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donnay
06-01-2013, 08:40 AM
Woody Harrelson: I'm an anarchist


DETAILS: Do you want to get more involved in politics?

Woody Harrelson: No. I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.

Source:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2013/05/woody-harrelson-im-an-anarchist-165139.html?ml=po_r

talkingpointes
06-01-2013, 08:44 AM
What an idiot. People can look after themselves. Yeah, ok. I suppose he wants 92% unemployment and for people to starve in the streets. I'm sure this guy thinks police are dangerous too. Without government Woody - Who makes us free, -myself.

How dare he talk to master like that -- how dare you!! /sarc

tangent4ronpaul
06-01-2013, 08:54 AM
"I tend to not like politicians, because it's a subtle form of prostitution. Or maybe not so subtle."

"It's all synchronized swimming to me. They all kneel and kiss the ring."

-t

Danan
06-01-2013, 09:02 AM
What's up with all the comment sections of the various news websites lately? It used to be the case that libertarian and especially anarcho-capitalist ideas were ridiculed, but lately it seems to be the other way around. Are we an internet majority already?

Edit: I believe it has to do with the outsourcing of the comments to "disqus".

angelatc
06-01-2013, 10:53 AM
What an idiot. People can look after themselves. Yeah, ok. I suppose he wants 92% unemployment and for people to starve in the streets. I'm sure this guy thinks police are dangerous too. Without government Woody - Who makes us free, -myself.

How dare he talk to master like that -- how dare you!! /sarc


LOL! Yes, I went "WTF?"

Just because he doesn't believe in politics doesn't mean they don't exist.

I suppose that I believe what Woody says to a point, but the reality is that we're never going to live in anarchy. The best we can do is to use the political system to try to reduce the size and scope of government.

Neil Desmond
06-01-2013, 11:34 AM
My high school earth science teacher told us she dated him in college.

MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2
06-01-2013, 11:37 AM
LOL! Yes, I went "WTF?"

Just because he doesn't believe in politics doesn't mean they don't exist.


Most people who say that mean "I don't believe [in participating] in politics." They're the non voters who largely understand that they aren't in the club.

heavenlyboy34
06-01-2013, 11:39 AM
LOL! Yes, I went "WTF?"

Just because he doesn't believe in politics doesn't mean they don't exist.

I suppose that I believe what Woody says to a point, but the reality is that we're never going to live in anarchy. The best we can do is to use the political system to try to reduce the size and scope of government.
The anarchists are no more or less realistic than constitutionalists and general republicans. /rant

Lucille
06-01-2013, 11:42 AM
DETAILS: You're an advocate for legalizing marijuana. Do you think recent events make it more likely?

Woody Harrelson: I can't imagine that it's going to happen, no. The deeper issue is, what does it mean to live in a free country? In the U.S., something like 80 percent of people in prison are there for "consensual crimes." The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy—we fight wars for capitalism and for oil. I keep coming back to the same goddamn subject. I guess because it's what really bugs me the most.

Read More http://www.details.com/celebrities-entertainment/movies-and-tv/201306/woody-harrelson-game-change-hunger-games-sequel-films#ixzz2UzHZrlXb

Oh, Woody. You had me until you said that.

Carson
06-01-2013, 11:43 AM
He's definitely a free flying spirit.

The article left me wanting more and ready to party. Then I found this link in it.

http://www.details.com/celebrities-entertainment/movies-and-tv/201306/woody-harrelson-game-change-hunger-games-sequel-films#ixzz2UtGCIWMY

Danan
06-01-2013, 11:51 AM
Oh, Woody. You had me until you said that.

Sadly anti-capitalism is still predominent in academia, counter-culture, youth-culture, etc. We need to tackle and change that in order to get clever people who see much of the BS the government is doing to draw the right (libertarian) conclusions.

amy31416
06-01-2013, 11:55 AM
Sadly anti-capitalism is still predominent in academia, counter-culture, youth-culture, etc. We need to tackle and change that in order to get clever people who see much of the BS the government is doing to draw the right (libertarian) conclusions.

