I will soon leave for St. Paul to demonstrate opposition to the empire, so I’ll be off the internet for a week. Upon my triumphant return to Jersey I hope to focus on more personal economic needs. That doesn’t mean that I won’t be blogging and subverting though. In the meantime, check out the other sections of darianworden.com linked to in the sidebar.

Here’s a video about my book:

Via Indymedia, I’ve found an interesting zine on less-lethal weapons. Though it’s references aren’t very formal, it seems like pretty solid information.

Today’s Anarchy in Your Head comic is a great commentary on how people try to pass off responsibility for political murder.

War happens by choice. Chance only brings us the options we can choose and when. Your choice ultimately does matter. So ask yourself, “what am I going to do about it?”

I have a new store that features anti-election gear: Anarchy For President.

The Mock Teh Vote logo was designed by Mike at nostate.com. Assuming the store doesn’t get taken down by an especially bogus copyright claim, I will add more products and designs in the coming weeks. I haven’t yet decided how to integrate this new store into my page, as I already have a Cafepress shop. I’ll probably just have the “store” link go to a menu page with links to both.

Tonight I saw a google ad for “anarchocapitalist revolution.” I thought “whoa, anarchocapitalists have a theory of revolution?” Unlike us market anarchists who use market forces against the state, anarchocapitalists seem pretty unimaginative when it comes to abolishing state power.

The link goes to a page advocating asymmetric warfare to destroy the state. It includes the following gem:

Is it ethical to kill children brought by government employees to their workplace, as Timothy McVeigh did in 1995?

Yes. In many cases, the only alternative would be to forgo targeting the government building, which would mean allowing the government’s violent aggression to continue. Moreover, avoiding such targets would create incentives to use children as human shields. The situation is similar to one in which a bank robber holds his child in one arm as he points a gun at the teller with the other. If the child perishes in the crossfire, it is the robber’s fault for bringing him. Similarly, it is the fault of the parent and of the government if a child dies in a terrorist attack on a government facility. It is worth noting that in the long run, allowing the government to continue operating will likely result in the death of more children than would be lost in anarcho-capitalist revolution. Noncombatants have borne the brunt of most wars waged by the U.S. Government, with killed children being dismissed as acceptable collateral damage.

Personally I am not against the use of violence, in fact I am strongly pro self-defense. I do not believe in a revolution that swears off violence, but a revolution that allows violence is far different from one that focuses on violence. The former yields a world where people are willing to defend themselves individually and collectively, with arms if necessary.  The latter, a revolution focused on bombs and assassination, will yield little besides bombs and assassination.

One must also recognize that any time violence is used, an innocent person can die, but it is the duty of the fighter to do whatever he can to prevent it.  Should an armed man break into your apartment, a few .40 caliber bullets at his body is an acceptable response.  Firing a heavy machine gun at him is not.  Neither is blowing up the block that he came from.

Blowing up the government will do nothing when there is nothing to take its place.  Screw you government wannabes, I’ll take counter-culture and counter-economics.  The market holds more useful power than all the ammonium nitrate in the world.  I’ll be building freedom while you decide who is guilty of supporting the rival gang.

There is of course, the possibility that this site is set up by the feds, but I think it’s just a desperate man with bad ideas.  Admittedly I didn’t look at it much, don’t plan to look at it anymore, and I’m too tired to be writing with great coherence.

I decided to look into using Zazzle after conversing with Mike Gogulski about making Mock Teh Vote shirts. Hopefully they will be available this week.

While I was learning about Zazzle services, I came across an amusing forum thread. Someone who thinks it’s original to sell artsy shirts featuring a certain wannabe emperor is miffed about a “Design Thief,” who apparently used the same stock photo of Obama to make their own stupid design. Make sure to read the whole thread.

Actual artistic plagiarism is a real asshole thing to do, but I think this is really funny. Someone trying to cash in on an aspiring leader of the world’s largest robber gang is crying about another loser stealing his/her/whocares ideas. Is that irony we can believe in?

