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Jailhouse Writings by Political Prisonel
Robert Thaxton a.k.a. Rob los Ricos
CONTENTS

Kangaroo Court for Political Prisoner Robert Thaxton .
Robert Thaxton: Who He Is and The Movement He Is a Part Of
‘What Do You Think You Are Doing, Officer?
America Prepare To Step Up Death Squad Activities
Traveling Autonomous Zones B
Biocide S S
Imposed Imbecility - S 1518

“ I must rise in revolt to rise in the world.”
‘Max Stirner, from The Ego and Its Own

“The October 13 verdict of seven years and four moaths in prison for Robert Thaxton was
20 surprise to anarchists here in Eugene, and elsewhere for that mater. Anarchiss, the true
enemies o the sate should expect o leniency from the judge’s gavel, no favors, no wam feclings
from those who uphold authority. No surprise at all. For tha s just one of meny reasons why
e, are. anarchists, why we fostr the desire to live our lives 1o fullest extent possible, to
expericnce love, beauty, natue, feasts,al ushindered by authority tha i not our own.

“The state of the planct is not a welcome one as nafure continues 10 be paved over and shit
pon and our daily ife represents more and more that of a machine. How drab and manolonous
50 many lives have become. Yet there are those who efuse to made into machines, who refuse 1o
become one of the living dead. And in this refusa, they experience real adventure and come
closer o owning their own lves, and lving it 10 th fules, the way we were intended o do.

“The June 181h ot in Eugene was just one more collective refusal. The lefistspin put on
the day of protes against captal coulda't contain the emotions that 5o many felt, and the cops.
efforts to quell those emotions orly fanned the flames. Protestes did not play by the rules that
day and ouflanked the cops on s few occasions. But foral the excitement and victorics that
were had on that day, there were some losses. Twenty people were arrsiedshe stffest
sentence thus far has been handed fo Rob. Another person artesed on that day, Chrisiopher
Smith, was convicted of iotand has ye 10 be sentenced

That day has been highly controversal in Eugene. Even anarchists have mixed feclings
about it. But as many still continue o st around and bicker about whether the rot was good or
bad, death s sl ourunning lfe.

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Al mai sent o Rob must have retum address.
Al donations to Rob's lagal defense shouid be sant to Anti-Authoitarians Anonymous PO Box
11331 Eugene, OR 37440 All checks are 0 be made out 0 John Zerzan and can e recorved
through the above (ARA) address.

‘ontons to Rob personaily must ba sent I the form of money ordars anly and be malled to:
Dapartment of Comections Ceniral Trust 2575 Contor St. NE Satom, OR 87310 and st be made
0 Depariment of Correctons Ceniral Trus or Rober Lee Thasion 12112716

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No et pped pens can ba used, or colered markers or crayons or anyihing fun Tk tht
Howaver, photocopies coloror b + w) can come in. Photacopied colleges are aspeci
welcomed. Smudged, smeared and stained eters il most kely be rejected. So 0 be safe use
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Robert Thaxton

Who He Is And The Struggle He Is Part Of

Who is Rob Thaxton?

st mat Rob Thaxion — balter known 1o his anarchist corvades as Rab los Ricos —in
1991 in Austin, Texas. For 85 long a8 | have known him, he has been involved in anarchist
acivites, In Texs, ho had connections wilh Earth First7 And helped lo orgenize anarchist

‘Gatherings in Houston and Austin. WWhil fiving in Portiand, Oregon 2 few years ago. he was
fhvolved with the anarchist info-shop hat existed at the time. This past winter, ho ived in
Columbia, Missoui helping 0 pubish Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Arned and Atemalive Press

are experimenting wih nalural, low impact gardening lechnique:
pemaculture, eca-friendly architecture and low-lech ling. 'Rob views this prcject a5 a part of
becoming a person more capable of iving wilhout the indusirel monster, and 30 balter able o
iont . M had planned to stay on the land again his summer and had boen here one monin
before his arrest. He had spoken of setling there long-lerm 10 really learn the sklls ha wanted to
‘gain. Rob liso has a 3-year-old daughler who is iving with her molher in Porand. He views his
Fevolutionary acliviy, as well as his experiments in low-tech iving, 3 in part, a g o hs daughter
whom he loves deary.

"Rob has no desire 1o ba a martyr. He wants and, 0 the best of his abilly, acts loward
anarchist revolution for himsell and ihose he loves. But the police and proseculors wanled

1ot June 16, Rob was not alocal. The auhoriies belioved he was a ransient. Add (o
This hat Rob was @ Chicano, and that one of hs arresting offcers, Larry Blackwel, has besn
heard lo make slurs and thvests against Chicanos, Rob begins o look ke the parfect scapegoal
S5 aftr being beaien 10 the ground, his nose broken, his eye blackened. his scapulas injured, his
brain concussed, he found himself facing charges of ioling, firsi-degree assaull, and second
Gegroe aseail. This last senlence has a fequired 6-year minmum sentence. His bail was sel at
240,000, keeping him from the land he loves and tha fiends he loves.

Revolutionary Selidarity

Wi iand and convade in a situetion ke Robs, of couse, basc support verk is
ncessary - bulding a delense, geting ogether funds fo a lawyer, a ihe banales hat como
i aueh a iuatin. But, tam an anarchist perspocive, revokutonary soldaily is equall o
‘oven more esseniial

Revalionary Soidarly is expressed ivough the coniiuaton ofhe siuggle agains s
Socity, he comingaon of e altack sgains the insiutons which judge and inprison oursahves
2nd oo comrades. S0, aough we il caranly not deny Rob al he taos ho can se lo defend
Pimsat, ol 7 10 ou uggle be cflected ino pelions 1o the authoriis. Ralher we wil
Dl the authoes wih s means ihat canbe used n an anarcist woy.

e anarchsts. we have o niares n ihe justco syslem. Rob says he did ot comnit tha
crimes of which e was accused, and we wil ceraily o whal we can o prove is. Bul from an
Sharchit perspeciiv, 1he gull of innocence of a convade s nol inportant in deferiing our
iany o . or her.This concept of guil and imocence is just analher aspect of the
Gemocraic system of justce and law which we (ject

