Transcription published on 88/17/2024 at
https:/malikspeaks.noblogs.org/post/2824/88/17/you-are-
not-the-wolf/

Cover set in FARMHAND REGUAR

Body text set in Atkinson Hyperlegible
Democracy, as defined by Oscar Wilde: “The bludgeoning of the
people, by the people, for the people” — in other words, a
system that offer everyone the opportunity to rule everyone else
but renders none free. The critical founding fathers overthrew
kings and tyrants but didn't do away with the mechanisms of
control that allowed kings and tyrants to rule, they just
democratized them. So whoever operates the levers of control —
be they kings, presidents, electorate or politicians — the
experience from the receiving end is the same. Pigs, law and
bureaucracy all existed long before democracy. They only serve
to interrupt self-determination, but because we get to cast
ballots about how they reply, we regard them as powers, even
when they are used against us.

This brings me to the peculiarity of the prisoner who still proudly
Votes, “I'm an American, I love my country, we're going downhill,
we need *insert" (whatever charismatic narcissist they would
vote for if they could, but they can't 'cause they're a felon)". This
typical prisoners is also likely the same one that says, “We are
going to the Superbow’. See, ‘we' may sound egalitarian and
collective, communal and participatory, but more often than not,
its referring to hierarchical constraints in societal
configurations. Let us remember that fascism is also a form of
collectivity. Let's examine if you are the ‘we', shall we?

“We' will never give up our homeland, ‘we’ will defend it to the
death” — all the while, they've never seen a battlefield. The
executive ‘we’: “We've’ gotten productivity up 25% percentage
here, ‘we're’ gonna see a real return in profits” — meanwhile,
what was their part in the ‘we'? Cutting hours, layoffs,
shortening breaks, maybe? Certainly not working! The bosses’
‘we': “We' need to [indistinct] half an hour, [indistinct]". We
often reference the sports fans: “*You' guys really are going all
the way this year?” — you and your respective team, do send me
a postcard and take pictures, tell me how many rushing yards
you personally attained. Some forms of we are entirely fictional
the patriots’ ‘we’. That ‘we" includes everyone who happens to
have citizenship in any given nation. Identity politics ‘we': seeking
to create subconscious social bodies by premising a mythical
common [indistinct] based on circumstantial evidence, something
tike Biden saying, “If you don't vote for me, you ain't black”, or
moreso.

I could go on, but there's only two proper forms of the word ‘we’
for anyone to use, but specifically for prisoners: editors can use it,
and people with tapeworms. And of course, in situations where,
like in situations that Lone Ranger and Tonto find themselves in,
when being set upon by so-called Indians, where with Lone
Rangers saying, “Looks like we're in trouble, old pal," and Tonto
would say, “what do you mean ‘we', white man?"

To bring it back to the prisoner: you're no more American than the
Kids in cages at the border, 'm afraid, ‘cause believe me, when
they say ‘we’, they certainly don't mean you. The average “good
citizen, such as the one who only circumnavigates the laws they
find inconvenient and can get away with, isn't given a shit about.
S0 you can consider yourself damn sure so outside of the ‘we', so
insignificant to the establishment, that the Eagle’s fans, with the
time-honored traditions and superstitions, are more relied on and
cared about by that sports team, than the government you

praise so highly — one that revokes your rights, freedom, self-
determination, individuality and humanity all on the day you're
born, then just so happens to put you in a cage in the name of
“justice” and “protecting society".

This “democracy” you love so much isn't working for you. Look
around. And for those of you who are free, not incarcerated, don't
[indistinct] yourself too much. Democracy oppresses you oo, It
grinds you down with the time-honored capitalist tradition of work
for wages to afford you the ability to fill your own personal self-
styled prison (i.e. home) with things the media touts and
purports to sell to you to make you happy. Yet happiness is
always a thing just out of reach, because they made us hate
ourself and love their wealth. You people who are free and think
‘we', what if you're just enough of a ‘we’ to be the ones that ‘we’
send to die for profits, or ‘we' employ to oppress and subjugate
aclass of people that you could quite easily, even accidentally,
fall into yourself? You're in the [indistinct] just enough to vote,
live in your own self-styled prisons, consume, buy, work and die,
but you'll never be the ‘we' that benefits from anything you do.
Yup, even you see those who walk around counting how much
money you made this year, $266,008 for 7 days of your life, for
12 hours a day for 365 days — wow, fuck, you know what you
deserve? A reward! How about you get to vote who ‘we' are?
Problem solved! Here's another treat: things! Have fun, fill your
prison with them, be comfy, but don't you dare say there's not
enough time to enjoy your litle things, you gotta work.

