My friend Nestor is an Anarchist. I admire his zeal, depth of knowledge, and hands on approach to effecting social change. Nestor distrusts the state. People are better judges of how to spend their own wealth. I learnt about Nestor Makhno * from Nestor, and I learnt how much the anarchists hate the leftist state. But instead of using voodoo to get some mentally disturbed leftist to bump off other leftists, Nestor is applying the tapeworm strategy: change the beast from within.

As a child, Nestor was raised in the United Church. He told me many stories about how the openly atheist, anti-Christian, leftist activists infiltrated his church and ruined it. But the past is the past. Nestor is more interested in applying the lessons of the past: what better way to further his anarchist agenda than to infiltrate the left and destroy them from within, in exactly the same way that they infiltrated other institutions? Nestor has joined every political party in Canada. He showed me his Red-Orange-Green party cards; he keeps them in with his collection of tarot decks.

Any resident of Canada can join a political party. You do not have to be a citizen, or an adult. Just hand over your ten bucks. After that, with some effort, you can participate in events. Nestor knows enough to say and act like the particular species of Red-Orange-Green statist he is pretending to be. Nobody really questions the doctrinal purity of party members. So, Nestor is able to circulate among the statists. Smiling with his best shit eating grin, even as the wolf within looks for the weak, the slow, and the tasty, Nestor soon learnt that he could effect his anarchist agenda within the vast incompetent temple of bully statism.

Of course, you have to fit in. Diversity is a slogan, not a reality. Nestor has his wardrobe ready: five Che t-shirts, two keffiyeh, and always a bag of dope. His study of statist policy and methods is just a way to deceive the ability challenged. Nestor has a low opinion of the intellectual rigor of the partisans of the left. They do not compare to a horse-donkey cross breed.

Nestor thinks that the best way to bring down the statists is not to support a political party that wants to restrict or reduce spending. Why bother? So much easier to do what the left did to the United Church: infiltrate it, and make it look dumb. He does not need help. He is an army of one. As a member of all of the three headed statist parties, he supports radicals with absurd and unpopular platforms. He diverts party resources to wasteful activities, and he encourages the rise of inept leaders. He does this all on his own; it only requires his time, multiplied by his fanatic zeal.

Global Warming. Nestor has his own statist activist group. Anyone can print up broadsheets and slap them up around town. They are not approved by a central statist authority. Nestor does not use the expression Climate Change; he prefers the traditional Global Warming. He has leadership of a cell of statists working for Global Warming awareness: they are most active in the winter. Nestors’ dope keeps the minds of his statist minions dull; and the material they paste over car windows and street signs really would make anybody pissed off at the statists, which is the intent. If you shovelled off the snow on your car, to find that some villain had carved Fight Global Warming into the hood, would your support for statism be increased, or decreased? Even sweeter is that the Hydra party thinks this is valiant activism on the part of Nestor, the anarchist who hates them from within. They like Nestor; Nestor hates them with a smile.

Nestor shrugs when I compliment him on his trade craft. We were waiting for a shipment to arrive in Toronto. Nestor, using funds embezzled from other projects, he has purchased a few hundred green snow shovels from China. They have activist slogans like Fight Global Warming and Snow Ends with Global Warming. The plastic (a cheerful pine green) is brittle below 32 Fahrenheit. The green shovel will break readily in the cold. Nestor intends to sell these using a telemarketing campaign. His telemarketers will be rude and crass; alienating and vile. Those who buy the product will feel cheated and deceived. A perfect lesson in statism, thinks Nestor. And, funded by the statists themselves! All lessons learnt by Nestor from his youth, watching activists infiltrate one institution after another. Now, for this non-baby boomer, it is his turn to exsanguinate them.

Nestor got a good job out of his anarchist ways. His diligent support for the diversity of failed causes that the statists vomit up has earned him the approving eye of the party brass. I will not mention what socialist social services sector he works in (Nestor really wants to be a blacksmith, but is happy to take statist money to undermine statism) as that would spoil his fun, and mine. You may think that the meme that the statists only hire themselves is a slander; the reality is that Nestor proves it true. Too bad for the statists that their ability challenged ways have caused them to swallow a tapeworm; much as they infiltrated and destroyed many Canadian institutions, corrupted Canadian culture, and squandered Canadian capital.

In the wake of the Arizona massacre, once again censorship for the internet, gun control, and general police state development is on the table. Nestor thinks I am wasting my time writing. Why bother? He thinks I should adopt the motto: Can’t Beat ‘em, Join ‘em, Subvert ‘em. Of course, it is not so easy for one such as me to cleanse my library of Ayn Rand and Thomas Paine and replace it with Marx and comic books. And not everyone has that statist gift of duplicity and deception.

You can judge a tree by its fruits. Nestor is fond of quoting that. If only the Christians had noticed the non-Christians, the anti-Christians in their midst we still might have a Christian United Church. Maybe if Non-Hyphenated-Canadians took the blinkers off their eyes then guys like Nestor would not have to do unto others what was done unto him. Oh well. It is all rather academic now. Nestor is having fun, getting revenge, and has a framed picture of himself with Bob Rae. Interesting guy, Nestor. The next bleeding heart you see might not be a liberal, but a Christian in socialist drag, looking to crucify a tax spender. And you can do all this on your own, by yourself, without money, resources, or help. As Nestor does, so you too can do.

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