‘When Terror Is Magnified

My son, Stanton, is going to the University of Illinois in
Champaign-Urbana this fall. He's brilliant and all the schools
wanted him. He has been home-schooled these last two years
of high school and during the first semester of 7% grade.

My wife-and 1 are bappy thiat he chose a school this close to
home. It’s only a little over 142 hours from our house. We
feel confident that he'll be “safe” as we can reasonably expect.
He's careful, has never done any drinking or used drugs, isn't
reckless, etc. He has got a strong sense of self-respect and a
well-developed purposefulness as to the direction he will guide
his life along.

1 dread the idea of not having him around though and I'm
sure his mother and younger brother feel the same way. 1t
seems like only yesterday, he was a lttle toddler with an
enchanting demeanor. I regret all the times I could (and
should) have spent with him, but didn't due to my pre-
occupation with my own life and interests. Luckily, his mother
(my wife) won't have these regrets, as she has always been
there for him and his brother.

‘This latest horror movie come to life (Virginia Tech) is so
sadly revealing about America. From the totally inadequate
response by those supposedly trained to protect citizens (ala
the non response to 911 & Katrina) to the undoubted
Columbine-like aftermath (blame the victims/students,) this is
a tragedy that is made worse by officialdom. For, the violent
criminals of society take their cues from those who orchestrate
policy to keep a socio-economic system (world-wide) injustice,
in place. The job of the police is to protect stolen wealth
‘property, not people (or their “rights.”) They also are used to
keep people “in line.”

How do I know that the authorities aren't really interested
in the concepts of freedom, equality and “justice” for wronged
citizens? It's because my family, too, especially my son,
Stanton, know the unbearable horrors of being the victims of a
terrorist murder and the aggravating response the authiorifies
gave, which made the senseless death of our loved one,
infinitely more ghastly.

You see, last July 20, 2006, my son's best friend, 17-year
Rundown of Rants

1. When Terror 15 Magnified 1459
2. Pseudo Reality -7,
3. Bastard Psyche 8 -13
4. Waiting For An Astronomical Event

by, Kelly Patton 13
5. Get With the Brain-Dead Program 14 17
6. A Savior Has Succumbed 18 - 21
7. The Police Are Trained Killers 22 - 25

8. Application of Anarchist Theory To 26 - 43
The Modern-Day Prison Struggle, by Sean Swain
9. FREE THE SLAVES| (2007) 44 - 55
10. A Plain Discussion To Anarchists 56 - 62
About Anarchist Theory, by Ali Khalid Abdullah

AW Articley (and a-poems) written by
Anthony Rayson, unless otherwise
dtributed. Publy, onwApril 23, 2007,
@NTICOPHQIG'HT/ FREE TO PRISONERS

Pseudo Reality q4

1's just like the reaction to the stirring outpouring of humanity clamoring for
social justice and human rights for so-called “illegals.” Millions of people pour
into the strects throughout America and the “solution” is o build a Beriin Wall at
the Mexican border. Bear in mind, the whole Southwest is realy the nosthern half
of Mexico!

‘That's what this Iraq Report portends. Never wavering from the corporatist
viewpoint, they lay out some ceuel optioas. For this “softnosy” the militry,
politicians (such as Senator McCain) and others decide the “#raq problem” needs
vicious infusion of aggression and slaughter. More soldiers wil be dragooned to
o do this dirty work. There’s tak of mounting offences against Sad’s militia in
Sadr City. That could tum into a horific gigantic Gaza City, also under brutal
military occupation and constant assault.

These imsamely alerming devetopments are greeted — catatonically, first and
foremost— andkthen by-theanalysis” of putrescent poliical commentators in the
papers. Today, a bought and sold mind, came up with the idea that Iraq “needs a

Pinochet.” Authoritarian, mass-murder idolatry raised to a new level of modern- :
day mindlessness! -

OF course, they're reveling in the “Chicago school” economic “miracle” a
(fascism: brutal, militarized capitalism.) They look down on grotesque, U S.- a

trained ghoulish torturer/murderers who they helped run the goverment/military.
Their role in Chile was like when the CIA suppfied the Indosesian death
squadmilitary with detailed lists of people to go and kill. The U.S. government
has an insatiable sddiction to blood and death! Endless plots of murders, raids,
bombings and all manner of vilely evi assaults on populations of peoples, inside
and outside of their hideous international gulag/torture/interrogation/dungeons are
etenally ongoing and globally pandemic.

Al the major, massive bloodlcttings caused by the U.S. ae igaored. “Human
rights™ are only violated by lefist or somehow other adversarial countrics and
roups of people, designated s ‘a terrorist group.” They are deemed “terrorists”
and their charred corpses are burning high, without a hint of impropriety - like the
Turkish, like the Nezis — ike Americans! Groups organized against the American
Imperial agenda or that of their vicious underling alles (such as Israe) are deemed
“terrorist.” If you don't accede (or succumbyter American imperial objecives,
‘vou'l face demnization and-assaulk, up o and-Ineludiag nuclear war, cithe the
‘actual “A Bomb” or through the slow death version of depleted unranium.

Just because people may not process the factthat the U.S. destroyed Iraq
fundamentally, incinerated tens of thousands of their retreating/surrendering young. |
‘men, and then topped it off by slowly killing off their most vulnerable — their
‘young children, doesn't make it other than true. It may have been “worth it" 1o the
‘genosadist. Madelaine Albright (of Gilmore Girls fme) but not to those who were
forced to witness the senseless slow death of ther tiny, malnourished daughters
and sons, dying from diarrhea or some dreadful discase that s easy to treat — if
they had had access to medicines, which the Iragi people were denied. They
‘weren't even allowed clean drinking water. Six thousand babies a month were
dying like this — for several years!

hen people arebeyond repressed and n ealitythe ongoing victims of a
fraun-out genacide, resolve can be developed. I’ a resolee (o LIVE eve s the
face of these monsiers. Many are contaminated with uragiens poisoning.
Gruesome sufering is underscore by the ghastly spectre of wildly deformed
pabies. A hatred and thirst for revenge s decply instilled an singe mindedly
pursued.

Mt occurted 1o me that perhaps some o these suicide bombers have been
cotaminatod withurain s know they arc doomed, anyway? They know that

So. it wasn'tjust idle chatter when the whole worl said, before this Pandora’s
Box of carnage was uneahed by the Bush regime n Miarch of 2003, thet s
Safring would be the resut. We knew there were no WMID's. The dymamics of
amberil invasion/occuption ofsuch a huge,tinder box country, wouldspel
disaster {0 that nation’s pople. Millons have alrady poured pas e port e
yrape the endless horror of violent assault and murder by Iraqs and Amerjeon.
i this mindser, resstance and represson, death squad activity wao vy pe

the main message ofthis “Report” by Baker & Co, ealy took as a iven. The
mai thing s o secure th rights 1 these ol filds (or the of that cames out of
them.) These need to be in U.S. corporate hands. The necds, wants and very lives

of “Iraqis” means nothing, cxcept how we should manipulate thei dying to further

our main objective. Seventeen major ar strips spell permanent U.S. millary 4
“The goal remains conquest of these resources.

“The U.S. poured gas on the WWI style mass gassing, shooting and bombing
that characterized the decade-long bloodletting of soldiers between Iraq and lran.
inthe 1980's. They supplied both sides with hideous weaponry, including gas, to
bleed the other country of resources (young men) and thus, make them casiet
‘marks for cheap oil. Millions of people died, to the complete unconcern of the
movers and shakers in Washington. It was very much so, “worth it The policy
makers care not for the human lives of people in targeted countries, of which there,
are many.

‘Such an evil game they play - orchestrating genocide and senseless, mass
death. But that's what the pundits are left o sugar coat, gloss over, aod
rationalize, o their endless surrendering to ying, bastard murderers. This
regurgiated whoring is what everybody sees and hears all ay long, every day.
Rare, clear examinations at the real situation are looked upon as insane. In this
“free country” people get scared when they run across the truth. Fear s freedom!

Most people go from one baseball, football or basketbail game to the pext.
Don't need or want to hear sbout it. “Hel in a hand basket” has been accepted as
inevitable. Wow! “Freedom” must mean you have been totaly eviscerated and
have'no fight left - even to leam to live with your family and have & fuure.

0's perecived as “dangerous” to honestly think about the issucs. People can see
it for themselves anytime they have to deal with it - the corrupt sudge that s local,
stte and national politics. “They're al crooks and so are the cops, who are like an
official (criminal) gang. They hold peoplc up, accost them, drag them off, take.
their property, and have an elaborate scheme to let their buddies in on the thievery,
called court. Many times, people end up in a cage, raw meat in a punishment
industry! Cops wink at horrific crime by other cops like murder — and give the
rich and politically connected breaks, t00. 1t's called “Democracy.”

But we have to let out hypocrisy farts and thus are aghast when a footbell
player is found with a gun. Every single video game has guns blazin' all the
movies, songs - all their“culture” — including the glorying/recriting done for the
U.S. military. But, professional athletes are supposcd to be goody two-shos, even
though they re black, and thus subject to being pulled over for that, and the streets
arc a dangerous plac in this compartmentalized socicty. Some arcas are safely
affluent (for “white" people) but a lot of places are vulnerable to danger and
desperation — and increased police viciousness/criminality.

“The commercials on the radio are teling. The one about joining the CIA was
interesting. They can't come out and say we'lltrain you o assassinate people.
They ask if the person s interested in a “world of inrigue.” Working hand-in-
glove with policy makers - the strategists of these endless murderous escapades
they send their CIA operatives on. Normal, working people, as always, are made.
10 pay for tis SS bunch.

Everywhere around you, you can flel the clampdown tightening. But, it’s such
2 nebulous thing they're mounting thelr offensive against. 1t's about “The War on
“Terror” and “The War on Drugs” which manifests as a “War on Everybody.”
Anybody can be caught up init, whether they are innocent bystanders, or
Dhatever. 1t docsn' matier! Tons o people ar i prsen.. ‘wrongflly convicted!
Doesn't mater,thee's 10 accountabilty. The system doesn't go after the system,
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And the cops, sheesh! A while ago, some foiks in Chicago started organizing

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~and conjure up » g wieider. A outcase goes and mucders people in high rise,
loop law offce. The explots of demented killers are spashed all over the papers
‘and ragazines. Merry Christmas, by the way. Buy your ass off and have a nice,
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Bastard Psyche ¢

A prisoner wrote to me and said it was really refreshing
to get serious, honest publications because “all the guys
talk about is sports and crime.” And let's not forget sex!
It’s the same out here.

1 listen to a lot of AM radio, Fm ashamed to admit. It's
always glued to the sports talk shows. The other stations
have the banal pap of a “personality” most likely rabidly
fascist if they are “political” or least common denominator
tripe or endless boring loops of canned “news.” If and when
the sports commentators get “political” its pro-government
garbage, what I call “prison guard politics.”

1 should listen to music all the time but I only do that at
work. It definitely is much better for contemplation and
your psyche, in general.

Anyways, the radio sports guys (and the occasional
woman) are wrapped up in the dramas of the sports worlds.
We're supposed to be hurt and morally offended if Lovie
Smith isn’t given an obscenely lucrative contract fast
enough, because he was “only” making a million dollars a
year, up to that point. Or, some sports figure, be it an
athlete, an announcer, a coach or whatever, will say
something stupid &/or ignorant about gays or blacks or
women and they get on their moral p.c. high horse. Heaven
forbid they talk about the endless slaughter in Iraq or
elsewhere, people getting laid off, dragged off to prison,
tortured, starved, ete., ete.

Let's not go there, folks! The closest we get is the
miserable national anthem and how we must “support the
troops.” There’s no morality. There's no empathy. There's
no understanding, no awareness, no consciousness of what
is truly important — the real life truth of this world and
what needs to be done.
You go to the grocery store and s a cornucopia of g
abundance of packaged & priced. commodity “goods.”

