Police have raided several Northeast Portland homes taken over by anarchists who claimed they were part of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Police were tipped off about the situation Sunday. Responding officers found that the squatters had changed the locks on the homes.
Inside they found anarchist literature, drugs and weapons, including machetes.
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“There’s the body armor in there, the bucket of projectiles: broken up concrete, rocks,” Portland Police Sgt. Jeff McDaniel told KGW. “There was some body-armor-type stuff for someone who might want to fight the police for one of the protests.”
But he explained that most of the protesters were non-violent.
“The sad thing is they’re trying to associate themselves with the Occupy movement, which has basically been peaceful,” he said. “But this clearly shows that [the anarchists] truly want to come down there and cause problems.”
The owners of the homes asked that the addresses not be released.
Police detained one man found inside a home. He said he had lived there for a week. He was given a warning for trespassing.
How the hell is squatting even illegal? Oh, that's right: we have this thing called "private property rights" which enables absentee landlordism. Fuck.
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"Oh, that's right: we have this thing called "private property rights" which enables absentee landlordism."
I just started a book that documents the rousing success of your socialist comrades in eliminating property rights. It's called "The Gulag Archipelago" and I think you should find it most motivating as it details some, but not all, of the ways by which to get rid of private property.
You do realize that the USSR was nowhere near a socialist system, right? In fact, I'd call it "state monopoly capitalist" since the state was essentially one giant capitalist boss.
"You do realize that the USSR was nowhere near a socialist system, right?"
Are you trying to fool me or yourself?
"In fact, I'd call it "state monopoly capitalist" since the state was essentially one giant capitalist boss."
Capitalism is based upon voluntary association and trade. There was very little of those things in the Soviet Union, and people who were caught practicing capitalism (or accused of it) were exiled, imprisoned, or killed.
You really should read this book, it explains what will happen to anarco-socialists such as yourself after the revolution (hint, it's the same thing as what happened to capitalists).
Out of curiosity, how long must a house be unoccupied before you think it is ethical to steal it? If a person goes out to the mailbox, is it up for grabs? Or if they go to work for 8 hours? or vacation?
there are certain facts that are met with brick wall defiance. we need a new term for anarchist, if only some would listen past that one word..
"Capitalism is based upon voluntary association and trade. There was very little of those things in the Soviet Union, and people who were caught practicing capitalism (or accused of it) were exiled, imprisoned, or killed."
Sorry, but "voluntary association and trade" could happen in every political and/or economic system. For example, mutualism contains quite a lot of voluntary association and trading (in fact, depending on who you ask to define "mutualism", mutualists won't even use "money"/"currency" and instead base all economic transactions on barter/trading).
"You really should read this book, it explains what will happen to anarco-socialists such as yourself after the revolution (hint, it's the same thing as what happened to capitalists)."
I've already read Makhno's works and Goldman and Berkman's responses to the massacre at Kronstadt, so I'm pretty sure I already know. The Ukrainian Free Territory achieved in a few months what the USSR never could.
"Out of curiosity, how long must a house be unoccupied before you think it is ethical to steal it? If a person goes out to the mailbox, is it up for grabs? Or if they go to work for 8 hours? or vacation?"
I'd like to know how you'd be able to hold on to a house you haven't touched in years without the state to reinforce your property "rights". But as for your question, I'd say about six months, if not sooner. We have seven billion people alive on this planet so I have no idea why our system still tolerates absentee ownership.
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