U. Utah Phillips - 6

From his performance at the Spring 2007 Strawberry Music Festival, part 6. He discusses Ammon Hennessey. George Carlin's take on this issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk I think the three of them would agree.

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[catinger]

Absolutely wonderful. If only there were more like him! The future is in this mans story - we none of us need others to tell us what to do -ESPECIALLY politicians! Do not vote it simply encourages them!! Thanks Utah!

[07rebelde]

RIP fellow worker

[jjjj360]

@crichard3rd

Freedom of choice? Whos choice? Yours?

Sorry buddy, in my world just becaues theres 100 of you idiots, doesnt mean that even one of you know better then me.

[Rykemasters]

Voting within the system we currently have is of no worth to any anarchist end. It's done once every four years to hand our decisional power to someone else, and someone virtually unaccountable to boot, and we call it democracy. We don't get to choose who we vote for, only two, or very seldom three politicians, make it to the point where voting for them makes a difference, and it's not because they're the only ones with ideas. It's no use to vote if you can't be represented properly.

[crichard3rd]

I say that if you don't vote you have no right to complain about the final decision. It's about freedom of voice.

[Mrmagnetobobbydeluxe]

hahaha voting is nessesary, i think not. You are voting for the hand of power that makes you want to vote for something else in the first place. Voting is counter productive and a waste of energy. You are voting for the corrupt system whenever you vote even if he or she seems true to peace.

[LovexandxRage]

Perhaps it be necessary to distinguish the type of voting we're speaking of first. Given the context in which you put it, I can agree.

[mowgli2071]

If you want to make a treaty, you can't have the foreign party making individual treaties with EVERY SINGLE CITIZEN. That's just off the top of my head. If you want government by proposition, where everyone says yeah or nay (um, by the way, don't look now, but that's voting) to EVERY law, that's valid, but be prepared for some of the problems that we see with communities (like CA) that have a lot of propsitions, only more so. Anarchy means no king. A situation with no laws, results in ANOCRACY.

[LovexandxRage]

I negate your negation by saying that voting is counter to anarchy because it is giving power to some representative instead of community organization and direct action. Communication is key, that's why a community doesn't need one to speak for them.

[mowgli2071]

I disagree. Voting is FUNDAMENTAL to anarchy. If you wish to discourage the ocurrance of kings, communication is key. Voting is simply one form of communication. it'd be like saying "the mail is carried by the government, therefore there is something wrong with it." Ralph Nader says: "If you're turned off to politics, politics will TURN ON YOU." But if you're lazy, then I guess you shouldn't vote. Politics is hard, to lazy people, because it means you have to THINK, and using your brain is hard.