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FREE Vol. 1, No. 11 Anarchist Black Dragon' WASHINGTON STATE PENITENTIARY The other major change is our printer/distributor. We have recently become affiliated with a different group, the SURVIVAL NEIWORK, and they are now handling that end of the endeavor. This has taken some time to accomplish completely and this issue is the first time this group and we have worked jointly together on a DRAGON. We are hoping that this union will last for some time and that our efforts will expand to include other related actions.
Well, it's about time we got into the real meat of the issues, isn't it? Feel free to communicate any feelings you may have, ideas that you've thought out, hate mail you've contemplated, news from your neck of the THE DRAGON SPEAKS woods, and/or anything else you feel like sending. We can't guarantee we will print your whatevers - thus making you a star overnight - but we can It's been some time, kiddies, since a DRAGON has come out. We guarantee that we enjoy hearing from you. We've got a Revolution to win wish to apologize for the delay and we hope that you've all waited and we can't do that unless we get into action. Communications are essen patiently for this issue. You might notice a few changes in the way tial to that action. Hey, if you got something to say, say it. This is a this one is put together. free country - or it will be by the time we're done.
One of the more noticeable changes is the cover. We've decided - ABDC - to return to our original dragon for several reasons. The first of these reasons is that we feel our cover came to be recognized by the rugged good looks of this particular critter. The second reason is ow States' Prison Populations Compare! that there are two basic species of dragons in the world - the Euro pean dragon and the Oriental one. 37 The European dragon is known primarily by its wings, the main --...... appendage missing in the Oriental model. Additionally, the European dragon is a symbol of evil, the "monster" vanquished by the "heroic 113 actions" of the legendary 11 st. George" when this chivalrous indivi 97 dual felt in the mood to rescue fair maidens in distress. (It is COtO.- · .214 not known at this time how ol' George determined if these maidens 93 were actually in distress. Rumor is that George was little more than a psycho who enjoyed sticking his nose where it didn't belong since this created the excuse he needed to indulge himself in the usual orgy of killing.) On the other hand, the Oriental model is a symbol of good luck, fortune, and i s generally considered to be a good guy. It is a sign of strength. There is no mistaking the Oriental dragon when he gets down to business. When the ANARCHIST BI.A.CK DRAGON COLIECTIVE started the term "dragon" was taken from the famous quotation of Ho Chi Mihn. Ho referred to this wingless dragon in that quote. Washington, D.C., hos 461 prisoners for every 100,CX)() population - t e highest rote in the U.S. :rhe states with the highest proportion of prisoners are South Carolina and Nevada, each with 253 prisoners l),er 100,CX)() people. North Dakota hos the lowest at 37, according to the Justice Dept. Figures reflect prisoners serving one year or more in ff derol and state orisons a nd in some states orisons and local iails. Hits c;jlrtoon, editorial study of an explosive problem, not a simplistic one. There is nothing proffered Broacfled next to a silly cartoon - enti in the sentencing guidelines about rehabili tled '._'.Let the punishment fit the crime" - tation, or alternatives to prison. The guide we tfave an equally silly editorial entitled, lines only address ode issue l:lnd that is the Special ·' Approach deserves try." What a joke. If length of the sentence. The.commission has you believed it and justice was to be succeeded in creating one big chart that in 5erved, Richard Nixon would now be in the creases the punishment for crimes of vio penitentiary. There can be no justice in lence many, ·many years beyoncl the sen i nvestigatior America sensibly discussed with a (sen tences that presently exist, and broadens tencing guidelines) commission that is the use of mandatory sentences that de composed of two prosecutors; the superin prive th£> judges of any use of their judicial tendent of institutions; the chairman of the common sense. needed to do parole board; the director of the office of This is not a study. but a cru~l hoax, and finances; the police chief of Kirkland, it. will only lead to more and more prison Nash.; two defense attorneys and three riots and rebellions and it will sustain the orivate citizens. It is obviously weighted in racial prejudice and intolerance in the ex sensitive, 'avor of those who believe in stricter pun isting system. To require individual judges .shment. to act in name only is a farce. The guidelines commission's job was to You cannot experitnent around with the fotermine a better approach, and alterna constitutional rights of citizens. Every secret work jves to our present system, which is not dime we put into a penal system comes .vorkmg. from a school or a Social Security recipient If prisons are the answer, why does the or a man or woman who can't find a job, ~rime keep rising as it has from 1975-81, and ups the taxes in an already tax-bur .vhile the rate at which people were being dened state. I would have hoped for better •ocked up rose by over one-third? And why from you. loes the U.S. have the highest rates of se -ious, violent crime in the industrialized .vorld while imprisoning more people for Spokane . onger periods than any industrialized sod ~ty save the Soviet Union and South Afri :a? (July 13, Spokesman-Review, Tom Nicker). MOTHER OF THE YEAR Why is the commission all white. when ·acial and ethnic minorities account for ap xoximately 11 percent of Washington's Those o£ you familiar with our format might be a bit )Opulation? They comprise 30 percent of surprised to see us running a nominee for MOTHER OF THE he population in adult correctional facili IEAR, but sometimes we can't contain ourselves when we see ies, and that excludes poor whites who nake up the rest of the population in the someone actually getting involved in activities that show nain. a great deal of initiative and courage. We just have to The deepest article of American faith i.s applaude it. he right to have justice meted out accord ng to the individual circumstances of a ·ase by an individual judge and by individ- On the other hand, those of you familiar with our 1al jurors. What the present SentPncing format might not be a bit surprised to see us running a }uidelines Commission is attempting to do s to put blocks of people in jail for longer nominee for MOTHER OF THE YEAR simply because you 're 1eriods of time. As of yet, thPy do not even familiar with our format. Hey, we're Anarchists, this is ,ddress the two most popular categories of ·rime in the guidelines. One is drugs and an Anarchist paper, and so we'll print what we feel like he other is second-degree burglary. printing. In the face of ~II the carnage that the "ta,te· of Washington ··wen~ Hll'ough,-H<1--•H<1e• .;;;..- ""~"f!y.,;;..~i~e,...J:eli-:t~e~...... ~.--.