T pssce aysion, jsica 35 exists i the prosen sociay. i a sysiem of judgement,
ystem which allows canian people 0 determine (hat ohers, who thesa gges have neve el

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and know nothing sbout. shouid be locked up. forced o give Up cortain freedoms. even

imprisoned comrads would be a sruggle aimed al the destrucion of he ustice system.
“This requires an understanding of the ustice system. 1 is courts. judges. proseculors
the eni rial process. but il s aiso prisons. poice. and laws. There is N0 use in pursuing prison
reforms.No matier how gentle and homely 3 prison becomes. i remains a prison. 3 place for
Tocking up one who offends the law. Nor are belter behaved police o interest {0 us. No malter
how wll bohaved the cop is. he or she remains the armed prolecior of stale power and prvale
— propery. both oLwhich the anarchist seeks 10 desiroy And betler laws only reinlorce state
power. Theic purpose is 0 prolect 1he present socialorde. 1 maintain social poace. And social
beace s based in the violence of dominatlon and axplotaton. he violence of power
S0 our siruggles in soidarty wilh specic pisoners such as Rob base themselves in our
siruggle aginst the social order. They use the anarchist methods of altack against that social
order ot he democratic methods of accommodation and negation. This does nol mean thal we
‘Wt use overy weapon we can 1o get Rob fes. But we il leave il 0 he lawyer o baltl on the.
rrain of law - an appropriate larm for iberals and civi lbatarans whose inlrest is Jusiice”

Our nterest i the dosiructon of the present social order and the lowering of indvidual freedom
n e context of aqual access of al 1o the conditon of e and free creaton - i calls for another
Sortof sruggle, a destructive upheaval against al the insttulons of power.

The Teue Nature of the Justice System

‘The democratic justice system i inended 1o mainian social peace. I does this through
he use of nstutionaized lerrorism. Th acceplance of state and corporale power. of privale
proerty and of every other form of domination and exploation upon which social peace is buil
can only be maintained by the patrl of armed thugs wih the right o abduct anyone who they
hink is not conforming 10 the needs of socely. The abduciee is then brought before @ courl
‘which puts the veneer of social consensus over the lerrrism while deciding how (0 vioale the
abduciee. Since terrorism is the sysiemalic use of eror in the form of vidlence or theats of
vioence 1o coerce corformily 10 the lemorisis wil, INs sysiem must be considered
staightionward terorism.

Masto torrorist Bl Clinion has said “There can be no compromise wilh lerorsts.* As a
maser of that ar. he should know, and we shoud (ake him a his word. If we are interested in
the freedom 10 five our ives 0 he fu, we cannot accommodale (o a system of ertor intended o
1um us ko cogs i the socil machine. There is no oom for negoliaton. Orly in aack against
his monsier can the struggle have a chance.

June 18" and the Naturs of the Riot

‘When the siree party of June 18 stepped up nolch 1o become a o, this was not
matter of anyone lying o the pigs about whal was going (o happen. The rol of June 18" . ke
‘mostriots, was a spontaneaus expression of rage and rebelion. Thero is no place for apalogies.
‘when such events happen. Rage and rabalion are heallhy rasponses to he present social rder.
and apologies simply play nto he hands of he aulriies. WWhen laws are broken. as they wil
be in such an uprising, apologies are a kind o confession. a way of tling the aulhorles (whose
conceplions of right and wiong anarchists reject) thal “we” did wrong. Furthermore. since the
aciual perpelrators of ilega acts are rarely o ones (o apologize, the spologies aiso amount 1o
‘authorarian auto-delegation of he righ 1o speak fo olhers o onasell and a form of snilching. |
Know s harsh i this work of tactand good manners o cal hings by their real name. bul as long
23 we conlinue 0 euphomize. we willcorue 1o be ignorant of he realsignificance ofour acis

So-called radicals in this counlry. incuding most “anarchists”, pefer t keep insurrection
8t distance. Even people who are nol ethcal pacisis preer that we remain safely nonviolent.
using tactics which guaraniee the conlinuance of hei ol s ‘opposilon” (1 Iis why even the
most miltant of this sort of actist prefer (0 talk of resistance raiher that altack”) So they
relegate insurrecton to exolic lands Ik Palestine or Chiapas or distant imes iike Paris 1871 or
Catalonia 1936 Ths keeps the violence of such everis dstant and abstral, allows (o believe

that we can remain nice. polle. maderate people and st be radical because we give verbal
Suppon (0l he nghi causes.

But anarchist revalubion has ls basis in upnsings against aulborly, in insulrectional
attacks on the present socal Order Wilagness 10 apologize or such events idicates. a
wlingness 1o compromise and for us _ comproMmise s defeat. We uo i have the upper hand

‘aganst power. and every lime we comproMmise il 5 3 siep forward In power's contol and a siep
backward or us.

‘What is Anarchy?

‘Behind the willngness 1o apologize and 1o accommodate that far 100 many so-called
‘anarchists exhibil, is a fea fo the good image of anarchy. This is laughable because anarcly
has never had a good publc image. The stale and capial conirol tha image-making apparatus
‘and would never allow 3 ruly good (i the sense of both posiive and inspinng 0 acton) image of
‘anarchy 1o axist, Bul this dasira or a good image s mast lroubling because i relects a lack of
understanding of the nature of anarchy.