Sometimes, Tl go by the magarine aisle. Rowe and rows
of glossy nothingness — sports, T & A, the Vacuous culture,
fashion, steroidal hunks, NASCAR, food, home
improvement — products ad nauseum and written drivel,

vainglorious albeit retarded vanity Ticonee plates, cell
Phones, spinning hubcaps, jacked-up chesr g whatever
particularly brand of stupidity they are flaunting. It all co

of “child molesters” waiting to snatch up Johnny or Janie if
you let them outside to play. So, they sit arouny eating
crap and getting fat, watching Link or Zolda, over an over
and over and over and over and over.
solitics, - nothing. Life's just a series of engorgements of
ood, drink and constant idiocy. lo

When tragedy strikes or the inevitable reckoning comes
- alienation, depression, arrest... those involved, who have
nothing to draw from, nothing to go on, nothing to use to
understand the porplexing dilemma they're confronted
with, are left alone in their grief and misery. People may
hug them and show superficial concern, but rarely is it that
true insight is offered, because those around them likewise,
have none!

That's because they don’t know anything they need to
know. They've never been given the tools necessary to deal
with life. They've been de-liberated, mis-educated and
“nurtured” with an over-riding detestation of all things
“political.”

This makes them perfect vessels as worker-drones
making it easy for the corporations toplug them into their
fascist work places to do what they are told — “make money
for us!”

Before they know it, they're in their mid-twenties, still
drinkin' their asses off, maybe with a wife and kid, getting
into car accidents, getting speeding tickets, accumulating
debt, still living like chickens running around with their
heads cut off. They don't study or read books, but rather,
click their remote a million times a night, trying to find
something “good” on cable before exhaustion and
drunkenness overtakes them, before the alarm clock
awakens them for another dreary day in the rat race.

See, there’s no development, no working towards self-
realization. It's a vegetative, wasteful, sordid existence and
the cretin-like “politics” they expound reflect that. “All
politicians suck!” So that means I'm going to shoot myself
15 my intellectual foot and not learn anything. Unplugging
yourself from your capabilities and possibilities, gives
‘monsters like Cheney, the local police chief, the school
administration, judges, prosecutors, lawyers, politicians,
bosses — all these horrible people who truly are scum, free
Hey! I know how it is because I did the same lame thing
for a long time. | drank every day, went to my stupid job,
went through less than honest and real relationships,

members and their community. They join churches, maybe
work for a charity or other social groups, volunteer at
school and pursue their interests to some degree. But, it's
our hair done or who to buy a used car from. They shy
way from real news and opt to talk about some 12~
rainstream drivel on the politieal level or what the kids
re doing in the high school sports teams — oh, and the
cores from the bowling leagues! That’s it! And, of course,
here is the real driving force for this whole thing, the ads.

So, around the so-called water cooler, guys talk about
vhat the Bulls did the night before, which is that they
ither won or lost. All these teams do this in equal
ncasure. For all the winning there is an equal amount of
osing. So there’s a net “gain” of nothing! It's all just a
»astime, a diversion from the juggernaut of global
fegradation and endless human sutfering, like the slow
loud cracking of huge glaciers. It's an intermission from
life, not life itself.

So you ask, “How are we supposed to get out of our
stuffy cocoons?” First, you've got to realize that you are in a
cocoon and genuinaly want to get out! You've got to
summon enough courage to own up to that and desire a real
life. There’s a lot of pecking that you're going to have to do
to crack through the shell you've created.

1ts like becoming an accomplished piano player. A
teacher can show you the rudiments, provide study
materials, answer your questions, demonstrate techniques,
provide increasingly more advanced instructions and be
there for you, if and when you need them to be, but if you
don't apply yourself, practice and push yourself in a
continuous, pro-active regimen of improvement, you won't
bocome an accomplished pianist.

You've got to want to become what you always hoped
and dreamed you could (and should) be!

Everyone has a unique dream of what they'd love to be
and do. Ideally, this means they learn to become that
which interests them the most. Hopefully, this will also
benefit society in some way. People are highly social
animals and derive the most satisfaction, bathed in the love
and affection of others, which is attainable by doing

their help.

In faet, I'm one of those types of people, who make it
their life's work to do just that — help folks overcome their
self-hate, lethargy and fear and move to actualize
themselves. And, 1 don’t even charge anything for it! My
payment is in the satisfaction I feel watching. ‘Ppeople flower
into their beautiful selves! (smile*) And, of course, it's

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We’re all supposed to be gaga over Barack
Obama, a timid, albeit repulsive corporate warfare
state apologist. As well, we’re universally
agreed that we must “support our troops” who are
nothing more than trained murdering goons of
Cheney, Halliburton, Shell O0il and the rest.

We obey and show deference to the police,
even though they are vile criminals, who kidnap
our people by the hundreds and thousands, every
single day. They stick people up and kill them
and serve them in front of the sinister judges and
attack dog prosecutors, so they can make it
“legal” for their sadists in the prisons, who can
then set up rapes and beatings, infections and the
sordid, endless psychological bludgeoning, just to
see how utterly insane and broken they can make
even the strongest-willed of men, become.

Years later, they let them go
unceremoniously, with nothing, back into their
destitute communities, ticking time bombs, with
volatile timing mechanisms - random terror!

Everywhere you look there are monsters in Old
Navy clothing. The principal at the high school
once worked for the CIA, torturing people in El
Salvador. Now he has to satisfy his dementia &
U.S-indoctrinated blood lust with closet
pedophilia, sexual abuse of women and a child-
hating daily demeanor. Oh! And his “Rducator of
the Year” award his district bestowed upon him, a
couple years ago.

At boot camp, these hyenas scream at these
freshly shorn of their “freedom” young know-
nothings & turn them into know-nothing killing
machines. Then they ship them overseas to occupy,
kill and otherwise menace our “enemies” - people
unlucky enough to be born in a land atop huge
pools of underground oil. Right now (1-16-07)
they’re preparing a “surge” of mass murder in the
Shiite ghettos of Baghdad, with the approval of
their lackey - al-Maliki..

1sn’t it wonderful to see King’s “Dream”
come to life? Why, we have Uncle Clarence Thomas
on the U.s Supreme Court! And this judicial nazi
even has a “personality” - unfortunately a s
Perverted one! Why, who could forget the smarmy
fascination of the “pubjc hair on the coke can”
confirmation hearings? Imagine that: 5 “black”
man is “qualified” for the U.s. Supreme Court!

Only in Amerikkka! So what if Dred scot is
rolling over in his grave,

This captivating spectacle was only surpassed
Papeust-watch T.V. by the 0.J. trial. Here no
have an example that the judicia) system “works.”
Finally! A “black man” doesn’t get railroaded
into prison. Instead, he lies ang buys his way
Qut, Just like a rich “white” man! cap anyone say
“Baretta?” I loved his “defense. “No, your
Honor! I didn’t shoot my wife! I was going back
o ofhe restaurant to get my gun, when sqmemce else
shot her!” “on! ok~

In Chicago, the papers have been playing up
the return of a local soldier who got borh his

Plock street named in his honor at ome o the
KFC/McDonald’s suburbs where he's from. My
Juestion to him is this: Why the fuck didn’t you
frag your officers when you had the chanoas Did
o hmink Vietnam ended withont outright raberjon
by the soldiers??2

And, let’s not forget the “advances” women
have made! Oh, have they come a long way, Baby!
Under Clinton, the genosadist, Madeigine Albright
became Secretary of State! She took over from
folin Powell, overseeing the 12-year toddlercide
in Irag. It was “worth it” to slowly ki1l
children for lack of food, water and basie
medicines. She went on to guest star on the T.V.
Show “Gilmore Girls.” Colin went on to set up the
;Shock & Awe” otherworldly bombardment of March
203, by lying “convincingly” at the 0 N Colin is
2 “black” monster man!

And now we have that little coconut-headed
bitch, Condoleezza Rice ~ & “black” woman o
Secretary of State. she adds “legitimacy” to the
jush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz cabal. She baby
jits “W” who is a pathetic former serial killer

om down in Texas, given the Presidency, by, you
juessed it, Clarence Thomas! In our great o
jemocracy, sometimes we need the Supreme Court to
ntangle elections and over-ride the controversy
>t a recount.

Rice says the looming bloodbath, called a
“surge” by "W’ is not an “escalation” but rather,
an “augmentation.” She plays the piano and loves
football. Isn’t it all so wonderful?

Menawhile, most women now get to work at
miserable wage-slave jobs, just like their
husbands, fathers, boyfriends, and sons. How
lucky is that They can now be blown to bits in
Iraq, too!

They’re enjoying the fruits of the “sexual
revolution” too! They’re contracting AIDS at an
alarming rate. They get to work in strip clubs
and in the mega-bucks porn industry. They also
get to be the “head of the household” as the only
adult! And, it’s not just their husbands and sons
who get to go to prison for their “three hots and
a cot.” I’m proud to announce, that women are now
the fastest growing members of “Prisoner Nation.”
And, they don’t have to worry about their young
children, while they’re serving time for their
“crime.” The state will gladly take custody of
their children off their hands - especially if Mom
complains at all.

These are just a few of the marvelous
advancements made the last few decades to help us
realize Dr. King’s dream. Our children aren’t a
problem - cute and pudgy - they’re catatonically
glued o their big screen, watching all kinds of
violent animation. And if they start actin’ up,
back-talkin’ and hittin’ the streets, the cops are
there to round them up and haul them away. It's
just like taking out the garbage. It’s your tax
dollars at work!

so, I hope you now see why it is so necessary
that we go around the world starving, slaughtering
and enslaving everybody. It's to “defend” our

freedoms” - our very “way of 1j

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A Savior Has Succumbed

We've finally found our golden boy

Even though he’s kind of tan.

Is he in this thing for real or just holdin’ coy?
The Tribune says he’s gotta be our man!

Bush has been horrible and Condi’s just insane!
Hillary’s not adorable and Kerry’s so damn lame!
Barack has offered to bomb Iran and even Pakistan.
He’s with the corporate program — Pax Amerikkkan!

With his toothy grin and his skinny head
Contrived pensive looks and snappy suits

He's youngish-looking — not warmed-over dead.
‘Written wordy books and linin’ up recruits!

His dumbo ears are sure to please
Cartoonists! He’ll no doubt strive to appease.
He’ll talk to your wife on your cell phone
And reel off quips, before he’s done.

He’s the new Messigh, groomed of *08.

But is he really all that great?

After Junior, we just don’t really care.

‘That moron left the cupboard bloody and bare.

Obama sounds like he knows what he’s talking about
Until you listen to what he actually says.

At least he doesn’t scream and shout.

T don’t want him — or anyone else — to be the Prez!
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I'm from Illinois too, but not by way of Kenya,

My sister lives in Hawaii, if that means anything,

Ever wonder why he “came out of nowhere” well, did ya?
He’s been on the world’s longest lucky string.

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Barack Obama wins it, in a mudslide.

‘The first Black Man since Reconstruction!

He had a canary in his mouth, he could not hide.
To the Dems, he was their ticket to resurrection.

Keyes’ daughter came out of the closet, a lesbian.
So he threw her out of his (and her) house.

‘The local anarchists would be her friends!

Alan slithered back to Connecticut — the louse!

Shortly thereafter, the Dems put on their farce.

But bein’ Bushie’s whipping boys had taken its toll
And a Man (or Woman) of integrity was mighty scarce.
Their keynote speaker should be Obama, so said a poll.

Whatever he said, the mainstream loved

As the cops cracked heads outside.

They had a “free speech” pen, with trains above
Barack was God now — as evermore Iragis died.

He wrote a best-selling book

About some junk his father used to do.

A millionaire now — without bein’ a crook!
Now that was something entirely new!

A big celebrity now — Hollywood, Time and Oprah
Here, there and everywhere — tellin’ us what to do

Even showed he had some chutzpah

With a shaky land deal, ala a Syrian neighbor dude.
Called The i 3
Rakin’ in the adulation and praise — and how!
Meanwhile, Junior looks ever more the stupid dope.

Hes teasing and toying and ‘thinking about jt.’
Poor Hillary and her pancake make-up disasters!
Can only put on a brave face and think, ‘Oh, shit!
This nattily attired freak is one of the masters!’

As bodies are blown to bits, shot up and strewn
In the ever “restive” Middle East,

Barack Hussein Obama is in a festive mood.
For the brain dead, he’s the key to “peace.”

With a limp-wrist handshake and gee-whiz demeanor
Why this man’s intellect coyld not be keener!

As the grin lines in his face tun into ugly furrows

And his corporate buddies try to deny us our tomorrows
All the ass Kissing he does and the favors he curries
Will pronounce his lasting legacy — “What, me worry?”