__-..,. . rison rebellion of 1979, and the imposed iandates. by United States District Court COE. udge Jack Tanner, the place is still so rowded that on two occasions in the last Mrs. Coe, from the information we've been able to ear officials have just arbitrarily released eople. They are still overcrowded and the gather, isn't your average run-of-the-mill troublemaker. tmosphere is still charged with tension For many years her most daring activities appear to be nd the best input we get from thP Review some efforts to reform the Washington State prison sys . that "these guidelines are an experiment t best." tem. Aside from that she's been working primarily as a If you recognize or acknowledge that the Wife. and Mother. 'ntencing theory "involves punishment, rotection of society, rehabilitation and de !rrence," you should insist on a thorough All that started tp change, however, when her son was arrested as the Southbj_ll Rapist, a figure that plaguing the Spokane area for several months. After a trial, notable chiefly for questionable legal practices on the part of the State, Fred was convicted and sentenced to enough time to make Methuselah flinch. Never let it be said that Ruth Coe took this lightly. Satisfied that her son had been treated unfairly by the local authorities, she got going on a solution to the problem. It was obvious that something had to be done to show the law the error of its ways. This led to a bit of difficulty. It appears that her solution was to make sure that these people never again attacked her family. While her efforts at prison reform had given her a background in the evils of the System, it hadn't given her the skills, expe rience, or connections to help her with this "The role of the State is to assert a monopoly on crime; individuals get medals, prarotions and FORUM FOLllES honors, by ca:rmitting the same acts for the State Our frequent coverage of psycNolog for which they would be hanged in any__ot:her cir'"" ical surveys, studies and research ir cumstance." --· "Forum Newsfront" prompted Andrev. fran "Roots of War", R.J. Barnet Arnesson of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, tc submit the following bit of doggerel source, author, era unknown-which he "I think that the oppressed are always in a state found while sorting through some olo of legitimate self-defence and have always the papers. right to attack the oppressors. I admit there NOTES FROM A PSYCHIATRIC WORKER fore that there are wars that are necessary-wars I never get mad, ·I get hostile. I never feel sad, I'm depressed. of liberation, such as are generally called 'civil /( I sew or t knit and enjoy it a bit, wars'-that is, revolutions. I'm not handy, I'm merely obsessed. -Enrico Malatesta- I never regret, I feel guilty; · cane And if I should vacuum the hall, People who out of prison can build up the Wash the woodwork and such, and country. Not mind it too much, Misfortune is a test of people's fidelity. Am I tidy? _Compuls(ve is all. Those who protest at inju,stice are people of If I-can't choose a hat, I have con true :rrerit. flicts, With ambivalent feelings toward it. When the prison doors are opened, the real I never get worried, or nervous or dragon will fly out. hurried; -Ho Chi Minh, Prison Writings Anxiety, that's-what I get! If I'm happy, I must be euphoric. If I go to a Stork Club or Ritz And have a good time making puns MOTHER OF THE YEAR.con't. or a rhyme, I'm a manic--or maybe a schiz. particular type· of problem. Never the one to stand idle, she was If I tell you you're right, I'm sub missive, determined to overcome the.minor obstacles in her path. Repressing aggressiveness, too; And when I disagree, I'm defensive, However, when she endeavored to locate a "hitman" to carry you see, out the double hit - the Prosecuting Attorney and Judge who did And projecting my symptoms on you. the number on Fred - she ran into difficulties right from the I love you, but that's just trans~ . ference 11 git-go .. She was steered to a man identified as "a Mafia hitman. With Oedipus rearing his head. Unfortunately, the guy wasn't Mafia, but was a member of another My breathing asthmatic is psychoso organized crime network - the Spokane law-enforcement community. matic, This sort of put a crimp in the entire plan and Mrs. Goe was· ar . A fear of exclaiming, "Drop dead!" rested and charged with soliciting a killing or something like I'm not lonely, I'm simply dependent. My dog has no fleas, just a tic. that. It would app~ar that the Spokane police-types have neither So if I'm a cad, never mind, just a sense of humor nor- -a sense of justice. be glad _ That I'm not a stinker-I'm sick! . Af' . . ."' h :•·+ .. t,1-.; .:a 1 i :.:£.i.it.b..-.G..9e.,~~,,,.J;.~~t:-ed_~n~L~~..e,ll-.-~- ~..... , ...... ~~--"""'!!'-=-----lill!!i!O--"l""!'!ll!!""" But it appears that some people in the·law.;.enforcement comrnwiity felt a bit ashamed of themselves - or perhaps pressures within the community caused them to reconsider - and the sentence im- posed was probation. A year in jail was added. Now she is staying at the Geiger Field-Work Release Facility in Spokane, tald.ng some college courses and waiting to get back into the community.
Now, some people may aggressively argue the pros and cons of her actions, but it ap pears to us that her only error was one of carelessness. Perhaps the emotional burden of the time combined with a lack or experience in this field was the cause of this. However·, that does not in any way detract from the plan of action conceived in her _mind nor does it hide the fact that Mrs. Coe takes Motherhood just about as seriously as anyone can. That, friends, is the reason that we are happy to announce that, in our opinion(s), Mrs. Ruth Coe is deserving of the title MOTHER OF THE YEAR. When her family was under attack she decided on direct action. When her son suffered the underhanded treatment ac corded hi.Ill by the Washington State criminal justice (?f system, she refused to simply sit and wait for "justice to be done." She didn 1t rati·onalize the errors of the system. and allow it to escape Justice. She ACTED. That, friends and neighbors, is what Mothers are all about. We send our love and respect-to Mrs. Coe along with the love and respect o:r quite a number of prisoners in this institution. We were surprised and elated to hear o:f this Woman who refused to as sist tyranny by remaining immobile. If there was ever anyone deserving of the title of MOTHER OF THE. YEAR it is Ruth ·coe. Love and Respect to you, Mrs. Coe, and if there's anything we can do •••
- ABDC - Court OKs He died .free payment to "'· . TACOMA (AP) - Dennis Vensel, perhaps th• only man imprisoned to be paroled from the state corrections system because of tl'rminal illness, has dil'd a fr~ man. . Vensel, 32, who suffered from cancer _or the lungs, liver innocent man and ahdomen, died Thursday while bemg treated at Ta NEW YO~K (AP) - Isidore coma General Hospital, said his mother, Jran Knowles. . '.immerman may soon be a rich He was paroled last December to sp~nd hi~ last days m nan, but it cost him 25 years in freedom and seek medical care not available m the- correc- 1rison and nine months on death tions system. · ow for a murder be didn't com The clrcumslances were unique in the history of the nit. 1 tate'a prlt10n 11y11lrm, Dirk Paulson. spo\sesman for the Zimmerman, who spent 20 sate Department of Social and Health Services, said ears un~mployed or doing odd Friday. abs after his release, bas won a "It certainly was the only case I can think of in the amage suit charging that New Isadore Zimmerman 1tate where that has been done," Paulson said. 