Each One
Teach One
Interview
Series #7

Anthony Rayson
Interviews
Eric Smith

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Eric Smith
Interviews
Anthony Rayson
Question #1: You really impress me with your understanding of
what to do with anarchist principles. Tour nose-to-the-

grindstone work is clear, thorough & right on point - uslike so
much “anarchist” activity (or lack thereof.) Trace your
intellectual history. What were your influences? How did you
develop into such a whirlwind of anarchist instruction? 2

Answer: Personal experiences dealing with my life played a major
role developing my aparchist instruction. When I got wrongfully
convicted of all the charges in my arson case., being treated unfairiy,
and then being abused here in prison, | just blew my top off. | was
really pissed off about everything. Now. I just want to fuck over the
svstem like it fucked over me. They call me “offender” but what
about all the unpunished offenses they commit?

You might hear promises made by judges, prosecutors,
politicians. military personnel and other right wingers. Promises
tumed to lies. Lies made into excuses. People are so blind to all of
this. Thev're too busy working their slave job (or jobs) just trying to
survive. People are so naive or unaware these days. They think
things such as nothing bad could happen to them. Thev think the
svstem isn't bad because they haven't experienced it or gone through
1t Then. the shit hits the fan. Judas kisses them on the cheek. It's
like the movie The Matrix. Lawrence Fishbourne is right there telling
vou all about the system. Which pill do you take? The red one or the
hiue one? It's really eye-opening and scary.

More people need to experience that. More people need to see how
1hey're being fucked over by our state and federal governments: how.
thev're all in cahoots to keep ourselves below them

{ took the red pill. but I'm being heid captive. 1'm like their show
display. Its like they like to brag, “Look at this. This is Eric. We
fucked him over.” They want to add on to this collection because
they get a sadistic pleasure off of it. They - the judicial system - hate
that T voice my opinion and challenge them.

In prison. | was searching for answers. 1 now hated the
government. It betrayed me. Used me. | was their pawn and tov.
Their scapegoat. | wrote a ot of letters seeking free books. | came
#cross some catalogs and anarchy material. | read the material.
Agreed with it. Connected to it emotionally. | bought some books
chissecting anarchism.

| was heavily influenced by Albert Meltzer. Sam Dolgoff and
Michael Bakunin. They all died anarchists and were strong voices in
anarchist history. [ was very sad that they were dead for a while. |
won want them and their work to be forgotten. | wanted more
prople (o know of anarchism, 0 | stasted writing my own literature
And | was met with opposition by prison officials. This led to a high
profile lawsuit. See: Smith v. Carrasco, 423 F Supp. 859 (N.D. ind.

2006) (A legal opinion you can get from your local law library). Then,
I found you, Anthony, and the rest is history.

People need to hear the truth about government. How it works.
What it docs, etc. Only people like us can tell them. | keep plugging
away because | care about everybody. | want to help. 1 don't want
them to go through what I have. I'm not Christian, Wiccan actually,
but here’s a good analogy from Matthew 20:26 of their Bible:

If you want to be great, then you
must be the servant of the rest.

I want to be great, Anthony. That's one reason how | became this
way.

Question #2: Your case is very intercsting, yet basically
unknown. Was your “crime” politically motivated? What were
your motives, how did it play in the media and what have you
been made to go through, since you've been in prison & why
hasn’t the anarchist media taken up this case, as they've done
with more prominent similar cases, out West for example?

Answer: On August 29, 2001, | was found guilty of 9 counts of arson
and 1 count of conspiracy to commit arson as a class B felony, after 9
hours of deliberation by a jury. On September 26, 2001 (two weeks
after the September 1% terrorist attacks) | was sentenced solely by &
judge (who used to be a state prosecutor) to a maximum term of 20
Years in prison, when probation could have been given.

No one died or got hurt in the fire, and I had never been convicted
of anything in my life. In fact, | was an active member of the U.S.
Army Reserves and had a good life for a 22 -23 year old.

I did not set the fire. 'm wholly innocent and | was railroaded
because the arson was a high profile case in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Yeah, 1 know what some people think: “Oh, everybody claims they're
innocent!® But I truly am. 1 had alibi witnesses known by the court
and my public defender but they never got to testify. And now, after
all this time, | have evidence that supports the fire investigator and
‘my alleged co-conspirator committed perjury and presented false
evidence at my trial, which was calculated to add credibility to my
alleged co-conspirator’s testimony, who had given 3 different and
inconsistent statements before trial.

On February 23, 2001, 12 townhouse apartments were destroyed
(see attached photographs). | became a suspect because the fire
started on the back concrete porch of one of my ex-girlfriends and my
car was seen by a sherifl’s deputy shortly before the fire by her
‘apartment building. The sheriff recorded my plate number after
talking to the driver of my vehicle - the alleged co-conspirator, who
told the deputy that he was parked by the building because he was
waiting on a friend. Because of this, I got a call from the 11
investigating detective.

‘The night of the fire, I had let my alleged co-conspirator borrow
my car because he said he met some girls on the internet and that he
was going to meet with them. It was a Friday night and he had me
believing we could do some stuff with these girls, 80 let him borrow
my car while I finished up a project for my car club.

1 told the detective this at an interview on the telephone, o was
released. The detective got a statement from the alleged co-
conspirator, who told him the same thing. The detective told him
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time but that he was looking at 20 years. He then lets him go home.

Well, the next day on March 1, 2001, the alleged co-conspirator
goes back to the detective with his mother, and tells him that he
knows something about the fire, but doean't want to get in trouble.
The detective then promises that an attempt will be made to keep his
case in juvenile court so he won't have to go to prison (he was 17
years old at the time. | was a manager at Wendy's restaurant when |
met him in 1999, and we became friends.)

With the made agreement, the alleged co-conspirator told the
detective that he and I had planned our stories and that he was the
driver while | was the one who set the fire. He claimed he didn’t see
me with anything to set the fire with and that he thought that I
‘wasn't really going to do it. He said he didn't really know why I had
set it, but that when he heard about it on the news, he got scared
and thus, planned with me our *stories” in order to stay out of
trouble.

‘The detective arrested him on juvenile charges and took him to
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work without any arrest warrant. | stayed in jail because I couldn't
make bond. 30 days later, the alleged co-conspirator was released
into the custody of his parents.

When the fire happened, nothing else newsworthy was going on,
s0 when this all went down, the media jumped all over it. It was on
television and in the newspaper. Everybody who I talked to knew
about it. To make matters worse, the alleged co-conspirator got four
people who I knew, and whom he was good friends with, to help him
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‘The prosecutors believed this too, even though in my alleged co-
conspirator’s third inconsistent statement, that he stated we agreed
not to tell anyone about the fire. And now, he said he saw everything
used in the fire and that we bought Duraflame fire logs at a Wal-Mart
in Franklin, Indiana where I lived and that my motive for setting the

fire was revenge for my ex-girlfriend not wanting 1o go back out with
me. They all lied. s

First, one of my alibis talked to all of these new witnesses and
they told him they didn't know anything about the firc. Second, | told
my public defender to get the records from the Wal-Mart to prove
they were lying, but he wouldn't do it. The Duraflame logs were.
never mentioned in the original fire report. Then, after the co-
conspirator changed his story the third time and said that Duraflame
logs were used, the fire investigator testified that he recovered
Duraflame logs from the debris. He and the prosecutor then
presented a photograph which supposedly showed a picture of a
Duraflame log, but they did not produce the log in court nor did they
ever forensically test it. | have now received information from Wal-
Mart's legal department stating that no brand of such logs were sold
by them on the date in question!

The only evidence against me was the word of these people. There
were no eyewitnesses, nor any physical or forensic evidencel
Moreover, the alleged motive was contradicted by the ex-girlfriend
herself at triall She testified that she had asked me out on
Valentine's Day, but I rejected her, telling her we could be friends.
She also testified that on her birthday, two days before the fire, | had
sent her two birthday cardsl Now, why would I burn her apartment
down? 1 had & new girlfriend ~ my alleged co-conspirator’s ex-
girlfriend! So, we come to hjs motive.

First, | believe he set this fire, maybe thinking that somehow I'd
get blamed for it or that I'd go running back to my ex-girlfriend to
support her - 80 he would be clear to get back with his ex-girlfriend,
but his plans got messed up because the Deputy saw him there in
my car. So now, he had to blame it on me to clear himself.

Secondly, two weeks before the fire, he found out that me and his
ex had had sex and this provoked a huge argument, which ended
with me kicking him out of my house. He had been living with me at
the time. It wasn't as if I had betrayed him by going out with his ex
because they had only dated and from what | knew, they didn't even
have sex. She called me and asked me out and | told him. He said
he didn't care, that it wasn't serious and to go ahcad and go out with
her. Soldid.” We fell in love and he flipped out. While [ was in jail,
he kept calling her, trying to get back together with her.

‘The other witnesses had beefs with me, too. [ had dated their ex-
girlfriends and they were all addicted to drugs. While [ was in
they stole some of my property. When I found out about it, one of
them told my witnesses that she was gonna do whatever she could to
keep me in jail because she said I could have all the property. She
then punched holes in my bedroom walls to send me a message.

At trial, all their testimony conflicted in most respects. 1 couldn't
believe I was found guilty ~ especially after the foreman of the jury

dropped his jaw in disbelief after hearing such conflicting testimony
about where | was at and what | allegedly said. | mean, I looked right
into his eyes and I'm sure he was on the same page as me. ¢

The reason [ was convicted was because my attorney didn't
investigate my claims, didn't present a complete defense and didn't
argue my case well enough. To add salt to the wound, some of these
witnesses | had a beef with, came to my sentencing, laughing as |
wept in tears, wearing my clothing. I got the maximum 20 year
sentence. My alleged co-conspirator received nothing and has been
free ever since.

Since my conviction, I've been trying to get a new trial, but I
believe that there is a conspiracy against me. Because I'm
representing myself, the courts are abusing their discretion in the
guise of justice in order to deny me relief. They are not taking my
claims seriously. It doesn't surprise me, though.

‘The state is oppressive. It needs prisons to create jobs and to
Pperpetuate the existence of its members, loyal to it. Why would they
grant me relief? I'm by myself. No one supports me. I have no living
family. What would the judicial system look like if they granted me a
new trial - especially after what they did to me? Why, so I could sue
them for millions of dollars in a wrongful conviction lawsuit? So [
could show the media how dirty its prosecutors are by submitting
false evidence? Do any of you think they want this kind of media?
That's why I'm being denied relief.