In a related matter, I think a good discussion topic is: what is the most pathetic aspect of election ‘08?

Obamamania?

The Ron Paul cult?

The fact that someone would actually put a McCain sticker on his car?

Rudy Giuliani’s 9/11-times-0.00000001-scale fall from importance?

Libertarians for Barr and Root?

Is Ralph Nader running again?

The amount of money being put into the whole spectacle?

The belief that this election will change enough to make it worth great effort?

The ideology that holds “as long as our guy is in power things will be okay”?

All of the above?

Other?

On this page you will find “Selections from HP Lovecraft’s Brief Tenure as a Whitman’s Sampler Copywriter.”

White Chocolate Truffle

What black arts could have stripped this chocolate of its natural hue? The horror of the unearthly, corpselike pallor of this truffle’s complexion is only offset by its fiendish deliciousness.

Hat tip to Wally Conger.

A new radical activist organization is emerging in New Jersey. The New Jersey Alliance of the Libertarian Left works for a free society through information campaigns, coalition building, and creative activism.

NJ ALL members may be individually involved in several organizations and causes, but as a group we are affiliated only with the Alliance of the Libertarian Left.

“The Alliance of the Libertarian Left is a multi-tendency coalition of mutualists, agorists, voluntaryists, geolibertarians, left-Rothbardians, green libertarians, dialectical anarchists, radical minarchists, and others on the libertarian left, united by an opposition to statism and militarism, to cultural intolerance (including sexism, racism, and homophobia), and to the prevailing corporatist capitalism falsely called a free market; as well as by an emphasis on education, direct action, and building alternative institutions, rather than on electoral politics, as our chief strategy for achieving liberation.” – Alliance of the Libertarian Left, all-left.net

We struggle for a world absent coercion, a world of individual liberty, voluntary cooperation, truly free markets, and mutual aid.

WASHINGTON, DC – Early this morning the Bush administration announced a new plan to resolve the South Ossetia crisis. The president proposed that the matter be decided in a fistfight between himself and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

In an announcement that startled the world, President George W. Bush announced “Vlad the Terrible here thinks he can tell my boy Saakashvili what to do with his troops in his own country. I’m telling you right now: I’m not going to let that happen.”

Bush predicted the outcome would be “like the fall of the Berlin wall” with the exception that “It will be my fists knocking down Vladimir’s face.”

Former KGB agent Putin eagerly accepted the challenge and was quick to claim that he would be the winner of this fight.

“I have split logs with this man, President Bush,” the Prime Minister stated, “and he swings axe like little girl. I can so take him.”

The response did not appear to frighten Bush, who was confident of victory “unless Putin can multiply like them crazy Russian dolls.”

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Bush’s proposal has precedents in international law, and presents an opportunity that the President will be “very successful” with.

“Erich Maria Remarque proposed a similar method of conflict resolution in 1929,” Rice stated. “President Bush has been physically training for years in the event that a worthy opponent presented himself. We are now faced with a unique opportunity to use all the President’s diplomatic skills to shape the world properly.”

US presidential hopefuls expressed differing views on the proposal. Republican John McCain applauded the President’s move, adding “Dubya knows I got his back. I may be old, but I can swing these mitts.” Democrat Barack Obama initially labeled the proposal “childish.” After receiving criticism for his apparent lack of manliness, he issued a statement saying, “We are beyond the stage when one leader can simply challenge another to determine the fate of nations. I support a measure involving a coalition of at least five European statesmen to hold down Putin while the President pounds him into borscht. That’s a beating we can believe in.”

The two men are expected to meet at an unspecified swingset in Germany to “duke it out.” A proposal by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to resolve the situation using a cabor toss contest was quickly rejected by the Whitehouse as “not badass enough.”

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Metallica has a new song on their Myspace. It’s no Master of Puppets, but it’s not bad. I’m glad they remembered what a guitar solo is.

In other news, it looks like they won’t be too busy suing people to do a real tour.