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Albert Einstein — Part 1
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——----—- exeinsive definition of advising, acvocacy, \ iching 000 Re
--. . Gpattiliation® {Soc.2, Soc.137,Titlo B,U.8.C.)
co UBINSTEIN'S OWN DOCTRIVES ANARCHISTIC ~
“77 "Kot only te Albert Einstoin affiliated with, or on nonbor of
T "the rewolutionary anarcho-t s ups proviously nancde--
and thoreby affilinted with their af $lintos,(including fho = = > -
Communist Intornatimal and various Anarchist groups), ne = iS.
focided in tho Kfar onso, but his own porsonal activitios, 4m °° ote
which he, as an "oninont san" Ta always “will to holp"™ thoso |
_ Yovolutionary radicals poro than thoy ean holp thonsolvos .
_ sre their ow or gations {as proviaus own) would 0 Be
“Justify and require his oxclusion, oven 4f ho woro not in)
- affiliation with any group of inadmissiIbio alions. ~~ - fuss
_... . What &s the legal dofinttion of “snarchists" in subdivision
4a) -of tho Alien Exelusion and Doportation Taw? “Congress has ~~
+ pot aaid. It has left the dofinition of "anarchists" open to —
every reasonablo and fair definition of that torn, but positively
prohibited the entry into tho Unitod Btatos of any alien who
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‘ 4s an “anarchist,” - oo
Bis. In tho Act of Pobruary 5,1917,(80e.3} Congross nleo first « |
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manes “anarchists” on@ then in tho alternitive, not conjunctivo,
“or persons who believe in or advocnto tho overthrow by forca and
ti wfolenee of tho Govornnent...or who disboliove in or arc
overnticnt...or who aro nonbers of or
—— op osed to organized ornn -_
Kt . B Piitated with any organization entertaininn and tonching ~~
: “ebolfor in or opposition to ) organizod povernnent. ard
"7 isc Aicticnarics define “anarchy” as "a bsonco or uttcr —
iit
a Aisregard of govornnont; lawlosa confusion and disorder; :
$:5———oppos tion to tho rulo of a suprome powor,” otc. _ . . §
8 i To fundanentnal prinsiplo of all organized governnont~--thee :
s. Suprome Court hold it "to be an incontrovortible principle"}-<
eo" without which it cannot oxist, la the powor “fo conpol !
~——obedioneo to its 2aws"—"“by noans of physical force" oxorcisod
, through ite official agonte. (S00 Ro Dobs,158 U.8.579,582).
What tho anarchist opposes ant attonpts to abolish, thero-
fore, ia not norcly tho nano, "governzont,* but tho thing which
ise govornnont, the authority and powor to compel obodionco to
low which is tno first easontial of all organizod govornnont--- = = = ~
tho power to govorn. Whothor ho strikes at "the rule of a
suproro power" by assassination of a single sovorcipn, or whothor
ho norcly belicves in depriving evory sovercign of the powor to
overn, ho is equally an anarchist---and oqually, if an alian,
" subject. to exclusion fron tho Unitod States. a
Wothing is more eertain than that ALBERT EINSTEIN is at tho
head and front of 2 personal movencnt (tho Einstoin War ~~
ccsistors Internrtiona 4} as well as affilinted with an ,:
ih. ‘-commnist group (Tha War Roelators Intornational) .... ...*£
aving Tor nis Ser etien: tho the, preset ten OFT AOR) ee re A
y: ghampges in low by polittest ‘ox tS) : . ne EE
. Siegal” authority: an’ pariiqucn Pot fons FORT, Cons oO
instead, anarchistic Ratgi tua Te eT atanee o all organized
govornaents that cxist today,that, to prosorve thofr oxistoneo,
require noans of national dofonse. LO :
Nothing 49 nore cortain in law than tho principlo that . sane —
person “1s prosunod to intcond tho nccosasary eonecquences of ;
his own acts." mo,
Tho sourts have frequontly nohod that tho nocossary conso-
quones of pornitting succcasful "individual rosistanco" to law
is to pronote anarchy an¢ “uttor confusion.®
Thus, throo-quarters of a century ago, tho United States
Supreno Court held that "governrent could oxist only in nano®
4f tho professod doctrinos of an indiyidual, oontrary to
Pas a "o law of the organization of sogicty" wore hold "suptrior —
& to tho lawa of the land" and would “in offoct pornit every ~~
—~ eitizon to becono a law unto hinself.” (Soo Roynolds ve
United Statos, 98 0.5,145). Tint, of course, would bo anarchy.
; Yet what 48 tho substance of Einstcin's appeal to “war <
- rosistors? but an appeal to intividuals to regist and disobey
he law of govornicnts, for cach "to boconc a’ law unto hinss
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