Nogw is the time 1o

EDUOATE

and &
OO T Rhneage
GRGANSE!

ICAGO
ZINE DISTRO

The Police Are Trained Killers 2%

Peaple are incredibly naive, here in America. Many believe this
horrible war in Iraq is a hideous aberation of *American values” of
freedom, peace, justice, benevolence, etc. This is not true.
America has always been fiercely aggressive and murderous
towards people throughout the four comers of the globe - from
South and Central America, to Southeast Asia, the Middle East,
Africa, Asia, even North America and Europe, the U.S. military has
repeatedly unleashed ghastly camage on the people and ecology.
As well, they've trained and propped up the most monstrous,
murderous proxy govemments, and their death squad police and
militaries. No evil, nor gruesome torture is off the table to these
sadists. Murder means nothing to them. It's routine. It's their “job.”

So, now, where do you think they get the-people to run the police
and prison apparatus in this country? Well, there's a lot of
corruption and nepotism and clout type favoritism. Some people
love to wield authority over others, some enjoy causing pain and
some are racists who see these jobs as a chance to “deal” with
those they hate. Some are imbued with idealism, patriotism and
even want to help humanity and pursue-a police career, inculcated
with the official propaganda, that this is the career where their hopes
and dreams of “service® can best be realized. After all, the culture is
a ubiquitous police-glarying one.

But, a very important piece of their resume, which is aimost
‘mandatory, is military service. First, you must become a trained
killer for the U.S. or state govemment (National Guard.) These
distinctions are blurred, as the U.S. imperialist juggemaut is
regularly sending guardsmen and women overseas to their theatres
of operations — lately, Iraq and Afghanistan.

So, if you're lucky enough to survive your tour(s) and come home
to look for wark, you've been conditioned Into accepting (and
participating in) the most sinister of organized criminality — breaking
into paoples’ homes, kidnapping men, shooting, killing, torturing,
intimidating people. In short, you've become “nazified.” The most
heinous activities, you come to see as normal, necessary, routine, -
even “good.”

These are the types of pecple that the increasingly militarized
police forces in the U.S. are looking for.

Many people recoll at this horrible development. They oppose
killing and war for American business profit and monopoly of the
worlds’ resources. The clarity of this humanist perspective is very
loudy on the American psyche, as people are subjected to relentiese
brainwash and lies, which people are so bombarded with, here.

Anyone who's been to an anti-war demonstration in Chicago, or
anywhere else in the us. is confronted by hundreds (even

mmmunuaurm.n.mm-mmtummm
monsters t the bark of an order, from their immediate superior in
rank. &mhm-lmmdwwnywrwdnynnbun
manipulated into.

Even with super-advancad miltary technology. compaved i
our *enemies” it can be damned mm especially if you're a
Soldier of 18, 19 or 20 sent out on patrol, Even though
the kil ratio is something like 100 - 1, U.S. saldiers do get killed in
fraq. Many, many more aro seriously njured and eves ot stil
have delayed disabilties, due to post-traumatic stregs syndrome
nd the after-effects of depleted uranium and other poisans they've
been subjected to. This doesn't even really factor in the
psychological nightmare of being brutalized into being a soldier and
forced to witness (and participate in) evil activities. 24

8o, when they come home, they don't *fit in’ the nice, artificial
consumerist sit-com world they left. Jobs (as always) are scarce
and besides, who's going to want to hire a guy who's gone through
this Dante's Inferno? Well, the state might hire you, a prison might
hire you and the police always need guys used to this sort of order-
‘obeying without qualms training

Bush rose to the Presidency as a Texas serial killer. Why,
Hitler's election was cleaner than W's! He's now a world-class
genocidal criminal as is Cheney and the others, calling the deadly
shots. So, intemational criminals determine who our “enemies” are
‘and what “ctiminal behavior* is anything that opposes their
megalomania.)

The police follow guidelines erected by totally corupt legisiative
and judiciary systems. So, the cops are awash in a sea of
criminality. They've come from the miltary-and have seen (and
participated in) murders and all forms of mayhem - without hardly
any serious accountabillty. We've seen wedding parties bombed,
even “friendly fire" incidents, mass killings of “insusgents’ and
“civilians® — all mean nothing, except maybe an absolving,
perfunctory “report.” This is their training on how to write reports,
once they're back in the States, as cops.

Plus, ke heroin, the military doesn't like to let go of their peaple,
and often, forces them back into active duty in the military and they
find themselves shouldering a much more letha gun, in &
neighborhood in a foreign country. Also, there's the soldier-of-
fortune (mercenaries) or private contractor “security” forces
(corporate-run, for-profit armies) layers of domestic security.forces,
etc. which the police can and do also access.

Cops also see the sordid underbelly of corporate crime, wage-
slavery, “llegal” aliens, and a wild assortment of profit-maximization
schemes, unsafe working conditions, bank fraud, mass lay-offs, the
blackmail corporate lawyers use to extort concessions from grateful
(and bribe-taking) local officials, drunken corrupt politicians,
prosecutors and judges as well as the ugly manifestations of street
crime ~ prostitution, sexual slavery, drug addiction, killings,
robberies, etc., etc. So, they're operating in a-sea of crime, and are
left to sort it all out, under the strange constrictions of the “law.”
‘They must hold their noses and follow the guidelines set by the big
corporate criminals and their political fiunkies. Al those who are
connected get a free pass.

So, they're left to “make a living” ~ engaging in criminal activity

8ome (mostly) minor form or other. 25

MMM“MIM““WUBIU(’BN!MMN
Iynching system and incarceration (human warehousing) industry.

These too, of course, are wikdly comupt, ip-off systame of .
facialist criminality, raised to unctuous levels of pomposity and N
arogance, mixed with vicious cruekty, endiess graft and human
misery.

Police regularly must go into these omate buildings of
meiculously scripted judicial rairoadings (court) and petform their
same-oid, uroie(h-flmmmhvmuhma.

[
'mmm’mmmhwunfiwmflmdma
land" like Joe Schmoe Gitizen, Nope! It ain't gonna happen! We're
mmmmmm-mmmmmgm
elocted. Nuh-uh! That's part of the deall

s«m’-wmunmmmmmmnm-ywmu

Ventures (and better pensionsi) If you want o just kil people, join
the milltary.
26

APPLICATION OF ANARCHIST THEORY TO THE
'MODERN-DAY PRISON STRUGGLE

Prepared for the Conference on Anarchist Theory,
Chicago, Illinois,
May 2007

By Sean Swain, Political Prisonmer
Toledo Correctional Institution
Toledo, Ohio

February 12, 2007

For Free Distribution

INTRODUCTION 1
A Brief Description

T A Brief
of the Current Reality 2
THE_STATE 3

THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE

STATE T0 THE INDIVIDOAL 5
ORIGINS OF CRIME 7
9

FATLURE_OF PUNTSHMENT
'LIBERATION_FROM FORCE
AND FEAR 12
THE_ANARCHIST RESPONSE:
APPLICATION OF ANARCHIST

REALTTY 14
APPLICATION OF ANARCHIST THegey
™ THE WODERN-DAY PeTson strvgate:

Prepared for 2007 Conference on
Schertuled for Hay 1, 2007, Snycase

Ay Sean Swain

Gohile there 15 3 lover class, T ar tn (t; white there (s
crininal elevent, T an of §
T am not free.”

While there is a soul in prison,

sene V. Nebs

T get a streak
T paint a

cax
ot el collectors; whera there ara ny seemeiics markecs
and himgry children, 1dle counters sad cavey creatures, splendor
o amtsery, vaste ant nead. T me tord tare e e

Dovervless, criseless, diseaseloss worid:
o been coln Fauane o e hening v harat e

~Voltatrine NeCleyre

T ases muat be taushe €0 understand the true Functions
Tealriaons: 7 o they exiat 1n such mamhorer" inat is the
orive of crime and the official definition e
Femeeimer® o YICtina?" T people'mmac Toart srme hen
e Cotalitarian state, 1t ia patently nor i eFense

Eine" he pecole of that state, but an assmels opin'rre’ privil
of the privileged fev... »

—Georse Jackson

eTRoonCTION

Lvement "o a8, V2, "eb2 3boke 0ut 1n Cncimmact, o,
e o 0 the Firat Vorld Var. e congestenshac the’
o 200 €0 FIANE and Al to protect theomn " {nterests of the vealthy,
M mrerin yeuacion. e spent ton rears o prscor or speaking his wind.

;"Tichise Yoltairine DeClopre had her fare Dease"y! arrests for voicing
of ounsva: 48 414 her contemporary. Pama A" “oldnan urged a croul
of Ut of-vork nen to ask for vere; {4 aroiry vork, to ask for he
refused bread, to take hreaq.

T et vorda vare uttored from a foil cell.

{oohe case of Mlack Santher Sarcy Fretd eorinat “eorse lackson, vhen
prison fences proved fnadequats

erous ideas, huilets from
the suard cover rifle 14 the trick

JTrchsE theary can easily miplain such sicustions which seen to fly in
eapecs of the tradieional, prevailing efee oo riion 10 soctety— the

Socioey ooy Hhat privons sesresate danserous orfemmns From the rest of
Sretety for saciets's ovn soods thar prissen are 1o ertension of a henevolent
SEARes e the henevolent State 1a-a Frions oy protector, an extension

2Y

e 11l of the governed; that the Srate's laws establish arfer and ~aintain
¢ Frevions of each individuals that ita police enfarce the lwa, its courts
Suficace offenders, and its prisons lock avay the threats to our puhlic

der.

\marchist theory presents a fundamentally difforent understanting of prisons
d'a vastly divergent view of our present reality. Anarchist theory con-

ves of prisons within the context of the Anarchist ulerstanding of the
Ate, its relationship to the individual, the origina of crine, the fatlure
and 2 understanding of the forces that liherate the individual.
Anarchist response, the applicacion of Anarchist theory to

e current reality, cousters the reactionary and destructive forces comonly
srvasive in institutional confinement.

Arief Description of the Current Reality

“hen you control a man's chisking you do Aot have to worry
shout his actions. You do not have o tell hin not to stand
here or go yooder. Ye will find his 'proper place’ and stay

Ta it. You o not need to send hia to the back door. e will
40 there vithout being told. In fact, if there is no hack door,
he will cut one for his special benefit. 'is education cakes
it necessary.... "

. Hoodsan, The Mis-Educatina of the Wegro

weapon in the hands of the oppressor
13 the nind of the oppressed... "

—Stephen Biko, 1 Write What I Like

"renerally spesking, senoctde does not necessarily mean the
inmediate Aestruction of 3 nation, excesr vhen accomplished hy
035 killing... It {s inteaded rather to aignify a coordinated
lan of different actions aiming at the destruction of the essential
oundations of 1ife of national groups, vith the aia of annthila-
Fing the yroups themselves. The ohjectives of such a plan vould
be disintegration of the palitical and social institutions, of
national feelings, religion, and the economic
% gr awi the destruction of persan:l
Security, liberty, health, «ignity, and even the lives of the
individuala belonging *» such groups. Genocide iz directed against
{ndividuals, not in thetr {ndividual capacity, Wit as meshers
of the nacional group... "

“ore chan 2.2 nillion people resie within the prisons of the Unired States.
[ncluding those on probation and parole vhose iives are controlled Airectly
by iovernment agencies, the segaent of the ILS. population under crininal
justice superviaion nusbers vell over seven aillion.

The justice and prison systens of this country represent the prisary tools
for cholesale senocide. From the over-representation f palice in poor areas
to the over-represeatation of the poor asd sinorities within the prison
the same goveranent forces once opealy enganed in qenocile against national
<roups now continues that sme senocide throush more covert means and expants
173 scope to faclude their victina’ potential syathizers— (o include the

volutionary left.