Even in prison, the prison officials keep me from submitting my
evidence to the media and they will not let me show this evidence fo
the members of my jury, even though | have their mailing addresseal
All the guards and prison officials know about my case and some.
have used my case to retaliate against me.

For example, while at the Westville Control Unit, 1 made some
complaints about the counselor. He found out about them. He
threatened me by stating he'd give me & new reason to hate the dates
associated with my arson case. So, on February 23, 2005, he
falsified a disciplinary report, alleging that | had abused the outgoing
mail procedures. (February 23 is the same day the fire occurred.)

‘Then, on March 1, 2005, I went to the disciplinary hearing, where
the guards violated my hearing rights - and then beat me up,
breaking my nose. (March 1+ is the day I got arrested for the arson.)

1 don't know why anarchist groups have not tried to help me. I've
written to Clack Cross, Fifth Estate, Break the Chains and the
Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, but I've never received any word back.
The prison very well may not be mailing my letters out. They do that
alot in here. | wish someone would help, though, because [
desperately need it. | am a comrade whose life has been taken away
and I'm being physically and mentally tortured in prison. My losses
and suffering have been great. | would do anything for the help.
Question #3: Indiana is & bulwark of Amerikan fascism. It's the
birthplace of Eugenics and has always been a strong base for the

Klan and other rightwing groups. Can you give us a brief history
of these politics and how it translates into law and the prisons?

Answer: In the 1930's and 40's the Klan was HUGE in Indiana.
Growing up, I never saw any Klan rallies. It seems that they have
segregated themselves from the groups of people that they dont want
to be around. Believe it or not, I see more racism coming from black
people than I do white. Ive even heard that they get with white
women so they can destroy the white race. Crazy stuff.

You're more likely to run into a skin or neo-nazi here in Indiana
than an actual Klan member. Klan propaganda is still strong,
though. You still hear a lot of racist Klan jokes. You see a lot of rebel
flags - Confederate flags from the Civil War, but you seriously don't
see too many Klan movements. To be honest, Ive never seen any
Klan rallies or town gatherings. 1ve just heard about a few
‘meaningless ones.

From the Klan guys [ know of here in prison, the Klan has grown
into this quiet, secret society; like an elite special forces group.
Everybody knows the name, but never knows what's going on with
them.

In my opinion, any member of a right wing group might as well be
a fascist, but the problem with that is that they all are trying to be
the absolute rulers over a society, 5o they can't be a fascist. These
right wing members in Indiana are very similar to Benito Mussoli
logic, and practice his idea and doctrines of the state: “Everything for
the State; nothing outside the State; nothing against the State.”

In politics, Republicans run the show here in Indiana, but I have
o knowledge of the Klan or such other groups using their politics to
influence the law and prison environments. They can't have too
‘much of an influence because | remember this high profile case in
Martinsville, Indiana where a high-ranking Klan member was found
guilty of murdering this black girl almost 20 or 30 years ago, and
Martinsville is the biggest Klan town I know of.

It seems to me that the right wing believes it is superior to all;
therefore, anything not associated or belonging to it is to be
manipulated, treated unfairly and simply used in order to perpetuate
the right wing.

1 think race issues are a distraction about the real problems with
government, which is class struggle. It's about the rich and the poor.
The rich use their resources, authority and influence to create the
society that fits their beliefs. They do this by passing laws. The poor
are too busy trying to survive, 80 that by the time they learn of these
Iaws, they're already being punished for violating them. They vote for
each other in local elections, 5o they can manipulate laws through

the “good ‘0l boy” system. This is Indiana politics: all for us and for
no one else. It's the opposite doctrine of the Three Musketeers! ¢

Question #4: Are you from Indiana? Where did you grow up?

What was it like in your family, neighborhood, community and
surrounding towns? This would be the 1980’s, I believe.

Answer: Yes, I'm from Indiana. 1 had a very rough and difficult
childhood. My father died in a car accident in 1980 when I was only
two. My mom re-married and I got adopted. That's how I got the last
name “Smith” but I plan on changing it back to my father’s last name
Danachi, which is Italian. It's pronounced “Dah-nah-key.” My
mom’s marriage didn't last long, so she divorced and raised me in an
apartment in Greenwood, Indiana. She developed breast cancer and
because of the bills, we had to live off of welfare.

Without a father figure, | was a mean kid at times. | was fearless.
and 1 liked to fight the bigger kids. 1 was rotten to my mother, which
1 regret, but I dont know why [ was so mean. I was o bad that my
mom asked her step-brother to take care of me. My mother later died
in May of 1986. 1 was only eight-years old.

So, my step-uncle raised me for a while. He, however, divorced
his wife and she became my new “mother.” She was very strict and
believed in beatings as punishment. I'm talking about chokings,
slappings to the face, paddles to the rear, switches to the rear and
legs - all kinds of crazy shitl

Everywhere | lived, and I moved four different times before I
graduated high school, I lived in all white communities. My
elementary schools were a part of the Indianapolis public school
system, 5o black kids were bussed in from four miles away to attend
our schools. This didn't bother me. | had a lot of black friends in
elementary school. In fact, my best friend, Antoine Mitchell, from
elementary school was black. After sixth grade, I moved to the
country - Nineveh, Indiana, which is 12 miles northeast of Nashville,
Indiana. We had a lot of land.

Since second grade, I always participated in organized football
programs. | was always the starting running back. I was a fast white
kid. More lightning quick than fast, though. People always had a
hard time taking me down because 1 could cut on a dime, spin off
them, and was just so clusive. | was short too, so | was hard to see.
behind the offensive line.

1loved Brown County. There, I was a high school football star.
My sophomore year, our school went to the football sectional
championships. It was a muddy and rainy game. | sprained my
ankle in the 3 quarter and we lost 14 - 12.” We should have won
but our kicker missed a point-after-touchdown attempt, so when we
scored the would-be tying touchdown, we had to attempt a two-point
conversion. Our quarterback got sacked by a saiety blitz. It was
devastating.

In school, I was a class clown. 1 didnt take school work too
seriously. 1 didn't care about grades as long as [ passed. I could
have applied myself better, but I had a lot of

1was being abused by my so-called new “Mother.” She was crazy,
man. Abusive and nutty as the late movie star, Joan Crawford, who
abused her adopted daughter, Christina - you know, *Mommie
Dearest™? | swear she was just like Joan Crawford, except more
stronger and bigger - like a female bouncer.

1was really scared of her and afraid to do anything because her
son, who was about six years older than me, was huge. He used to
be the starting quarterback for Decatur Central High School. He was
about 62" and weighed around 215 Ibs. All muscle, t0o. His
punches were like a mule kick! He hit hard.

‘Aside from the abuse, my childhood was okay. 1 played outside in
the yard a lot and grew up listening to rock and heavy metal. Some
punk, too. Billy Idol and AC / DC were my favorites. I liked Twisted
Sister, London, WASP, Pantera, Metallica, Mega Death - a shitload of
bands. I'd jam to ‘em all day long. 1 always wanted to learn how to
play an instrument, like the electric guitar or bass, but we didn't
have the money to buy one or to take the lessons.

After my sophomore year, | ran away from home after my step-
mother had choked me silly and abused me. A friend and his
parents hid me, and reported the abuse to the authorities. | stayed
in a foster home for a couple of months until my grandfather decided
to take me in. 1 moved to Beech Grove, Indiana - a white suburban
area southeast of Indianapolis.

Starting school there was hard. Making new friends sucked and |
still struggled academically. 1 still played sports and hung out in
‘popular crowds at school, but I still felt like an outsider. I had no
direction. To make matters more stressful, my former Brown County
High School football team won their first sectional championship in
school history and I couldn't be there for that special moment. | had
a ot of close friends at Brown County and everyone was shocked that
I was gone. They were double-shocked when they learned why.

My junior year, I signed up with the U.S. Army Reserves under
their delayed entry program. Even though | was barely passing high
school with a D+ average, I still needed college money. I planned on
getting a degree. After I graduated in 1997, I went off for Army
twaining in the summer, and when I got back in October, I moved to
Franklin, Indiana.  started to attend Ivy Tech Community College in
Indianapolis as a part-time student. The weird thing is that in
college, my grades were good. | was acing the business classes and
walked away with an overall b- average. I quit college though,
because of a girl I thought | would marry. We got a house together.

We didn't work out as | thought. so I broke up our relationship. The
lo

Question #5: It's so refreshing to read your work because it is
written 8o clearly and usably, unlike so much “anarchist” writing
we run across. It's obvious that you are a clear thinker who has
developed a logical writing style that can really help others wade
through the legalese jungle of confusion the system throws at
prisoners who attempt to challenge infustice. How did you
develop at such a writer?

Answer:

Ive always liked writing. When | was in elementary school I
wanted to be a writer. | guess I became good at writing by copving
the styles of various writers. I'd think through what | wanted to write
about, make rough drafts, and then draw up the final versions.

Being a good writer comes easier if you know how to proofread, edit,
and if you can keep an impartial mind. Getting your hands on
writing books, helps too. Being a good speller and knowing the rules
of punctuation is really valuable. 1'd recommend everyone getting
Mitchel Ivers' Guide to Good Writing (Random House) (1991). It's a
great self-help and how-to book. Anyone who reads it seriously will
become a much better writer.

As far as legal writing goes, I learned hands-on. 1 studied self-
help legal books and learned the styles of the State’s Attorney
General's office. Making legal arguments are like writing essays -
you argue two sides and explain why your side outweighs the other.

Overall, maybe my writing skillsa come from my education? In
high school, I was in Honors English and Year Book classes. In
college, I took more English. 1 even took a journalism class in high
school, which was fun. 1 loved to write, but reading!? God, I hated
reading! My teacher would pick out the most boring books! That was
one of my downfalls in high school. 1 struggled because there was too
much reading.

Question #6: I'd like to hear your honest assessment of the
support you've had (or have tried to generate.) What is the
problem with anarchists who claim to do this or that but actually
do nothing, nor explain their malfeasance? What about other
forms of support from other groups, family members and
friends?

Answer:

I've tried to obtain support from many people to help me fight my
‘arson conviction and treatment in prison, but [ve never been lent
any. Ive written more than several private attorneys. law schools,
and civil rights groups, but they all write back requesting money |
don't have. They state that they can't take my case because of lack of
time and current case load or they simply don't represent prisoners.