“Anatchy i not a reigion or a god 10 which we want 0 convert people s essence s not
idesksic inthe plalonic sensa - that 1, L is nol an ideal above us (o which wo aspire. A nice,
cloan image. pie-nhe-sky vision is of o praciical use 10 us SiNCA our puTPoSe is ot 1o
converl. Al Such atlempis o transioim the world. schemes which guaraniee thal real
ransformation never happens because that would destroy Ihese ideclogues’ comirtable fole as
Ioyal opposiion n he prasent world

"Anatchy is nol a product 0 be sold, anather al pirion in theideclogical marketplace. A
media-palaiabie image of anarchy is, hus, an unworthy goal. Mass media serves tha siae in o
Ways which make il useless 1o anarchist. 1L the processor of democrati opirion. I akes any
idea presanted 1o, however vitl and dynamic, and flatens i inlo just another Opirion separaied
from ife, anoiher of the many ideclogies thal democratic discourse can alow 10 be discussed
For this reason. inying 1o make a media-palatable version of anarchist thinking uphoids the
present social order by reinforcing the image of our olerant dsmocraic insiuions. The olher
ask of mass medis is 10 creata images for consumption. When anarchists play inlo tis, they
merely becom another ona of the many sub-groups of this sociely, separated from the general
mass and put on stage 1o perdorm. Such performance dossn inspre. it Simply entertins and
‘enforces passivy.

The best image the media has ever granted 1o anarchy is hat of an ecceniic,
‘anachvonistc phiosophy. Even s image is nly granted 5o long as anarchiss remain impolent.
‘Apologies and a wiingness 10 accommodale ona's enemies is sign of impolence. A sirong
‘anarchist movement, no mater how smal, wil ahvays b viified n the mass media. The lleged
harors of every uprising wil be trumpeled s his insituion dos ls job of helping 1o maintain

cloan, prelified piciue of anarchy. 1t is precisely the rage. the viclent passion of anarchy lo
Which ney can felate. Tha number of people who fil this descripton is ising. One nead only
lock o thefetles 1o the ector i the Registe-Guard o the Eugena Woekly hal were sympainalic.
10 he Juna 16° no...or he recant edtonals i he Porland homeless pager..or sien 1o the
‘anger expressed i he August 24 Paople’s Forum in Eugens. In souhem Oregon, where |ive in
ihe summers, ani-goverment sentiment is sirong and sympathy for oullaws high. Some even
el 10 Ted Kaczynski as a hero. Tha rage i there, he hatred of authory i there. What do
‘anarchists actually have [0 offer?

"o figure hi out, we must figura oul whal anarchy is. 11 is, in part. 8 ulopian idea. a
vison of 2 warkd in which hera are 1o isilubons of power, dominalion and explotaton and the
Individual i Irea 1o explora al of ingir capabiles and fuly develop thamselves as they esie.
But such visions, such 1deas, are ony useful 1 the exlent thal move 0ne 0 acl. S0 anarchy must
als0 be a personal elhic o refuse 10 delegale one’ ife away, 1o project 0ne's e for onesel lo
Teluse sver 10 be rued o (o ule. The (ehsal 1 ba ruled is pariculary important as this 13 he.
feal source of our sirengih i ha siuggle. Bu, most impoanty, as a 100l (0 be used by
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nsurgent pecpe, anarchy is a methodology for struggle. This methodology is an insurectional

‘meihodology incorporating a few ssseniial elements:

) Dvoct ation - The sifuggle against Ihe nstiutions of power, i ordar 1o be eflecive. can nol
o potions 10 any auinorty. Rather. those in struggle act diecly o reakzo the objeciive

. they have chosen.
2) Mutonomy ~ Those in siruggle 1o reluse 1o delegate_decision-making 1o any formal
organizalion such as unions, paries and the ike. Specific organizations for a partcular
Siuggle wih a loar sim thal dissolves once the a is mel and thal serves only as means.
o caordinalng the autonomous effors of individuals and small goups based on real affiniy.
ol as 8 decison-making body.

3)- Pétmanent CoRiiUally ~ Those in sruggle have Lo recognize thereaily ofther confictwilh
Iha axploters, and aiways act against them. The siruggle needs (o consist of constant and
offocive acton against he sulhorites aiming toward the specifc objecive that has baen
chosen. Tha terrain of capital nd the iale is everywhere, 3o there are targels everywhore.
Thus, we can be doing small sclions thal can be easiy imilated across the social lerain,
Keoping the pressure on and buiding insueciion without recourse [0 leaders or vanguards.

4) Atack - Thera 18 no placa for compromise or accommodation wih the stale and capial in
‘any aspect. They are our enemies and we are oul lo destroy them. This is refleced in our
‘acions by our practice of attack egainst the specific physical maniestaions of power:

This methodology is anarchist in it refusal of any form of aulhority. but can be used by all in
struggle whether they call themselvas snarchist or nol. It prevents the recuperalionof the.
‘Sinigole by any power siructure and strengihens (hose who use i.

What is Revolution?

Anarchisis hope hal the sruggle for specifc aims using e methodology oulined above
will axpand and lend (0 a revoluionary break. Revoluion is not somelhing thal drops from the
Sk, b rathet something that develops rom real sruggles as the awarenass of the need to
‘dosiroy he presen social order becomes increasingly conscious i he course of singgle. The
Insurrectonal anarchist methodology has wilhn (ha seeds of such an awareness.

“Atvough revolulons ar0 not spontaneous enuplions, hey lend o cach us by surprise. It
1s i i lght hal we need 10 bo aware of the nalure of revoluion. There is 1o such thing as 3
onviclent revolulion, any more than there can be @ non-violent siom. A revluiion is an
Upheaval of socia condilons, the chaolic opering up of the unknown._An snarchst revoldtion
Waid involve the desinuclion of sl insiitutions. of power. an upheaval of social relalionships
‘Comparabla to the nalural upheavals brought aboul by lomadoes, huricanes and earihquakes.
Evon il no blood were shed, such an upheaval would have violen! effecs, desiructive eflecs.
Those wh are aeid of this wouid do well to avoid anarchist ideas and praciice.

‘Bt the upheaval o revolution is necessary 1o bring aboul the end of the present social
order which is, by i naluro, a constant pheaval forced upon al o those wiioul power by the
forcas of the stale and capial. This constani upheaval fucks over mos of us leaving us o feel
ke unhappy puppels of @ ellsh fate. Tho uphaaval of anarchist rovolulon places people’s ives
o ther own hands, making people the crealors of their own desiinies. This s the case because
anarchist revoluton places people’s ives inlo their own hands, making peopls the crealors of
their own destinies. This is the case because anarchist revolution can only grow out of siuggles
which use an anarchist methodology and thal methodology bases itsel in the aulonomy of
indivicuals and small groups and theic increasing abilly o act for themsaives. Thus. the
upheavals of anarchst revolution are infenlionaly created by those in siruggle in orde 1o desroy
the inslluions thal enslave them.