Maybe these dummies need to realize that being anti-capitalism is being anti-lemonade stands. Anti-3rd-world trinkets being sold. Anti-Trader Joe's or farmer's markets.

It's not Monsanto and Northrup Grumman--that's corporatism.

Antischism
06-01-2013, 03:30 PM
A lot of so-called anti-capitalists have their hearts in the right place, it's just that they confuse true free market capitalism with the corporatism of today, and draw the conclusion that it's evil (which it is) except that we don't really have a true capitalist system. They hear the word CAPITALISM and their disdain for money or the love of money being paramount to all other things in life including compassion for the less fortunate brings them to want a more socialistic system.

It has now become our job to educate these people and present our side; our case. But ultimately, one thing we can agree on with a lot of them is foreign policy. Let that be the cause that unites us all, for the decades of imperialism must come to an end, first and foremost, before we can move forward as a country once again.

NIU Students for Liberty
06-01-2013, 06:28 PM
A lot of so-called anti-capitalists have their hearts in the right place, it's just that they confuse true free market capitalism with the corporatism of today, and draw the conclusion that it's evil (which it is) except that we don't really have a true capitalist system. They hear the word CAPITALISM and their disdain for money or the love of money being paramount to all other things in life including compassion for the less fortunate brings them to want a more socialistic system.

It has now become our job to educate these people and present our side; our case. But ultimately, one thing we can agree on with a lot of them is foreign policy. Let that be the cause that unites us all, for the decades of imperialism must come to an end, first and foremost, before we can move forward as a country once again.

I forgot who it was (it wasn't Rothbard) but I read an essay on anarchist law in which the author wanted to refer to anarch-capitalism as anarcho-libertarianism in order to ditch the stigma attached to "capitalism".

green73
06-01-2013, 06:32 PM
LOL! Yes, I went "WTF?"

Just because he doesn't believe in politics doesn't mean they don't exist.

I suppose that I believe what Woody says to a point, but the reality is that we're never going to live in anarchy. The best we can do is to use the political system to try to reduce the size and scope of government.

I guess you missed the /sarc bit.

Danan
06-01-2013, 06:36 PM
I forgot who it was (it wasn't Rothbard) but I read an essay on anarchist law in which the author wanted to refer to anarch-capitalism as anarcho-libertarianism in order to ditch the stigma attached to "capitalism".

That would be the wrong way forward, imho. We should remove the stigma attached to "capitalism" by explaining why capitalism is great! Or else we end up with people who call themselves libertarians/anarcho-libertarians, but advocate against the free market whenever it's about their pet issues, be it minimum wages, free trade, healthcare, social security, free banking, etc.

Anti Federalist
06-01-2013, 06:44 PM
Oh, Woody. You had me until you said that.

But it's true.

My Uncle Smedley said the same thing 80 years ago:


“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.” ― Smedley D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

This system we have now, it isn't a free market, free exchange system.

It hasn't been since the "Progressive Era" basically.

What a trick huh? Like Satan, really, wrapping fascism up and selling as "progressive".

Fascism, the merging of the government and corporate into a self perpetuating system of tyranny, all presented to a numb population as "democracy" and "consumer freedom".

angelatc
06-01-2013, 07:07 PM
Identifying the problem isn't the solution.

Napolitanic Wars
06-01-2013, 07:15 PM
Woody's dad, Charles Harrelson, went to prison for killing a Judge. It has been suggested he was involved in the plot to kill Kennedy.

http://jfkmurdersolved.com/slide/DSC00057.JPG

http://jfkmurdersolved.com/slide/DSC00049.JPG

http://jfkmurdersolved.com/slide/DSC00051.JPG

http://jfkmurdersolved.com/slide/DSC00052.JPG

http://jfkmurdersolved.com/slide/DSC00056.JPG


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpVlqh14WHY

oyarde
06-01-2013, 10:30 PM
Woody's dad, Charles Harrelson, went to prison for killing a Judge. It has been suggested he was involved in the plot to kill Kennedy.

http://jfkmurdersolved.com/slide/DSC00057.JPG

http://jfkmurdersolved.com/slide/DSC00049.JPG

http://jfkmurdersolved.com/slide/DSC00051.JPG

http://jfkmurdersolved.com/slide/DSC00052.JPG

http://jfkmurdersolved.com/slide/DSC00056.JPG


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpVlqh14WHY

San Antonio judge, who pd him ?

talkingpointes
06-01-2013, 10:43 PM
LOL! Yes, I went "WTF?"

