Anarchist’s Cookbook in the UK
Posted on October 8, 2007
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I am an anti-christ
I am an anarchist
Don’t know what I want but
I know how to get it
I wanna destroy the passer by cos II wanna BE anarchy!
It would appear that Britain is sadly both forgetting its punk-rock history and following in the hysterical footsteps of over-reactive Boston by interpretting any “abnormal” behaviour as an act of terror. Today it’s the rise of the Anarchist’s Cookbook and those scary 17 yr olds:
The 17-year-old, who was arrested in the Dewsbury area of West Yorkshire on Monday, was given bail after a hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
It is alleged he had a copy of the “Anarchists’ Cookbook”, containing instructions on how to make home-made explosives.
I’m going to let everyone in on a little secret: every 17-year-old boy has a copy of the Anarchist’s Cookbook of varying degrees of accuracy, authenticity and quality. When I was in high school, back in the 80s and well before the internet, we all had copies. A quick check through a box of old papers amusingly shows that I still have mine, printed out on a dot matrix printer on that old printer paper that came joined end to end (”perf” anyone?). That’s right Britain, I might be a terrorist too just like all my old high school friends, even the ones selling cars, working as accountants, running their own businesses and raising their kids here in regular ol’ Canada.
Most of us also own “Nevermind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols”. Uh oh, I’m never getting into Britain again.
Shockingly, absolutely shockingly, the AC is also available for purchase on Amazon: The Anarchist Cookbook (C-066) (Paperback) should you want to join the revolution and get your own, but I’d be happy to let you photocopy mine if you want (alas my original text file is probably lost in the landfill somewhere on a 5 1/4 floppy).
The AC was publised in 1971 and is readily available to anyone. Passed hand to hand (except from those dumb enough to actually try to make anything in it in which case after said hand was blown off it was probably foot-to-hand), the AC is practically a teenage right of passage.
Maybe this kid is absolutely nuts. Maybe he’s build a whole basement full of munitions. Or maybe he’s just normal and 17. Hard to tell from this story but given the current climate of fear and paranoia, I know where I’d put my money.
Anarchy for the UK
It’s coming sometime and maybe
I give a wrong time stop a traffic line.
Your future dream has sure been seen through
I wanna be anarchy,
It’s in the city
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