By Wolfi
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Reclaim the Streets - 6/18 - Eugene

I sanig iy hacs cufled bin my back Blod i ko se s bckan, b |
or aaze it e st evening whon 560y aca i he . b shocked h 0 see oW
oady vl and dscolredm lf ey s Now, P,y b &9 an oy scapu (snder
lade). hich | ebeve ' ioks (390 Two cops. & man anc 3 waman are shusng o e, Thay s
90 0 got 3 0 Sympazs wina cop who was sl inured- prhaps e - by s vown
Gbecs el Gz o 1 Furcheon How 0y head el ioppea me o g, 1ot beaing
Gpar. The mured op s vasien e, h o e Tmlcky o ool s o Shh
e 50 Gomned k. Ho eotons 0-Gor e i R <okt

How Cliche’

“Tnere was o i ofhe razinas 1 come when ihe avent st taried Hvas bing, acualy.
No one had propared speech o had much 0 cfer he way of n explanation as wha we wero dong
orwhy. Someon made a ver, verybie sialamant. Someon read & poa 0 ety hal | co hear
e on he ulho, ust 12 est away. Sudderly hre's mare 5o rom down he siset. Som foks.
20 up s0ma elecicalgacgets - hone sered and o ihe s - an ump hem n th sl
Then smash tham, o much charig rom i crowd

We are gainered i he sirae,iegally blockng afic Thisshail be @ recuing hom for the
day. Wa'tjust kindofmillng sboul Some fplass women who have painia the losos shver aro
dancing, Others o hem Nothng much ese i happering. Somacna suggests some chance. “The
eopleuned,wil neverbe deesled”

“How cicha”,lll e Someona earbr had burnad a g, Tha was snough |y 1 recnt
someane 1o doan arikc rar. No 01 p 1o . 1Pave 3 1an nme b belev 10 ba nappropriao.
“Fuck connolaor’. As hngs umed oul uing e cours of ha day. | was wrong

Someona inal s a speech. | miss i bacause | went nto Taco Time o somlfing o dink.
e cute young woman a he couner fitswih ma. Robiiushy, 1ol her“walch - Fim possibly e
sama age a5 her dad.

Moving right along

A cop car pulls up and nsirucs us 10 1eave, 2 we ar Hegalyblocing h sreet. Wo rise &
Dall-heared cheor and ake o the oppos1 way, il he sieet. Th car folows. fvastans us wih
apper-spray. We are approaching a ey hlel. The saf i aking down he huge Amanican 1ag. ' ot
allmast when som of us begin i chesr Soma holl dwseb ardart he workers 1 put A back up Same
masked youlhrush over .. who kw717 Likay hey have a gher or o beween hem. | ot pay
tantion1o e, my eyes have been atacied 10 0me movemant About 8 coupe dozen cops ol
8 move out o lock e iret.

"o cop carfoblows us, il veatening s with gas and arres. Afew o us gal ff i siraet a3
ordered and coninue up e sidewalk Tha cop ine 1k 30 hatihe sidewalk s bocked of, 100 We.
can e 1 1 sree and we can be on he sowa. The cops are besting wih e baton, usting for
lesh 10 pound.

190 back 0 e crowd, b my atsnon is crawn 1 the o ca ssuing orders and s, 100
300 a5k th criver:“Tell ma whare we can o wo cail ba o he idewalk and wo can b8 on the
Steer. Ho issues moro domands,inores me and ives awey.

1 am famiar enough wit police 1acics o hnow hal s dangarous 1o lave the group, 501 get
back ko e rowd.

An Earth st i caing i a day,1ling s how wa have made ou pant and can g0 home nov.
Darned ippr. Ho means vel realy He ot hasa oo around angy anaichiss very oen. Y don'
Gomand ihat poopie ake na vilence raing 0 coms 1 o damos

We un way rom ihe polce and wander around iown o & ik, sopping evry now and hen
10 6g10up. The crowd s masly young. They dot ow hal cops ke 0 $nagk up on sy and.
iragolers. beathem 1 he round, pepperspray hem and haul them 1 ol

ool unhoaienad sl and have o mask over my lace.

“We don't know what we're doing,
we don't know where we're going”.
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“Iwant fo make a withdrawal
Wo pouse 1o regroup.
Trere s 8 bak nearby. Some masked youth pproach. They laugh:They ook scared” “They.

ocked i doors” Rope. ik 13 flegafor banks 1 lock up g busineshours. | walk over.

Ry 4k TOpa he ke door. s o' nclocked. | Go 1 ond leon ogainst e automati door

opener. Thedoor wings open.“See, s ot locked | walk n“This o way o ve. | e the

otomars e, Wa have 8 el dslogus. A bank execuvs ies 1o shush o | gve 8 el ant

“oaint arfil iesyles. The poca hov flkwed s . 1¥aep moviog 1o e oher side. TRankiy.

Thore are 20 e cops hers nc we leave tha bank unvctbed. Py

Anice spray in the park.

Wo move 08 pak and st o s momarium. Aspecple scate i et dectons, a bold
cop squed cies up and tacks som poople hokding a barer. Theso a he s arrests o he dy.
Wo warelnaving, bt ucdarly surgs backno he sl ofhe assaul. The cops i ol gaarshaw o
‘again Wa st 10 form p 8gan. b coupl o cops e up 3 head ofus. gt cutand shootges cans
alus. W rowihem bock tihem. They reveat

‘Sams peopl e he pak. 1ia re ot i cpposis orr o whre the aress were made
Th o cape o et e ot Shoot gas canslers atus. The brisk broaze bows e gas Skt back
atthem. They shootmors cans and they are st n 3 gas haze. ot

“Its better to burn ou

"We wandor round soma mora. Weir s the edge of e Whieaker neighborhood, where many
co-0ps e an some anarchist hang-ous. Our members hava doubed 25 pacpl rom ihe neighborhood
{ollow us. We ca make up o mind where we e going. We accupy anofhe nersecton. | argue o et
et vough snce ware ol dong amyting but standing around.

