On being expelled from Trades Hall Council in 1904, Chummy Fleming made the following statement: “…I am going to be expelled because I am an anarchist. I am in the company of Tolstoy, Spencer and the most advanced thinkers of the world. Workers will never get their rights while they look to Parliament. A general strike would be more effective than all the Parliaments in the world. I have got a fine stick and I am going to use it. Expel me if you like. I am an anarchist. We have been hanged in Chicago, electrocuted in New York, guillotined in Paris and strangled in Italy, and I will go with my comrades. I am opposed to your Government and to your authority. Down with them. Do your worst. Long live Anarchy.“
I tried to think of a modern surfer who could be pictured next to such ideals, considering the reach of the Surfing Industrial Complex tentacles … I came up with Dot.