My best friend’s mother, who knows of my innocence, sent out a
couple of emails to prisoner support groups, but they couldn't help,
cither. She wanted to start a website, but doesn't know how t start
one. Now, she is discouraged, and has given up. Hell, Ive even tried
1o write the jury members from my arson case (1 have their mailing
addresses), but dig this: the prison confiscated them, stating| /]
cannot write to them! These letters explained the relevance of my
‘missing evidence, etc.

IVe written a few anarchist groups like Break the Chains, the
Fifth Estate and Anarcho-Syndicalist Review for help, but they never
respond. To be honest, I don't even know if they ever received them
because the prison officials read all outgoing mail and throw mail
away.

I don't know what the exact problem of such groups are. I believe
they all mean well, but that there are just too many people to help.
The system is really dirty. A lot of innocent people are locked up and
there are a lot of guilty ones that don't need to be behind burs. Id
say the contributing downfalls with these groups are poor
communication, lack of adequate resources, and that they do not
possess the knowledge to use their resources to their advantage.

Everybody talks, but they come up short when it's time to act. It
makes us feel bad, to, because there is nothing worse than to
experience a false hope. People like me have little or no family and
friends. That's why a lot of us rot in here. We need voices.

Question #7: You've been courageous in the face of these brutes,
challenging them every step of the way. Tell us how your
captors “argue.” In other words, document the asssults &
penalties you've endured, why they occurred & what their
“logic” was.

Answer:

You know how the government keeps lists of people they watch,
hate, etc.? Well, with all the legal work I've done while in prison, |
have definitely gotten the attention of state officials. This is obvious
because | am being abused and treated differently than other
similarly-situated prisoners, and the differential treatment did not
start until after [ started to question their authority in court. That's
one way that they argue.

Here at the Indiana State Prison, back in October 2002, is the first
time I was assaulted by guards in retaliation for a conditions of
confinement and denial of court access lawsuit | had in state court.
One of the defendants who | was suing, paid 4 gang members to force
me to hide a package in my cell. These thugs had knives t0o, so |

had to accept the package. I'm not Bruce Lee, you know. 'z

Well, right after that, some guards came to my cell, searched it
and found the package. They took off with it and I later received a
disciplinary report. They said the package had two knives in it and a
set of postal scales. In the meantime, I was taken to a “Special
Management Cell” (a small suicide tank made of steel, no windows,
just a bed, sink and toilet combination, and a camera in the ceiling
watching your every move. You're also locked in behind a solid steel
door)

‘The “special” cell is used as a device of torture. There, you are not
allowed any property, medication or commissary. You are also
deprived of adequate meals, only being delivered a sack meal and
either an apple or an orange. You have to wear a reed jumpsuit and
the air conditioning stays on during the winter.

On the way up there (being handeuffed behind my back) a
correctional lieutenant and two other officers slammed my face into
an clevator wall, telling me to dismiss my lawsuits or worse would
happen. To conceal my facial injury, the prison officials cancelled my
visits and would ot let my visitor see me.

Four months later, after being found guilty of the disciplinary
report, | was in segregation. Two officers there said | threw
“unknowm liquids™ on them (which I didn't) I was taken again to the
Special Management cell, but on the way up, two other officers
slammed me into a wall, threatening me to dismiss my lawsuits
‘because they were ‘old school” and that they knew how to hurt you
without leaving marks. | was later transferred to Westville and was
sent to the Westville Control Unit on April 12, 2004,

‘The Westville Control Unit (it has gone by other names in the past)
opened in the spring of 1991, and it is used to house predators,
dangerous gang members and other prisoners who pose a threat to
the safety of others. Today, however, prison officials also use units
like this to retaliate against prisoners like me. They do this because
You are severely restricted in your ability to possess clothing and
other property. You are isolated by yourself in an enclosed cell for
23-24 hours a day, and only get to shower 3 times a week. You never
Ret to go outside, and now, there is no group recreation. All meals
are delivered to your cell and you are handecuffed behind your back,
sometimes with ankle shackles, everywhere you go.

If you would like to know more about this place, contact the
Human Rights Watch Group and ask for their report that they
conducted in 1997 entitled: “Cold storage — Super Maximum
Confinement in Indiana.” (This place became famous nationwide
when a prisoner there cut off his finger and sent it to his attorney to
report abuse.) The following is a brief listing of the abuses I endured
there - aside from the punitive restrictions:
June 18, 2004. Prisoners were flooding their cells because the
guards would not feed us tunch. 1 kicked on my door to notify the
guards that I needed a mop. The guards refused and told their |3
‘superiors (who { had filed grievances against in the past) and the
superiors demanded my shoes so they could see me walk barefoot in
dirty toilet water. I refused and lay down on my bed. They responded
by making me and then, when I tumed on my stomach, they shot me
seventeen times with a pepper ball gun.

June 23, 2005. Prison officials refused to copy legal papers
concerning an appeal to my arson case where I had a set deadline to
Jile._In protest, I climbed up on the down stair’s recreation wall, 20 feet
up in the air and made a hammock by tying a bed sheet to some
sprinkler pipes. I refused to come down until my copies were made.
The guards responded by making me with 5 cans of mace and shot me
about 40 times with pepper bal guns, blinding me temporarily and
‘having no regard if I would full to the concrete floor. Iwas taken to the
hospital, and 1 later got my copies.

March 1, 2005. A prison official conspired with 3 other guards to
retaliate against me for filing grievances against them. These guards
Leat me up, dragged me across the floor and broke my nose. | wasn't
doing anything wrong, and 1 was handcuffed behind my back, in ankle
‘shackles and connected to a lead rope. By the way, I'm only 5'4", 135
Ibs. Iwas taken to a hospital.

January 5, 2006. Three guards on night shift maced me after I
responded to their siander against me. They maced me in my cell for
an hour straight, then locked me in a shower about the size of a small
walk-in closet, and sprayed me full blast with a fire hose. They then
destroyed the property in my cell.

April 10, 2007. When Iwas transferred back to Westuille for the
‘second tune (which the transfer out from the first was calculated to
escape jurisdiction of the court concerning one of my lawsuits), a guard
who didn*t get along with and had filed grievances on, maced me
while I was at recreation. I had done nothing wrong and when I asked
for his superior, the superior came and ordered me to cuff up.
Concerned for my safety, I refused. 1was shot 40 times in the bare
back with the pepper ball gun and maced with a can or two of mace.
The incidents of excessive force occurring on June 18, 2004, June 23,
2005, and April 10, 2007 were tape recorded.

The logic of doing all these things was to gain « sadistic pleasure
in the guise of safety and security concerns. Regardless, the amount
of force that was used was t00 excessive and not necessary because
there existed either other options to serve these interests. For
example, they simply could have cell extracted me, waited me out, left
‘me alone or utilized the disciplinary system by writing reports for any
alleged rule violations.
When 1 first learned how to file lawsuits, I filed all kinds of them
in state and federal courts, and eventually 1 obtained what the courts
call “three strikes" meaning, I had 3 or more lawsuits dismissed /&
because they were allegedly “frivolous” or that they failed to state a
claim upon which relief could be granted. When this happens, the
courts sanction you. Thanks to Congress and state lawmakers, they
created laws stating that if you cannot afford to pay a filing fee you
cannot file another lawsuit unless you are in danger of serious bodily
injury, such as a loss of a limb - or death.

So what this does is that it gives prison officials a license to
torture you and destroy your property, because such things do not
amount to a danger of serious bodily injury! The prison officials
know this, 30 they abuse me. For now, there is nothing I can do,
cither.

1have Indiana’s three-strike law challenged in the Indiana
Supreme Court, arguing it is unconstitutional, but no decision has
been reached. I'm confident that I'l win this case. It was a high
profile case and was on the news (there | was again) and a bunch of
legal organizations filed briefs either in support or against the law.

Indiana laws and the state judicial system are really bad and
corrupt and the people (or prisoners) have very few rights to seck
relief. For example, there are o laws that grant a right to sue for
violations of certain statutes, and there is no state remedy to sue for
damages for violations of the state constitution.

The Republicans in Indiana are to blame for this because they
dominate Indiana politics. Republicans feel that the People have no
rights other than what's given in the federal U.S. Constitution. That's
why they don't make any other laws to help the people concerning
their legal rights. The result? Meaningless laws, made to make the
system look good, that the government does not have to obev. The
end result is arbitrary government action.

Question #8: You've also been bounced around from one gulag to
another, with various levels of “security.” Can you tell us what
ach of these prisons was like, how they are different? We all
know their goal is to break prisoners and reduce them to states
of hopelessness &/or madness. How does a prisoner maintain
their sense of self, let alone move forward, doing productive
‘work?

Answer:
Yeah, I've been bounced around. I feel like I'm in  pinball
machine, and 'm getting lit up (bong! bong! bong-bong-bong!)
(laughter).
Since I've been in the custody of the Department of Corruption,
I've heen transferred EIGHT different times! There is  new system
on how they classify the security level of a prison, now. The old
system used a 1-5 number system. Level 1 prisons were places like a
work-release facility, where prisoners have it made in the shade lnd
level 5 were the supermaxes.

Every prison that had a wall around it was meant for violent
prisoners (or those wrongfully convicted of such crimes) -places like
the Indiana Reformatory in Pendleton, Indiana and the Indiana State
Prison, located in Michigan City.

Now however, they just have a system using number 1-3. I'm not
exactly sure why they changed it. Rumor has it that they changed
the system to get special federal benefits and monetary awards and
they changed the system to manipulate federal law. They wanted to
‘menipulate it so they don't have to give prisoners the rights they arc
entitled to. 1 don't know, but I believe it wasn't for anything
beneficial to prisoners.

1 started my prison sentence at the Reception Diagnostic Center
(*ROC") in Plainficld, Indiana. This is the place where everyone
convicted of a crime and sentenced to DOC time, starts at. It's like
the Indiana State Prison and Westville Control Unit put together:
you're either celled two deep in a pod area, where each section has
about twenty cells, three tiers each, forming a flattened c-shape.
‘These pods represent the “new” parts of ROC. Elsewhere, are barred
cells located on ranges. These areas are truly hell-in-the-cell,
because there’s no air-conditioning and you're stuck with a cellmate.

‘The officers are militant. It's like they are all fresh out of DOC
training. Yelling, walking around with their shoulders back - that
type of shit. You are stuck in your cell 23-24 hours a day unless you
are going to recreation, chow or on pass.

