{"id":13165,"date":"2012-05-02T11:05:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=13165"},"modified":"2012-05-02T11:05:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T16:05:57","slug":"thugs-attacking-private-property-arent-anarchists-theyre-vandals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=13165","title":{"rendered":"Thugs attacking private property aren&#8217;t anarchists; they&#8217;re vandals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Seattle-vandals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13166\" title=\"Seattle vandals\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Seattle-vandals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Seattle-vandals.jpg 920w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Seattle-vandals-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The people in this picture are among the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2018118244_apwamaydayprotestsseattle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Occupy rioters in Seattle on May Day<\/a>. They&#8217;re breaking windows and destroying private property. (Click the picture for a bigger view.) Based on the &#8220;anarchy&#8221; logo they were plastering on the property they were destroying, I&#8217;m sure they believe they&#8217;re anarchists. They&#8217;re not. They&#8217;re just vandals and criminals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I wrote at length earlier about the fact that <a title=\"Are these guys anarchists or just punks who want to destroy things?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=13130\" target=\"_blank\">those who want a government to enforce their political views aren&#8217;t really anarchists<\/a>, so I won&#8217;t repeat most of that here. I only want to say that if you&#8217;re the kind of vandal who dresses in black and destroys private property, that doesn&#8217;t make you some anarchist hero. It just makes you a punk and a vandal who&#8217;s destroying things that don&#8217;t belong to you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The coercive state is the enemy. The people in the streets Tuesday agree that the current state is the enemy, but most of them want something far worse &#8212; a new coercive state that would be even more monstrous than what we already have. They&#8217;re not anarchists. They&#8217;re Bolsheviks intent on giving the Soviet Union another try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people in this picture are among the Occupy rioters in Seattle on May Day. They&#8217;re breaking windows and destroying private property. (Click the picture for a bigger view.) Based on the &#8220;anarchy&#8221; logo they were plastering on the property they were destroying, I&#8217;m sure they believe they&#8217;re anarchists. They&#8217;re not. They&#8217;re just vandals and <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=13165\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-3ql","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13165"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13176,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165\/revisions\/13176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}