Recipes For Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook: Download as PDF
Not sure if I’m breaking any laws by distributing this book, but if I am, it’s probably a good idea to say I don’t condone any of the practises in it. Not even the nice ones or the stuff about turning a bike into a record player. As if saying that would make any difference anyway. It’s an interesting read and, with the upcoming G20 summit, it seems topical.
So yeah, fuck it, I do condone these practises.
What I refuse to condone is the police state completely fucking up my city for no good reason. I refuse to condone these G20 motherfuckers wrecking Roy Halladay’s homecoming. How the hell are you supposed to be on their side when they pull some shit like that? I would sooner seem any manner of obscenity visited upon our dear PM than see Roy get a blister on his finger.
I’d also like to suggest some tactics.
During the revolt in Hungary, the people used quite a bit of deception against the oppressive Soviet forces. Lacking mines or, at least, many real ones, they used plenty of dupes which the Soviets had to treat as real, thus using up energy, diverting their tanks and often being led into ambushes. Deception is always an effective tactic. Even more so when you are outnumbered and out-gunned. Responding to the imaginary interferes with your enemy’s ability to respond to the real.
And no one is easier to fool than a paranoid.
Is our state paranoid? I’d say so. I mean, look how it responds to unauthorized blinking lights.
As much as it hates unlicensed blinking lights, it really seems to hate suspicious white powder. Any white powder in the context of a protest is suspicious. If I was the sort of person to be out there throwing rocks –and I’m not– I would think about bags of flour instead. A rock will merely bounce off a well-armoured policeman. But flour? I’m betting white powder occasions an evacuation and a trip to the doctor. They really overreact to white powder. Just ask Steven Paige.
And I’m not advocating throwing a bunch of flour around. It’d be a shame to see something that can used to bake bread being weaponized; that is, wasted. An obscenity actually. But this whole situation seems pretty obscene anyway.
You should also be warned – I’m pretty sure you’d be breaking a whole bunch of laws by doing that and it’s not like I’m going to show up in court for you or hire you a lawyer or any shit. So it’s up to your own best judgement. As always.
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