The Feminist Refrain
columnist: Emma Goldman

Topic: Education
Hello, I'm a friendly 21st Century American Loving Radical for Anarchy

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How I, Emma Goldman, an Individualist-Feminist, participated in the moral 20th century radical anarchist community, and obsoleted my own 19th century notion of Anarchy, and created the Pro-American Radical Anarchism for the 21st century.

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by Emma Goldman
(Libertarian)
Saturday, June 7, 2008

On 7th of June 2008, I paused for 10 seconds and I knelt down in reverence before that keyboard, screen, and shiny black box known as the PC (Personal Computer), and swore an oath to myself.

What was it?  And why did I kneel?  I'm glad you asked my dear, keep reading!

I have been thinking for months now, (thanks to being energized by Ron Paul's Presidential Campaign), about the historical, political, and moral ramifications of the internet from the year 2007 forward as growing resource of Good Ideas, and as the means to forever nullify the Evil Ideas.

Ideas move the world.  For 5000+ years dishonesty has reined the world via the secretive halls of government, regardless of their form: Republic, Senate, Monarchy, Democracy, and Dictatorship.

The Internet, I concluded, had now finally in 2007 to blossom as the promised liberator of Americans, and by eventual peaceful non-imperialist extension, all the people of world.

I considered how I, being an individual of middle-class economic means, who hates socialist leaders in politics and other organizations (such as those repulsive public teacher union leaders manipulate envy in their fat, lazy 2nd-hand militant parrots called 'members'), could in mere seconds send freedom-oriented letters, pamphlets, brochures, images, audio, and video for almost nothing to my capitalist-liberty-minded friends who live in Kenya, or Beijing, or Mexico City, or Seattle, or New York.

I considered the heroic efforts and hard thinking by those men who invented this wonder of technology that permits average people the means to engage in international communications, and how that will make it not only possible, but highly likely that my generation, Gen-X, will fulfill the promise of those heroic American Founding Fathers and create a world of liberty, peace, prosperity.

Finally, on June 7th, 2008, I knelt and said aloud these words as a my solemn oath and conviction:

The Emma Goldman Oath

"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of others, nor ask others  to live for mine. I also swear eternal hostility to mob rule democracy and 19th century anarchism. I also swear eternal admiration and alliance to those 'Galts of Goodwill', of Gen-X, who can bring world liberty, peace, and prosperity within my lifetime. I also swear that I will not give up the public and international internet. I also will not fear Hostile Government Bureacrats, who will be permitted to remove the internet only from my cold dead hands, for I will NEVER willingly, intentionally, or knowingly hand it over to them to censor me and take away my INDIVIDUAL RIGHT of free expression to buy a piece of property (my PC), connect it to another piece of individual property, the PRIVATE UNCENSORED INTERNET, and and speak Truth to Freedom from my Internet Pulpit."

I Give Thanks on this Day.

My Exhalted Reverence goes to that Heroic Man (or Woman, since I don't know my internet history well enough) who was the Original Thinker that first conceived the idea of a world-wide military communications network that could survive nuclear attacks on American soil.

I offer my Solemn Thanks as well to all those internet geniuses of every stripe since the 1960s, whose Apollonian work has led beautifully to the peaceful 20th Century Anarchist 'nirvana' properly legally defined as the international and private internet.

I offer my thanks to those more than 1.2 million Ron Paul voters in 2008, who represented well enough to make Ron Paul's star rise as high into the public awareness as it did.

I offer my Grateful Thanks for those 150,000+ Ron Paul donors who made Ron Paul's star rise and shine in 2007 and forever beyond in American History.

I offer my Most Grateful Thanks to those few individual Ron Paul admirers and supporters who advocate for the Objective Law, Limited Government vision of my personal hero Ayn Rand, who I see as the worlds first Feminine Radical for Capitalism.

And my last Most Exhalted and Reverent Thanks go to those heroic Original Thinkers that inspired Dr. Ron Paul to become the IRON CLAD MAN OF INTEGRITY he is today.  I challange any concerned mother or single woman, or young teenage girl mindlessly giddy over Obama to simply read Dr. Paul's 167 page America-Loving brand-new best-selling book : "The Revolution: A Manifesto", and see if you agree.

My Dear Middle Class Mothers, (aka Soccer Moms and Security Moms)

Will you join me in giving thanks to these heroes? In my view, these men and women were the pioneers of the internet, a high-technology 'community of individuals' that completely redefined and validated a new 21st Century American Radical Anarchism, which has been coined, by me, the Gen-X Emma Goldman.

I declare and define the following concept on June 7th 2008, from my Internet Pulpit, and with world as my witness:

New Concept

21st Century American Radical Anarchism (whose acronym is 21-ARA):

Definition

The community of individuals that participate in voluntary cooperation and the exchange ideas, and who spread moral ideals of Individual Rights, Free Market Capitalism, and/or Limited Government on the Internet.

Idealogical Background

In general this informal voluntary association is comprised of law-abiding and persuasive indivduals are intellectually opposed and/or emotionally hostile against statist regimes of every type.  These globally dispersed and loosly associated and private anonymous individuals are hospitable, friendly, love, or cherish political and ethical ideas that recognize and uphold the moral idea of the 1st American Revolution: Indivdual Rights.

Generally, American 21-ARA individuals are completely public and open about their assocation, but overseas, most individuals must conceal their association.

Implicit and Explicit Membership

By taking the 'Emma Goldman Oath', an individual can be known as an explicit 21-ARA individual.  But the evidence for one's integrity to that is  always revealed by one's consistency of words and actions.  The oath is based on Individual Rights, the evil of intiation of force and fraud, and above all, the evil of altrusim.  Individual actions that would confirm a person's integrity to the oath would be those individuals who upold and defend their life, liberty, and earned property, who renounce parisitism and looting (including stealing property such as audio and video recordings), and who uphold and defend the internet as cooperative and voluntary collection of individual property.

Soon in America, Individual Rights will be objectively defined by leading intellectuals, and that objective definition will become the principle legal idea implicit 'in' the 21-ARA oath.

Acronym

21-ARA can be a touchstone or meme for people new to the concept of the importance of INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS and DEFENSE OF A PRIVATE AND FREE INTERNATIONAL INTERNET.

21-ARA Demographic

21-ARA individuals are predominately Gen-X, although the Emma Goldman Oath opens 21-ARA 'membership' to an any generation. 21-ARA founder Emma Goldman does not recognize age as a valid form of discrimination. Any Individual of sound mind is encouraged to informally and privately 'elect' and 'induct' themselves into the association by studying, understanding, and saying aloud the 'Emma Goldman Oath'.

Loyalty

Individuals who do not agree with the oath are not (or no longer) welcome in this association, but in the Spirit of Liberty, all individuals will be tolerated and invited to debate by any civil means with those 21-ARA individuals who enjoy discussing the ideas behind the oath.

The 'Emma Goldman Oath' was conceived by a Gen-X American, 'Emma Goldman', not the 19th century American Emma Goldman.

The Emma Goldman Oath was first declared on the internet when it was published on 7th of June, 2008.

The oath is credited as "the direct derivative" of the 'John Galt Oath', originated in the world famous novel 'Atlas Shrugged', which still sells more than 100,000 copies more than 50 years after it was published in America, by the feminine 20th century author and philosopher, Ayn Rand.

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Published: Saturday, June 7, 2008
Last modified: Friday, July 18, 2008

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