'ork State wrongly convicted A 1977 colostomy was believed to have halted sprt>ad of iin. Now 64, jobless and ailing, Vensel's disease, but a medical examination conducted e's waiting to find. out how much 111hile be was being held in the Pierce County Jail for an e will collect. alleged work-release vlolati• determined that the cancer bad spread. · · 1 · The former death row inmate, 1ving in Queens on $95 a week in Vensel was told' the disease was terminal, arid, bis at nemployment benefits that are torney asked that he be released- to seek therapy more bout to· run out, won a summary freely. . udgment in the state Court of After a jail doctor con!ir.mt'd the diagnosis, Pierce Coun '.laµns on Nov. 9, The judgment ty Superior Court Judge Nile E. Aubrey dismissed local neant that the court agr~ with misdemeanor drug possession charges against Vensel. :immerman's contentior$ that a tate prosecutor bad tried him tor Sympathetic correctional officials speeded up paperwork murder the prosecutor knew 'he to secure a parole and, in December, he was released by idn't commit and suppressed evi the state Board of Prison Terms and Paroles. ence that proved him innocent: While still in custody, Vensel complained that he wasn't able to get treatment other than emergency hospitalization The only unresolved issue is for brief periods and painkilling drugs. ow much money Zimmerman 1ill get from the state.. His suit Parole made it easier for the family to cope with Ven sks $10 million in damages for 0 :'2..-:-~--... sel's disease, b.11 mother said Friday. 1rongful imprisonment. "... You say sometimes you feel like running '· away from your problems? Excellent, excef/ent His lawyer, Fred Fabricant, Idea! 1 don't know why I didn't think of that aid that the Court of Claims has myselfl Montana perhaps, ,?T even the Plllllp·
·et to set a date for determining ·· ~ ·· oL!llls. • L~• ., • he size of the settlement, but he 198 who earned at least $200,000 paid no taxes in 1980 aid Zimmerman could be count- · . . . . . :1 his mone before ear's end. WASHINGTON (A~) -; The In- rose 25 percent, to 149,826. . peopl~ with mcomes of $1 rmlho1 ~abricant ysaid th/$10 million ternal Reve~ue. ~rv1ce sa.ys 1.98 The total ?f we~-to-do Amer~- a year or more. drew unemploy . .laim "is reasonable...and.illlQY..:..~~ples ~-i:-.i,n~v1duals. !i'~~ .."!~ -~ns"'~ho_.~d_n~co11:1e.. ~:iL.,...~~~.£Qny>e~ti<>~ :som~~ . hin conservative" considering coltib-aoo~~&lue~cmsiderablyiargerthatnndica~ess lieiiet1ts,"''h he g,extraordinar' • len th of tions and credits to wipe out all in a new IRS report. The ms nanced through taxes on employ· ,rongftil imprison~nt. g !~eir federal income-tax liability s~tistics are ~ on tax returns ~rs, are paid without regard tc Fabricant said his fee will be m 1980... . filed_ an~ do not include ~ousands mcome. rom 20 percent to 33 percent of . The number 1:11creased from 114 ~f higb-mco~e people with large he settlement, depending on the m !979, according to th~ IRS. Al~ mvestments ~ tax-free state and The IRS is required to repor ize ,of the final award. Expert ·though total tax retw:ns mcreased local !><>nds; mcome from those each year on tax returns filed b) ritnesses will cost Zimmerman ,by only 1 pe.rce~t m 1980, the bonds is ~ot even reported to~- people with incomes abov( n aaditional $2,000 to $4,000. :number of higb-mcome returns According to the~ report~t ~JO,~O. If Zimmerman wins anywhere · ear $10 million, it. would be· the :1rgest settlement for wrongful Check these out Suspect caught blue-handed nprisonm~nt in New York State and then tell me istory, and possibly in U.S. histo why they say we in hospital panty extortion plot y, Fabricant said. The most re KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) - writing a seri_es of threatening ent large settlement lawyers ANARCHISTS are the authors of A janitor was charged with ex notes. ould recall was a $1 million suit tortion after allegedly demand ,on in 1980 against Long Beach, . Moore quoted Max Peters, chaos and disor ing that a female hospital head of hospital security, as :alif., by Juan Venegas, who was der in the world. employee leave up to nine pairs saying that the first note threat •rongfully convicted of murder. Could it be we're of panties in a locker, police en~ ·a female employee if she The odds against winning such a said Tuesday. uit were formidable. Most states all being just a failed to leave five pairs of pan ave nearly impenetrable legal bit misinformed? The janitor was sitting in the ties in her locker. Later notes women's locker room, weeping, sought up to nine pairs of pan arriers protecting prosecutors, ties. olice and judges from wrongful But they are all with his hands stained a telltale nprisonment suits.. _blue when he was arrested, said "She kept on getting notes. The last group of notes she got Such barriers can be cleared honorable men ••• police Capt. Bob Moore. · threatened bodily harm," Moore nly if the state legislature passes Moore said Lynn Edward said. special bill allowing an individu- Butcher, 25, of Church Hill, was Moore said Peters had bought 1 like Zimmerman to sue the But, to thine own self be true and free on $10,000 bond after his five pairs of panties and marked tate for damages. Zimmerman arrest Saturday in. the locker them with invisible-powder that ot such a bill passed in July 1981, it follows ••• you room at.Holston Valley Medical turns blue when wet. On Satur ?ading to the suit be ·has now won. will probably wind Center. day, Butcher "went in and "I feel good," Zimmerman said up in prison. Hospital officials alerted po- opened up the locker and took 1 an interview Tuesday, "because lice two weeks ago, and a video- out the panties," Moore said. ·hat I want to do is use the money On the other hand, tape camera· hidden in the Butcher "noticed the blue ) start a foundation named for locker room led to the arrest, marks and he tried to wash 1y parents, Fannie and Morris you just might ••• immerman, to help victims of officials said.' them off, but he just got bluer," tiscarriages of justice." Police said Butcher denied Moore said. __ . _ __ _ _ In 1937, Zimmerman, then 19 --t.tP--ri~ ~EAA,; · · - - ~.AND voo·~~ "f\'\E. PRINCIPAL 00C-1DR ... 801" ~ER Al A. PSycl-\lA-"Tfc.'Y od getting ready to go to Colum NOW l W.W ,,- CONVEN.,-ION ? i.a University on a football schol COM91,.E,1'~L'1' -ship, was convicted of killing a UNOE!it CON1"1'0L. )liceman on the Lower East Side : New York after the prosecutor, 1cob J. Rosenbloom, intimidated itnesses into perjuring them !lves. ·, 116 Al-.50 A CHANG& FOO Lio 10 ~IZ~ Judge leaves FAC£.5 Fre FUlU~& This Is A prisonI group, ~- cites secrecy FREE TICKET It's Not Good For Anyth,ng By W~LL iAwl~. N•w York Tim" N•w• Service It's Just Free WASHINGTON - With a blistering attack on the methods, motives and integrity of the Commission on Accreditation for Corrections. David L. Bazelon. a organizational and financial ties to correction groups federal appeals judge, has resigned from the organiza and fa~ilities raised "numerous conflicts of interest." tion. He said in -his resignation letter that. as a result of Bazelon has publicly disagreed with the 21-mem such "flaws - secrecy. shoddy procedures, resistance ber group's polil'ies of secrecy and confidentiality to refotm, flawed priorities and pervasive conflicts of since joining it two years ago. The commission is the interest - the commission's noble promises have been only national organization that insptets Jnd accredits 1,ubverted and its acceditat1,rn a wards havt: become adult and jun,nile prisons. jail:i and other correction meaningless." facilities. Accreditation helps the insmutions respond "Time and time again I have