Attack on Army Cadet base in Bristol
Random Anarchists | 29.08.2014 10:25
We took action In the build up to the NATO summit who will meet in Newport to continue their power mongering disguised as benevolent international peacekeeping. To be clear, this ‘peace’ they want to keep is that of the capitalist order: the ‘peace’ of producing, consuming and obeying.
NATOs rhetoric of democracy and human rights hides its aggressive colonisation force as it moves into areas strategic for resources and political control. Meanwhile, on the ‘home front’ the role of suppressing the ‘internal enemy’ is quite clear. NATO, aware of the insurrection that flared up during the ‘Arab Spring’ just below the Mediterranean border outlined the ‘Urban Operations in the year 2020’ report envisaging “scenarios of armies engaged manually to suffocate the revolts of the poor in the suburbs of big western towns”. The powers that be are clearly honing this type of counter-insurgency warfare as much as interstate military conflict in the darkening future of further societal breakdown, economic and ecological catastrophes.
We chose the Army Cadet base in north-east Bristol, burning 1 car and 1 minibus. as an example of the ways in which militarisation works its way into the fabric of daily life. In recent years, Schools Commissioner Elizabeth Sidewell suggested that every school should have a combined Cadet force “to increase the armed forces everyday contact and influence with young people” in order to ensure the continued support of the population. The presence of the military even in schools is presented as just a natural part of ‘community’ and that competition, discipline and top down obedience are necessary characteristics.
We are in solidarity with those who took to the streets 3 years ago in August 2011, as well as those who have recently been on the streets of Ferguson, another area currently receiving military treatment. Following these insurrectionary moments the government saw one of the functions of its push for more cadets and military involvement in education in general as being to keep young people out of trouble and from being ‘anti-social’. The Phoenix School in Oldham, military academies and others are all manifestations of this promotion of blind discipline and nationalism.
FIRE TO THE MILITARY!
NATOs rhetoric of democracy and human rights hides its aggressive colonisation force as it moves into areas strategic for resources and political control. Meanwhile, on the ‘home front’ the role of suppressing the ‘internal enemy’ is quite clear. NATO, aware of the insurrection that flared up during the ‘Arab Spring’ just below the Mediterranean border outlined the ‘Urban Operations in the year 2020’ report envisaging “scenarios of armies engaged manually to suffocate the revolts of the poor in the suburbs of big western towns”. The powers that be are clearly honing this type of counter-insurgency warfare as much as interstate military conflict in the darkening future of further societal breakdown, economic and ecological catastrophes.
We chose the Army Cadet base in north-east Bristol, burning 1 car and 1 minibus. as an example of the ways in which militarisation works its way into the fabric of daily life. In recent years, Schools Commissioner Elizabeth Sidewell suggested that every school should have a combined Cadet force “to increase the armed forces everyday contact and influence with young people” in order to ensure the continued support of the population. The presence of the military even in schools is presented as just a natural part of ‘community’ and that competition, discipline and top down obedience are necessary characteristics.
We are in solidarity with those who took to the streets 3 years ago in August 2011, as well as those who have recently been on the streets of Ferguson, another area currently receiving military treatment. Following these insurrectionary moments the government saw one of the functions of its push for more cadets and military involvement in education in general as being to keep young people out of trouble and from being ‘anti-social’. The Phoenix School in Oldham, military academies and others are all manifestations of this promotion of blind discipline and nationalism.
FIRE TO THE MILITARY!
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Are you fucking kidding me?
05.09.2014 08:05
Aside from how badly this reflects on the movement as a whole and the fact that this will *only* hurt a group of working class youths who are probably only even in the cadets for social and activity reasons (which I'm sure I'll be derided as a liberal for even bringing up), how does this even make sense tactically or strategically?
This won't hider the ability of NATO to operate in the slightest, it won't contribute to building a movement that could hinder NATO's ability to operate and frankly just comes across as some bored, macho idiots doing something for the sake of doing it.
Mr56
Poor standard of commenting.
05.09.2014 10:40
Yup - of course the army cadets have nothing to do with the army, or militarism.
"Aside from how badly this reflects on the movement as a whole"
The movement as a whole, like society as a whole of is made up of many different constituents. You appear to think it should pander to the most liberal, and effectively do nothing.
"and the fact that this will *only* hurt a group of working class youths who are probably only even in the cadets for social and activity reasons (which I'm sure I'll be derided as a liberal for even bringing up), how does this even make sense tactically or strategically?"
Why don't working class youths have anywhere else to undertake socialising and activities except in a training school for militarism? Maybe you provide an alternative where they learn about this movement as a 'whole'? or do you just sit there at your computer and criticise others?
"This won't hider the ability of NATO to operate in the slightest, it won't contribute to building a movement that could hinder NATO's ability to operate"
You don't give us any clues as to how to build this movement that will hinder NATOs ability to bomb other countries after creating a panic through disinformation. So, are you just trolling perhaps?
"and frankly just comes across as some bored, macho idiots doing something for the sake of doing it."
Aah diddums. You support training working class kids as killers for the imperialists and you don't tell us what the alternatives are.
Perhaps you're just a weak liberal with nothing better to do.
But more likely you're a troll
Kiss my arse solja
Amazing
05.09.2014 11:00
Honestly, if this is the level of wit I'm going to be engaging with, I'm not sure I can be arsed. It is entirely possible to think both that militarism is shit and that this action was fucking moronic. See also your bizarre accusation that I am "creating a panic through disinformation" by expressing my complete and total contempt for this marginal act of stupidity.
"Why don't working class youths have anywhere else to undertake socialising and activities except in a training school for militarism? Maybe you provide an alternative where they learn about this movement as a 'whole'? or do you just sit there at your computer and criticise others?"
Oh, definitely the second one. Everybody who disagrees with the vanishingly small milieu of firebugs with trust funds who pass for the UK's insurrectionary anarchists is completely inactive and in no way involved with any other political activity.
Mr56
Bring the war home
05.09.2014 11:21
Give 'em a holiday in Gaza.
lol
Every little helps Mr56
05.09.2014 22:23
I think many of us find it amusing :-)
"See also your bizarre accusation that I am "creating a panic through disinformation" by expressing my complete and total contempt for this marginal act of stupidity. "
Nope that was directed at the state propaganda machine. I don't think 'concerned of Tunbridge Wells' type comments such as yours cause panic, merely boredom.
"Everybody who disagrees with the vanishingly small milieu of firebugs with trust funds who pass for the UK's insurrectionary anarchists is completely inactive and in no way involved with any other political activity."
LOL - if you know who they are why not tell your commanding officer?
Kiss my arse solja
support available in the aftermath
09.09.2014 10:37
wellbeing WG