It's really a confusing time for beginners. Stressful for all. It's
process we all must endure and the prison staff makes a calculated
determination on which of the 30 prisons in Indiana you'll go to.
This is done by an awarded point system. You get points for various
reasons: length of time, past criminal record, etc. The more points.
you have, the higher your “security level” will be. The higher the
level, the more punitive and dangerous your prison will be. 1 was a
level 2 prisoner, and got sent to the Westville Correctional Facility
(the Westville Control Unit is on the same grounds, but separate from
the facility where the general population resides.)

‘The Westville Correctional Facility is up far northwest of Indiana,
out in the middle of a small nothing town. It's a 30 minute drive
from the Indiana State Prison. Upon arrival, the view is very
intimidating and shocking. About 30 guard towers surround the
whole facility. Outside them are rows of razor-wire and now, all
electric fences (too many escapes.) The buildings are old-looking, no
higher than two stories, unless they are special buildings like the
Health Care Building or Pre-Release honor dorms.

There's a lot of *set-tripping” here. A lot of young and uneducated

“gangsters.” There's a lot of stealing and fighting because of race.
There's some good too, but to get by peacefully in order to bit, you
need to clique up with a few people, and stick with them. The rules
are petty and it's not a place you want to be if you have ten years or
more to do. A lot of prisoners are rebellious and hostile towards the
officers, but a lot of us end up losing earned credit time, and get
transferred to higher level security prisons as a result. A lotof /b
prisoners get forced and coerced by prison staff into slave kitchen
jobs, which is no fun at all. This happens even if you are trving to get
into educational programs.

From Westville, | got sent to the Indiana State Prison - the most
dangerous prison in the state! There are about 30 foot tall walls
surrounding the prison. Razor wire is fitted over the top, with guard
towers and light towers. It's huge, and it is very old. A lot of the
buildings were erected in the very early 1900's.

The prison is very worn out and dirty. Barred cells, like you see
on television and there’s a darkness to everything. You have to be
careful in here because if you get into a serious fight, no guards can
Tun to your aid because you're locked down a long range measuring
about 100 fect. Thirty-three cells and a shower unit are located on
each 5-story tier.

‘The place is big, and the prison has a hard time providing
clothing, sanitation and hygiene. As a result, you see a lot of bearded
prisoners with long hair, wearing used clothing (even underwear) and
there is a lot of stealing.” Your only prayer to surviving is to clique up
with a few good guys and keep to yourself. If you have money, you
can get whatever you want, even a piece of ass from a nurse of female
guard. The more money you have, the more enjoyabie your stay will
be. Just watch over your shoulder.

Pendleton Correctional Facility is a little better than the Indiana
State Prison as far s cleanliness and sanitation. That's due in part
because a lot of the prison has been remodeled. The officers there
are abusive, racist, and petty. It gets tiring having to bite your
tongue all the time. There’s a lot of gang-related activity there, too. A
ot of drugs.

The New Castle Correctional Facility located in New Castle,
Indiana (fun town by the way) is operated by the Geo Group, Inc. The
DOC gave them a 10-year contract in 2006. Geo Group's website
(- st o) under New Castle Correctional Facility
proudly states that it “provides secure care, custody, and control for
Indiana Department of Correction offenders.”

During that year, a prisoner was murdered, another had an
outsider forge release papers by pretending to be a cop, and actually
g0t released and CNN reported a full-blown prison riot where fires
were set and graffiti written outside the buildings, reading “Naptown”
and “Arizona.” The prison rules are petty, but at least everything is
“securely cared and controlled.” "

The Westville Control Unit hold around 250 prisoners. It is a
place of physical and mental torture. Unnecessary restrictions on
property, clothing and food are enforced. A lot of prisoners have
pending lawsuits for abuse by staff. The abuse was so bad, that
video cameras were installed in the summer of 2007.

Here, you're trapped behind a solid steel door for 24 hours by
‘yourself, unless you go to what they call “recreation” which consists
of little or no physical activity. The place is air-conditioned and its
design came from Pelican Bay's Supermax in California. Everything
is controlled.

‘The place is constructed with only blocks, steel frames and lexan
It is hard time here. A lot of people go insane here. On August 18,
2007, a prisoner hung himself there. The place is energy-drainin
Food items are reduced as unofficial punishment. A lot of prisoners
lose significant weight and muscle mass. It makes you violent and
wants to make you snap.

A lot of people do time their own way. There’s really no set
‘standard on how to do time. A lot of people maintain their sense of
self by listening Lo music. Some get into religion. There’s a famous
saying: Expect the worse, and hope for the best. If you think about it
that way, time will be less disappointing. Most times, however, we
have to create our own avenues to escape. It's hard because not only
do we suffer, but our family and friends sufer, too. Society should
really be concerned about the animals they are creating in here and
they should press for alternatives to incarceration. The judicial
system is designed to convict and punish, regardless of innocence.
This is true because the system is based on opinions and prejudice.
What happened to me and other innocent people that have been
wrongfully convicted, can happen to anybods.

Question #9: 1 know several conscious prisoners encaged in
Indiana. Give us & rundown on the various progressive &
revolutionary ideologies amongst prisoners, as well as the
conservative, reactionary and fascist ones. How do we help
prisoners transcend their (un) revolutionary suicide lifestyle
(gangsterism) to one where they become willing to take the
biggost gamble of their lives - to actualize themselves as a full
human being, work to realize their innate talent, attain genuine
education & self-respect & do right by others. And, if they do
manage to attain this flowering of their humanity, undes such
horrific conditions, how will they instill this into their peeps in
the ‘hood, which are merely more open-aired hostile
environments?
Answer:

Unfortunately, the majority of the prisoners here in Indiana are
not revolutionary. They are institutionalized, and they would rather
fight and steal from each other than challenge the institution's rules.
Alot of us simply say, “Why fight? We cannot win!" Thi their
mentality. They are discouraged easily. i

It's really frustrating, too. 1 don't think there is any way to
transcend their current self to a real and full human being. Their
“gangsterism” is too computed into their head. It gives them a sense
of power and feeling of belongingness and protection, much of which
a lot of them never had before their incarceration. It's a role they like
to play. Makes them feel good to brag (and lie) about their
“playerism® or *blingage.” They can get away with it in here. The
ones that do change and try to make a difference are few in number.

On the other hand, maybe these men and women feel that they
deserve to be this way and are content with who they are because
they were guilty of committing crimes? Maybe prison is all they have
to survive?

More than likely, it would take credible voices - people out on the
streets - to come into the prisons and meet with the prisons to instill
life-changing inspirations in them. You work with the zines helps,
but it would take more because prison officials sometimes confiscate
them or prisoners just don't know about your distributing center.

A lot of prisoners can't even read well. In here, us “conscious™
prisoners have to walk a fine line. What we say may offend other
prisoners. Hell, they might even snitch on us! Trust is a bug issue.
First, we have to gain that trust, then we have to gain their respect.
Only then can we try to attempt to make a change in their life. But
all of this is easier said than done.

Focusing on what makes a “hood” a hood can bring a community
together. Neighborhood programs, youth athletic programs and
community projects can be the only way to bring peace to a
neighborhood, so hostile. Knowing that the hood” isn't the only
‘opportunity in life - that it's the government who wants them to kill
and destroy each other and themselves, can bring a community
together.

1 would love to start a volunteer project where we could change
the physical appearance of poor communities, and make such areas
self-sufficient. I'd like to do some painting, re-modeling homes,
installing sofar panels and windmills for electric energy so no one has
to pay these capitalist pigs money for heat, etc. This way everyone
could be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Things like
this.

Knowledge is the key, though. A lot of these “gangsters™ could
help their members in the hood by becoming familiar with
governmental programs and laws. Having good credit can help

people get jobs and loans. Anyone can clean their credit up, | §
themselves. Although, it might take some time, it can usually be
done within six months. All you need to do is contact cach credit
bureau (Experian, TransUnion and Equifax) and tell them you need a
free copy of your credit report cither because you are seeking
employment or you believe you're entitled to a frec copy because you
believe you've been a victim of fraud (identity theft)

Federal law requires these bureaus to mail you a free copy of your
credit report. From there, look at all the adverse information. To
erase this off of your credit report, simply contact each of the
bureaus and dispute the adverse information, stating that you simply
have no knowledge of these reports. By federal law, the credit
bureaus must verify the information. A lot of the times it cannot
verify the adverse information, this, federal law requires that the
‘adverse information must be deleted!

There are a lot of good self-help and how-to books out there tha
can teach all kinds of shit. A good place to get a book catalog from

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Question #10: Obviously you have hopes and reams of what you
wast to experience and accomplish, once you get out of the
clutches of your molesters. What are they?

Answer:

First, Id like to start my own business. | am currently writing a
business plan dealing with the type of service business that | want:
An automotive insurance company! 1 have a book from Nolo that
explains how to write a business plan. | figure | can make at least
$50,000,000 & month in sales revenue by only charging $50.00 a
month for full coverage (no deductibles) and $25.00 a month for
liability coverage. I'd pay my employees well, and I think I'd employ
about 900 - 1000 people.

The reason why [ would start a business is because it’s gonna
take some money to start a revolution. I want o use my profits to
build self-sufficient commaunities, do charity work for prisoners and
the poor. And start a militia aimed at overthrowing the government
I'd campaign against the authorities, and I'd work on taking over
local governments first. I'd run and support candidates that are
Anarchists to take over government positions and then have them
reform and void laws ~ something like a computer virus that would
eventually destroy government and work toward building a free
society. I want to aid and support Anarchists and peopie like you,

Anthony, 50 our dreams and teachings are remembered.

7d also like to get married and have a family. I'm worried about
this. though, because 'm 29 now, and I worry about getting too old
and not being able to find a woman that 1 can love.

1'd like to become fluent in the Italian and Japanese languages,
and trave overseas.

1'd like to continue writing and publish a few books. I'd also like
to become a lawyer 50 I could represent prisoners and people wanting
10 sue the government, just 50 | could harass the government. For
some reason, | get a sadistic pleasure off of taking government
officials to court. 1 enjoy seeing them held accountable in some way.
Also, because the more people that get screwed over by these judges
looking out for their governmental interests instead of doing what is
right, the closer we become to revolting, etc.