seen or heard of to legal challenges and other criticism from public instances in which corrections officials have used the interest groups and pri~oner-rights associations. There commission for their own needs," the 72-year-old is no penalty for not being accredited. judge added. "They have used it tu deflect public In a 21-page "m,imorandum of resignation" deliv criticism and scrutiny of their management, to boost ered'to the commission Friday, Bazelon said his "un their ·standing with governors and ll'gislators. to ward successful effons to persuade the commission to open off judges and lawsuits, and to pat themselves on the its fact-finding and dech,ion-making processes to pub back. lic participation and scrutiny'' were a primary reason "They have used it to paper over crises in correc for his decision to quit. He cited specific cases in tions with certificates of ·excellence.' They have used Florida and Illinois to back up his contention. it, in short, for their own propaganda needs." "Although ir has taken a few tentative steps in the He said that if the other commissioners did not right direction, the commistiion has repeatedly refused change their course, "this country will have lost one · to tak(!.meaningful i.te\>s to guarantee its independence of the la.st, best hopes for reforming the human waste and to' ensure the in\egrity of its decisions," said land that is our prison system." ~azel6n, the senior cir<.\Uit judge of the li.S. Court of An institution seeking accreditation first evaluates Appeals for the District of Columbia. "The commission itself to determine how it measures up to national has therefore broken faith with the public and has standards developed by the American Corrections As betrayed the promise of accreditation." sociation. These standard::. cover sanitation, food ser Ilene Bergstnann. a spokesman fur the commission. vice, medical care and work programs, among other respopded: "We are disappointed that things did not things. work' out better bet ween the judge and the commis Then a tei1m of independent auditors invesugates ~ilm. He has mo\'ed uB a clln!>idcr.:tblr. way. He's caused the facility If ils report is accepted by a commission us tl, change s,Hr"1r of our p,)liub ;,rid w..: h;:ive madt:· panel, a three-year certificate of accreditation is ::,,)1m' progre~s.·· awarded. Thereafter. the institution submits annual Sht' said till': julli:;e\ ft:i>ig:1,tl :,"in ;111d 't'IJ:irgt·s wuuld reports of its progress coward meeting staadards it be discui.sed at the comm1,::,llln\ :icxt meeting, Thurs day in Toronto Thac meeting wtll be held in con1unc had failed initially. tion with the annual convrntion of the American Cor Bazt:lon said he WdS di,mayed to learn thar the rections Association, an org.iniz.ilion of correction public was "systematicaiiy excluded from every stage officials and employet's whose ::,tand.ird~ are used in of the commission's work." the accredit.at ion process. He said that public comment was not sought in Bazelon, who had three years rcmJining in his developing the accreditation standards, that che ap five-year term on the comrn1s~ion. said in his memo plications and self-evaluations of the institutions were randum that the commission wa:; flawtd hy "unreli· kept secret, and that the on-site investigations includ able investtgatory practices and unsound deliberative ed no substantial efforts to elicit information from procedures." He also charged that the commission's sources other than the applicant. SPEAK EASY High quality Ohio marijuana earns national reputation Just screw this miniature mechanical marvei into your phone mouthpiece and - · · · · . . . . . thousand several days last year to- year. Officers naa gatri- a red light will shine when any of sinsemilla - Proffitt, 54, S8ld up a ered in POMEROY, Ohio (AP) cash crop, way ahead growrung most ~ few taled about 7 tons. Three- onl 1% tons 8 eavesdroppers or tappers intrude - On a warm late sum- tomatoes and sweet corn which means ''without big growers come in for State budget decisions cost 1he taxpayers in the long run This state's legislative branch is a joke, Keep in mind that WSP is only one small computes'to 11,152.7, ertime hours. I will $34,759.55 in wages in the month of June. A citizens and now you are being shafted. from the governor on down. These pompous area in the network of civil service. I won't use my salary as a se figure to help you person in the accoun~ department at WSP I have registered to vote and will do so in fools have had "emergency sessions," at dig into the wasted money by contractors, understand this in do rs and cents. My cost said the same held true m May. the next election. If there is anyone else 011t $55,000 a day, to try and right the state's here, who don't care if the job is done on time to the state is $1401, nonthly salary, plus there who needs to register, do so. We are the financial wrongs and still have come up with because they get paid anyway . . . cost plus. other benefits of $327 , paid by the state How do you people out of work feel? This only ones who can do any good. a brilliant "O." I will look at just wages, period This hiring that I never see, fo~.t, total of $1748.25 a administration is cheating the jobless and People in Washington get off your dead I am a corrections officer at the Wasb freeze bas really shown brilliance and fo~ month. My salary iii, sed on 174 hours a state workers at the same time not to · butts and care. Your tax dollars are being ington State Penitentiary and am feeling the thought. Some people have had to work month average, so t means I cost the mention what they are doing to the other ripped off. Put people in office who you trust crush of this year's legislative brilliance. double shifts to take up the slack for sick state $9.11 an hour.~ that $9.11 as the "taxpayers'' of this sta~ This kind of thing niosl Keep people in office who work out, Our elected officials are doing "everything'' employees and those who have quit or hourly wage ( othe make more), that is absolutely ridiculous. replace those who don't. OUr system is not to save money including the state hiring retfred. Some of WI are held just long enough 11,152.7 hours of ove · e means the state perfect, but ifs still the best. If you care, freeze at the penitentiary ( and elsewhere), to ftmsh the evening meal - 3 to 5 hours. spent approximately$ · l,601.09 in the month Whose fault is this? Well, I must apologize register to vote and vote. If you don't care? holding back a cost-of-living increase due Since security is most important, these of June for extra wo ·. A "Fish" (new of to my co-workers and the people of - kiss off that $34,000 monthly, and the last October, a partial hold up on our mon people are needed to work overtime just to ficer) would cost thei te $1239 + $325.86 Washington State. It's my fault-partially. I thousands more squandered and quit crying. thly checks, a possible elimination of our maintain security and then in most cases the monthly or $1564.86 a $8.99 an hour. Since didn't vote. I didn't even want to know who You don't deserve anything more, until you step increases and two (2) days off a year officers are still spread thin ( remember that they would have fill vacated posts, their was running for what I wasn't even ., · get off your dead fanny and take action. without pay, All state emi>lovees must "bite security is for your protection also). time would have bee straight time, their registered to vote! I was an apathetic the bullet;" all, that