It is about a month to the Scottish local elections, that mini-farce, the small-fry competition of Crooks
and Liars. The big national competition of Crooks and Liars, where
the Oxbridge brigade of millionaires run around the country telling
us how they really care for us ordinary peasant, is still some way
off. However we should enjoy this local theatre production of Crooks
and Liars and have some fun. We could turn up at their performances
and have a good laugh and expose it for the smoke and mirrors
illusion that know it to be. We could also spend the month in a
concerted effort to reveal the hypocrisy, corruption and self serving
reality of the Crooks and Liars competition they call elections.
This from Australia Indymedia:
In the lead up to the Queensland State Election on March 24, a group of Brisbane Anarchists launched an anti-election campaign. In the week prior to the election, anarchists began pasting up a couple of thousand anti politician and anti voting posters all throughout the city. Political party placards erected throughout Brisbane were torn down or defaced with anarchist and anti politician messages. Anti-voting and anarchist graffiti was scrawled and sprayed across walls, billboards, electricity boxes and telephone booths.
A banner reading "Vote 4 Nobody" was dropped over a railway bridge in Bowen Hills, where it hung for 3 days, before we reclaimed it at dawn of election day and hung it off a platform made of scaffolding in Highgate Hill, in preparation for Nobody to declare victory.As the polling booths opened at 8am, a number of anarchists defaced the all party advertising on display at 3 different polling locations, as well as stealing propaganda, party buttons, and "how to Vote" pamphlets from various party tables.
After fleeing the polling booths, leaving a general mess behind them, other anarchists then began handing out anti voting leaflets and zines explaining Direct Action and Self-Organisation as a counterpoint to the pointless pathology of casting a ballot every few years for someone you know is lying to you.
ann arky's home.
