![]() ![]() The Watsonians are an aristocracy of egalitarians, they are Taoist overachievers, when yuppies tout workers’ councils they smell a Rat. Any other anarchist can be trimmed to fit, the Watsonian throws one. A Watsonian is a loose cannon, he is over the edge. She wrote The Anarchist Cookbookchin, he promises a chicken in every Kropotkin, if you prefer Ravachol with cheese, Spooner in, it’s the Most! God damn, I De Cleyre, that’s a Comfort if I Read you alright. Neither an individualist, capitalist, right-wing ‘type 1’ anarchist nor a collectivism socialist, left-wing ‘type 2’ anarchist, he is a type 3 anarchist and nobody’s fool. ![]() She is almost as anathema to the authorities as he is to the anti-authoritarians. On a scale from left to right, the Watsonian is off on a tangent. They regard Little Hans as a political prisoner, they delight that Dora survived the rapist Freud’s joyless ministrations and grew up just in time for her attentat against Lenin. Indeed, Watsonians don’t play roles, they enact schiz. He declines whatever role the Invisible Government assigns her in the ideological division of labour, even the production of “biting fliers” for the amusement of anarchist jades. She is a pathological truth-teller and so he is viewed with suspicion and hatred by anti- authoritarians. And she thinks punk anarchists are, to paraphrase Celine, “much better firewood than a violin.” (Even a little better than an electric guitar.) Genetically he sports the signature ‘Z’ chromosome. He is outside of and arrayed against the anarchist milieu in every form. Before Amdur was, I am.Ī Watsonian anarchist spurns all the other hyphenated anarchists, mutualist-, syndicalist-, capitalist-, etc. No member of a minority or deviant subculture feels more alienated than I did the day I joined the only other occupants of the library, a transvestite, a lesbian, and a dwarf.) But if I was the first to follow the Bigfoot tracks laid down by Amdur (since lapsed into the obscurity from which the police briefly raised him) I now know that I am not alone. (I always felt a bit out of place among the earnest activists of the ACLU. I am a Watsonian anarchist and will stand on my constitutional rights.’Ī Watsonian anarchist! Right then and there as I dawdled in the library of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California I knew that I, too, was a Watsonian anarchist, whatever that was, come what may. Whereupon Amdur uttered the words which would make him a criminal and forever a part of the law of the land: ‘Go ahead and arrest me. As Amdur had no permit, he was told to move along or face arrest. ![]() Amdur as he manfully manned his table, stocked with literature decrying the Smith Act and the trial of the Rosenbergs. On February 6, 1953, a police officer accosted Reuel S. Skinhead? Or the Dr Watson who came under the influence of his good friend Morlock Holmes? First the facts. People v Amdur is one of the mental-casebooks, for it asks the burning question: ‘What is a Watsonian anarchist?’ Is he a follower of the Watson who invented misbehaviourism, such as B. When lawyers get their hands on a historic case they are wont to say ‘this is one for the casebooks’. This insight, though, does not begin to exhaust the riches of the decision. Although over thirty years have elapsed, as I contemplate anarchists like Jeff Strahl and Kevin Keating doing the same thing on the same spot today, I cannot gainsay the essential justice of this ruling. In this 1954 decision, the court held that an anarchist who sets up a literature table near Sather Gate in Berkeley campus is guilty of creating a public nuisance. Researching nuisance law (as if there was any other kind) I discovered People v Amdur, 123 Cal. It was at work that I was driven into gridlock on the Damascus Road. The official reading is abolition of work - to prepare us for an event of lbc hosting bob black on friday 8/7/15.Ī short entirely optional addition is this piece by bob, published in black eye (out of new york), in which he displays a joie de vivre, his vaunted word play, and a twisty fun sensibility that one could almost call prescient. ![]()
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