Just because he doesn't believe in politics doesn't mean they don't exist.

I suppose that I believe what Woody says to a point, but the reality is that we're never going to live in anarchy. The best we can do is to use the political system to try to reduce the size and scope of government.

I used to believe that as well. Until I realized that politics is more like an illusion.(we are not welcome at the table) Just like everything else in life it is dictated and ran by rules, except in this game only one side has to follow the rules. The only way to ever become free essentially is to see it as a mirage.

Most people I have ever known that were not Ron Paul type people tended to be very angry and used politics as a place to vent hate and disgust. I think that is what makes it seem to misdirected and misplaced. When someone has a differing opinion in most cases in real life the go to discussion tactic is intimidation. Which is fairly revealing.

I don't doubt that political action has ever solved anything it's just in almost 99% of cases it ends bad. No government in history has gone out quietly into the night. Unless it was from sickness or immediate famine. Most certainly no government has reversed course with just direct political action. Generally any gains I have seen like 1800-1825 British Parliament, was rolled right back into empire mode when they seen money flowing back into the coffers.

Lucille
11-24-2014, 02:58 PM
Woody Harrelson: 'I'm [still] an anarchist'
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/11/20/woody-harrelson-hunger-games-mockingjay-jennifer-lawrence/19271883/


And Harrelson himself understands Katniss' unwillingness to live by rules that are meaningless to her.

"I'm an anarchist. You've got to defy certain unnecessary rules. But there are certain very good rules around traffic that are not adhered to in this town. I'm one of the idiots breaking them," says Harrelson, who rode to this interview on his motorcycle, with his wife, Laura, sitting behind him. "For the important ones, I'm always on target. I had precious cargo in the back. That's not even funny."

Harrelson lives mostly in Hawaii with his wife and three daughters, staying largely out of the spotlight. So how does his rebelliousness manifest itself?

"I don't believe in government. In other words, I think we can all look after ourselves. You want some mechanism that controls the traffic, absolutely. But generally, what the government accomplishes, 99% of that is (expletive)," he says. "I look at government as businessmen working for bigger businessmen. There's obvious things — don't steal, the Ten Commandments. There's what we call victimless crimes. In my opinion, if you don't actually have a victim who's a human being, someone who's been hurt or their property has been hurt, there's no crime."

anaconda
11-24-2014, 06:44 PM
Identifying the problem isn't the solution.

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names”

anaconda
11-24-2014, 06:49 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeS4QVdM1Bg

Dianne
11-24-2014, 06:51 PM
Why do you have to be an anarchist, not to want a government? I don't want a government, they suck... they do nothing but line their own pockets as they steal every dime we have.

I'm all for dumping the office of President, dumping the Congress.. They are counterproductive, ineffective, criminal, corrupt, deceptive.. Save we the taxpayer billions by getting rid of them.

staerker
11-24-2014, 08:01 PM
Why do you have to be an anarchist, not to want a government? I don't want a government, they suck... they do nothing but line their own pockets as they steal every dime we have.

I'm all for dumping the office of President, dumping the Congress.. They are counterproductive, ineffective, criminal, corrupt, deceptive.. Save we the taxpayer billions by getting rid of them.

Huh? Isn't that the very definition of an anarchist?

TheTexan
11-24-2014, 08:19 PM
If we didn't have government to feed and take care of the poor and elderly, they would riot in the streets and kill everybody. Especially the elderly. They rely on government the most, and therefore riot the most.

It would be... anarchy.

TheTexan
11-24-2014, 08:22 PM
I suppose that I believe what Woody says to a point, but the reality is that we're never going to live in anarchy. The best we can do is to use the political system to try to reduce the size and scope of government.

Good enough for me. Let's keep up the great work, people.