{"id":13527,"date":"2013-03-22T02:21:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T09:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=13527"},"modified":"2013-03-22T02:21:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T09:21:04","slug":"friday-freedom-question-monkeywrenching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/22\/friday-freedom-question-monkeywrenching\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday freedom question: monkeywrenching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monkeywrenching seems sadly neglected these days. Do a search on the word and you&#8217;ll mostly turn up references to Edward Abbey&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061129763\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0061129763&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=livifree07-20\" target=\"_blank\"><i>The Monkey Wrench Gang<\/i><\/a> or various acts eco-defense (or eco-terrorism, depending on who&#8217;s writing about it). <\/p>\n<p>Since the Homeland (Achtung!) Security State has gotten us in its grip, it seems the peasants are afraid to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sabotage\" target=\"_blank\">toss their sabots<\/a> into the machinery of tyranny. Then, too, things are different in a non-industrial society. You could say that Anonymous is a champion of monkeywrenching &#8212; just on a technological level.<\/p>\n<p>Monkeywrenching, in one form or another will <i>always<\/i> have a place in the eternal struggle of the small and free against the big and unfree. But it seems a neglected art at the moment. So the question for today is: <b>What are some great monkeywrenching ideas and\/or resources for Freedom Outlaws of the twenty-first century?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>And remember, keep it theoretical. The management of the Living Freedom blog doesn&#8217;t endorse any particular forms of crime, even while recognizing that three felonies a day is something most of us accomplish before finishing off our morning Rice Krispies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I also invite everybody to keep visiting and participating in the continuing story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2013\/03\/21\/tansy-shrugged-an-abortive-short-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Tansy Shrugged,&#8221;<\/a> which is wandering off in strange new directions via the comment section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monkeywrenching seems sadly neglected these days. Do a search on the word and you&#8217;ll mostly turn up references to Edward Abbey&#8217;s The Monkey Wrench Gang or various acts eco-defense (or eco-terrorism, depending on who&#8217;s writing about it). Since the Homeland (Achtung!) Security State has gotten us in its grip, it seems the peasants are afraid to toss their sabots into the machinery of tyranny. Then, too, things are different in a non-industrial society. You could say that Anonymous is a champion of monkeywrenching &#8212; just on a technological level. Monkeywrenching, in one form or another will always have a place&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/22\/friday-freedom-question-monkeywrenching\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday freedom question: monkeywrenching<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monkeywrenching","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}