is, except the legislators For the month of June, our officers worked combined cost woulq ave been $66,841.54. bystander. I have no right to complain at all, Patrick C. O'Connor and other "exceptions." Very admirable, a total of7,435.l hours overtime. We are paid What it boils down to; the state could have but those of you who voted do. You are the 826 Alvarado Terrace but. . . let's see bow smart they really are. time and one-half for overtime, so that hired 42 new offi , s, and still saved ones who upheld your responsibility as Walla Walla t Keagan asks Longress to change insanity defense WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan is Hinckley, who was acquitted in the attempted .national. radio audience on Saturday that he would asking Congress to make it tougher for juries to find assassination of President Reagan by reason of propose what he called "cd,mmon sense revisions" in defendants· innocent by reason of insanity, the ~sanity, say~ sen<:1mg him to a mental hospital laws governing the use off the insanity defense in verdict that enabled presidential assailant John W. mstead of pnson "1s the American W Well, friends and neighbors, here is another set of arguments in our series of articles regarQ.ing the differences between Nationalism and Anarchism. The replies we've received have been primarily from the Black Liberation Army(~) with a scat tering of kudos, huzzahs, and an occasional 11 1#$1,&•@" £rom other individuals both on the streets and in 11 restricted environments." This was never intended to be a series or to cover as much material as it has, but we believe in putting the various views out to be look~d at. Now that it's out, study the various points and counterpoints, research the subject(s) as well as you can, and make your own decision(s). But, now that this bas been brought to your attention - in case you missed it going on around you - you can't avoid a decision of one kind or another. The first part of this article is a letter sent to us and stated to have been written by a BIA member, Kuwasi Balagoon, currently incarcerated in the Bronx House of' Detention (653 River Avenue, Bronx, N.Y., 10451). The letter was handwritten and we have done our best to copy it e:]l:actly as it was received. So, without £urther adieu, we present the £ollowing ••• DRAGONS AND DRAGONS - YET AGAIN Power I've just read a piece in the Dragon, issue NO. 10 "Dragons & Dragons"; Re butting the Rebuttal and tind it necessary to make a few observations and offer some critisizms. ' First of' all the black liberation arrey:. is ,made qp no;~~ only _of ..Nationalist,, ---· '"'------..,,bu-c··a:ts'""o.:<5I ~~t'!!!i £-~~~d~~ -~-~~&"f"n'?o'tn~r:r-g~---__ ,_,.___,._. ters who basically feei that black people in the United States are oppressed as a people and naed therefore an armed force to defend and retaliate against the f'orces tha.t maintain the machinery of and carry out tha.t oppression. We were brought here in chains by force to serve someone else 1s purposes and become can- non fodder in the new world economy. To do the bulk of the work others did not want to do, to be traded, breaded or whatever came to the sick minds of owners. This is so irregardless of what may have happened in Africa be.fore we were taken from there and irregardless of what the Europeans may have practiced among them- selves before coming into contact with us. Because of our color we could be identified clearly by the 11 .free11 members of the population as slaves and blacks who were not slaves had to have papers, identifying themselves as non slaves, and after the civil war and the supposed end of antibellwn slavery, all black people within the U.S. were continued to be used as economic cannon fodder, and a target genoside by the U.S. ruling class. Given this history, it is clear why there is a black liberation army. Gi ven the idea of Anarchy that the Capitalist and 11 Socialist11 propogate it would stand to reason, that a lot of people who would consider self determination and armed struggle to achieve this wot;D.d not pick Anarchy automatically and because they do not is not grounds enough to equate a organization of such p~ople with the Klan. To do so is not reasonable, rational or fair. The black liberation army has never tortured, hung or castrated anyone nor terrorized anyone who wasn't a state issued terrorist. Anyone with an understanding of Anarc1'Y can make all those argwnents made in the .aforementioned artical, however, Revolution is Evolution also and on a world scal-e, which is the only scale we have, we find that most of the groups opposing the awesome wannachines of the super. powers and especially the Axis, the United States, Israel and South A.frica are Nationalist in character. What does John Bosch· suggest? That Anarchist don•t side with the oppressed until his hot little pamphlet makes the rounds of all the ghettos, reservations, barrios and refuge camps? That people facing genoside are the same as those who practise it and deserve the same opposition.· This. is as crazy as it is.racist, and racist it is, and nothing less. A key portion o£ this argument is Genoside, hospitals that kill a larger portion of some types of __people than the people who make up the dominant cul ture. Doctors who stef'flize a greater portion'of third world, black and other nonwhite women. Policemen who shoot blacks routinely etc. Surely, you've heard of this. This is what adds such a sence of urgency to the work of the black liberation army, and makes clear what an oppressor is and what the oppressed are. "In one way or another everyone of us is being oppressed11 , but some of us are certainly more oppre~sed than others due to the fact that we are being kil led in greater numbers. I've never seen those terms loaded as much as in this artical "Dragons & Dragons. 11 We should actively oppose; fight the oppressors who are in power and com mitting genoside and criticize the l.imi.ted scope of the Nationalists, and,as more Anarchist joined the armed struggle and deliver a living model of what we intend we should have more faith in people to choose Anarchy. I don't believe the purpose of most of the Nationalist I've come in contact with w~nt a ~epa rate state to be Bosch's master. Self determination, is the right to choose. The United States may well be torn down before there is a black ~tate. If there are enough Anarchist parti sapates, there may be an Anarchist-~erritory too, as w~ as other minority states. I don't know. But I do know that everyone is not going to suddenly tune into everyone and walk out of their selters arm in arm with some new understan ding, 11 Gee, I could have had a V8. 11 Its gonna take alot of fighting, and alot of organizing and alot of explaining, to make different gains in dii'ferent a reas, and w~ had best b~ clear as to .who the oppressor is and who the oppress~d are, and what is it that we should be doing. To confuse everyone who is not an Anarchist as an enemy and put them down as the enemy and not set an example of what it means to be a friend while suggesting 11 that we all group together11 sounds like the work of a clerk. I never heard the joke about the two white radicals in the room with a clock, bei'ore, although I am a black liberation arn\Y warrior and have spent alot of time talking to others in the BI.A.. Is this standard BLA. issue? Among Anal'.'chist in the BLA. we have a saying that 11 if you got all the clerks toge- ~- ther and told them that they wouldn't- have to do anything but shit and within r·-==--· ... _:t.w,,~O:U-r.