29

origons nave becow the primary tool of population controt, confintng mino:
v reapelisical ttastdents far the yearn of thetr sepronieioniir Tl

iren fesopraphically to the advantage of the stavuy yun veeping Aovn minor-
o potiese o Snsuring chat minorities vill mever saie sy oo majortty.
InPolitical terms, this helps to nsure the contimemne ot conservative

Trizene hore becoms the prisary tool of ecommic controls, confining and
Cions ot meenta of the unewplored unerc ase.fabriestos by nt anipula.
Lo teprass eemyTeet: This Flow of unemplorahies permics the conemts? class
£o depress real vages by potnting to the o unemployed labor,
;oncentrating nore capteal into the hands of fev, increasing.
the 3ap betueen vealthy and vorker,

Prisons have becone the
“roa voter lisy

Polictes today

A hoce LY. ehroush the processe of advanced and plausthly—dentable corew
redieryracion and paychological Fistortion, the sotern priace mcis creare
Preticianty [uture crize in mch the seme vay that vorverhy v ATELo ¢
Tietinnses) ottt the terrorist s suerrilla by liemeriog thons sre tere
e e hcatbCheae Terma. the prison systems of the no5. mre cosanny 1o
e eabu-hraibization” of the poor and marginalieey.

i Caately. victina of this s Abu-Chratbization, subjected to covert
ntonss”omd culuural senocide, ot released, staoped in the natod one Seate
ondaeagnco them, dronched n'sel(-louthins, incapectiocen 1 toonr 1L
T aota. prosramed to sccept secont-class cirizenship. vo mmerLher. place,
nlemonny o3 thelr oun vorst enemies. Lackies and pavn of the it Fores
Sacashel upon thea in the First instance to Aitore thes aut cosrs el or
3 they becose.

e i R of this arave reality that Anarchise theory regarsing the
Seate mnd it relationshi o the iniivitual hecones momr maptimerte,

e sty

Mot nappens in every country, by a1l men, and tn all ares,
introns an ahuses 3 hunired thousand and deprives thea of tness
Ainerty? Hho wnuld believe ft, F only he meard of i1

eonat it a3 ap0ken of, who voul4 not suppose thot 1r s
Somevhat False and made up, not really rruest

~~Etienne de 1a Bodtin
“Nothing appears more sucprising, to those who consider human af-
fairs with a philosophical ere, then the easiness with which 73 o
the rany are governed hy the fev, and the {mplicit suhmission
Vith hich men resign their own sentinents and passions to those
of their rulers... "

~-David Hune

y submitting to an orzanized sovernment, of State, subects give up pover
hey provtously exercioes over themselves and they subordisate theaselves
o the State. Those people vho conprise pover, hovever it is that they re-

ive it, sxercise that pover over their subects.
MThe posseasion of power,” Leo Tolstoy revinds us, “depraves men.” So
1y Creating o State, by creating an extornal pover. each subfect parcicipates
in @ process of "depraving” men. And to make matters vorse, in the establish
sent of a State, it is the "depraved” men of pover who, in the end result
Fematn organized and the subfects, submiteing to the State, vho hecone isorgas

. ihere a governaent exists, then the only really organtzed people archzed
the Sinority who naks up the tovernwent,” said Luiai Sabhri. Pierre-Joseph
Proudhon asserted, "The government of man by man is slavery.” And, as %enfa-
“in Tocker potated out, “fule {s evil, aed it 13 none the becter for heint
mjoric rule.”

ikhat1 Rakanin explains: "Fven in the purest democractes, such a5 the
Inited States and Switserlant, & privilesed sinority faces a vast enslaved
najority.”

So what 1 the natu

of the State?

"(The State) meddles tn all our affaics, pinions us fron cradle
to grave. Tt prescribes all our actions, it piles up sountains
of lavs and ordinances chat hevilder the shrewlest lavyer. Tt
Creates an army of office-holers who sit like spiders tn their
Vebs and have never seen the world except throuch the dingy panes
of their officevindow. The immense and ever-increasing muss

From the people are never sufficient;
at the expense of future generations, and steers with
all its might tovard hankruptcy. 'State' is tantamount to 'ar':
3ne State secks to veaken and ruin the other in nrder to force
upon the latter its lav, its policy, its comercial treaties,
and to earich itself at its expense; var is tofay the usual con-
Uition... there is a thirty years' supply of causes of
hand. And civil var rages at the same tise with foreign va
the State, which vas originally deaigned to he a protectinn for
all and especially for the weak, has today becone a veapon of
The rich against_the exploited; of the proertied aainst the
propertyless...

Peter Tropotkin.
The Srate, then, behaves as (f Lt is an oneay of the individual, of the
Subject that che State is supposed to defend and protect.

"The tnterests of the State and those of the (ndividual Aiffer
fundanentally and are ancagonistic. The State and the political
and economic. {nstitutions that 1t Aupports can exist oaly by
Fashioning the individual to their particular purpose; training
hin to respect 'lav and orfer’; teaching hin ohetience, submission
and unquestioning faith in the visfos and justice of goverment:
above al1, loyal service and complete self-sacrifice vhen the
State comsands it, as in var. The State puts itself and its

Teliioes oren,avore the claias of relision and God. 1o puntshes
hers e ey Coanetentions scruplos suaingt indtviaiatity bosene?
there {5 10 intividualicy vithout 1tharty: mar ltherty 15 the
areatést menace to guthority, Y

v Goldman, emphasts atded,
S0, far frou seeking to henerit and olevate the rtiridual, the State see
Tibfactar T ettt e tEPenTe of the (lvituni t tae’ ot of fts.
e e gy o Narmeas and control the smtirinct control ulei,
VAL, 29 the two H{ffer only by Aegrose” ely
" hmer Srery free activity by its centorship, frs over

18, Mtdering as (s duty, hecause it o oy

argued Max Stirmer,

THE RELATIONSHIP 0F TWE STATE ™o Twe rvorvrom,
= ATTOHIP OF THE STATE Y0 TWE TWorvIDOAL

Ut of self-preservation, to mintatn fes
Jhate Seels 2o Himinioh the sublect, \eep the sopyecy neety and fnc
TranareTante of self-rule ant el gorernance: ot smer takes on

yaie! lities othervise vested (n the sunfece. amy ultinately mbes the
i 1oy able to exercise self-rute and seir pon y

o teaiLiom Colvin stated ¢, Ao long ag w13 ey the tramels of
heience, and Sahituated to fook to moms foreiss
20 s comuct, his unterstanding and tre viner

4
92 him to the enevey of vaich e 13

engertaing, an to render to his aind the pason: it
Suhaission to ohedience
e"STALY Srar e tae suhfect Tones the capertey eot ST

Aeternination.
DS iautee: themy in this var. alicmates the taitoption 2oL imself, Tn

eaTS to m nEROrity outstde of herselr, v yniermiort 3
T mseincapable of self-direction and sepemtont iy 1o outside aur

pocisiate, Laposes upon the tntividual and Teasens the ndiriduat, this
AT e aking concrete forms throush tae Sravets Toet L) the enforcement

"The State 15 force. Ya, 1t 1 the sily parading of force,
Tt oes not propose to win fove or mage comverts; 1f 1c pure
fea Liymur into snything, 1t does o tn on unFriaatty vay; for
Lot imce consises noc 0 parsmmston, e in cemeend oL compul-
Shan” o uerer wch patn € may take, 1t conmmt comon e Fact

Ao Morrty. Seen hen i€ comante the st i mates this
Traslens by comanding 1t for svary comeant sions Tiverty in
e facei 1% 30m 10 the o0 13 comanten 1 1o transforned
Hivine) horn the €723 of the true (that Lo, aman, o
{ivine) worality, of the dignity of nam, of

iherey, morality, and 4

2001 n0t hecause %e 1 conmany
A€, Vills it, and Toves fr.@

ikhatl Sakunin.
reonipnls force, this threat of force vhich 1s at the basts of the raly-
100z, betueen the State and the intiviiuai; 1t 1n tngs force, this compulsio
€0 Tae e AL, Tinits Tiheres ae the etpiaat TS the tndivityal
4 to the ultinate benefit of the Stare.
Toountlens he State leaves the tndividunta as fren 1.

an pasaihle,”
is Never BeGu 4w

3
3
i}
3

3
54

e, Tt only Contivues where offers Left off... .
yrote Max Stirner, “only they must never turn the play to carnest, must neve
lorget it. The State has never any obfect hut to Timit the (niiridoss, re
Came hia, to subordinate his, to subject him to something seneral: it insrs
only 50 long as the individusl s not all tn all, and is only the clearmser
limitation of ne, my linitedness, my slavery.”

To govern ia to subordinate, to control, to teme, to refuce. Tn this name
the State wast limit and caslave, must subect the individual to Fores. {n
grder to compel the individual to recogaize the legitisacy of the Stase md
g0 ober its directives, its lavs. The every action of the individus] suar.
reflect recognition of the State as authority: 3y

"The other factor vhich iapels govermaeat to becose even wore
conservative and reactionary 1s the inherent distrust of the
individual and the fear of individuality. Our political amt
sSoctal schene camot afford to tolerate the individuat and nis
constant quest for innovation. Tn ‘selfdefense: the Stare there-
fore suppresses, persecutes, punishes and even deprives the inite.
vidual of life. Te is aided in this by every institution thar
stands for the preservation of the eristing order. It resores
Lo every form of violence ant force, and {ts efforts are supported
b7 the ‘moral indignation’ of the mafority against the herecic,
the soctal dissenter and the political rebel— the majority for
centuries 4rilled {n State vorship, tratned in Aiscipiine ant .
obedience and subdued by the ave of authority in the home, tne
school, the church and the press... "

Eama Coldman.

In this vy, the State (and the institutions vhich preserve {t) matntains
3 honogenaity of behavior, a conformity to enforced norms. Tt 1imies cal
Aopinates, vieving Liberty and the tndividual as feared enemis.

vunz(Eyven vhen the State does good things, it finally rests on s club,
3.5un, or s prison for its pover to carry (t throush,” renarked voltuitse
DeCleyre.

;e role of the State in the matntenance of lav for the protection of the
individual no longer serves its original function. “The lov. niih fieer

At appearance as a collection of custoss which serve for the meintenance
of society, is now merely an instrusent to keep up the explotration st sam
nation of the industrious nasses by wealthy 1dlers,” wrate Peter <ropockin,
“Te has now no Longer any civic aission: its only atssion is to prevece eb
plottation.”

The State pulls from the hands of the tndividual her liberty and duty to
Aefend herself and offers defense as u service— a public service to 11
“¥hich cach individual oust support through paymest of taxes. Mut this
fhysical procection, just like the lexal protections the Sravs providen.
becones sonething distorted vhen placed into the hands of the Seaves

"Defence is a service, like any other service. Tt is labor
both useful an desired, and therefore an economic comodity
ubjoct to the law of supply and desand. Tn a free mareet this
comodity vould be furnished at the cost of production. The
production and sale of this commodity are nov monopolised by
Che State. The State, 1ike almost all monopoliste, charses e
horbitant prices. Like almost all monopolista, it supplies s
vorthless, or nearly vorthless, article. Just like the monopolists
of a food product often furnishes potaon tnstead of nutrinent.

20 the State takes adrantage of ita monopoly of defence to fernish
invasion {nstead of protection. Just as the patrons of one pay

£0 be potooned, 30 the patrons of the other pay to he enslavel,

And the State exceeds all its fellow-nonopolists in the extent

of tts villainy hecause it enjoys the unique privileqs of compelling

e
11 people to huy its product whether they want It of not.”

ajamia Tocker.
e State at its best, relies upon force and relies upon the diminishing
e indisidval and the {ndividual's 1iberty— vhich are threats to both
State’s eristence and its reason for existence. The State forces the
(vihusl o pay for protection am to accept protection, vhether the {ndividual
4 it or not. And wore times than not, the “protection” consists of the

‘e invading and inposing upon the individual vich the arss the Lnividual

i for.

hoever lays his hand on me to sovern me {3 a usurper and &
lare hin 2y enemy,” wrote Piarre-loseph Prouihon.

ne: T

sing of Crime

e infividual, fully capahle of erercising liberty amd able to self-gor
cs the greatest threat to the contimed existence of the State. Such
ividusly render the State ohmolete.

we State must control each subject. raduce the capacity of each in their
Tities to self-govern and in their ahilicies, then, to abandon the State.
“State ust instill a sense of dependence into each suhfect, a sense of
fprmicy and recognition of outside authority. Tt mist force upon the
i¥idual something loss than her hirthright and create an unquestioning
Ject who subsita to even tyranay and injustice and {nequality as those
145 nay be aystematically waintained by the State.

*'this vay. the State craates the social forces giving rise to crime.
B SEASHN W STEAL 15 GPCAUISS TUST® RIAITS AGE STOLTN S TIEN ASPIRE.
T ATE WORY," proclained Voltatrine feCleyre.

