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Albert Einstein — Part 1
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—-—“*yt nothing in ¢ a paragraph @hall be takc 4 an
-—- exeinsivo definition of advising, advocacy, \ 20
aa Gr affiliation” (Soc.2, Soc.137,Titlo 8,U.5.C.) _
“_"BINSTEDi's “OM DOCTRIVES ANARCHISTIC —— -
~ ‘Rot only is Albort Einstoin affiliated with, or a nonber of
“tho rowolutionary onarchoec 8 ups proviously nancd---_..
and thoroby affilintod with their af: 4lintos,(including tho
Communist Intornatiwmal and various Anarchist Groups) ns -
ocided in tho Kjar onso, but his own porsonnal activitios, in
‘oninent san" Is always “will to holp® thoso
4. hich he, as on Lot
4 . .Fovolutionary radicals poro than thoy ean holp thonsolvos 7
. ata thoir_owm_ or, zations {as proviaus om} would ="
A yast: ‘and roquiro hie oxclusion, evon if ho woro not_in me
: filiation with any group of inadnissfbio alions, ~~” fo: .
— --- What 2s tho dogal Acfinttion of “anarchists” in subdivision
T: ——~{n)-of tho Alien Zxelusion anf Doportation Low? Congross has
> pot said. It has loft the dofinition of "anarchists" open to
every reasonable and fair definition of that torn, but positively
prohibited the ontry into tho Unitod Btatos of any alien who
is an “anarchist,”
In tho Act of Fobruary 5,1917,(806.5) Congroas nleo first +
nonea “anarchists” an? then in tho alternxtivo, not conjunctivo,
*or persons who boliove in or advocnto tho overthrow by forse and
vYoleneo of tho Govornnont...or who disboliove in or arc
2p osod to organized poverntcnt...or who aro nonbors of or
x Piliates with any organization ontortainine ani toaching ~~
Aisbolfor in or opposition 4 to_organtgod governnent. :
"Mo Aietdonarics dofino “anarchy” as "0 bsonco or uttcr
Aisregard of govornnont; lawloss confusion and aisorders
*~—— opposition to tho rulo of a suprono powor,” otc.
Tho fundanental prinsiplo of all organizod govornacnt~--theo
rone Court hold it "to bo an incontrovortible principlo"=-<
powor “to conpol .
sical force" oxorcisod
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without which it cannot oxist, Is
obodionces to 4ts taws"-"by noans of phy.
through ite official agonte. (800 Ro Debs,158 U.8.579,582)
What tho anarchist opposes ant attonpts to abolish, thoro-
z foro, is not norcly tho nano, "govorniont," but tho thing which
is govornnont, the authority and powor to compel obodionco to
if - law which is tno first essontial of all organizod govornnont---
A tho powor to govorn. Whothor ho strikos at "tho rulo of a
c suprono power” by assassination of a single sovoroign, or whothor
ho norcly bolicves in depriving evory sovoroign of tho powor to
overn, ho is oqually an anarchist--~and oqually, if an alicn,
~ subdject. to exclusion fron tho United States. .
Rothing 1s nore ecrtain than that ALBERT EINSTEIN is at tho .
head and front of 2 personal novencnt (tho Einetoin Wor ~~ .
istors Intornitional Fupd) os well as affilinted with on
Intornatfonal) «2...
t~commnist group (The War Rosistors
ng ror his dercce-cuject tho presot fan oF oma) ;
br eonet!: a “
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sf be eTST ety tuar tet stance toni organized
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instead, anarchistic
govornients that oxist today,that, to prosorve thoir oxistoneo,
require noans of national dofonse. coe
Nothing 4a nore cortain in law than tho principlo that a sane
porson “is prosmod to intcnd tho nccossary eonecquences of
his own acta.” :
Tho courts havo frequontly nohod that tho nosossary conso-
quonco of pornitting succcssful “individual rosiatanco" to law
is to pronote anarchy and "uttor confusion.*
$2 Thus, throo-quarters of a contury ago, tho United States
Supreno Court held that "governicnt could exist only in nano®
. 4f tho professod doctrines of nn inddyidual, eontrary to
et "a law of the organization of soeicty" wore hold "superior
to the lawa of the land" and would Sin osfook pornit evory .
— eitizon to beeono a law unto hinself."” (Soo Roynolds v
} : Unitod States, 68°0.8,145). Tint, of eourao, would bo anarchy s
| Yet what 4s tho substance of Einstcin's appoal to “war ©
Tosistors" but an appoal to individuals to rcgist ond disobey
"to boconc a’ law unto hinsolf*
the law of govornncnta, for oach
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