Question #11: As serious anarchists, you and I both know that
we can talk and write until we are blue in the face. Many people
will be intrigued, entertained, even enthused by our efforts and
example. But only a acant few will take up our challenge and
emulate us.

For, resolve that drives real action only gains critical mass by
the desire inside each of us to want to propel their lives past the
fear line. How can we better help them take this glant leap in
life?

An

swer:
Somehow, if we could change our propaganda strategies, I think
we could make a difference and make people want to become as
passionate as 0 few of us are. We need to use television and radio.
We need to institute anarchist theory classes in high school and
colleges. We need to throw money-making events to fund such
things. Car shows are an easy and cheap way to raise money (being
in a car club and car show promoter in the past, I know this to be
true.)

Basically, we have to make Anarchism *hip." Maybe an anarchist
magazine mixing anarchist theories, writing stories on anarchist-
minded people, and having fashion pages, etc. All mixed with it?
Something political, but a magazine cool like Maxim magazine. It's a
business adventure, but we have to do things like this. A sound
marketing plan is needed.

On the other hand, if we could somehow cause the government to
declare Marshall Law, I think this could spark a revolution and
inflame the passions of people. The more fucked over the people are
by government, the more they may become passionate about
anarchism. Above all, we need to be supportive to the people, and let
them know that we are here o help them the best we can. We need

to be patient and understanding.

Until better opportunities come about, we should continue to do
the work we do. After all, your dedication and hard work lead me to
you. Now, if you just quit or weren't around, where would people like
me, be? In time, more people will come. Try dropping zines etc. in
peoples’ mail boxes. Set up zine stands in malls if vou can. Be more

Question #12: What's a typical day like for you? What would an
ideal day be like in your favorite place? Any closing commenta?

Thanks, Brother! I have a tremendous amount of respect for
you. Stay vibrant!

Answer:

A typical day for me is filled with anger and rage mixed with work.
‘There are days that I draft legal documents from sunrise to sunset, |
doalot of reading and studying of what I can. I'm really just pissed
off a lot of the time, thinking quietly to myself. 1 know what | want,
but I'm trapped in here. I feel like Prometheus ~ the first man placed
in solitary confinement by the Greek God Zeus, where Zeus tortured
Prometheus on a daily basis for stealing fire from heaven so all
mankind could use it, and not just the Gods.

My ideal day would be with loved ones and friends, just relaxing
and enjoving nature and the Earth. 14 like to make people happy
My favorite place is in my car, driving. 1 like to be around people who
enjoy the same things as I do. Sightseeing is relaxing to me. It's o
chance to meet new people.

Closing commenta? First, Id like to thank vou for your work.
Anthony. For a lot of people reading this, you should know how
much of Anthony's free time s spent on typing these zines and
distributing them. It's a self-sacrifice deserving the up-most respect
and honor. This should tell you how much he cares about his
dreams and beliefs, and how much he wants to share them with you.

Last, Anarchism is not a thing. It's not a form of dress or
‘something discussed at asocial club for fun. Anarchism is the
practical activity in whatever way helps to increase mutual aid,
destroy capitalism and bring about libertarian communism. It is
activity that opens out, rather than closes down into the dead end of
political elitism.

Applying anarchist theories would be like taking back our God-
given or nature-given freedoms, instead of submitting to conditional
freedoms stipulated by a small group of individuals. Are we slaves?
Are we nothing but working ants? Do vou enjov life as it is now? I
vou don't, do something about it. I'm with vou ~ Black Flag raised
hight

Eric Smith Interviews
Anthony Rayson

Queation #1: If Anarchism would bring out unconditional
freedom, then why does socisty not embrace its thoories?

Answer: Well, that's a complicated question with a lot of factors
involved. [ would say that basically people do embrace these
theories, which are really just the articulation of natural harmonious
human behavior. Almost all religious teach them, commonly known
to us as “The Golden Rule” - do unto others as you would like to see
done to you. Respect each other, cooperate, share fairly, don't be a
bully, don't steal from others, don't coerce people into doing things
they don't want to do (no slavery be it wage, chattel, sexual, contract
or prison.) You shouldn't commit crimes, such as kidnapping,
incarcerating, bombing, terrorizing, threatening, prosecuting using
slave documents never agreed to, etc.

Anarchism is basically the articulation of elevating in social and
personal use all the good qualities of humanity - kindness, mutual
aud. solidarity, direct action, honesty, openness, inclusiveness,
sustainability, and a general love and looking out for not just

cultures from Africa to the Americas practices a type of “anarchism®
before being overwhelmed by European conquerors, who instigated
anarchy’s opposite to these peoples - slaughter, slavery, a class and
race-based hierarchy, with cynical parchments full of lies and
vaguencss which their august judiciary” could interpret any way the
powers that be wanted them to,

So, sadly, people in this country and pretty much throughout the
nodern-day world have no history or sense of what it is like to live
20operatively, without a hierarchical apparatus menacing them from

hewr way. Al they know is this demented consumerist society, as
nzymmdhmybnmhmd-hhfiumm-ubjpm~p9nfir‘.

wnd concern for people and the planet is snuffed out. Our
‘onsciences are suffocated constantly, which explains the heavy drug

1se, the psychosis, the unhappiness in people, the bitter self-hate
nd so forth.
For the “ideology” of America s the almighty dollar, not Jong-
accepted values like humanism, faimess, sustainability, equalit
justice, etc. We have been robbed of our humanity, as the moorings
to them have been ripped from s since day one, much like the 2 3
foreskin of so many baby boys. We are products of our environment.
It's hard to have a history of cooperative, anarchist community when
‘we are all atomized in our homes or apartments and our parents are
forced to slave all day to provide food, clothing, housing, utilities, etc.
No one has time to be a human being and what little time we have is
sucked into highly addictive, yet malodorous behavior, such as
violent movies, games, and schemes to rip people off and 5o on.

‘There's no real “autonomous zones" for people to latch onto for
something different and viable. School teaches kids to can't stand to
learn more than anything. It's such boring bullshit, phus it starts the
tracking process to various roles — bourgeois sellouts, working stiffs
or for the darkly complexioned &/or rebellious - prison. This lifelong
process of destroying cach person’s initiative and natural desire o
learn and grow is planned to do exactly what it does. Children are
dying to learn anything and everything and do an amazing amount of
it in the home. But you take them into these miserable schools,
amidst often horrible neighborhoods, etc. and they puke it all up.
Half the students drop out in high school because it is o horrible.
Halft For, they are taught the lies and bullshit that those who control
education want them to learn, not what they genuinely need to know
for their real development.

Anarchy is never taught in schools. I it is mentioned, it is as &
quickly dismissed aberrant, violent, dangerous and suicidal form of
evil thinking that advocates *chaos.” Bibles and mainstream social
studies, self-help type books and pamphlets are everywhere, but
serious anarchist tracts are rare indeed. Sadly, many of the few
anarchist publications out there are irrelevant to most peoples’ dailv
lives. They riff off on esoteric tangents that only a tiny cadre of
anarchists would even care about.

So, basically, people aren't embracing anarchist thinking because.
they have no idea such a thing even exists! The ones that have run
across a decent picce of it have been impressed. But, every single
one of us has layers and layers of baggngeaf mental garbage
cluttering up our minds. It's like a bag lady’s dive inside evervone's
skulll Each person needs to embark on major psychological house
cleaning.

People have built walls of protection for themselves. They don’t
want to “go there” because it might be dangerous and scary. It's
scary to confront your own demons and fears of inadequacy. But
see, that's what's so wonderful about anarchist thinking. It's a plain
and simple tool to use. It docsn't demand & damned thing from vou'

if you give it your all and become a serious Christian, god bless you,
Brotherl | say “Brother” because they still discriminate against
women! At its best, it should help you figure things out more clearly,
which leads to delightful insights, which foster self-love, self-
empowerment.

Anarchist thinking is what getting to the brutal truth of reality is
ail about. That's scary stuff because the state has made it very clear
on endless occasions that they will kill everyone within a huge . _/
radius. They are that evil. Since the Paris Commune, an early %
attemp: at quasi-anarchist politics and living, all such vibrant bursts.
of consciouancss and social agitation for anarchy has been met with
« hail of bullets and bombs, endless torture in capitalist dungeons
and frequent firing squads.  Kill the messenger, indeed!

So who would want to atick their neck out like that, only to have
them laughingly cut it off? I can't blame people, really - especially
when the few anarchists they run across have a boatload of issucs,
themseives. But, the point is this. Anarchist thinking and analysis
has a clarity lacking in all other belief systems. The reason for this is
the only real requirement is the truth, a love and respect for
humanity and an unquenchable desire to bear witness o it all and
particpate feariessly. We're not asking you to listen to a politburo o
any group of know-it-all fuckers, who may even call themselves
“anarchistsl” All calls are up to youl We fecl people deserve the
respect of being told the truth as well as a demonstration of courage
in the face of these monaters.

I've met anarchists who I couldn't stand - and vice versal Ive also
met some I'd go to the ends of the Earth for. No, it’s not for
everybody. But the ideas of empowering truth, sure as hell are! The
“nell” is this tormented world called Eartht

Therein lies the *danger” of anarchy to the authorities. They DO
NOT want their slaves to become conscious with anarchist principies.
They want their factory workers numb, drinking beer, doing their
work and watching sports games. They want students shuffling
along their miscrable campuses all alienated and putting on false
faces. They want their prisoners at each other’s throats over stupid
snit. They want everybody to believe the country is about
“democracy” and not to even think about all the people they torture
and murder each and every day, o the countiess tens of thousands
they round up every single dayl

Peopie look for homeostasis, as do all animals and life, including
Earth. They want a warm place to live, with love, enough to eat,
saiety, etc.Even though this is  ruthiesaly monstrous bloodthirsty
empire, they ve managed to cocoon themselves in an unafiordable
living arca. They're busy working to pay the mortgage, going into
debr, being homebody consumers. They watch a ton of T.V. To most
people - and it is most people in the U.S$. ~ this is all they.can hope
for. Opening up Pandora's Box of reality check is something to be
avoided at all costs! For, not only is the rediscovery of self thrill ride
a wild one, but the authorities would like nothing better than to kill
&/or torture you, if you succeed at all. 5

Mostly, society hasnY embraced the ideas of anarchism because
they haven't been explained well enough. They haven' been
propagated at all effectively. And, all t0o often, the messages
discussed are all 30 irrelevant to what people are being forced to deal
with. For example, I'm a longtime wage-slave worker. I'm in a union
and | was a steward for twelve years. 1 do a lot of argument crafting
on issues involving my workplace, management and the union. But,
a publication like ARS (Anarcho-Syndicalist Review) however well
done, and I believe it is well-done, just isn' that relevant to working
people.

