Anarchy in New Orleans?? I stand corrected.....

"While mold and contagion grew in the muck that engulfed most of the city, something else sprouted in this most decadent of American neighborhoods - humanity."

In my previous piece I asserted that what we were witnessing down in New Orleans far more resembled the chaos of the State than the peaceful co-existing that would occur in an Anarchist society.

What I didn't know was that people were rising above the violence of the State and working together peacefully through voluntary cooperation:

"NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming "tribes" and dividing up the labor."

"Some people became animals," Vasilioas Tryphonas said Sunday morning as he sipped a hot beer in Johnny White's Sports Bar on Bourbon Street. "We became more civilized."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050905/D8CDRMSG2.html

The mutual cooperation noted throughout this piece is exactly how an Anarchist society would work.

I now have some questions for nonbeliever Statists out there:

1. If an Anarchist society (one based mutual voluntary cooperation and exchange) cannot work in the most ideal circumstances as asserted by the Statists then why is it working here in the worst of circumstances?

2. If the force of Government is the only way to get people to work together then why did these people work together without coercion?

The reality is that society depends on voluntary relationships and would collapse into endless violence if we abandoned the Anarchistic tendencies that exist in all of us.

Patrick Sovereign,

Enemy of the State