-;ho.lJ..ri, ..,a_ter.J;i.£i~..blo:w.....:w.q4r1::·~!:l--d,ealf.._~!,he-e~-=t.bey- 1-a-,be--staying- l up all night eating cheese! · . , . - Kuwasi Balagoon - I t~ll.you, when I first .~ote the original DRAGONS AND DRAGONS neither I nor the ABDC as a whole eve1<-imagined that such a response would be received. This is the fourth issue the matter has been discussed in and, from a purely pers.onai point of view, I'm getting a bit tired of debating the points and the counterpoints involved. While I respect the courage of members of the BI.A, ex hibited in many of their actions, the end result of these actions 1s the for mation of another State, and States·, being oppressive as a matter of course, are not about to receive any respect from me. States will always create some sort of minority due to their structure. For .instance, in front of me now is an article, dated November 2, 1981, from a back issue of ARM THE SPIRIT, called POSITION PAPER OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA ON THE ARREST OF PEOPLE'S CENTER COUNCIL CHAIRPEFSON FULANI SUNNI ALI, and right above it is a map of this proposed Republic of New A:f'rika - an area now known as Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. (How did they miss Florida?) As can be s~n, there are certain catchwords in the title of that article - "government" and 11 republic." These are words that, ~hen used in the above con text, indicate a group that no Anarchist can support or become involved in be cause such concepts are counterproductive to Anarchism. These are words indicating that the organisation behind them is intent upon placing its own authority and power over others whether these others wish this or not. Any government or re public will create a minority that will be under the thumb of those in that go vernment or republic. You can't change the status of a slave by giving him an overseer of the same col9r. The whip in a Black hand cuts just as deeply as the whip in a White hand,. .. , ----~--~ --~- ., A philosophy sim:i.lar to that of the BLA. in at least one respect was once advanced by the predominantly Maoist .VENCEREMOS during the middle and late 60s that only persons 0£ minority ethnic stock could hold positions of power and/or influence. While this was accepted for a time, many of the White members deve loped an attitude that all work and no play makes Charley a dull boy. If the Black got tired of being the workhorse of the White what makes the BLA. think that the White is going to tolerate a reversed order of things? Simply because we stand up for the right of you to refrain from shining White shoes if that's what you want doesn't mean that we want to shine yours. Anyone calling themselves an Anarchist and supporting the BLA is simply ignorant of what Anarchism really is, a police provocateur, a groupie, or a political opportunist. But they are definitely not an Anarchist •. Anarchism is the philosophy of a free people and a free people have no masters. By accep~ing the definition of Anarchism as put forward by the recognized e~enzy-, as Kuwasi has done in this case, is to become dependant on that enemy for everything that follows. By accepting the definition of Anarchism that is put out by "the Capi talists and 'Socialists III is to place your tl'ust in these same Qap?,-talists and 11 Socialists, 11 thus relieving yourself of self-responsibility and self-determif"' nation. I have never suggested that people don't have the right to self-defense and autonoll\Y• Rather, I have always advocated exactly the opposite - that every one has the right to do as they please without aeyone ordering them to do_a?\Y-, thing. This is contrary to aey and all phil-OSophies of government, including that of the BLA.. I advocate. that people learning a skill subject themselves to the instruction of those more learned in those skills, but I reject the self styled authority of those more learned persons to dictate how to employ that skill. I'll willingly take lessons in marksmanship, for instance, from one who is more skilled in that art, but to kill or not to kill, as well as whom to kill and whom not to kill, is a decision that! will not give up to aeyone. It is a right belonging to me alone. The actual matter of Black Liberation is the same as the liberation of : anyone - th~ end to all oppression. Sure, I 1ve heard of Black men and women ~--,---· -"be:tng··Kill:ed~~~i~~~~~~-'~:"ille~ ·-~~-· ~:: women by the police - and I've known a few of these victims. Was Cinque the only one ba:r-bequed in Lo~ Angeles? "Genocide" is often nothing more than a catchword employed by political rhetoricians to enflame an emotion of their potential victims - who have already been victimized by the one the politician is theoretically opposing. When Jim Jones did his ·routine in Guyana he managed to rack up a few White lives along with the Black. Lives are lives. When one plays a nl.llllbers game, whether that game is 11My people have been shafted longer than you(rs)" or "My people have been killed in greater quan tities than yours," what they're really saying is that they feel they have more rights than the other person. The dead have no rights and they carmot pass on a right - like the right not to be murdered - to those who already have ~hat right. The one playing this game is simply sniveling that th~y 1re not up to carrying their own weight and are there.fore attempting to camouflage the real issues with 1 a cover of macho respectability. What I advocate here is that people , quit this sniveling and unite against a common enemy. DO WHAT THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LA.W. There is no god but Man. Man has the right to live by his own Law. Man has the right to live in the way that he wills to do. Man has the right to dress as he wills to ci_o. Man has the right to dwell where he wills to dwell. Man has the right to move as he will on the' face of the Earth. Man has the right to eat what he will. Man has the right to drink what he will. Man h~ the right to think what he will. Man has the right to. speak wha~ he will. Man has the right to write as he will. Man has the right to mould as he will. Man has the right to paint as he willo Man has the right to carve as he will. · Man has the right to -work as he will. . ·-.:~-~--... ---....~---...~...... --_,.,..·~----·~~-- ·~...... -,-~ .._.:__.,.,· _, ··---:~--- -'{'"'~.:...~~r~~~,f-...--:.,..,.; Man has the right to love as he will, when, where and with whom he will. Man has the right to die when and how he will. Ma:n has the right to kill those who wou:td thwart these rights. And the answer, Kuwasi, is yes - ·the quote about the 2 White radicals in a room wii;.h a clock came .from tll,e BI.A.. The joke is .from the article in ARM THE SPI RIT, written by Assata Shakur af"ter her escape in New Jersey, and served to get this series of"f" to its start. Not quite th:e way to cement support, is it? - John H. Bosch - ,«-,~~.:- J. ( ·He knew· it would ~e~ther destroy him, or carry him where no one had·ever been before... We recently received a copy of BREAKOUT! from some friends overseas and the following article was in it. We thought we'd put it to you and see if we can get another rise out of some people. We agree with Daemon that his is a somewhat unpopular attitude, but we've seen an example or two of the actions he speaks of. Let's face facts - not everybody "on the bricks" is a nice guy and prison is no different. So keep your eyes and ears open, both outside and in. MIRROR IMAGES I thought I'd write out a parag~aph on one or two subjects too long ignored by the people who argue the points of the prison struggle. Sure, we get to hear a hell of a lot about how prisoners are being screwed by the system, but we ignore one of the most basic·weaknesses of the prison move ment. That-weakness is right at the fo~efront of the struggle •.THAT WEAKNESS IS THE PRISONERS THEMSELVES. Somewhere al,ong the line the prison struggle got the· ide~ that all prisoners are involved in the fight. Well, I never subscribed to that philosophy and the only reasons I haven't mentioned it in ~riting before are that: (1) ·I figured that mos~ folks would wise up to the truth of the mat ter on their own; and (2) It ts usually better to ob- • d serve the situation for a reasonab+e iength of time JU ge before comi.p.g out with an ~ unpopular idea. ,or It has become increasingly obvious that "most yourself .. .folks" aren't going to wise up to the situation. · · · ...