“These are the things that make crininals, the porverted forces
of man, turned aside by the institution of property, which is
The ziant social mistake to-day. [t {s your law which keeps
Sen from using the resources and means of vealth profuction unless
They pay trihute to other men, it is this, and nothing else,
which 13 responsible for all the second-ciass of crizes and
Those crines of violence incifencally committed vhile carryin
out a robbery...

Leatrine DeClayre.

3 crine, then, is the rasult of soctal inequities fo which the exploited
J Aestitute must teact, sorial {nequitice matntained ro the atvantae of
gealthy through enforconent by the State and irs lavs. As Uilliam Sodvia
scrived, "The fruitful source of crives consists in this circuwstance.
man's possessing in abundance chat of which another man is destitut
Tt is the existence of wealth and privilege hestoved

ate ant ita lavs that create the social forces of poverty and desperation
i cxploitation. 4 Senjamin Tucker wrote, "Mur prisons are fillel vith
i~inals which our virtuous State has mede hat they are hy ira {niquitous
vs, its grinding monopolies, and the horrihle social conditions that result
on then.. e enact many lava that sanufacture criminals, and then a o
at punish thea."

Peter ropotkin places the hlame for the extstence of crine squarely at

e feet of the privileged classes, the capitalists, vho maintain lives of
cess and Luxury, i4le lives through the exploitation of nthers amd not
irough their own' labor:

52 lang 38 we have 3 aste of tdlers who have us feed thes
ander the pretext that they must lead us, 5o long these idlera
W11 aluaya be a focus of pentilence to the general mor

3L
He who lives his life in Aull tnetness, who 1s alvays hent merely
Can ™S e pleasures, who by the vory hasis of s ersorerc.
Ton o 10 SLidarity, and who by his couree of 11 tL cultivates
the vilest self-seeking,—
by fap Lgaures and Achase everyching around nier Seen nrs
%, cull of dollars and his heastial impstaes he will 50 and
Aesrade art, the drama, the press,
2611 ha country and its defenters, and, boceaee aa' 1. €00 covardly
Chomonder ith b5 own hanta, Wil have his. proxiey merice o
Sooacest of his nation vhen, some 4y, he 1 sfears ror his darling
money-bas. ...
oThus Society (s incessantly Srinning forth heins Vho are
SECapable of an honorahle and”ndustrious 1ie. s e amn fall
2f anti-social feelings. Tt does howge to 1im ner success
Chey areor crizes, and sends then to the pentrentiary chon
they are unlucky. ..

e hestve) oISt WeneraTly au'the vay things arer ani pommernrin with
Potecsive participation of everyone vithin this rescer affairs, the er-
TAChied ant exploiter. So ahserved Adotpne ooorerr. “Frperience demonstrates,
or facts b1 erery possible evidence, this spimre Shier ™y seen paratoxical
ne 1570, Tt 1T 1s sociory Which prepares the crine. mar o sutley

repares® the crine, the "perverted forces of man,®
Drchyen ) Voltairine Accieyre; forces pot o eerein I b the offenter
Th% by the State with'its lavs and prevermmces rortinn veslthy, the idler,
the exploicer.

iy ois, T31E €0 may_ ehat sovernments have comiteed far more crises than
they have prevented.” concludes Sobert Tageromms

Zoustitl i3 the sectal situation, the forces of porerey and injustice ant
of SumlALY that Find thett origin in the axptateies am le] F-serving indulzence
A4 ealehy and privilesed onpressors, (n tag et oecnne ) Tesislated tneauity
2 social stratification, then ey g Anyone could lame the o
Rn g Lomer, can hol4 roxpnainle the pasr, wrpechcy. Aoy and oppressed
g8 thamaeives (n such Jamperate atrapgnca? oo ey o Anclare sameons
TR Situated a criminal, an of fender, 8 vt st

ot eh0 370 The had e anong aa?... (T3¢ ny e e from
Taom the State must procect us ve mean ton crivinals, then ve
Saou ther are not special creatures 1yke e ooy anong hee,
T Just such men as all of v, whe 11eq Committing crines a .
Ohef 1% o ve know hat the settviey e riments with
treir cruel fors of puntshment. whgen o ner correspond to the
norees txage of morality, thels prisons. foreeorn contrihutes
i ez, he berbarizing of the people van'vn wrcrs culcure,

Iaen"enee rather Lo the multiplication taan'thr. Aaunition of

such crimtnals.”
Leo Tolstoy.
22,15 JEans that che misperception of tne CAUSEs O crine lead to pumishaent,
ek Tead ulcinay PILCation of crine. And thar, ten: Teate

he back to the serious consiferation of cne State's violence which {s at
4 s violence Which ultinataly

s authori,
© sbove the State." contends var Seirmer.

Agatn, 1t comes hack to the individual as a threat to the State,
to the forces of vealth and privilege that the State truly represents vith
its lave and its might. The so-called criwinal is an intividual vho has
endangered the State by rejecting the State and its authority over his hehavic

Voltairine NeCleyre svmed it up tiis vay: 29
"...Some die because they cannot eat at all. Pray tell me
what these last have to lose by becoming thieves. And why shall
they not hecone thieves? And is the action of a wan who takes
the necessities which have heea dented hin really a crivinal?
Ts he morally vorse than the nan who crawls in a cellar and dies
of starvation? I think not. fe is only a little more assertire.
"aut," you vill say, and say truly, 'to begin hy taking loave:
means to end by taking everything and surdering, too, very often.'
And in that you dra the indicteent amstnst your own syatem.
Tf there 13 no alternative betveen starving and stealing, (and
for thousands there is none) then there is no alternative hetueen
society’s wurdering its meshers, or the meshers disintegrating
. sectery. Let society consider its own mistakes, then: let it
answer itself for all thene people it has robbed and killed:
let it cesse its ovn crines Firs

my bodys just 3s boys, 1f they camot come to some persan agatnst
Uhoa thay have a spite, vill shuse his dog. I saw that the State

teed, that it vas tinid as a lone voman with her sil
spoons, and that it 41d not know its friends from its foes, and
T lost all uy remaining respect for it and pitied it... "

~—Henry David Thoreau, On Civil Dischedience

“Soul breakers (coaplete isolation) exist because the authorities
know that such conditions vould Arive them to the breaking point,
but vhen T resolved that they vould not conquer Ay will, [ becase
stronser than they vere. 1 understood them better than they
understood se. Yo longer depeadent upon the things of the varld,
T really felt free for the first time in ay life. Ta the past
T had been like my jailers; [ had pursued the oals of capitalistic
Aserica. Yov 1 had a higher freedon... Even so, the vay 1 vas
. treated told me a lot about those who devise such punishent.

T know thes vell...

—Hey P. Nevton, Revolutionary Suicide

Recause the State and its apologists wrongly conceive of crise originating
in the faulty-villed {ndividual, in the errant person, in the irrational
and iwnoral offender, the State prescribes punishments as sanctions for those
no da not confora their behaviors and vho dc not subordinate themselves
%o the dictates of the almighty State. The State and its apologists camnot
imagine that the origins of crime lie sot in he fauity indiridual but in
tne corrupted and faulty social circumstance that the State itself generates,
Felying, 4 it does, upon the Aynamics of force and repression and fear and
Control of the infividual, the reduction of the individusl and che tasing
of the general population as a whol

‘The State, given the reality it creates, inposes irrational expectations
wpon its subjects:

e aef they would, there have heen prayers. saon
SoouEh and lavs noush an prisons enough o meer e
330, Pt pray that the stcraction o
ML g cease? Snact that vater shetl
Jeat. VALl At freeze? And no more wil|
and Just when they are compelled to 1ive
209 Jniuat society, vhen the nacural oo
of their het
must produce

3 their palates, ant destrops
N Aown (n hody and souls
nent™

Joltairine erleyre,
Tcause the State perates throush force, taposing Tave mon its subiects,
cetons, oLy UPoN L5 SEEimS 10 ra-nasiuate thmce sy 17 by eheir

I i lected the uthority of the Stave: Targuh at Aymanic of force

Mpinction, them, the State wust reapond s trens ! relect (s uthority

""3pite hov instgni Ficony N or even exacerharing rho Srotets
SCteA 5y the Tatet e IR BEOhLen oF crine—s the peina e being co-

dual,

siec{uper luous and harful, finally, are tne lavs for the
TreEear ne E SIS, foF the pumishment ant prevecaon ey “crines. '
AT TRt never et rescratnen s Moercncs” o who
bould K11 his neishbor, for revenge o ror
s

Peter tropotkin,
So {njustice and crueley which f1,

forces wleashed by the State's covart hastility tovard liherty asd the in
“MEinacely, the State's cruelty and hostility ant repression hecoses self-
Aofoating, ual
“"Mhere is sonething in injustice, in cruelty,” vrites ohert Ingersoll,
“Which tents €o Aefeat itself. Thare never vere no many traitors in Fngiand
25 when the traitor vas Aravs ant quartered, vhen he vas tortured in every
Jossible vay. —vhen his linba, torn and bleeding, vere gives to the fury
2 ~ohs, or exhibited pierced hy pikes or hung in chains. The frightful
it profuced ntenae hatrot of erersant, and crattors rcreated
nci1 they became powerful eaouth to Aecide hat treason vas ant vho the
traitors vere and to (nflict the same torsent on ather: 3
["The existence of the State and the existence of crie go together. The
State's solution to crie sed crininality becone part of the provlen. The
Sbolition of the State, the abolition of authority, Leads to the aholition
of crine and cristnality.

“Tue Seate is 1tself the most siaantic crisinal extant. [t samafaceures
riainals mich faster than it punishes them,” ohserved “enfamin Tucker.

o look forvard to the ultisate disappearance of the necessity of force
Sven for the purposes of repressing crine."

Lideration tron F

and_Fear

Yichin a systes which denies the exiatence of hasic hunen

rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Pear o: imprisomment.
Eear of torture, fear of Aeath, fear of losis

property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation,
Fear of fatlure. A most inst4ious form of fear is that which
“asquerades as comeon sense or even wisdon, condemning as fonlish,
reckless, {nsignificant, or futile and smuil, daily acts of courage
which heip to preserve man's self-respect and inherent hussn
Mgnicy. Tt is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under

the iron rule of the principle that miaht is right to free thes-
selves froa the encrvating miasma of feac. Yet even under the
zost_crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again,

for fear 15 not the natural state of civilized man...

—Aung San Sus Kyt

. lou' 11 et your freedon by letting sour eneay know that you'll
40 anything to get your freedon; then you'll get it. Tt's the
only vay you'll get it. ‘hen you get that kind of attitude.
They'11 call you an extresist, or subrersive, or sefitious, or

< aredoraradical. Mt vhen you stay radical long enough and
3t peopte to be like you, you'll get your freedow...

