy we could just simply kill people who got any disease because there would be no consequences if we did right?

With anarchy there would be no welfare, or social security because to be a true anarchy there would be no taxes, or money, or legal tender of any kind. You would have to either make your own stuff, or you would have to steal from others.

How about national healthcare? Well, with no regulations to keep health care honest, why even bother. Doctors could do anything they wanted, if you came in for a broken leg, you could find yourself missing a kidney because healthy kidneys are needed and could be sold, or traded. Doctors would not even want to do things like birth a baby, or maybe they would in order to sell the child into slavery, the possibilities are endless with anarchy.

Do you see the picture I am trying to paint here? These people who want to disrupt the RNC convention are mad; I understand, appreciate and respect their anger. They are against what the Republican Party is for…or are they? Truth is what they promote as a freedom of government or authority is very close to one of the many pillars of the Conservative movement. Conservatives want smaller government, we want less government interference, and we want government out of our daily lives, stealing our money and taking our property. We want government to be a necessity but not a burden on us. We want the freedom to live how we want to live, to say what we want to say and not to be condemned because we want to have a bar that smokers can go to without fear of a fine or penalty of the all powerful government.

Yet, these people, these anarchists, want tasers so they can add to the size of government and go further and further from anarchy. More tasers/weapons will mean more government policies, more government regulations, more restrictions, and of course more government people on hand during the RNC in St. Paul. Is that really what the anarchists want? Granted, they want to disrupt the Republican convention in St. Paul, they want to use their freedom to assemble to get out their message. However, isn’t the freedom of speech listed in the Constitution of the United States? Would this freedom be allowed in an anarchy.

So, before you donate money to the disrupt the RNC Convention cause, or show up in September with your taser and your anarchist idea think about what you have and enjoy in this country and remember that you are protected under the laws of this country…if there were no laws, nobody would be protected at all, and your voice could easily be silenced with no repercussions at all.

Let’s talk about it at Political Gravitas!

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