"Out o shoe boredom. @ Toco Bl atacked.

A nachis comrds ' it n e head wih & wench by an ate iloist who 1o5ped 0 fght
Wo hang around s walt for an ambuience.

"Werekosing aneroy. As som ofus i siong th st police cars suddenly sl up and stack
random srays. | dockd 10 go bac fthe moin by, bl am o by 8 polce alck.m gy and |
wantbeer. | siso want the company o t leastcne o he biave, cula convades Ive seen and taked 1o
oughut 1 day. A cop car Guts me off again. n he (ollowng cnslaughL | nd myse locking inlo he
(945 mask of an enveged cop. Somaiing was hvown s i He sees me.“Now he's mad. | heer an
Orloker exciaim. 1 an un. Two blockslter, 21 when houid have z8g0ed and 8 runchecn
‘Whacks ma bahind an sbove my rght ea, | can rn anymore and I it agan across my back and
orced fce-st ko ho ground.

e car which i iake ma 0 the couny lock-up,Severalcops coma b lo make sccusaiions
against me. O nsss ha b bocked on atempied murder. st they I ke ma someplace and work
o over befors | meke A 1]l

‘Finaly. ey bing nanctharsresise She's someona Iva sean a ot Bvoughout ihe ey feel
sslorwih her ihro and e hr 8. | want 11y my head on her shouider. Al day,she's looked 30
Serane, 50 v, 50 determinad. Shasiay on my mind consindy for e e o doys.

i s, moni e, They gave e Vkaden o e four ays. |was cked up.
ooking aleas 7 years i prison. The case againstma ook song. Bu nl unbestabe

FR»

Being 8 police office is 3 ehumanizing experience. The weaiog of s badge pts s barerbeween the civian
population 1 the aw enforment commaniy. Peopl ae wary of inviing polc oo thei homes, ven socily,
They e ol and put 0 8 vence of espet o the police person, utthy watch heir ip round cope. AR
theie words. You dont want 0 ofend someone who i o - with guns,c and nformuion. Informason, which,
can ssobe more than weapons.

(Cops wereyoun peope.-us ik amyone ls -t one poin i theves. They deny i Theyll denytht they
yandabaed neighbors houseslpropery. They ll deny tht ey eve drove home druk fom pay, a b o tvern
o iends house. They ll dny tat they cver misided people i order to protect thei ficads or umly. They
deny that they ve ever_exceeded e speed it or commited oy othr ofthe dosens ofpty rffc crvnes ot
everyonecommits everyday. To b polic officer i 0 i o th cvlans you encountcr doing your o, 15, orget
how sontaneous e s, 0 forger that ircumstancesditte actions egarles o s alhis v o oty he
tickets,aess, bearings and kilfns hat police do bcause s ther ob. Police alk ke hey s beyond everydey
uman imulses.In doing 50 thy sht of ha partofhemselvesthat makesthem uman. They rcreats hemschves.
. gaven image and worsip tht image. They become a priestwario cse,an et sec. They z he b

Thuse Urhan Parables

Thi atitudes come 0 dictate thei thoughs.Thei viion becomes myopic. A group ofblack fchrs, brothers,
and sonssand on comer chating,cuting p,lughing. What the offcer sees is s gang of black dug deaers. The
ffice will ecp a cye o them. A th slghtst provocaton, he office il est o o then Even i h sight s
only magined. That' why halfor mor ofall lack me in Amria sreunder coun spervson o are icarcenied
ight now. The drin of esourcesthiscauss theeFumlie i cnomous. The effect o s on blck commarites
cannot b mesured.

A young lack woman sieps off bus. She's headed home from work. She's wearing. short sk and e shoss.
‘She aicpats secing hes lover i vening 10ps a the corner market 1 pick up some bee fot i, As she
croses hesret policecar pulls up."What' i te bag?™ the officer aks.She docs' ced this hasle. Sh's
tred She wants 10 g0 home. However, she doesn't make i thee (onight Tonight, she's gong o seep in il she
an slespat all - becausethe oficer thought tht she looked ke a hooker. “They ll ok ke booker i shotsep
from hey ae all hookers”. Will she sl have ob whenshegets ou? Willha cop remembe her ad try fo make &
“bete” rest next ime?

A 870up of tecns s headed home rom school. They e stayd ne, making peparations for fnction tomorrow
momning. A policecarcuisesby. The offic does't ike th lok o his Theofficer calls for backup. Severlcars
Pullup and they surround the st The ids procsm hie nnocence. The plice area't teestd. They e by
{aking down the Kid's names. This information wil g0 it polic st of posibl garg members. From now on,
these kids will ave o explain i 0 prospective employes, uiversis, and cours.

Black men, lck women, eaagersof all olrs - the jadd eye ofthe aw enforcement profesional secsthem 15
g delrs, hookers, gangstrs. Thy're all h same. They mock the liw: They gt ey with murder Sormeons b
10 each themalsson. That someone weas badge. Thatsomeone has job 10 do. Tht somcone can' wasi thei
time hiking about what theefect i atitude has on eopl’sves, how his in tr,efects te cighborhoods
these people ive in. There's o tme for reflection. Ther'swork b done
YetAnother Tale

“Thereae bt of angry pople i the woods ner prk. A developmens corporaion wans o bl strip mall
0 some condos on peviouly unusd nd. The people o he neghborhood opposed he developer's lans. They
petiioned th government 10 40p i They challenyed the development incourt. They wo cvery 1ep of he way wilh
‘overwhelming pulc supprn. The count orders the developrs 1o cease theirconstruction. Today, however, (e

bulldogers arived and began claring the woods for construction. The people in the neighborhood poured aut of thir —~*

homes and confroned e workers, who ar il st fllowing oders. Th peopl e themselves 1o the ecs. An
exccutiveof he developmen corporaton arives. He cals e polce o his cll phone. Th polic arive and dennd
1hat e respasersave. Some tinidly bck away. The polce et the oters, making sut (0 pepper spay i
ones e 1o the trees fst.