—alcoln X

T believe, and everyhoty wist grant, that mo Coversment can
extst for a single osent vithout the cooperation of the people,
villing or forced, and if the people suddenly withdrav their
cooperation in every detatl, the Covernmeat will come to a stand-
eIl

—Hohandas Canthi

The forces of nonfreedon that view liberty and the indtridual as threats,

the Forces chat maintain and perpetuate exploitation and poverty and inequality
and the forces that multiply crine through cruelty and istortion of the
individual are all linked to the existence of the State, its lavs and its
corrupt recosnition of property. e aholition of the State, then, vould

ebolish those forces that create crime.
aea“ehrine DeClerre proclained, “hoitsh the lau— thae 15,
a1 obolish 1taelf. “ith the aholieian of tin's.
of hya'Ld Secom free to sngage in'voluntary somocsacion nnet

35D the antaal kingdon, as vell as tn human octety, cooperatton—
opeticy laternecine strife and strugsle nas wore)’rC the surviv,
) herecien. (ropottin) esonstraen shat onir mutual
e batn facione- 10t the omnisotent, all—tevasgatiny ceoe
P Gobgany, 1% T8 €07 4 froe tndtviiual ant shoctaeqmmnt Tife," wrote

b1 Sakunin concurs, ™an hecows san, ant hin hmanity hecomes conscious
(Thareal: only (0 society and by the Totne acerainy o soctety. e fragg
TH7aelf fron the yoke of externil natare 1y uy jotnt—— ehat 1s, sacistary
oS olone 13 caable of making the suctace or ine earth fie for the
rolution of mankind: hut withaot such excernal | ey i neither intellectual
nor saral liberation are possible,

18, s free re-orgmization of society, free of an oppressive State, the
T Sarm o sach reinforces the husanity and rgniry ] Ereedon of

the other,
15 Takunin further observe: ore [ree 2en Surround se, and the Aesper
ey eder Sheir freedon s, 50 mch dowper. Bromarr "y ore pover ful .

o cfieon koo 00 the oiher hand. every ensiaventon ot men 15 at the
Jg% tine & limitation of ny freedom, or. siat 13 te same thing, o n

t1on

"preasive state of atfairs.

it sonolution has for ailies a1l wo suffer oppresst
€ 5C appear, and the univ
Toseph Proudhon.

irae ont b TR ehia so-called “revolucion® come to pase? ™e

ovae: T g eooential factor 13°a racommit on shat ek Tt 0t possessa
N ihoriey amtyyih t DeTIeT 1n Gne's o suthorgyy: enchnt 1A helier

s oy Feeiding elosuhere. ua’in the Seaver” Yomrr erer Itberatton,
Tom ot proclaioed, “individeal ‘i sotleceive, g Sy emanctpation
£ ouhorkey snd fron’the beltef n 4e.* (sophasis Lpsed’)

e nosent the slave resolves that he vill no longer he o
AT enis fetters all. e froes hnsel! amd shoen’ene ay
tre byers. rreedon and slavery are mental sraton Therefore,
$MI08 10 €0 say to yoursel, T shatl me Lomen accept
Hiopor "ol 8 J1ave. T shall not obey orders se i i shall
#isobey thes vhen they are'in coufiict with sy womecrenst, 2

e ieious and weare of thetr own pover and resecting authority as the slavers
eeract oog neermally-Ttberated former subteces Seiny totaor Covard their

Tosotkin Sesseqoiet® beration, inspiring athers i the ponceie” As Ceter
Fopotkin described:

the aidat of conplatning, talking, discussing, coses 3 mutinous

fieed by one or more persons, which incarnates the lngings of w
all”

* make insurrection and freedon contagious,

erting the fear that authority relies upon in order to control individuals

{|populations. The spirit of rejecting authority spreads and it is in

| Fefusal of subaission that the old order eventually starves. As Benjomin

ver relates, "Pover feeds on its spoils, and dles vhen its victina refuse

Je despoiled. They can't porsuade it to death; they can't vote it to
Ther can't shoat I to Aeathi but they can alvays starve it to death

is added.)

vithiraval of conperation and consent hrings ahout the collapse of

e State.

"...(Thhe day after the revolution,” vrote Luigi abbri, "no one should
Ve the pover of the economic wherevithal to exploit the labor of another...

H THE ANARGIIST RESPONSE: APPLICATION OF ANARCHIST TWEORY.

"Persons in power should be very careful how they deal vith

a man who cares nothing for sensual pleasores, nothing for riches,
Rothing for coafort o praise or promotion, but is simply deter-
2ined to do vhat he believes to be right. Yo is a dangerous

and uacoafortable enesy, because his body, vhich you can alvays
Conquer, gives you %o little purchase on his soul... ™

coteasor Gilbere Murray, Osford Univeraicy, fibbort Josrnal,
“The Soul As Tt Ts, And Row to Deal with 16
seens to express. .. a nevly avakened
conseiousness, ot of Couses bat of potentiality. It is o spresting
“vareness of the possibilities of hunan existence... that together
Thspira, first in' individusla, then {n communicies and entire
sations, an entirely sew stcitude tousrd Li
“The eflect of this suiden avareneas, this swiden fruition
of consclousness is to produce. .. a pervasive and urgent desi
. for radical change, based on the new insight, scartling in 1
simplicity, that the conditions of life that had seened irmutable
Can, after all, be changed.
itations that vere formerly sccepted all at once hecose
~ intolerable... The vill to sct ia horn. It is as thosgh people
are saying: “Look, here is sosething ve can do, or.
o e “sieply 3y acting’ e e e e vaittns
or? Lot us act!
et any rate, descrides the seate of wind of the mofern

tnsurgent, the guerrilla fighter, whatever his slogan or his
cause; and his secrer eapon. above and heyond any question of

strategy or tactics or techniques of irregular arfare, is nothing
more than the ability to inspire this state of mind in others.

The defeat of the military eneay, the overthrow of the governmeat,
are secondary tasks, in the sense that they come later. The
prisary offort of the guerrilla is to militate the population,
Vithout whose consent no government can stand for & da

“The guerrilla {a subveraive of the existing order in that
he is the disseminator of revolutionary ideas: his actions lend
force to his doctrine and show the vay to radical chanse. Yot
it vould be an error to consider hin as being apart froa the
aned hed of revolurion. e himelf 1s created hy the polirical

Oblectively, the current prison population
S0 by e poconfined vithin thia syates are mast often virms

~Robert Taber. The Uar of rhe Fie:

A Study in CuereiTia Varfare

presents a nexus of several

{ts capitalist owners, ahused

forces of reaction as tnevitable.

COmposed of the same elementn that

courts, and legislatures all fecned the

" to the current systee: the indieiduals
Ukely in narrow self-intarest, ro.

Plication to thea,

2o limited vay, rehelled and fargot
ecting the right of State suthority

reea'og mmarchist, for one who refecs the Seate. its Lova, nd the fascist
fprces of capical which the State ulrimately sceces, ine privoner represents

the harshest of oppressions, the ¢learent

2ur slave existence. Yo one has hetter sliepaed
Jou for the Anarchist, the prison conples represc

an arey of the sost oppreaset

anda "5 arent allies in The cause of revolosion s romoreirs
S cemeechousands-— diseopovered and $1sarmcs. subjore o ki eini-controt,

torture, and cultural senocide,

mee1 "oy’ ShIenC any other intersention, swbaits to the fascist's otot **

control and'genocide without

ring sy ocher alternative. Maving heen
cvery institacion aupporting the

he Prisoner has never had any experience in tae cocr-

Hsseninating the revolutionary idea,
provokes the prisoner, making her or
™ dangerous question, the singularly

Amacriistory of human existence: "“hat can e g0 st

67" To this vay, Anarchise po
or bo. simply
ace!™

larger communities, and they ar.
the vorld and ita operation,

The prisoner becomes ared, A,
oF her or his own potenial. A

Drides prisoners the {dea of “something v ,

b scting. " Then uhae have ve Seos Mathiny

IangeToUS with ideas and uareness and conscious
lut more {mportantly seill, the prisoner necones

avare of the potential of callective pownr.

The Anarchist inspires in pri;
belief in liberation, freed

Anarchist most-effectively croa
amon the slave population —di;
are formed not just by their ex

S0neTs @ new state of mind and inseills o
2 new revolutionary idea. Tn this vay, the
tes guerrillas among the prisoner popuiation—
sseminators of the revolutionary ifeal who
POSUTE to the {dea of Anarchisa hut hy the

roerience of ovoression and hrucality imposed by the Sece
7

A5 Pobert Taber wrote ot the verrilla, "Lisitations that vere fornerly
Sapted ail at once hecone intolerable. . the will to act is born... *

e prisoner, the slave, previously cast upon the trash heap by the oppressive
dynery of the fascist State, wrows {nto new cspacities for self-Astermination

)-ri12, snd the empowerment of others by inspiring in them this new state
I oty voe Anatchist becones. the liberator of forserly-sublusated
Saioua soons.tue captives that the Scate
mtocting thea ot will to cultural genocide
T naiomical and wocial disarmment. Bat mov, Vith the inter-
ention of the Anarchist, a new and revolutionary captive culture begins
O e o ioh, one. subrersive of the State’s senocidal simm.

And, again, in reference to “obert Taber, *The defeat of the... enemy,
e e sovernoent. are secondary Casks, in the sense thet they
o e prumry effort... is to atlitate the population, vithout
Tone Sonsant ne povernant can stant for day.”

e peton popolotion composed of (miridumls empovered by the

e 0 ohet in motua a14 and voluntary sssociation and coopera-
e etroaseernance and inspired in the maintenance of thelr
o e Tae porential 1o remter {npotene the State's oppressire
sachinery, to undermine the pover of the St te's system of sanctions, to
e onthe fasciot Seate voulld othervise {npose upon its passive

A"sccepeing captives:

e S Peal threat of sanctions, vithout the 1wpoition of effective
o mowt reut control o€ 108 aum prison systes snd (ts captive
e e socer of prison and puniahment and the enforcesent of the
T s seoster, seneral level i ctfectively abolished.

e tee peison popalation. swpoverin and iberating prisoners vith
B eany”<toth ond araing thes vith the toola for theic own sel(-
e n o swtusl aid o1timtely obs the State ant the fascist forces
AL of ene of it prisary an necessary components, one of
s sosecessential pillara: The pover to panish.

e Tea aore. than the #irect and imottate aing of Liberating
o ieg ey contrinute to a broser stratesy. The subrersion
i throush coLoptiny the popeintion (curning he grizon into revo-
T e emiony astomat 1311y opers up arester *free spice” hroughost
o o akder. 1t Hiverts ctention ant resources of the oppressor
et che 4ansoross, 1iveratory Eremds vithin ita concentration comps:
A e st exsiottation amt expansion am oppreseion sore Unsvatain.
Jastening its inevitable collapse. ahle,

Tt Ireepen tn che wstern-ay prison strvssle, perfora necessary
i eRCILT] reretationsey fanctions ia the Sumersion snd defeat of nimical
T s ant the creation of a nev order, one vhere the fastitutions
T o crter cammoc. seant. Tris narchist enagement i3 not an clective
o enthotion ¢ the mest revolution, o footnote to the strustle orer the

o ety torces of faseion. T¢ in tts fundsmental bast.

i#d,
opulations, making 1heration con

reviously held in complete way.

Freedon,

Sean Swain
Political Prisoner
Toledo Correcttonal Tastitution
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cesaoniem i especially meaningful and important and vite] and
Anasgary for those peopie who the State oppreases the o For,
Anarchism is the. essential call to freedom — Aagainst slavery and for slave
rebellion!
archists have always believed that human beings deserve their
' of movement and that the kidnapping and. incarcerating of people
by the agents of the criminal State isthe cpptocye of evil. Ttis systemic
criminal coercion to instill fear and acquiescence to the State,
: e ¢ ek

™ To gt tothat point requires genuine support and education of prisoners
by those o the “outs” and other prisoners.

After the revolution in 1905, in Russia, the Anarchist Red Cross was
established (in Germany) to assist Russian anarchist prisoners, held
Captive by the jalors of the Tsar. Tellingly,this group was formed because
2 being seat into Russia, funneled throngh the Social Democrats
(Bolsheviks / Mensheviks) was denied by these Marists, to anarchist

!
"After the February Revolution of 1917, all political prisoners were
released and the Anarchist Red Cross was dissolved — for a few years. Once
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assumed dictatorial power. “Tens of millions of Russians (and others) were
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facareerated. Only Hitler, Mao and the U.S. Imperialist genosadists
attained these levels.of bleodthisstiness.
prisoners. A lot of this support work was done in the U.S. with Chicago
‘being a main focal point for many years. ‘Boris Yelensky, an exiled Russian
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Cross, entitied, In The Strugele for Equality.
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" amywhere in human history - except Stalin's Russia circa 1950. Stalin

‘executing so many of them at such a rate, after World War I1. His
Slaughtering also caused the additional deaths of 20 million more
Russians, Practically a whole generation of young men were gone! S0
don't ever confuse “communism” with freedom! It nothing but super-
repressive state capitalisa, clothed in *revolutionary” iest

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recognize the validity of the State or their lawyer-written laws. The
Congitution is a slaver's document and always has been. The 13%
Amendment, which allegedly “ended” slavery, merely switched it from the
Dlantations to the prisons. Many southern prisons were slave plantations
and they still are today!

“After the massive imtermecine bioodshed of the Civil War, plantation
ovemers mecded to get slaves (read: blacks) to work their plantations. They
e given prisoners. Blacks were picked up and imprisoned on vagrancy
charges ~ for being poor! Plantation owners didu't have to buy, house,
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Of racialist exploitation and social ent were “legitimized" by 4/,
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anarchist
17
| Balagoon, were important members and thinkers of the Black Liberation
struggle as members of the BLA (Black Liberation Army.) These giants of
the movement pointed the way for how anarchists could maximize their
effectiveness and be a fundamental component of the struggle working
with the most oppressed of Amerika - black youth, Hispanics, Native:
Amerikans, women, poor “whites” ete.