A whole new literature of rebellion ~ anarchist driven - needs to
emerge and give hip-hop a run for its money! Better yet, it needs to
convince hip-hop to ditch the damn money and create consciousness
and citizen-driven services 5o desperately needed in the depressed
communities, which are a pre-requisite for serious social
transformation. A tsunami of anti-capitalist Peoples’ education has
to take shape and take hold.

Anarchists and their sympathizers or friends or other social
justice crusaders must do this unafraid educating ~ and use every
means possible. [t's happening, mostly on the internet. But that's
‘missing so many people, who don't have access to it or don't know
‘where to look, don't have the time or patience) to fool with it, etc.
Most people have busy lives they're running around trying to deal
with. They don't have time to be a computer geek all the time.
Anarchists need to go back to that tried and true method of
education - actually writing the thrilling analysis of current events
and mentoring folks into real ways of thinking - and making them
available on paper! But, 50 few anarchists actually do that.

It makes me angry that anarchist literature, which there is a
‘wonderful supply of, is all too often, only available to a select few
Ppeople, instead of passed out to daily commuters or something, But,
anarchists are like everybody else. Most of them don' do anything
and only a few are dedicated as you would think any anarchist worth
his o her salt should be, but haplessly aren't. We're all flawed but
you can will yourself to effectiveness, which some anarchists are
‘willing to heip you with.

Everybody is at a different stage of conscious development. Prison
is a great example. You have the totally illiterate and the
unmistakably brilliant. Both, if they're thinking right, yearn to learn
By showing these people genuine humanity and an honest
respectfulness, you two can begin to educate each other! Herein
again, lies the alarm bells going off in the jailer's heads. First and
foremost, they do not want their slaves anything but ignorant and
intimidated and docilized. If they have to pin them down and inject
them with drugs, they1l do it. If they have to taser, beat o even kil
them, they do it/ It's a battl a{wfll—podvlcvl‘l&lhgu\.\l.hvl.zé
liars.

Question #2: Local judges and prosecutors are clected into their
Ppositions by vaters, who essentially, are pro-state and
government. These judges and prosecutors in return, promise to

and differential treatment? If these fudges and prosecutors are
not held accountable, who is? How docs an anarchist battle
such power? Especially, a poor prisoner?

Answer:

Some judges are rubber-stamped by old, conservative voters, this
is true. Most judges and prosecutors are appointed. There's a big
“law enforcement” buddy system, which has tentacles in every realm
~ government, the military, the schools, churches, and elsewhere,
where these people are groomed for these positions. Law schools, Ivy
League type achools, stints in the military or the police, school
administration, etc. these are the types of people who end up as
Judges and prosecutors. They come from the upper class or with
therr approval.

‘The elections are rigged, trite occasions where horrible candidates
are the only ones available for positions in horrible institutions, such
s the judiciary and the legislature. Police are clected, sometimes,
t00. The votes are all for show, the outcome has already been
determined. Like the Chicago Bears, it doesn't matter who the
quarterback is, the game will still be played the same way.

s this rigged system conducive to Justice?”

NOI Of course not, but then, it never was. It's just another claborate
‘well-refined lie that they use to attain complacency and acquiescence
- that and cameras everywhere, cops with guns everywhere and
hudeous prisons everywhere! So, you can hope for justice and strive
o attain justice and fight for justice but it's a waste of time expecting
it

Their own laws and rules can sometimes be used against them, as
they flaunt and violate them routinely. Occasionally, you can
convince a judge to rule according to the rules in your favor, but it
almost invariably takes an incredible amount of time, money and
effort, which they make it exceptionally difficult for poor people to
‘muster, much less prisoners, especially indigent ones.
Prisoners do what they can from what I've seen. Many
concentrate on studying the law, learning how to write writs and
‘mount procedural and court challenges. They try to solicit support
from outside sympathizers by describing their situation, writing , -
essays, drawing graphics, etc.

1don't know what all else prisoners can do - hunger strikes, other
actions. There's no question many of you have been railroaded in the
first place, have been set-up while in prison and so forth. It's an
endless litany of abuse and the breaking of their own laws and rules
by the authorities. They make everything be forcibly funneled
through their corrupt game, where smarmy lawyers play their
expensive roles - and they are just roles - they get paid for “expertly”
lying! Judges and prosecutors have immunity, but defense attornevs
dontl They have the whole weight and all the resources of the state,
which is endless as they steal enormous amounts in taxes every
single year, and the defense has nothing. They can threaten you with
all these horrible outcomes — prison, probation, forced Iabor, fines,
etc. if they “win" and you can do nothing to them if you “win” except
eventually maybe procuring your “freedom” or winning  judgment,
which is 1o skin off their nose, nor will it adversely affect their carcer
one jota. All the monies paid out are from stolen monies they lifted
from (mostly) working people, anyway. When they spend too much,
they cut vital services &/or raise taxes. So, they never “lose” even
when they lose. They may lose the gravy from one previously held
captive, but they are loathe and ever so reluctant to admit any
‘mistakes or release any captives “prematurely.” They are in the
punishment industry business and most certainly it's corrupt as hell
and they play favorites. The rich and even yuppies who commit a
“crime” (drug use for example) first, aren't gone after. If (rarely)
caught they're nat prosecuted, A “deal” is made, instead. Poor
people without connections to make these “deals” get prosecuted and
harshly sentenced, because like other capitalist ventures, it requires.
constant expansion. The raw materials needed are human beings.
1t's a sort of slow death human sacrifice for profit scheme. 1t’s wildly
profitable and these profits are guaranteed and risk-free. All monies
for all aspects of this scheme are paid for through taxes. More and
more, it is true, private prisons are cropping up, but they are also
coddled and protected by the “laws" and the authorities and squeeze
their profits out too, often at the expense of the well-being of the
prisoners in their tomba.

People must realize, and do once dragged through this diabolical
system, that “justice” under the law, in the U.S. s a nightmare
beyond belief masquerading as something noble. It's vile - one of the
puss-filled abscesses of this society.

For, they are not held accountable and how could they be? Let's
not forget: they are the gatekeepers for monstrousness. They

“legiumize” human slavery, genocide around the world, mass
incarceration, the huge chasm between rich and poor, militarized 5
nope-killing gheftos, the wasting of young lives suckered into the
imperialist military - all of it! How do they do this? By “interpreting”
the Constitution! This is a document lording over us that not one of
us agreed 1o und which to this day sanctions human slavery! So,
we're dealing with a slave-driven legal system and by their convenient
definition, slaves have no legal rights!

‘TheyVe refined it and have the game down pat. Their police forces
are everywhere in and out of court, the strects, social gatherings,
prisons, in the factories, all over. The game is set in a familiar pace,
blan blah blah, do you have a lawyer, do you have money, here's your
sentence. It's not meant to provide “justice” because every single
outcome is unjust! Even if you are ruled innocent of whatever
“erime” you were accused of, you were forced through their hideous
system. You werent judged by your peers or even accused by them!
It was all orchestrated from above with these very same - beyond
‘accountable - police, judges and prosecutors. You'e already paid
dearly in time, money and a total disruption to your life. If found
guilty and incarcerated, you are victimized from then on, in their
‘massive, daily, horror show genuine crime of capitalist incarceration.
Even if you were guilty of a real crime, forcing you to be a victim of
government crime every day does nothing to deal with your crime,
much less the causes of it or any other crime. So, the whole process
is & no-win criminal episode in a vast criminal enterprise.
criminality of the government. Even a losing court case or whatever,
others who are educated by scrupulous reporting by anarchists
about the whole sordid process. As we go along, we need to educate
people into anarchist ways of thinking, i.e. looking at the situation at
hand with the utmost clarity, even amidst such thick lies. People
need to lose all respect and fear of government. You can't give
credence to bullies and perverts!

f you lose a court case, more battles await you. You must battle
nlo matter what is happening because the whole mess s still
functioning. Like George Jackson said: something like, *if there are
5o conditions for struggle, you must create them.” We have to be
accountable for ourselves, our fellow captives and otherwise
oppressed Sisters & Brothers and go day to day dealing with
whatever comes at us. They may not be accountable, nor is their evil
system, but we can and should be accountable as far as what we can
see, say, think and do. By being this way as opposed to those fat
pigs in suits who hide behind *immunity” we demonstrate our
theae bastards have on their humanity and judgment. Once we get

enough people to lose all respect for their disgusting power, we can
put it to death, once and for alll 2.0

So, there’s no magic formula for individual case by case success.
1f you do study their game and play it well enough to win a case, you
can piss them off and they may target you again. After all, they don’
have to worry about accountability, no matter how criminal their
actions become. Just look at the constant police murdering that is
quickly ruled ‘justifiable” by other policel So, there’s no real
“victories” just the satisfaction of fighting these creeps.

But! Work like you are doing in the trenches of the dungeons is
invaluable, not only in educating others on how to challenge them at
their own game, but also how to look at things. These informative
‘works you've put together (which you have unloaded on me) are
important contributions not only to the jailhouse lawyers among us,
but also to anarchist thinking! So, Bravol to you for having the
courage and anarchist wherewithal to deal with these Klansters all
these years and recording your conchusions and suggestions. Once |
get it all worked up, 'm sure it will be very beneficial to people.

Anarchism is like other belief systems. It is what people who
profess to believe in it say, think and do. So it is up to us to outdo
everybody else, which greatly enhances the credibility of it as a belie!
system. By continuous effort at a high level, we create a body of
serious argumentation. At this stage of ignorance and atomization.
is job one, in my opinion. A good anarchist battles the power and
‘works with poor prisoners doing it.

As things worsen, which they no doubt will, what anarchists have
been saying will no longer seem outlandish, but rather, very succinc!
As we write and battle our message gets clearer and more recognized
as the truth. The injustice of it all is still there. It's the reality of our
‘modern day, global situation. We need to continuously be there for
people, who in their desperation are crying for such awareness. We
can't leave it up to anybody else - even other anarchists. We must
rely upon ourselves and instill that bedrock sense of self-reliance in
others, regardiess of what they do with it, because as anarchists, we
are confident that the more truly honest, serious and truth-seeking
they become, the more *anarchistic” they become as well.

