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bluegreen17) wrote2003-04-09 01:15 pm
bluegreen17) wrote2003-04-09 01:15 pm
i dig this meme!
only connect-e.m.forster
i was pointed to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
digibri's journal by wolfieboy and i read about ammon hennacy/eamonn hennessey and really liked this anecdote,which was printed on afsc.org who got it from john olander on pact-list@topica.com,who got it from utah philipps:
CATHOLIC WORKER STYLE
When Eammon Hennessey would be hauled before Judge Ritter, "that old fart," for protesting, he would never plead guilty or innocent, he would plead anarchy.
"What's an anarchist, Eammon?" Judge Ritter would say.
"An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to tell him what to do," says Eammon.
"But we need laws, Eammon," says the Judge.
"Judge, what good are your laws? The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them."
[Story told by Utah Phillips on the Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco album The Past Didn't Go Anywhere (Righteous Babe Records). Phillips met Hennessey when Hennessey ran the Joe Hill House of Hospitality in Salt Lake City, and describes him as a "Catholic, pacifist, anarchist, draft-dodger in two world wars, and one-man revolution."]
i was pointed to
digibri's journal by wolfieboy and i read about ammon hennacy/eamonn hennessey and really liked this anecdote,which was printed on afsc.org who got it from john olander on pact-list@topica.com,who got it from utah philipps:CATHOLIC WORKER STYLE
When Eammon Hennessey would be hauled before Judge Ritter, "that old fart," for protesting, he would never plead guilty or innocent, he would plead anarchy.
"What's an anarchist, Eammon?" Judge Ritter would say.
"An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to tell him what to do," says Eammon.
"But we need laws, Eammon," says the Judge.
"Judge, what good are your laws? The good people don't need them, and the bad people don't obey them."
[Story told by Utah Phillips on the Utah Phillips/Ani DiFranco album The Past Didn't Go Anywhere (Righteous Babe Records). Phillips met Hennessey when Hennessey ran the Joe Hill House of Hospitality in Salt Lake City, and describes him as a "Catholic, pacifist, anarchist, draft-dodger in two world wars, and one-man revolution."]
Anarchy rules!