Everywhere you look

“While filming a police line at Occupy Oakland after midnight on Nov. 3 following the Nov. 2 general strike, an officer opens fire and shoots me with a rubber bullet. I was standing well back. There was no violence or confrontations of any kind underway. At 0:31 seconds you can see a tall officer in the front raise his weapon and then fire. This is the full clip of the incident.”

Originally, this was tagged as “anarchy”. But it’s not. Anarchy is not lawlessness, chaos and destruction. In the most general sense, anarchy just means not being ruled by others. Anarchists still respect others and their property. For if an anarchist claims the right to destroy property that does not belong to him, he is not an anarchist, but a chaoticist.