Respect for humanity means speaking truth to power, which take
alot of courage. This is what electrifies people! It is how anarchists
battle.

Question #3: Is there really any difference between a Demoerat
or a Republican? If they have everything so figared out for the
people, then why do we bounce back-and-forth between
Democrat and Republican leaders? Why hasn’t an Anerchist run
for president in order to really make a difference, ot at least to
give some protections to the people? If an independent party
cannot prevail, what docs this say about the system?

Answer:

There are significant differences between Democrats and 5
Republicans. They are both usually, pompous, ugly, fat, white old
men, but Demacrats try to sexually abuse young women and girls,
Whereas the Republicans generally prey upon young men and boys.
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sweatshop “foreign policy.” Republicans are more candid ‘about their
reactionary proclivities, whereas Democrats ‘hypocritically feign
interest in issues of concern to working people. Both have sold their
Souls to the devil and have willingly conceded their livea to a
disgusting and corrupt legacy. They are human-like embodiments of
the ugliness that is systematized inequity. There is very little
difference between them. They both love cops and prisons and fat

cighteen who actually vote. So they vote the other party in, which
proves equally disastrous and so on and so forth.

But, the rigorous strictures of the system, disallows for other
partics. It's extremely difficult for other parties to even get on a
ballot. For cxample, the Green Party in Illinois needed 25,000
signarures to get on the ballot, but the Democrats & Republicans
only needed 1,5001
With the electorate politically brain dead as demonstrated by their
willingness to participate without much to say in this charade, and
most peaple too turned off or disgusted by it all to even be registered
10 vote. a “third party” doesn* have a chance - unless they can pull a
fast one off, all the while counting on the obliviousness of the
clectorate, the media and 0 on. For example, a few years ago, the
LaRouchies were able to sneak a couple of candidates through the
primary in lllinois, because they were hiding as Democrats and
Weren' outed as LaRouchies until after they had won the primary.
‘The guy running for governor had a LaRouchie as a running mate.
was pretty funny!

But even if those nuts or any other 3 party candidates got
elected, as has rarely happened here and there, nothing would really
change. As they came to Washington or Springfield or wherever, the
system would still be embedded. Lobbyists working for large
corporations guide the debate on who gets the stolen tax monies.
Like the judiciary, the legislative farce is also a criminal game, and
copecially as it gets into the executive level, quite often a highly
deadly game. Lok at this horrible genocidal Iraq War. The
Republicans worked up all the lies and launched this massive
bloodietting. The Democrats got elected to end it, but once in,
decided they couldn't do anything about it. They even increased the
amount of soldiers and now Bush wants 200 billion $ more, which
the quisling Democrats will give him.

See, these alcoholic letches, who have these titles, have been
groomed to live this pampered, mega-whore life. Even “third” party
candidates have been corrupted by the excitement of the “corridors of
power.” The real lions of the people are with the people on a
grassroots level. For, participation in this process is an admission of
surrender to corruption, criminality and power. 2]

No way in hell would an anarchist ever run for president or sny
other goddam office! It's the antithesis of what an anarchist believes,
We want to end these cosmic farces on the history of humanity - not
participate in them! The few times anarchists have swallowed their
pride and participated in governments have been disasters!

We must get over the false hope that government will “protect” us!
The government is what is menacing us! Our safety and prosperity
can only be “guaranteed” by our own conscious efforta and those we
organize with.

What the government is doing right now is this: stealing our
money, using it to kill people in Iraq and Afghanistan, sending ever
more people into the hideous prisons, protecting big business,
shredding what few “rights” we have left, etc., etc. How is that
“protecting” us? When a voice is raised against this juggernaut of
greed and vice, like the milquetoasty Paul Wellstone, he mysteriously
dies on the eve of an election in a plane crash! All that “change”
means in this sick system is even more goddam laws are written.
That's it! All the crime previously committed by the government and
all the terrible things it is doing now and will do is ot even worth a
speeding ticket. It allowed to happen - even if it succeeds in doing
what it is headed to do - destroy the Earth itselfl That's our
“protection!”

1t savs that the system is pure, cosmic level crime that humanity
needs to end to have a chance at a future, much less a society of
peace, freedom and justice.

Answer:

Yeah, taxes play a big role. Its how government gets its money to
buy all this misery. We live in what has been called *h,
capitalism. The difference between the salaries of CEO's and wage-
carners is astronomical - way worse than any other country. All the
laws, the police, the courts, the prisons, the armies, all of these.
systems are in place to keep the system in place. The system works
for the aggrandizement of the already rich. Those peopie who contrel
the levers of power like the system the way it is. It affords them a life
of leisure and afiluence, while doing little or no real work. They
‘manipulate money (stock market, etc.)

‘They did not erect this claborate system of lies and theft using
genocide, slavery and constant murder, just o logic could poke it's
unwelcome head in and propose a sane alternativel? Yes, most
certainly we could change things so people could work more 32
meaningfully and equitably, but that's not what the evil bastards who
run the show want to sce happen. And it won't happen unless we
somehow stop them from calling the shots. They are drunk on power
and greed and will not voluntarily give up the “reins of state.” They
don't care that to keep it going they feel compelled to murder so many
and make suffer so many. They are beyond amoral, so arguments to
do the humanistic thing mean nothing to them. They are killers.

As for the Amish, they have maintained a relative autonomy,
although their politics are rather primitive and drenched in
religiosity. They do demonstrate that it is possible to live outside this
consumerist, Britney Spears vacuous social system we are not
rebelling against yet. The Amish aren't anarchists, nor do they
threaten the system at all, 80 by leaving them alone, the government
gets 1o say, “Seel We could be fucking with them, but we aren't.
Therefore, we have the greatest country in the world!” Sheesh!

Question #5: If a revolution comes about, how will we protect
ourselves from the government and State? I mean, they possess
weaponry such as missiles and metal piercing rifles like he AS-
50. How do we get & hold of such equal fire power? I want to be
able to point back whatever they point at me.

Answer:

Revolutions don't come out of nowhere! As the social reality
deteriorates and people necessarily get more conacious and
organized, community organizations get stronger and more militant.
Government corruption and brutality increases, outraging citizens,
including police and military forces. Look at Iraq. They have
infiltrated the police and military forces, have bought or stolen
stockpiles of weapons and turned them against the U.S. forces.

As the government knows no other ‘argument” other than brute
force, they lose the allegiance of the people. Without that, they can't
command citizens to kill other citizens. However, as they are also
doing in Iraq, they employ private armies - hired killers -
mercenaries. These indoctrinated fascist death squad forces are
among the most evil, sinister, criminally psychotic people on Earth.
‘Their job is to torture and kill. is who the government will rely
more and more on.

More and more people need to understand what they are up
against and organize accordingly. I don't know what it will take for
the people to come to these inevitable conclusions. Maybe it will be
mass arrests and Marshall Law. Maybe a movement will spring forth
that captures the imagination of the people and provides real 37
direction against the government. Maybe it will be a sort of new
World War, I don't know. Maybe another worldwide depression or
natural catastrophes will set things in motion.

Each person needs to deal primarily with themselves and their
lethargy and learn what it means to give a damn about those around
them and be involved in what is happening,

It's next to impossible to really “protect yourself” from those
determined to do you harm, especially a government as organized
and deadly as what we arc dealing with. We need to rely on collective
security, but first we must learn how to build it so it is functional and
reliable. We can be cautious and careful not to expose ourselves to
undue harm, but you can' let this paralyze your life or activities. No
matter how careful you try to be, you can be targeted or the victim of
random violence, an accident or whatever. Every minute
procrastinating is a wasted minute of a finite life. Don' waste time.
Your best protection is your conscious awareness about what is
happening around you and why. Then you can devise responses to
various threats.

It's hard to envision what new forms of resistance will take place
and what will be effective. | would think that the anarchist idea of
affinity groups would be important. Autonomy of action is hard to
eliminate. If there are no “leaders” where do the authorities go to cut
the *head” off of a movement?

Along with all this actual resistance to what will amount to
government war on its own

Answer: They like to pretend that it doesn't bother them, but look at
how they have responded to “peaceful” protests lately. They often
Out-number the protesters and they are armed to the gills! Just a
few years ago, allegedly most of Americans supported the invasion of
Irag. Now that we know it was all a vicious lie and still drags on, the
Constant peaceful protest served to demonstrate the morality of
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‘onk, slowly got them to see who was in the wrong here. It didnt
take violence  except the endless violence of government killing
innocent civilians all the time, which also got thousands of 3/
Americans killed and many tens of thousands injured. The home
front is sinking like that bridge in Minneapolis, because these
‘morons are wasting all the fruits of our labor to fund the gruesome
bloodletting in Iraq instead of dealing with our problems at home.
The only thing the government is willing to pour money into
domestically is the police and prison apparatus. It's sickening!
day, but have nowhere to go to do anything about it. They don’t
know their lives could be immeasurably enriched by finding and
collaborating with people, just like them, who have taken the extra
step, two or three and gotten pro-active somehow. They're still bitter
from a lifetime of cruelties and injustices, humiliations and wrongs
done them from every angle. They're still tied down by a cobweb full
of lies and self-helplessness. ‘They're under the influence of drugs -
the TV, the radio, the newspapers and other lie-based visual
bombardments.

They accept the dreadful belief that there isn't anything you can
do about it. They're “peaceful” so peaceful they are letting the
government chew them up and spit them out and make a shambies
of their life.

But, the government is not peaceful. They kill, kidnap and
incarcerate. They torture and evict. As the government gets more
aggressive and turns on their own people, people will get more aware
as they get burned and they'll also get more vocal and physical. It's
sad whenever anyone gets hurt or killed, but the actions of this
government make it inevitable. To end it once and for all, requires
that government be ended once and for all and you know they won't
0 down without taking as many innocent lives as they can - at least
the hard core fascists.

1don't know. I detest violence and cant get into mounting any
interest in learning how to be violent to stop violence. But many
people already are schooled in violence, either taught how to maim
and kill by the government or as they tried to survive in dangerous
environments. It's not my thing, but somebody is going to have to
stop these vicious people, somehow, some day.
You can be very militant and impacting on other “fronts” such as
through the battlefield of ideas. You can act as a support network fo
the Brothas and Sistas who are carrying the load, physically. 35
Everyone has a talent that will come in handy when nip comes to
tuck. Our job is to learn how to maximize that usefulness and learn
how to work together for the common good.

