Conflict, Violence, Rebellion Now!
Going to prison is an experience that teaches far more about consciousness & self awareness than a thousand self help seminars. In prison we experience the true nature, the controls, of our culture directly. We see their operations naked, instead of hidden & dressed up in illusions & niceties. Power over others is a vise, an addictive clamp used to hold us with our own hopes & fears. There are always privileges that might be gained, if we behave, & there is always somewhere worse that they can put us, something they can do to us or take away from us for refusing to be controlled. We are caught, & in prison there is no distraction from or escaping the knowledge of this control. The system, it has devised a thousand minor rituals & a thousand petty rules, often enforced by equally minor & petty people, to drive that lesson home, again & again & again.
When you are put into handcuffs it has absolutely nothing to do with preventing an attack on police officers who often outnumber some 3, 4, 5+ to 1. These handcuffs are about enforcing a sense of helplessness & hopelessness. To strip you of your inherent rights as a living being to protect & defend yourself from those who would harm you or who would attempt to exert forced control over you. When you are crammed into a holding tank, a booking room or a prison cell with too many people for any level of privacy of comfort, with open toilets & showers it is to ingrain the idea that things can & will be made worse for you if you act with any level of independence, out of the system’s control. When you are strip searched, told to spread your ass wide open & cough, is it about humiliation as a means of shaming punishment & has nothing to do with contraband being found… A thousand minor rituals & petty rules, all with the purpose of solidifying the system’s control over you.
An act of violence, perpetrated against you, against the citizens of the country & against the world entire. It is the very height of violence in fact, though the politicians & police & media & sometimes even your own neighbor would attempt to convince you otherwise, They will even actively work to convince you that any act of resistance, or self preservation, that goes against the system & its soulless minions of orthodoxy is an act of violence, when it is clearly not. When politicians are allowing, & even inviting corporations to poison every stretch of land & every drop of water, it is violence. When police & prisons drain enormous resources away from communities that are never safer, no matter how many of them are available, it is violence… When you resist all of these, by any means available, it is not violence, but a right guaranteed by life itself. That is what nonviolence is.
There is another weapon & force of immeasurable violence levied against us & that is hypocrisy. It is everywhere present especially among the political and enforcement castes, spread virally by the media. A spectacle of examples is the topic of conflict. All too often, & erroneously, conflict is equated to violence when in fact the two are not synonymous. Politicians, their enforcers, & the media regularly feed us lines about avoiding conflict as if resolving such things was beyond our means as lowly citizens, but also as if it were a pointless endeavor. All the while “conflict” – often deliberately & wrongly portrayed as, or at least attached to violence of an oppressor – is rampant, found in every corner of the media broadcast. Worse still is how often those who challenge the oppressors – the perpetrators of violence – are shown to lose & be punished for daring to resist. Those seeking fair & justice based resolutions bear the brunt of the violence of oppressors.
Nowhere is this violent hypocrisy more clear & obvious than it is in the “justice” system, so called. Justice long ago ceased to be a guiding factor in adjudication, giving way to a sort of sock puppet vengeance for supposed victims – those who themselves long ago laid down their rights to life at the altar of the oppressors. The vengeance is hollow & empty & no victim is ever truly satisfied, though they are heavily reminded of what happens to those who resist, or even those who protect themselves from any harm. In those exceedingly rare occasions when the political caste has itself or its enforcers brought to account, the system quickly shows its true nature. In case you are not paying attention, it is getting worse by the day, though it seems as if you still believe that empty political slogans, more enforcers & more prisons will solve the problems (which 70 years of reports solidly refutes, leaving no more room for any debate on the subject.)
We are now regularly discovering that it is those who are in power who are constantly the cause of our problems, routinely caught & exposed as corrupt & violent in their need to lord over others. Police, chiefs & other lower-ranked officers, caught in drug rings, but more seriously they are found to be involved in prostitution & human trafficking rings, both of which are often carbon copies of DOC policies regarding how captives of the state are treated. Once again, & perhaps ironically, the hypocrisy is obvious & plastered in front of our faces, yet should any of those exploited & oppressed show even the least resistance the punishment & humiliation will be quick and severe.
Recently, the overt & blatand exercise of power along with the very loud message “YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS!” is coming faster than at any time prior. The police assault on a small newspaper comes to mind. Police simply manufactured a warrant, based solely on politics, & started to confiscate – openly steal – all of the newspaper’s computers & records. Such treason & usurpation is actually an [???] offense, but no such equitable punishment was doled out to those enforcers of the political class. Instead, a gentle & disingenuous apology was issued – not from the police mind you – & the stolen manuals returned. Still, the precedent was set and put laxly in the public eye.
An even more disturbing development was the imprisonment of parents for not reporting to a public – state – school the reasons their children were absent… for an entire 7 days… in 2021-22 while Covid was still raging… RED ALERT! Demand that parents, essentially, turn their children over to the state? Not in any place where liberty is supposed to ring true. Of course, America has a long history of forced (re)education… ask any non-white, non-Europeans, they will tell you the stories. Once again we see the oppressors coming down on anyone for the least bit of personal choice. They are coming for you too, but go ahead and doubt that fact, while you are still allowed to.
This leads me to the growing “problem” of smash and grab robberies & mob shoplifting. While at first glance the media portrait is a part of “the violent crimes sweeping the nation,” but really is it a problem? Maybe for the corporations whose box stores ran the local mom & pop stores into the ground, sure, it is a problem for them. For the rest of us? Not at all, not a problem in the least. First, most of what is being stolen are non-essential items. Second, they are often sold on eBay or Craigslist, or FB groups at a discount, so we get our non-essential items for even less. Third & most important, it seems that only those stores who cater to the upper castes & rich are targeted mostly. So, really it is only for the elites and no one else.
It is worth pointing out just how much our American identity is built upon the romanticism of Robin Hood, of Revolutionaries stealing tea & dumping it in a bay, of outlaws standing up against obvious tyrants. We love that idea… then we lambast & condemn those who have the courage to act in the same manner. This is a level of hypocrisy that should make any & all Americans sick to their stomachs. Instead, we simply scroll to the next picture of a cat & the next whimpers of some celebrity whose shallow existence of illusory pomp has so bearing on substantive reality. I personally applaud these merry men & women who steal from the rich, even if what they give to the poor is a cheaper price.
There will be those who disagree with such a sentiment, though most of those will only do so on their computers via social media. Only the rare American will be so bold as to say “that robbery I will not allow,” pull out a gun & brazenly – calmly – shoot the robber, & with such aplomb that we won’t put down or drop his case of beer in the process. That is what real community & liberty looks like. It is also what the political enforces castes fear most; that you will realize that you don’t need politicians or police. If that good citizen is in any way charged with a crime for protecting his community, that community should gather & march to the prosecutor’s house or office, drag him to the street & hang him for acts against humanity… Resistance isn’t violence!
The time has come, it arrived some time ago actually, for citizens of the world to throw off the yoke of oppressors & tyrants with their doublespeak & petty rules, to take that which is rightfully theirs. Decades of being lulled into a sleepy illusion have left us all waking to the truth of our world, here at home and abroad. The old system is in its death rattle now, & the power hungry political & enforcer castes are desperately looking at any angle to preserve their positions as nobility & aristocratic lords/ladies. Rebellion has begun, it is spreading, & it is gaining supporters that no longer buy into the right/left nonsense. The curtain has been pulled back. It’s okay. Rise up & take what was yours all along.
David Annarelli 1853637
Pocahontas State Correctional
PO Box 518
Pocahontas, VA 24635
Mongoose Distro 