-. .... , -·w-J:n-.. addi~:i 1 that won't sit too well with quite a few people in the ·movement~ Many of the·prisoners yelling about equal rights and equal protection of the law don't really care a fish's tit one way or the other about any of these things. They only care what they can get for themselves. They don't want any part of "equal," they don't want anything to do with helping others, they care only for what they can get. They're the snakes who talk about revolution, about how 11 JT.tY people" overcame obstacles several hundred years ago, about how their stealing a welfare cheque or a pension book off an elderly widow is a revolutionary act - and they're the ones who fall a little short when it comes to practicing real revolutionary solidarity. They're the ones who yell, "You ain't shit if you don't do things my way! 11 They·•re the ones who instigate the rumours they spread without bothering to check them out first. They're the ones who make trouble, then fall back on their friends - or the administration - to protect them. THEY are the ones who s9ream for their rights.when someone plays the same game on them or simply catches them in their game. What I 1m saying is that the prison struggle isn't the Them and Us game or the Them and them and them and them ••• -people think it is. It 1s a damn site more serious than that. Think ~bout this a minute. I'm in prison right now and the odds are that since you are reading this you are or were in prison at one time, you will be in prison sooner or later or you know someone who is, or was in prison. Look around a~d tell.me if I am wrong when I say the problem is not the prisons but the prisonersl I mean, let's be reasonable about this. If you are in prison you know there are certain people you don't want to turn your ~ck on. To trust a prisoner just because he is a prisoner is an open invitation to be stabbed in the back, both figuratively and literally speaking. If you don't trust the guard who plays games - or if you don't trust him just because he IS a guard - are you going to be crazy enough to trust ·a prisoner just because he IS a prisqner? Excuses like underprivileged childhood or disadvantaged youth will only c;arry so :far. Using the system as an excuse - like in saying, 11 The system has screwed me more than it's screwed you! So help me ••• but I don't £eel like helping you!!" - is one of the sorriest stories I've ever seen employed. It means· nothing except that the one who says it is ready to grab at anything he A continuing commitment, thats what this .symbol stands for. MIRROR IMAGES con•t, can - whether it 1'S his or nQ.t- to grab. Tel.l me - what's the di.fference between the prisoner and the system if they employ the .same tactics? What's the difference between the guard who rips you off and the prisoner who does? What's the difference between the guard who in stigates trouble and the prisoner who does the very same thing? It doesn't matter wao cuts the throat - the·throat is still cut. F.ducate the prisoner? Fine and dandy, except that snakes don't want the education. If you keep your head in the clouds, the fog is going to hide the punk who is creeping up on you with a knife. Or·the sleaze who is too cheap to do it himself and hires someone to do it for him. Sure, the system is one hel.l of an enemy, but the biggest enemy of the prison struggle is tne el.einent we put our trust in when it doesn't deserve it'; some of the pr:i~oners themselv.es l Like the ·song says, "Your enemy can't do you no harm coz you know where he is conµ.ng from," but like the same song goes on to sa:y you must watch your back. I've met some good people in prison, but that's _no reason to.put your trust in all pri $Onerst .The worst enemy yoQ have is the one who is right next to you,. waiting for the. right op port unity to do the wrong thing. W~ 9an 't buil4 a garden of Eden if we do business with snakes. Like I said at the beginning, this is a "Them or Us and Them and ••• 11 game. In this struggle you can lose faster by placing your hopes -in the snake than you can by trusting the enemy who is right up front. It may be the system is the obvious enenw, but the most dangerous one is the one who i& not w~nt tne uniform • ... --- - -~e--~he:-{;}ef'~J.')Qke,..--be J.o.olgi ;...j~ .like .Qne . .: . or two other harmless members of· the species. But if you look real close - and know what to look for - you 111 find out he is just as poisonous as the rattler who tel.ls you right out front. Just because a person looks like an ally doesh 1t mean that his interests are the same as yours. DON 1T''GET BIT BY THE BANDIT BUDDY! 1111 - Daemon Hunter - c/o 14, Warr~n Road Leyton, London E 10 • • • • • * • * • * • • • * • * • * • * • • • • • • • • • • • • • • * * * * * * * * CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATF.S, ARTICLE Il - A well-regulated militia being nec essary to the security of-a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The militia are the citizen soldiers .of the country, as distinguished from the stan ding, or regular, arn\Y. The militia has been allowed to fall into partial deca:y, showing that the people have little fear of need to defend themselves by force of arms against their government. - MANUAL OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, designed for the instruction of American Youth in the duties, obligations, and rights of citizenship, .by :t:srael Ward Andrews, D.D., LL.D., Pre- sident a! Marl.et.ta Coll,ege, August, 1878, r (~~~ Sort of: makes you wonder, don 1t it? Since the govern- J"J/r"l , :--~ ment is attempting to disarm the people and the Constitu- / { r · J ,· 7' tion sa:;,s we have the right to "keep and bear arms" :as ~ 1:.... ~ y ;;,, ) this is "necessary to the security of a free state, 11 ~ would it be too much to assume that this government is up to something that threatens "~he security -of a free state"? - Capt. Killjoy - t Its good news PROJECT PROUDHON Those of you familiar with Anarchist history are undoubtedly painful.ly aware that we haven't really amounted to much in getting our ideas across in the various Revolutions we've been involved in over the years. Whether you're looking at the Paris Commune, the Spanish Civil War, or the Russian Revolu tion in the Ukraine, one fact becomes disturbingly obvious. That fact is that we are losers. Don't get me wrong - I don't Il!