One woman challnges the polce. “What a you doing, officer, ey’ the nes vilating helaw. We have
cour oder 10 sop thisdeveopment”.

1 don't know anyuing about tha, ma‘am, he office aproschingber . The offcer read i n the newapaper,
s it on TV - evensigned the nfghborhood assocition’s petion

' just doing my job". The officer sprays he youns motber of two with peppes spray,thenuniesherand arests
et

w2 sEwe moe
‘The police, like the construction workers, are just following urders. Their orders were given By e SERERER TR f 1
ccuive wihthe ol phone

We ll, ol nd poied lk, s cterin the 215t cenury i lgallyubiguous s, Oulaw corporations

ve desroped enine Boregions dspie s prtecin the enironment. The fincs imposed on them do notake

c Sightet den i thee profit, i th corportons even bothe 0 pay the. When e people whose homes, rd,

d beakh e devasuted by eyl corporte acivies ry 0 do more thn call e congfessvan (agin) 0 10

e acivie,here comes he polic 1 protect the corporation'sight 10 ynore e aw. And tey doit glady.I's
clav.

Tl 1930° Germany it was gl 10 hvbor o sid o even st not 1l e i bout)Jews. My people broke
e lws. Many people shred the fte of e Jewis neghbors when breaking heselaws. [ pre-Ciil War
mcca, sbolunss helped saves rom th South scape (0 Canada.This waslega, 100 Some thingssec more
poran tha aws. Likesegbbors. Like human gty Like unspoied and and clean et

Civicaions have risen and falln hroughout the course o human exisicce. iy civizaions were destroyed by
sside forces - bosile neigbbors,naural dissics, i, discase, you ame i

“Accodin 1o some peoples orl radions,though, some peopl abandoned e cvizatons sod vokunarily

s 1 & snple e of gardenin, eating, dancin nd asing bbies. They gaveup heeciis od the
chacogie thtcrate thenbecsuse thy had the wisdon 0 se what tei ivization cost them - b oy
icomentaly, but i et of thle existence a5 v, lovin ccatues - ad decidd s 10 gret & prce 10

)

Are We that Wise
Her'show you make be you put bunch fyeust nl some waie tht's b oaded with suga. Yesstlove
ol Th yeast Rorishes. It s up all tht sugar andreproduces ke crazy. Yeas's rc b cleve tings though
Ventualy thre s 50 mach yesst hat hey di,chokin 1 deah o their v excrement. T they fement 10d |
ok ther Yommy!

“Avechized human beings ofthe 20N cenury simarer than ycst? Yeastca'thlpi. They don' have iias.
s more 10 th e, there 4 o ellc waror.caste of yeas hat force the 0 consume d reprodee.

Under ut presnt globl capials cconomy, ll Lwsserve 0 potec corporat property and hee “gh” 1o make
ofts. Al people st devore thei ives to making corporations profiabl, 0 3t 35 courers by movin money back
d fort betwéen corporatons and basks. I's our job.

People who do no wis o lvethis way un fou the . There is 10 lhr way 0 it Caiait cconomy
st funcion ofthe plice 10 1ake thee people and put them o prsos, wherethey ae url 10 work s
spoit. Or sufle the consequences.

"Vet ourplane i beimg il by people who only s naure 35 “resouces” 0 b “developed”. The genocide
it throughoutthe Amerca’s ws jusifed ecauseth land s being “wased” -0 ized for moneiary
. Many pogle of pro-Columbisn America id't svn have 3 concept of money, much lss profic.Enie regons
sed hie “cconomies” on - giving

Everyone sive today face the decon wheher they want 10 be par f & iving. dyaamic word, o whetherthey
o yeas, doomed 10 drown i their own waste.

Tha includeseveryone who has ob 0 do

That includes s offcer,

The policeforces ofevery community hve his choice 10 nake:they can continue 1o follow “the aw” regdiess
the consequences of thi sctions,or thy cansbandon thi rle a4 wario el in order (o embrscs theit
reniies, 0 act a5 facitalors ofchange, beinging people ogethe 10 work uut thei difleences o aciog 13
pee-makers rther than enforces.

Afiuw«uwflm-wmmm was held. One of the cesuls of these trials was 1o establish that Gilizeas.
ations have igh 0 ho only isset gainst what thy consider ncthicallaws nd governmests, bt
fivly ppose nd resis them. 1 i my opion thatthe cuent s of ecoloical risis has reachd & poin hat
g i e b s e by e s of e i nton-sai is 1 embrace.

Lam ot sucidal,love . love sharing my home with the peope | lve, working n the yrdens wih hem i
¢ momings, drinking down those dead fermented yeast 3 ight

"t | can't v according to my desres. The laves il ot ko .| st therfor, oppose he baws wih evey
c of my being, | owe i 0 my daughte 0 creste a space o her 10 i and row a patofa vin, hiiviny world.

s er binh igh.

L willng 0 put my ife on the line 0 crese tha space, 10 fr: he capitals ation-saes (0 respect my huan
i 1 decrmine how | il vy . There s room in North Amcricaforautonomous villys communiies.
Thersar, Nowever,armed orces 1o prevent me and hose | love fom creaing uch places.