“The challenge was to go directly to the oppressed communities and.
support (and help educate) their prisomers. ABC groups popped up
throughout Europe and the Americas.

"As the U.S. prison population exploded in the mid to late 70's, 80's, 90s
and still ising today (2.3 million prisoners!) the need for a new wave of
‘Tovolutionary tatics and practice becomes of paramount importance. Like
always, the application of anarchist theory isof utmost usefulness and

by prisoners instinctively!
“The only limitation of this powerful collaboration between the ideas of

" anarchism and prisoners struggling against our common enemies is the

resolve and dedication of anarchists on the “outs.” There are many more

. prisoners wiling to fight than outside supporters willing to fight with them,
even!

though prisoners are outnumbered 130 to 1, by those on the “outs.”

‘The Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF) was formed in the mid-
nineties in the U.S. and Canada, with a focus on supporting “political

i ‘and “prisoners of war.” These are people incarcerated for
“crimes” committed to directly challenge the State, such as Lutalo,
‘Balagoon and several non-anarchist politicals. Balagoon died in prison.
Several other individual anarchist support groups flowered briefly, as did
‘anarchist driven books to prisoner programs. Many anarchists work with
other types of support groups and some anarchists do serious support to
anarchist prisoners and others that they know, outside any type of

organization, or otherwise.

e case of Mumia Abu-Jamal gave the prison struggle a strong focal
poiat that has become the international campaiga, suchas Sacco and
Vanzettiin the 1920's. As the fascization process accelerates and many
more people hit the streets, mass arrests, *pre-emptive detention” and

"The work of Angela Davis and others — anarchists and non-anarchists
has slowly buiit up support for the massive needs of prisoners.

Conditions contimue to get harsher, control unit tosture chamber prisons
‘abound, opportunities for education, parole, etc. have been eliminated and
today, the ubiquitous, yet invisible Amerikan gulag archipelago i boiling
4o to pure punishiment and sadism for profit. Along with the military
‘and the purely parasitic stock market, the prison empire is about the only
“growth* industry leftin this hideous country.

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veneer of ies (freedom" “democracy” and “liberty and justice for all")
rove to be but disgusting lies, as corruption and police brutalty become
Pandemic and people are marched into prisons and armies, the need for

response is once again, to explain what crime truly is, who causes it
2nd how we must stop it~ a the point of prodegies,
Inequality, brutal living conditions, counter-revolutionary vacuous
cldhnz,cnemiveanmari\y, class and race-based laws, iz
behavior reactant o intolerable conditions. aggressive policing against

millions of people, waste trillons on killing and subjugating the world's
people, while countlss others die and sufer but thees e %, “erimes.”

ey Brison system deprives and embittes thir py e they spit
them back out towards the streets, withouy. warning, stigmatized with no
Vocatipusd s, prospects, suallystill berot of any useful eduession
empapeal training, almost ensuring their return, 2 they po compelled to
Rarddive some” to function. Recidivism is buil into the systomy ppo
hard-drive in a computer,

o the State causes erime by insisting on an unjust society at gunpoint,

Incarceration, theft, wage-slavery, etc.) and so o young up and coming
angata wannabees® and turns them into hardensd eetany and spills
them back into their vulnerable comamunitics - communities only
Pprotected by a Corrupt, inept, racist and. corporate / government agenda-
e, order-aking, occupational polce force. Cong | finding “justice™
safety, les crime, any of it. Your only rea proseegn. against criminals,
inside and out of uniformn, s to rely on your own efforts and those you team
up with.

because oftheir political activites &/or they've been e fae Many
have historics. of endless, minor, rules “violations” usually caused by
provocation, terrible conditions or staged by guards, totally. Thesc.
Secumulate and send those so targeted to the evi,souless centey of the
dungeon keepers.

Prisom s meant to “break” the person and many suceumb to despair
from endless torture meted out by their trained captors.
“As well, most crime — murders, theft, rape, etc. are never ‘solved" by the

"anyway. Most crime isu't reparted to the police. Crimes committed

the police aren’t prosecuted, either, except under heavy pressure from
the eitisens. The job-description of a cop i to commit crime for the
‘government and to protect corporate.(stolen) property. ‘The best career
‘move for a seriously hardened criminal is to become a cop!

1" But, how do we deal with crime and how do we deal with aberrant
‘behavior? The best defense against a criminal attack is self-defense and

| community-organized defense. Do not call the cops! For example, a family
| member stresses-out and threatens himself or someone else with a knife,
say. You call the cops. The cops come and kil your relative. Nothing is
going to happen to that cop who killed your family member! Even if he was
charged and even convicted, it would be through the injustice system

. anyway, where lawyers, prosecutors and judges take the place of “the
People.” So, you won't get anything close to “justice” and even if the cop
‘ended up in prison, nothing good would come from that, either.

But, you'l bave to live with guilt and regret for the rest of your life
‘because you know you could have calmed him down, eventually, if you had
taken direct action instead of fascist action.

“There are other ways to deal with aberrant behavior, than by the
‘counter-productive nightmare, gas-on-the-fire *solution” that is the
charade of show trialing and incarceration. These include: ostracism,
‘public denunciation (and possible forgiveness), restitution to the victim(s),
‘persuasion, education, social pressure, noo-compulsory therapy, help of
friends and neighbors, non-collaboration, nonviolent resistance, and even
Violent self-defense, if necessary. These methods work to great effect, if the
situation is not menaced by coercive authority and through the
‘corrupt court system, where “justice” s for sale and hire and convictions
and harsh prison termas go to the dark-complexioned &/or poor.

‘These remedies work well in a sane, non-oppressive society, where crime

* is not being bred by a coercive state, o when the authorities are kept out of
it. Most crime will have vanished, as people are prodncts of their

_ cavironment and their conditioning and are not pre-disposed to criminal
activity, don'tlike what they are doing or have become, but don't know the
way out. Often, they're coerced into these roles.

“This brings me to another point. Just as societal crime needs to be
exorcised by killing the head of the snake (the State), individuals, who have
been criminalized (and often encaged) must be fundamentally re-wired and
re-directed from a self-bating, predatory, socially, psychologically,
historically and politically ignorant mind-set to a self-respecting,
conscious, aware, fearless and dedicated mindset, that will enabie them to
become gennine. freedom ghters for their people.

“This behavioral overhaul develops from the wellsprings of each
individual's longing to actualize his or ber trae calfing in-ife — the taking of
direct action over the direction of one's own life! This process of genuine

So
self-education is where al the basic senets of anarchism - mutual aid,
Gecision-making, afinity groups, cooperatives, anti-suthoritarianism and
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“brain work” is what I want to focus e "
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soul

‘We can help them rebuild their spirit, using the principles of anarchism.
Along comes an anarchist providing free, thrilling, useful, empowering

‘material they can relate to, often written and illustrated by their own.
(anarchist) prisoner brothers and sisters! ‘Strong revelatory material not
| crafted by anarchists is also important for their development and
understanding of the struggle,its histogy, ete.

By doing this, anarchists take solidarity to the next level. People need to
Jearn many strains of thought to get a well-rounded understanding of the
whole. By being available in providing others’ material in addition to
anarchist analysis and so forth, is not lost on the minds of prisoners.

‘The principles of anarchism in real application rise beyond being just a
narrow strain of thought among many, to take root in the minds of the
, many that anarchy is the fundamental ery of revolt every oppressed person
‘among prisoners and the Idea is implanted in their brains, as fear and
resignation give way to a completely new sense of dedication and
comradely belonging! This is a thunderciap of psychological Liberation!

‘When prisoners write back to request their band-picked set of
revolutionary study materials — and receive them promptly, with no real
strings attached, along with an exteasive catalog and maybe a (hard to
read) hand-written letter, a feeling of the possible has begun to bud. For,
up to that point, everything had a price tag on it and was about some rip-off
scheme. Here was the untold truth, plain and simple, given freely, by
anarchists, who did so because they love freedom and hate fascism.

For perhaps the first time in their lives, they re being exposed to the
revolutionary truth, written by conscious fellow prisoners and fighters on
the “outs” detailing the realities of prisons and how they are connected to
the world-wide struggle. It's what slaves require to unlock the key for a real

‘Anarchism preseated this way - as a fundamental act of solidarity in
action, becomes the life-blood of the struggle. There are different blood
types, A, B, O positive and negative. Anarchism is like plasma — the
* essential ingredient that sustains life and can be given to anybody,

regardless of blood type (idcology, history, culture, etc:) It taking the

Ferrer Modern School of anarchist education right to the pitiless heart of

this beast and teaching revolution to their slaves. It calls out the State for

the brutal fraud that it is, by liberating the minds of her most cruelly
oppressed captives.

But mutual aid is a two-way street. Some of the very most insightful
writers, analysts, researchers, poets, reporters and artists, are i prison!
‘They are in the front lines, captives of this moustrous regime. Guards are
culled from their gulags to do their dirty work in places like Abu Ghraib
and Guantanamo Bay. They see new repressive tactics, new mind-melting,
psychoactive drugs, erowd-control techniques, etc. irst, as they are the
State's first guinea pigs for these latest surprises.
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o any moment, for any reason, real or imagined, a prisoncr can beand
often are, brutally attacked &/or thrown into the hole, maced, shackled,
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ighter is very difficult. Distrust and treachery are sown into every day, as
piards and snitch prisoners, scheme to set-up those whao fight. But, this
zucible of suffering is a make or break situation. Some fall by the wayside,
;6 mad or whatever. Others become stronges — the Malcolm X's & George
Jackson's of today!

Often, prisoners, who are active politically, are set up by the giards
working with prisoners working for the guards for special favors. For
example, they may force you out into the yard, with rival gang members

As for voluntary association, nobody has to work for anybody they doa't
want to — inside or out. Ifa prisoner (ar anybody else) is playing sexual
games or trying to put on some kind of hustle, T have no quahns in calling
them out. If people are loaking for other like-minded individuals (such as
other gay or transgendered prisoners) I'l try to refer them. Tl try to
facilitate some kind of working relationship,if ['m t00 busy or otherwise
inadequate. People have the right to associate with wha they want to and if
Tcan help them accomplish this goal, that scores points for the ideals of
anarchism, as demonstrated by an anarchist — me!

Tthink it serves people well to be thick-skinned, yet sensitive. Give
people plenty of slack, but don't ever allow predation and be attuned to
those who are the most needful. I've sometimes rubbed people the wrong
way 2ad | appreciate being given asecond shake. tmotivates me to do
and it turns them off. People aren't motivated into anarchist ways of
_thinking, by being dissed, but rather by being treated respectfully, listened.
t0 and genuinely engaged as persoa. I¢'s been my exporience that the
know-it-all anarchist is the biggest asshole in the room. The reason I say
this is because I've been that dumb-assed person myself, on occasion.

As for affinity groups and collectives, I'l say this. It's more difficult
forming these groups with prisoners. For example, since the Constitution
considers prisoners slaves, it is thus *illegal” for them to form a slave-labor
‘union, such as the Missour Prison Labor Usion, to challenge the
conditions of their slave labor. The courageons activists of this anarchist
‘group are forever being assaulted, transferred, thrown into the hole or
otherwise harassed by the authorities. Don't ever let the prisonkrats
discourage you from wrking with such prisoners. They aleo disappear
letters, publications, cointelpro (iie) about people, etc. Stay with it and
‘build those collectives.

