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Given this, the question is "do the monkey police have a vice squad?"

There are some recommendations http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/9873 here
and http://www.barbelith.com/topic/13652 here.

So... You're applauding the government for providing police "protection" to supervise a demonstration, which in turn was a demonstration for and against a war which the same government started? Wohaa, Silver!

And FYI, police forces are included in anarchist doctrine, and was successfully implemented during the Spanish Civil War; the same anarchistic society that was crushed by not only Franco and his thugs, but also the communists and the governments of USNA, Britain and France. They literally wet their pants at the thought of having a State-less society in the midst of Europe.

Assorted notes:

People live under the slaveries of economics

Yes, of course they do. "Slavery" is just an euphemism for capitalism. 2 % of the citizens of a "country"(marked territory) will own most of the resources, leaving the rest to scour and haggle for the crumbs. And in a Machiavellian manner, they employ Democracy as a facade to create the illusion of empowering the people. And to truly piss of the reactionaries on /., here's a prudent quote by Noam Chomsky:

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."

(...)of insecurity

Fear is the real incentive, not "self interest"! You must work and put in the required hours; your monetary superiors wants a shiny new car. Resistance is futile, they'll just fire your ass if you don't comply or try sabotage(check out the etymology of the french word sabotage and be enlightened).
Quote: "The fear of death is the beginning of slavery." - R.A. Wilson et al.

(...)the demons of their childhood

Empirically speaking, I agree. But I believe that problems concerning the upbringing of children can to a large extent be attributed to the economic and social status of the particular culture. Frustrations on several fronts are bound to happen in a society that never can have enough in terms of economic assets or social regard, so in other terms, a return to the more family-oriented culture of yore might be beneficial in this case. A fragmented urban setting is not recommended!

(...)stupidity

Hmm... err... yup. Can't argue with that one! ;) Major setback in most societies, I'd say. But then again, who profits on the general stupidity of the unwashed masses? Yes, exactly: the government. Easier to rule, and all that crap...

Solve all these first, and then your utopian "free society of non-coersion" might possibly exist. Until then, the bullies and the greedy will reign.

In other words, as long as Tony Sopranos wannabees are your masters, we're up Shit Creek River in a leak canoe...

Addendum:

http://www.infoshop.org/faq/index.html
http://www.barbelith.com/bomb/index.htm

Actually, that turned out to be a false rumor. Here's the only link I could find off-hand to back up it's false-hood, clicky clicky.

Forget smart dust, I want smart liquid!

I want to be able to DRINK an upgrade and have it interface with me directly. A pint of CPUs on the house! That way I can drink and actually get SMARTER instead of the current opposite result.

Speaking of The Bomb, check out The Bomb, a site dedicated to The Invisibles - Grant Morrison's counter-culture comic, a wonderfully weird mix of religion, drugs, aliens and revolution (Grant's been doing the JLA for a few years as well).