So how abou ,solier? How about i, offcer? Wll you hlp faciate th changesthat re pecessary o make
ot o o ? O il you iy efore e e of s hat e ol o ks 1
What doyou thik you're doing, oficer”

1 |
The U.S., ike any tyrannical nation which feels threatened by its own
citizans, resorts to the use of para-military terrorist organizations to do the dirty
‘Work of crushing dissent. Just in my lietime, this has happened frequently. City,
ounty,state and federal forces have armed, trained and supplied logistical
support to dozens, if not hundreds, of death squads. In the ‘60"
called the Minutemen went around Killing anti-Vietnam War protesters,
unimpeded by law enforcoment agencies. The federal witness protection program
Was used t0 shuttle rapists and murderers from one hot bed of dissent to another |
n order to terrorize the peace movement. Hired goons wre cheap and easy to
find in order to carry out terrorist atiacks against American Indian Movement
activiats, supporters and their families. Gangsters were used to knock off Black
Pagthers. FBl informers were continualy linked to the assassinations of civil
vighs activists and leaders.
This tradition of using unofficlal assets to wage war on dissidents in
America found its greatest achiovement in the bombing of the Murray federal
building in Oklahoma city. As is typical of these operations, eyewitness accounts
and other evidence of federal compliance with the act were ignored once the
Patsies were offered up for sacrifice. This attack was used as justification to pass
80me of the most repressive legislation in American history - the federal
ti-errorist act. The fow legal restraints the foderal government were supposed
o follow in gathering intelligence on its own citizens were lifted. “Terrorist”
organizations such as Pastors for Peace, Concerned Clergy and Lalty, Witne
for Peace, the War Resister's League, the Sierra Club, and the Union of
Concerned Sclentlsts can expect even more infiltration, wiretaps and intimidation
than they ever experienced under the Nixon, Reagan and Bush regimes.
Just today (7/12), there was an aricle In Eugene's Register Guard about the
FBI and “militias” announcing a new era of mutual support. The message for
‘anyone with more than 25 years of political activism should be loud and clear.
The governments and thelr overlords have had enough with citizen's
Initiatives, dissenters, activists and protesters. s time to take off the veneer of
democratic restraint and shed blood. And lots of it
From this day on, the forces of profit.atall-costs will take fewer prisoners,
since their law enforcement facade Is not enough to keep the public pacified.
Their new allies do not even have the authority to arrest people. Nor the will.

Further Reading:
he War at Home - Bran Glick
The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many - Noam Chomsky

Colntelpro Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secrat Wars Against Domesti Dissent - Ward
‘Churchill and Jie Vanderwall (seo also thelr Agents of Repression).
TRAVELING AUTONOMOUS ZONE

o bisbook Temporay Autonormous Zone, Hakim Bey suggesis that we no wory sbout
chaning he world, but nstcad take chage of our own lives whencver possbe. He reminds
it v though such nsurecions a5 the onesin Pars 1871 and dusin th Spanish Civil Was
el enshed i, thy a et achieved period of auioaamy for paton of
et Yes, which i more than many of us can s8. One fecuing argument that omes up with
tchise 1 discussed TAZ with regardsthe word “temporary". “I'm n s sut | agree with bis
Topant atinde towards permanence.” wioie Souh Dakoia pisonet Pl Smih 1
toestedin changing the world 10 the exent possibl, an it seems that Bey s iling lo 3<CEpt
e temporary stonamous zones flickering n and out of exiseace whie capialism abides

et want et ndeed, we sl want more,but the point i that we are nowhete ncar the
ot that e can overthrow capialism. Shoud that preven us fom creating osies of Lberalor
B wherevet possible? Ceraoly nott To pu hings in anoiher pespectiv, ink of

. Ve e eologea sens. Ten thousand yeas s merly a bat of an ey whe discsing cpocks
of geological isory. Ten thousand yeais 3o, much o the Americas wss undcr immense shets
s the Mo of shallow oceans. OF course, hese were only temporary condiiors
s e changed rdically since. In 3 hisorical tiframe, human beings have oy bec?
Tcorting e doingsfo five thousand years. Capialism has only beenaround s mine fiaction
it e, and i il eventually disappear, st a th e of Assyian or Babylonian ¢Hpic?
pssed. T the meanwhie, why ot dich e syiem now and agan 10 understand that nothing iS
Permancat anyway, crtanly not on this planet. However, | slo want more han ot afiemoon of

P eman or . fow months in 8 squat. | have a fascintion sbout nomadism tat led me
heming sbout Traveling Autonomos Zones. Perhaps he greatet example of & Traveling
e momous Zone would be an ocean-going one. A sixty-footlong yacht couldcasly cond &
e of twive people. The ship could spend most of s ume in intematonsl watet,
eyond he laws nd bordersof most natios. The opportuites fo organizationst ‘mayhem are
e i he open sea_pirte o, clandestne landings, disruping whalig and ot
s by commercial fishrs, ot o mention feying oulaw YIS 0 ploceh
v safiy. The only times th ship would have 0 come ino coniact would b 10 stock
“p on suppies (feh v, food, medicie, tc), and the necessity of such cooct could be
reduced by a resourceful rew. I tmes of bad weather a harbor would b a deirabl place 10 b
e b or small caravan of vbickes coud wansport TAZ fiom one asea of heraian
O s e and necessy dicate. The members could ransport materals flom 1cgon &
Tegion (bing ke zins and other lirt, clohing, smll rde s, ). Fhis would be an
emely valuabe resource fo th anarchist communiy, a8 it migh lend iself 1o v secure
e thoogh somewnat slower han the U.S. mail Ao, i seems that nomadic bancs £
e maturally resisan to hierarchy han stationary communites. OF cours, i visibiliry
ol s be a danger, a it might aractthe attention of unwanied, valchul ¢yes sl it
o be bt 1o avel i numbersthan 0 do it alone. I arcas where hre s 01 & S10%8
Sauatting movement,th squas coukd move from one place 10 snohe 15 hi PEREEE became
bl i s comfonable for the squatis. By moving from one campst 0 the n€xt

1

reeling Atonomots Zone" rginally appeared in It Srke was reprinted in
Ararchy: A Jounalof Desive Armed. 436, Sprng 1993,

BIOCIDE

They use mehods which proved effectve in the ernof Earopean coloniaiam -
Populations 30 th they constantly make war on one anather, pofsoning the water
population centers o better control them,
rentiig leaders™ who will do the dirty work fo » pice of the acton, dain
“troublemakers”, ec.
o mast ideous aspctofthis death cultare i hat the powerful have convinced the
Tt desive tei bieration. Actualy, the pomesfl gt he mesk b sty s

id of looking at the
ey (ight whole-heartedly (o defend the rights of the
denounce any efforts o oppose the machinations of the

ppechuse, 10u e, ot everyone i biind o the woring of he killers of the i,
bty that. bt her ar il millonsof people who e mot commecien ot
Tiving peat-caltare. These 0 tpes afpeople ot ony ey fo miimze thir oqi e e
i €L, b they ight (0340p he denh machines,

e owerfal and (e weak ke hate the primitvists. The powerfl mastdesray
‘e i arder o malnta thei privieged statun. Fhe weak pos g
don’t have to face their own cor
oeHth-cullure - without ,they would uffr and perish mmedintly. rother e
slamy.