‘The Anarchist Black Cross Netwark is a collection of autonomous ABC
roups, scattered across the country. We are even starting to form prison
s
chapters. Mxfimummmnmmpwmmaummflmmbm

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ot ponbpen maay, many times, including, most profoumde o,
once poverty-stricken souls! ‘We're also confident that these brothers and
v vl add some o all of theanarchis principls nty o

belief systemns, which can only help them and thee. they
ce.
ss

‘The walls of prisom will come dowr and-the staves set free, when the
anarchist understanding of the State reackes a critical mass. When enough
people can overcome their fear, self-loathing, ignorance and batred of
others, and are no longer wiling to be cowed and bullied by uniformed
eriminals, the State will be a dead carcass. The best instincts-of humankind
will be nourished and the baser ones (which the State had always relied

‘There’s one last thing I want to say before I end this. Every ideology
including anarchism is what the people who profess these beliefs actually
dol Believers try to absolve their tendencies towards authoritarian
ruthlessness by saying that that is not what the original doetrines “meant!”
What actually did happen and what is happening is what matiers. In other
‘words, it’s what modern day “anarchists® actually do which defines what
anarehism is —not what asticulate anarehists of yore claimed anarchism
‘was! W have to interpret thesc principles to effectively adapt them t0 the
reality of today’s world.

Anarchism is what those who profess themseives to be anarchists
‘actually do, just like Christianity is the sum total of what the various
“Christians” actually do! How impressive anarchism becomes is in a direct
ratio to how much serious educational work, by anarchists s done for those

Who thirst for this education. Is a hugely importaat, massive, urgent,

1o provide!

Tbelieve diving into serious anarchist-driven prisoner support work is
the best utilization of anarchist principles. It's a hands-on personal
journey of self-discovery and learning.

Each person has their own unique talents to add to the struggle. But, we
owe it 10 our prisones to be with them, fight with them and learn with
them. Anarchisia without the fundamental component of prison abolition
is pointless and useless. Anarchism pounding in the hearts and souls of the

- worlds most oppressed becomes limitless in its applications.

A Flain Discussion About

Anarchist Theory

By, Ali Khalid Abdullah
March 19th, 2007

Who e AN Rhakd Abéuten?

POl priscner st e Moure “Correctonal
Facky” b Detrot, M. He wes semienced over
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March 13, 2007

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j AlL Khalid Abdullsh

1 was

6d to participate in the 2007 Confersnce on

narchists Theary, by coarads Anthony Ra/son of South Chicago AsC
ina Distro. Howsver, the more 1 have thought over this tha eore
I felt my inability to sit doun and rehash whot has elready bewn
iritten and said meny tisebefore. Ang o, 1 have decided to come
to you with straight telk. Down to esrth talk about the atets in
unich Anercnisa is in; the kin

of reprasentation we heve
Aresented or nat repr

nted, ana just keeping it very resl about
Who ue are ss slleged or profassed Anarchist.

‘ 1 am not going to make @ long and drewn out theoretical
analysis over who said or urote what. I find that, if one is
Jruly o proclaised Anarchists, thers is nething i couls write
that you haven't alresdy reac oy some of the most
Anarchists writers who've ever written ana whose works are in
print. But 1 will talk sbout end would like to have discu
about — is the state in which Anarchiats have founa ther

11-xnoun

ona the prables ue seom to be heving with connacting with other
groups or individusls where wo can meke e roal impact, if not 3
oifferance. Because it is in this a
5ad repart card in.

r

we ore receiving a very

one thing I have noticed, end is rather pronounced,
18 that tne vast mejority of those whom I've ancountersd that
,ellege to be Anerchists are Anarchists only in nase. Mesning,
they have not really studied the in-depth historical eccounts of
Anarchists ana/or its diverss theories and applications of

* approach to solving issuss. I say this baceuse if one has dane s3
e (Anurchists) would

much further in productive engageaent
than we are tosay. In fact, we would be in the tranches of every
major grass roots comsunity — working, producing and providing

some kind of helpful ssrvice uhere the paople would see who e

are ang know what we ece about from our support and labor. Fros
1f in practica. But this is not the c
1 could sit here ena type you

our giving of saaly.
ny wonaerful quotes by

very powerful thinkers but what good is thet? I couls giv:
you s 50 page theoretical dis
beginnin

how some societiss were living the axsmple of an Anerchist 1ife

o

rtation on Anarchisa, its
how it moved froa this state to the next and even of

+ POF to lavish prai,
becouse there are many good write:
thinkers ue never talk mbout or
unieh, in realiey,
deuling uith Lasu
engay

on sone

theorists and g

91ve uny scknouledgement too,

nendicen our knowlsdge and ability to 1oou ot
©F Uaing nuw methods of politices

e have o

of the recent
king some very
ot eny particuler

Hhat have we (
to reslly adve

ivesVina U to the principale of Anerchiss 10
our deily lives; in our daily practiens

comaundty svanta
anarchy, ond broaden thair undaret,
fneTchist uay of looking st solving prepsants

rertyineY o Y8 s9and on nesdless drinking,
2,28FtVing end other non-re.
Relping Thurilized trying to' fortiry canmemsiome ohy
"elping those mast vulnarebie i iy comaunity?

drug
Olutionary scts that could

s ndant study grou
deco study can b
€. niT chose uho have read the writings of thoss

hstorically well-knoun o
taking their writi,

. projudice,

[nese ere only o short 1teting of questions but they
nelevant to ensuer within yourself, baceuss 1t go
"ESTt of uhat most of s lixe to lay

are very
o the very
clain too, uhich are;

) Ue have the ansuer to having » better world; a worla
uhere we. are- not ruled, dosinated or bossed by those
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in suthority;

b) That we beliave in mutusl sid and collective
cooperation with others:

©) That we are sgainst sll msnner of raclem, sexi
homophobi

) Thet ue beileve in tha ecol
Tights of sll living things from any and sli forms of
abuse.

Wowevar, are we roally living up to these idesle we claim
s0 vociferously? Ars we reslly for the sbolishwent of prisons and
the desth penalty? If we snswer in the sffirmstive to any of
these and ore net 1iving — in deily practice — to:sradicate
thase probless then we sre not what ue claiw ue ore no

mttor how
auch you acress er procisim of baing an snarchists. Being an

snarchists s mere then sll the above. It is moie then lip-
bervico or dieres

ding what somecne in suthority talls you.
Boing on snarchists 1s to heve o commitment to somsthing. Living
out that cosmitment day in - day out without coapromiseted

without glory seeking. It is doing your single solitary pert each
and evary eyl

Whan Micheil Bakunin steted: "Even in purest democracies,

such oo the United States and Switzerland, e privileged minority
o

he reslly seying? te in
ying in essence that, even though you and 1 mey live in @
country thet hes ite

— tn unten
afficiels are slectsd into office to act s the people:
reprasentativi

— the majority of us are "ensloved” to uhat
“they' (the elected official/politician) do beceus
going to reverse what their role is snd begin acting on interests
that hes nothing to da with you and I, but will have everything

4o do with the dictations of the rich and poerful. That!
he asans, in

they are

wnat
nce. It saens the State will be incorporated

into our daily effsirs so much so that ue will beco
the State.

aleves to
1f we vant to test this theory all we have to do is
look st what happens once @ vt
time. You will

© during so-called 'income tax'
aillions of people rushing rounc to put in
their IRS forss so that the government can eppropristaly TAKE

£nings from the working cless end us

thoss esrnings (taxes) en
it see's fit. Anyone who resist paying taxes uill find th

elves
0 % BTison cell for s numbe

T of yeara. here, then, s the 40
J8ROCEECY 1N that? There is none ang tnat 1y shat Bakunin ua:

oux [reedan is by properly understanaing thet wmicn ue clate to

©24ng thoroughly sna uncampronisingly
Strongly rooted in our politicel bellers.

T founs it very tnteresting wnat 3
“ion-Uestern Anarchy,

on Adems wrate in
Rethinking the Global Context* sbout the
Tation (KACF) in China, sno cevelapes o

¥ People that organizes an anti-taperiaiiat .

was formed in China.)

The reasan I fing this mast inter
nat 18 happening in Korea,

they con fing
nd throw off the shackles of -
Jietataranin an develon, eu the KACF hed cane, crescy froe

jutonenous zenes uithin and alang the village,
throughout. But,
united anarchist
Ot Buch & thing

ond provinces
they Would need to have the uider support of o
comaunity to do thet and at this point there 1e
In exdstence anyunere to my knouledse. out, thet
sheuld be an incentive for us to begin to werk ot making such o
[N @ raalits. Of sakiag such 8 thing po 1ble, but in ara

11y be about wenting to do this. About
" claim we want to have by acting upon the
SrineiPals ue 80 clom to Cherien. By Living up ta s standars
of those whom e so-often lova to quote, 4., . Kropotkin,
Bakunin, Goloman, Goguin, Stirner, or syen Meltzer, Chomsky,
terzan, ano ookehin.

to

41

Rt the present, I am haro-pressed to find any real

logicel relevence or significant action or sdvencesent that
srchist heve made in the last SU yeers that can be said to heve
Ge sny resl difference; that have resched the mewses in &

alistic way thot would want them to Secome prosctive with ss.
have not even been sble to cose tagether in a real funcumental
y in which ta develop the finencial eesns to func needed
ejucts that will 11y successful in
In fact, we heve not
the oeopl
¥ there is one, it is not uell known to the mamses. Ue have
t found o way to teckle the Tesl threat of mess incarcerations
4 what to do uith the prison issue or even had any real
tuining end reslistic debate on how to deal with this proble
"a mesningful vay. Tha essence of what I am saying is is thet
not fully ves to the point of being
lloued ourselves to be
anting to be told wnat to 0o,
- agvance ourselves along with other formetions that are
totegicelly applying themselves to spacific end concrete issues
c hona.
At some point we are going to have to think of uays to
cue ourselves from the dust-covered vaults of history books
te our own history by oing proguctive uorks. ue
1 cefinition of who and uhat we sre enc what we
re about collectively. And 80, we need to figure out some besic
sestions of real concern ond 1 will 1ist a few of them:

Acked by our oun thinking of not

1) In uhet veys should ue struggle uith other local anc
global caspaigna? Ang what stretegies snould we employ
¢ ue uork with thea?

2) Mow do ue meke our work attractive to the messes wnere
they would be willing to work with us? Ano/or, how g0
we coabot the negative, stereotype image of Anarchist
in order to better elign ourselves uith the messes

3) How o we effective propagste our sgendas in the
schools and in the community at lerge?

3) Wow can ve get better cooperation amang ourselves
wnere we could heve specific affinity groups that
. solely function in ome particular ares 3f work wnere
ch group is doing rate uork but all o
working collectively on a mejor important pie
that ue can achisve and cosplete tasks?

Personelly, 1 don't think we can really afforc to
ontinue to play at being revolutionary or donning the title of
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old Dylan Drapeau, equally brilliant and talented, was
pointlessly murdered by a “bad apple” off-duty cop, one Brian
Dorian, at a dangerous intersection in Crete, our sister town,
‘where the Drapeau’s live.

The cover-up was swift and extensive. Several police forces
arein on it. When is a crime not a crime, you ask? The answer
is when a cop commits it. So, it’s been several months of lies,
‘more lies, deceit and its opposite — courage, bravery and
dear Dylan. Blessedly for the family, a righteous witness came
forward to the family, after the disgusting brush-off by the
Crete police, didn't take. Dylan’s father, Ken, also managed to
find a mechanical engineer professor with the experience and
social conscientiousness to genuinely explain how this
‘monstrous collision actually happened. This, of course, totally
debunks the shameful effort put forth by the police in Crete, as
‘well as the Tllinois State police reconstruction report.

‘Soon, the truth will come out, in gruesome detail. For,
Dylan, was an exemplary yousg fman, not o mention an
incredibly talented pianist. He truly was a modern-day
‘make a wonderful adult life happen. Dylan likewise never
‘touched drugs or alcohol.

'Up to this point, Dorian hasn't even been ticketed, not been

as.a Lynwood cop. He's still out there menacing
(and assaulting) other people, protected by the smirking low-
Yifes around him. We had hoped to change this, once we met
with the Will County Prosecutors who are considering charges
against him.

Yesterday, my wife and I and the Drapeau’s, Ken and
Sharrie met with two such people. We gave them the report.
They still don't believe Dorian was turning at such a recklessly
high speed, slamming into Dylan car broadside, locking
vehicles, killing Dylan. The laws of Ilinois, land of corruption,
are easy on a murderer who uses speed and recklessness to kill
his victims. We will continue, through the tears and anger, to
get them to charge Dorian with a serious felony. Yesterday, it
‘was nine months to the day that Dylan was killed. Even if the
prwealtmsmtnoguflssandpm—pigmchmgehim,wewfll
‘most certainly take the case to the court of public opinion,
where we know we will win. We need a complete revolution!
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