Violence is all around us. The government causes endiess
single day, all over the world, and here at home. The criminalized
and refuse of society engage in violence, as does the police, at
alarming levels - spawned by a demented, ultra-anxious populace.
Murder rates, suicide rates, rape - all kinds of serious crime are at
high rates in the U.S. compared to other capitalist Euro-type
countries. The system uses and causes violence to keep the Cheney's
in pearls and gold. It's that disgustingly simple! Remember, it has
always been a settler occupation of genocide and slavery — and these
most horrible tactics of State are still used today - with the
otherworldly destructive power they have painstakingly accumulated
over the last several decades.

The technology of mind-altering and somnolence has gone ultra-
high tech, tool The best Nazis teamed up with homegrown fascists to
create the no-think hybrid we see today. All these tools are made to
get citizens to basically police themselves and to either believe the
drivel they promote or do nothing about it. Inside and out, they want
to nip courage and insight in the bud!

Whatever happens, happens every day, anyway. We must study
and learn and teach and participate in events every single day. We
need to help each other get up to snuff, which to many, is a long.
ways away. Treat every Brother & Sister out there as your own blood
relative. You take these people under your wing and teach them.
what they need to know. Look after them and look after and educate
yourself, tool Al too soon reality will hit all of us in the face without
any going back. We must prepare ourselves in order to have a
chance at surviving, much less thriving. Problems don't go away
because we don't like the gravity of them. They can get worse,
though!

Now, I know that's impossible to do - treat everyone like your
“Brother” or “Sister.” 1 think people should be given a chance, at
least. Those you dont like after you see them in action a little, vou
don't have to like (or even deal with, really.) But, you've got to keep
trying and pushing the struggle forward - keep pushin1

Question #7: The government is in debt - a trillion dollar
something debt! At what amount does a government become
bankrupt, and what consequences should people expect from
such a debt?
Answer:
The government - at least this ‘only super-power’ government -
craps out when and only when its own people decide it is no longer
worth propping up. We owe Japan a trillion, too, don't we? We owe
China, Vietnam - all the countries we destroyed and drew slaves

government can destroy everything at a moment's notice,

“The magic of the marketplace” and the “supply and demand”
blather of capitalism s only respected by U.S. corporations and their
government, if these corporations are given undue advantage to
profit. If they don't get their way economically by threatening to
bomb, they just go ahead and actually bombl They have no intention
of paying any “debt.”

When Clinton “paid off the federal debt” guess how he did it? He
squeezed it out of the taxpayers! Welfare was eliminated, 100,000
more police were added, the prison population practically doubled,
500,000 ~ 1,000,000 Iragi children were snuffed out, Serbia was
bombed, Wall Street took off to record profits for the rich, while jobs
were NAFTA-¢d out to Mexico and then China, thousands died of
starvation daily, etc., etc. yet he is known as a “humanitarian!”

Anyway, it is up to Americans to do something about it. Helll We
sure know all about *debt” secing as so many of us are mired in it!
We usurp 25 - 30% of the world's resources, having but 4.5% of her
Ppopulation, yet we're still all in debt! What's wrong with this picture?
The problem, which | keep saying, is a lack of understanding of who
s causing the problems! We let government get away with being
astronomical criminals (murderers and thieves.) When we have
finally had enough and call a general strike, then we can deal with
the debt. It will be pitched out with the fecal bath water Uncle Sam
has been sihjitting in! The world's resources must be pooled and
shared equitably, with those in most need being taken care of first.

The economic crime of not paying back debts will be ignored by
Uncle Sam just like the laws against mass slaughter that they ignore.
As for bankruptcy, the U.$. has long since demonstrated itself as
‘being morally bankrupt and worthy of nothing but contempt and
dissolution. People need to look at the whole, real picture and take
their blinders off. Read some Thoreau if you have any illusions about
what government is truly all about.

Question #8: America did not have its first police force until
1844 in Now York. Such a force was created by Sir Robert Peel
in 1829 in London, England. From the day Columbus discovered
America in the fifteenth contury till 1844, America scomed quite
capable of policing themselves. 8o then, what was the purpose
of croating the police?
Answer:

‘The country may not have had police, but they did have militias.
vigilante groups, military troops, etc. They did the job of police - go
out and kill people (Indians) round up escaped slaves, crush
rebellions, enforce capitalism (kill strikers, etc.) They gave people
plenty of lecway as far as punishing or killing their slaves and
workers. The Pinkerton's were like private police hired by companics
to break strikes and kill workers. 27

So, as the country grew and the population grew, they wanted an
everywhere domestic occupation force to do the bidding of slavers
and capitalists. These evolved into police forces of various levels.
‘Their jobs are still pretty much the same - protect the property of the
rich, who they helped to steal the land and insure the profitability of
their operations, in the first place! They're supposed to keep the.
rabble down and unable to mount any serious challenge to this tvpe
of rule.

With the changing conditions, such as the technology and global
sweatshop economy, many of the most rebellious and unwanted
(read: young male, mostly urban Afrikans) are only useful to the slave
economy as actual prisoner slaves. The police play a huge role in
this explosive domestic “industry.” So, as before their role was to
capture and retum “escaped slaves” back to the plantations,
nowadays, they capture “gang members” and take them to the
modern-day slave plantations - thy nation's prisons.

The police are all about “law enforcement.” The laws are written
by the rich people lawyers to insure things stay the way they are and
that those who do get punished are the poor — especially the ones
with protective melanin in their akin. They keep a lid on this horrible
country on a day-by-day basis. Like Mayor Richard J. Daley once
explained: “The police aren't there to create disorder, they are there
to preserve disordert”

Question #9: An anarchist man or woman targets and kills
government officlals, leaders, agents and cops in his or her own
way to abolish government. Murder or hero?

Answer: Well, this actually rarely ever happens that an anarchist
does target an official. Overwhelmingly, it is the other way around ~
government targeting anarchists or any number of innocents. It
depends | guess. When that monster, American-lsracli gunned down
him were definitely heroes. They stopped further certain senseless
slaughter. And I can see how Alexander Berkman wanted to go and
personally kill Frick, after he ordered the Pinkerton's to kil s0 many
workers. But even if he succeeded in killing him, the company would
have just put another pig in his place. Nothing fundamentally would
have changed.
When those people gave Ceaucescu and his wife a quickie trial
and execution, on Christmas morning no less - I thought it was great!
PBut, another horrible regime was quickly put into place, and the 3§
people got no real relief. I'm sure the world’s peopie loved it when
Mussolini got strung up - at last! But it was a brief moment of joy at
the vanquishing of a tyrant. Crappy governments kept coming,

When the Unabomber killed a couple of researchers or whatever
they were, I thought it was cruel and rotten. These small fry are not
the “tyrants” who orchestrate genocide. He's just a low-level
sunctionary. 1 thought if you are going to o to the extent that you
wre willing to actually off somebody, make sure that person has been
personally responsible for some awful crimes of government - the
policy-makers of mass murder. When that anarchist actually did kill
2 guy, here in the U.S. (McKinley) | think 1 would have been
supportive of him, had 1 lived then, at least once he became a captive
of government. But then, I'm supportive of all the captives!

| really, really, really don't like it when people get needlessly hurt
or killed, which is why I hate the U.S. government 8o much. Lone
wolf rampages - even against tyrants - have no real effect on
abolishing government per se. Of course, that nephew dude in Nepal
who wasted the whole royal family with a machine gun surely put the
kibosh to that despicable ruling class!

Then again, as part of a fluid revolutonary situation, it is a tactic
that can have effect. Sometimes it’s a matter of Illing them before
they can kill youl Then, it is self-defense.

But going off on your own agamst who ever, usually someone not
that important, as the real big fish are o protected, doesnt have
much effect. It's more a cry of isolation and frustration. It also gives
the authorities a good excuse to crack down on his or her comrades.
o, these isolated attacks end up getting comrades captured, because
they didn't know what was going to come down and were caught
before they could protect themselves from capture.

Fach case is different. If the person does it as part of a
revolutionary strategy and not just some spasm of revenge or
something, it pre-supposes that this person has thought out the
possible consequences. Such people as Russell Maroon Shoats and
Ojore Nuru Lutalo have made these types of choices ~ and have spent
decades in horrible supermax hellholes because of it. | consider
them to be freedom fighters and very brave. They not only gave their
whole life for the cause of liberation, but it's a slow, painful daily
death they must endure.

I'm waiting for anarchists to have the courage to do basic
rgument crafting, printing and distributing of relevant anarchist
literature. I'm tapping my foot, impatient for them to give
presentations, screen films and organize discussions and actions.
And 1 don't mean just with other anarchists. | mean with real people,
‘whether in school, in the military, on the job, on the street or in the
clink. Let's kill this beast with the unmistakable truth!

Question #10: What is the libertarian objection to anarchism?

They hate governmient interference in their lives. But the problem is
the Constitution is a slave document. So, théy believe in siavery,
wherras anarchists are anti-slavery =9

So, they're cool with inequality and capitalist exploitation of
workers, here and abroad. They don't like government.and. police
interference in their aflairs, Well, who docs? They kiken these -~
intrusions to “communism.” True, communist governiments: surély
have meddied heavily in peoples' lives and it's always been térrible
“Democratic” governments are no less brutal to their.own: %
quite often. They just don't bother to look-at'the whol¢. picture, They
don't have the empathy and caring for other, people that anarchists. &
profess to have. A

Real anarchists who put their belicfs in practice cantstand
injustice and want dll government and authority to be climinated. . -
Anarchism celebrates the salt of the Earth. Libertarianism wants to
keep their privileged position without heing messed with, hardly o
noble cause.

Anarchy calls for every single person to not be menaced by
government and allowed to do their own thing — as long as they do
Dot infringe on the lives and rights of thers.  Libertarians are of the
bourgeois class and anarchy is with the proles and unemployed, the
downtrodden and incarcerated, the migrant worker and the drifier.
Anarchy is for everybody who wants to live a real life and be willing fo
fight for it. Anarchy is for those who want to embrace the trath - o

fate of humanity and goes to bat for the sake of humanity. even
though thev know they will be pilloried for it. It's all about lovt and
all about respect for life - not privilege.

Libertarians want to get back to “leffersonian democracy. *
Anarchists want world.wide revolt and the end (o all goveryiment and
authority. Jeflerson was a slave owner. Anarchists are ants stwver,
Truth, freedom, justice, liberation!

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