The powerful and the weak make war on the uncooperative, the wild and the free.
g an lctne 1 heyare earlen. The powcrful ve en 4 o e mesk v i
eebelous and the e The weak ar moivaed b fer - far of olculing e
masirs earofoing her illionary] sttun. on ofporg

1 fene o th aly mativation the weak wndersand, pe hape ' e T
e poverative 1o make the weak fea that which they have embracd. Perbape i tme for
heBrave and frc 1 make he powerul awake i their bunvers

Perhaps it is time to 29 0n the offensive and make the powerful and weak alike. pay
fortheircrimes aganst natur, Pechaps it ime for a tw-shen o

“Ifthey kill me inthe morning, they 're
‘gonna kill you in the evening.”

—Dhoruba Bin Wahad, member of the
Black Panther Party, U.S. political prisoner
recently released from a 19 yr. prison
sentence.

While there is a lower class
Iaminit

While there is a criminal element
Iamofit

While there is a soul in prison
Tam not free .

-~ Eugene Debs
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eogle 1o spend most of thele time i produciive, redundant and unskied labor, people
must depend upon the specialized production of other workers 1o provide the food,
lathing, shelter and countiess consumer gizmos thal weire rained to want. Prior {0 the
&ra of industial enslavement, mos! househalds and famiies were considered funcionel
‘or not by that households bl 10 be more-or-less-self-sufficient. This has been yuw of
Socielies from the time of nomadic bands through the ages of vilage communities. The.
istocalion of peasant populations by the various stales during the (on-going) period of
‘enclosure forced people nto desperate poverty and into factory labor and immigration o
{h newly-conquered colonies abroad. Both the rise of industrial captalim and.

Incapable of doing so. Al the insiiutions of industrial society serve one main purpose: o
enforce 3 lesling of helpiessness upon the masses. Their masier siroke is achioved by
Convining people o embrace their dependency upon the industial nlion-state by
Seling it o ihem as empowerment. Even the most nteligent, capable people of the
moden societies have fallen nlo this trap, They can' help . They were Wainod fo be
sallrepressing imbecies from the moment of birth on

17

In the times before the era of childhood, young people spent altheir ime in the
company of aduls, mainly thir parents. Infants are observant and inteligent. They

Coukd sse whalthei parents did during theic day - cooking, grooming, creating things,
orking thei gardns. By the ime they were old enough 1o walk, they were capable 51
helping thieparents out if oy in vry slight ways. The more the young person grew,

meaningless drudgery 1o folow.

- Into the Herd -

The chid s forced (0 undergo years of imbecilty raining, Total strangers shall
prvent ihe chid rom developing opinions, om thnking independenty, from thinking
crtically. The child s taught o be quiel, be sti, 1o repeal whal they are 1o, 1o
unquestioningly. 1o speak only when spoken Lo, Bu the young person i fullof snergy
‘and curiosity. To be silland quiet is unnatura, repuisive even. In having ths discipine of
‘schoal forced upon them, young people learn the most important of il 18ssons - those,

re-education center called jai. Here the old rules ara once again emphasized: do as
Youre ok, speak when spoken (0, ights out and g0 1o bed. The rues of mbecsily are
Simple. Imbeciic rebelin is mildy punished. More severa punishment s meled out for.
Superseding the ules of imbecily, by ignoring the fules and making a greater imbecits
Shonesell. Severe punishmen s reserved for thoss who inerfre wih oiher' imbeciiy

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their though crimes with thei (reedom of thei lives, butthe imbecies mus! denounce
them and subject them to abuse and humiltion in the process. More interested 1
Kissing the ass tha shis on them than tring 1o 10p the flow of shil over her the
imbecies wail and rash thei teeth 0 think tha anyone. any one person anywhere at
2nytme, woukd dare o ive ouiside the struciures of domination which et the He of
theimbecie

The rewards of imbecilty are a heightening of the helplessness and impolence of
the taihul. The pivieged must be prolecied from the rest of the herd - secreled awey
behind secured barriers. Unable o perform even the most basic task,the privieged

Jenerate profil s justiisble. Mountains are leveled, rivers dammed, forests murdered,
species of every sort of fiving thing obilerated 1o provide the imbeciles their
Remember, the imbecies can only survive by forcing the uniniated, the under
privieged. even the remaining ree human beings (o provide for them. Once reduced (o
gestitulon, the marginalized can be bribed inlo becoming the armed enforcers of
imbeciity, ensuring the comfort and safely of the imbeciles of the workd and

anyihing or anyone not being uliized for the never satiated demands of expansive
imbeciiy.

Death Watch of the Imbecile.

A lietime of loyal service (0 the continuance of imbecilly is rewarded with the
{pisery and pain o siowly dying in ncreasing pain. Their bodies have boen ruined by
Imeirlabors. by iheir exposure o letha industil processes and is by-products. Thay
have polsoned themselves wih cigareties. pharmaceuticals snd lkuor, hord food, iy
2k siress. anger. halred. The forlunale ones can then pay or the priviege of correcling
and lessening the impact of this damage through medication, surgery and the.
interveniion of medical technology. The exhausled people do ot demand that those

\What s to be done about althese imbecies? Thase of us unwilng lo perpeluate
the dominalion of imbeciity must brea free ofls grasp. We must loar o care and
provide for ourselves and invte others o share in our adveniures in el reiscovery.
In this way. we can creale a new cycie of expansive, ife-enhancing existonce, s
‘undertow of iberation (o pull back the tde of death-dealing indusiral states.

Reject imbecilty by embracing your own abilly to meel your needs outside the
sanciified disabilty of the imbecile.*

| PoLitical prisoners and Frecdom’
Fighters across the grobe.

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