The Jury Had Down Right Contempt For

I Am An Anarchist In My Personal Life. I Try To Live My Life In A Way That I Don't Need Cops Or Baby-sitters To Keep Me From Infringing On Others. But I Don't Feel We Have Evolved Far Enough As A Species To Make Anarchy Work In Society Itself. We Still Need Government To Transfer The Wealth From Those Who Have Too Much To Those Who Have Too Little, To Make Sure Important Projects Get Done, And Keep Territorial Humans From Screwing Over And Killing Each Other.

Hardly Anybody In America Pays Attention To Local Elections.

The Underground Scene Is Still A Cool Way To Meet A Lot Of Cool People, See A Lot Of Interesting Bands And Get A Lot Of Food For Thought, But People Have To Remain Curious And Get Their Brain Activity Food From Other Places Besides Punk.

In Many Ways, I Have No Idea What Would Have Become Of Me If Punk Hadn't Happened, Because The '70s Turned Out To Be So Stale, And So Boring, And So Backward Compared To What Had Come Just Before. We Were Too Young To Have Fully Experienced The '60s And The Fervor Of The Anti-war Movement.

I Got Out Of That Immediately Was That Now, All Of A Sudden, Rock Music Had Become A Spectator Sport, That Corporate Labels And Their Bands Were The New Establishment, And Punk Was There To Fight Them The Way The Activist Hippies Must Have Fought What The Establishment Must Have Been Ten Years Before. And It Was Interesting To See The Reactions In Different Parts Of The Country.