The same way we can buy little things for our little prison cells
to be comfy awaiting our deaths, so you do the same with just a
few more allotments. You're not ‘we’, though. I compare you
more to Kratos in Greek mythology, actually. In the story where
Kratos, the Greek god who literally embodies force, is leading
Prometheus to prison for the quintessential act of [indistinct],
dealing fire for humanity, he ruthlessly follows Zeus's order even
to the contempt of his fellow jailer, for the [indistinct] between
them says, “you were made for any tyrant’s act”. See, Kratos can
bind Prometheus, punishing and suppressing his creative
impulse, but cannot free him,

This is what autocracy, democracy, and all systems of power
have in common In establishing power over, they can only
hobble their subjects, never ennoble them. The institutions of
coercion, the legal apparatus, the police, military, jailers and
such, have changed little in the transition from feudalism to
democratic capitalism. It's made to impose tyranny, whether
kings, presidents, bureaucrats, or the people themselves.

If that wasn't enough to get you thinking, ‘cause while [indistinct]
to work here, you don't have to be the sharpest tack in the drawer,
50 let me break it down to you [indistinct]-style:

Three wolves and six goats are sitting down to decide what to
have for dinner. One boldly proclaims, “Let's put it to a vote!” And
the rest of the goats fear for their lives, but the wolves acquiesce.
While everyone is casting their ballots, the wolves pull aside three
goats and say, “Vote with us to eat the other three goats;
otherwise, vote or no vote, we'll eat you'. After the ballots were
counted, the remaining goats were aghast that three of their
comrades voted for them to be eaten. This caused a commotion.
The goat who originally asked to put it to a vote says, “Hey hey
hey, calm down, at least ‘we’ got to vote!”

Now if you still haven't got there yet, substitute goat with sheep,
and know that you are not the wolt.
ABOUT MALIK

MY NAME 1S NALIK FARRAD NUBAMMAD. A 26 VEAR: 8
OLD BLACK/PALESTINIAN PANSENUAL NUSLIM (VES, HELLA
CONFUSING). ' AN ANARCHIST AVTIEASCIST, NTE- 8
RACIST ABOLITIONIST (VS, BOTH COPS AND PRISONS)
FORNY LOVE OF FREEDOM MY FIRST PROTEST WAS N
HIGH SCHOOL: A WALKOUT STAGED AFTER TREXVON
NARTIN'S MURDER. FROM THERE, | NEVER REALLY GO
ACTIVEAGAIN DNTIL “BERNIE OR BUST” AND THEN, 0F
COURSE, THE GEORGE FLOYD UPRISING. | TRAVELED
THE COUNTRY A\D ORGANIZED AND FOUGHT AND WAS
ULTINATELY KIDKAPPED RANSONED AND NOW HELD
PRISONER HEREAT OSP. | HAVE A BEAUTIFUL SON AND A
LOVING FAMILY BACK HOME IN THE MIDWEST. M ALSO A
VETERAY, | WAS A TANKER IN THE ARMY — AND N0, PN NoT 5
PROUD THAT | WAS PART OF THE MURDER NACHINE, S0 DON'T THANK ME FOR MY SERVCE. |
LOVE NUSIC MORE THAN ANVTHING ALMOST, AM A GUITARIST AND ASPIRING PAIST, ALL
GENRIS.

NOT MUCH ELSET0 SAY EXCEPT THAT ' A LOVER OF FREEDO, EQUITY AND EQUALIT, AND
WILLFIGHT T0 MY AST BREATH FOR 1T UNLIKE THOSE WHO MAY REGRET A THING THEY
DIDT0 GET CONVICTED OR THOSE WHO TEMPERED THEIR ACTIONS FOR FEAR F THE
CONSEQUENCES, | REGRET NOTHING, IF ONLY NOT DOING MORE BEFORE I AS CAUGHT. I
WILLLIVEFOR THE PEOPLE AND L DIE FOR THE PEOPLE BECAUSE I LOVE THE PEOPLE, WE
WHO WANT FREEDOM CANNOT REST TILL IT CONES.”

NALIK IS CLRRENTLY HELD IN PRISON ON A TEN YEAR SENTENCE OVER HISINVOLVEMENT N THE GEORGE FLOYD
UPRISING IN SO-CALLED PORTLAND, OR.

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