[lbo-talk] Anarchist US soldiers 'plotted government overthrow'

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Thu Aug 30 10:58:38 PDT 2012


On 8/30/2012 9:31 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote:


>> I was wondering by what criteria did they get to be called anarchist?
>
> This might just be the usual conflation between what is generally known
> as anarchism -- the idea that the State is undesirable or harmful -- and
> the specific jargon used by individual organizations, either on the left
> or the right.
>
> The quote "give the country back to the people" came up in the trial;
> I'll bet that's the germ of it.
>
> Everything I've seen is that the term was used by the prosecutor, so
> take that for what it's worth.

Tattoos.

http://gawker.com/anarchists/

Prosecutors don't know how many members the group had. And aside from the vague reference to an "anarchy symbol" tattoo, there's no indication of what their political motivations were.



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