_ean to ~ belittle the efforts of various Anarchists active during these times, but it's a fact that we've NEVER won a single war. A battle or two came out just dandy, but we always lost the war. Let's not get caught up in excuses like "We were betrayed," or "We were out.gunned," o:r any of that other 20/20 hindsight crap. All of those excuses might be valid reasons to a certain extent, but they don't alter the fact of losing one little bit and they sound quite a bit ]4.ke a ~nivel. Face it, it'-s about "t,ime we came up with something better than getting killed with little chance of success in our endeavorso So we've come up with an idea and we're working on it. Because of the scope of the plan the only way of carrying it off is if we get together with each other and WQrk like hell at it •. If we talk about Mutual Aid, we damned well better start walking that talk. And if we can't work with each other on anything, we might as well give up and take up something less strenuous, less dif:ficult, and with less chance of getting killed than Anarchism. Dig it - :Lf Anarchism is all that good a philosophy, then we have to work at it. We call this idea PROJECT PROUDHON. Since we've never been able to take and rrold ~ Coun~ry. we figure that it's about time .that we took another view of·the situation and come up w:i:th a bet'\:,er solution to the probl'8Ill. Ii' you can't live with your present lover, you get a new one. If you can't repair yo~ present transportation, you find new ways of travel:i~g. And if y:o"i c?:n •t .- .... ' . • .:.. •• - ,{'.;;,~ .....,....,., .... ~'"..:&.. •' '_:..,i...... '!i,~_,...~-..,_.. ~ ,,,._ ·,~- < ' • _ ...... Ml,.~~~~r.1~,,..--~'"';,~-~~ ..... "<--:i- ... ~~ _...... ~ ... - - ... - .... That•s ~he· basic idea of PROJECT PROUDHON. It's a feasability study to de termine the best pla.ce(s) and method(s) to BUILD our very own Country. This pla~t is rather large with plenty of unused and uninhabiteo. space upon it. Many areas that can be made habitable are sitting around unclaimed, simply col lecting dust. They can be developed to the extent necessary to be habitable, comfortable, and self-sufficient. They can be ma.de beautiful and productive. They can be improved in the fashion(s) we see fit, with nonpolluting energy sources, food by the ton, and with the knowledge that WE are to be the inhabitants of the only truly free Country on the face of the Earth. Some people are looking at .one area, some another. Climates in the areas under examination differ greatly. Soil conditions range from·· alkaline deserts to acidic swamps to subterranean and sul::marine environs. The range of choices is as var;i..ed as theories of social interplay and just as impressive. But to get into this project with the care necessary many different tools are required. We need pencils (regul.ar and color), some drafting equipment (cheap plastic templates, rul.es, and prot~actors will do for now), ,nau\ical charts, casette tapes (transpa~ent case), graph paper, and anything else such an undertaking relies on. The only problem(s) we have in getting these materials in here are cash and opportunity. The Administration has this idea that used tools are somehow unhealthy and so it 1s passed a rule stating that we have to buy everything new directly from the retail and/or wholesale outfits. In addition, what funds do come in are smiled upon by these people only if it's in the form of a money order or something similar. But once we get the money we are relat~vely free to spend_it on the materials needed - so long as they fit into the rules set up by the FORCES' OF EVIL. A11 we are really certain of at this ·point is that PROJECT PROUDHON is a reality and ha~ a high probability of success. There are areas throughout the world that fit our needs. All we have to do is take them and build them to our own specifications. ALL TOGETH'.ER NOW! PROJECT PROUDHON con't, ' PROJECT PROUDHON is only a first step. After an area has been selected for development work shall begin and our Country will come into being. But the building and dei'ens.e--o.f'-our territory will pose other problems. Maey Countries professing a love of freedom will attempt to take our land for their own purposes. We will not only have to thwart all these attempts, but we will sooner or later have to gain recognition from other Countries upon this ball. We will have to set up trade agreements. We will have to find people willing to work hard on this buil ding and who are discontented with life in their present Countries. But these are relatively minor problems, easily worked out at a later time. However, one thing has already been studied and accepted - no extradition from our land to any other. This is to be OUR Country and no one'has the right to tell us how to run it or who is welcome. - Frankly, we need as much help as we can get for this endeavor. If you can help with money or books. charts, graph paper, or anything else, pl7ase send it to us here c/o JOHN H. BOSCH 253269 at the Washington State Penitentiary, P.O. Box .520, Walla Walla,: WA., 99,362. Feel free to use an alias if you desire since a project of this nature is sure to attract attention of an undesirable sort. Just let us know if you'd like us to communicate with you and take the necessary steps to make that possible. In the meantime, sit back and think about it for a minute or two. What would you do in your very own Country? What sort of life would you lead? What sort of busines~ or craft would you get involved in? What sort of talents and skills do you possess? Chances are you might just find a comfortable niche to fit right into, there for the asking. Think about it. - ABDC - • • .. _ ... ~... --- -- ... - ""I.• . ·Freedom you wani;--yo·u· w&rii: ·freedom~ Whi""tlien-'do -yoil MgglEto;.er a more or less? Freedom can only be the whole of freedom; a .piece or freedom is not free dom. You despair of the possibility of obtaining the whole of freedom, freedom from everything, - yes, you consider it insanity even to wish this? - Well, then ~eave of£' chasing after the phantom, and spend your pains on something better. than the - unattainable••• Therei'ore turn to yourselves rather than to your gods or idols. Bring out .from yourselves what is in you, bring it to the light, bring yourselves to reve1ation. How one· acts only .from himself.. and asks ·after nothing further, the Chris tians have realiz~ in the notion "God." He acts "as it pleases him. 11 And foolish man, who could do just so, is to act as it "pleases God" instead. -.If it is said that even God proceeds according to eter ·wANTED nal laws, that too fits me, since I too THE STATE cannot get out of my skin, but have my law in my whole nature, i.e. in myself. It your efforts are ever to make .freedom the issue, then exhaust .free dom's demands. Who is it that is to be come free? You, I, we. Free .from what? From everything that is not you, not I, not we. I, therei'ore, am. the kernel that is to be delivered from all wrappings and - .freed from all cramping shells. What is left when I have been .freed .from FOR CRIMES AGAINST INDIVIDUALS everything that is not I? Onl.¥ I; nothing THEFT -Taxation. munent domain. conCl11Cal1on or druas. books. ~rapons. etc but I. But freedom has nothing to offer REPRESSION -~naorstup. hquor laws.M'X lav.,-.'aint\olrust IH,s.etc this I himself. As to what is now to hap pen .further after I have become free, KIDNAPPING - enmpuh1ory indoctrlna1,on or ch1ldN'n In !lta11st sc:hnoll .freedom is silent, - a.a our governments, NU 1S'ANCE - ht'fflllllf«. drug ranf,;.. ,·1tt raids. ··bhlt' 00 law1. f'I<' when the prisoner's time is up, merely FRAUD Sortaf s«-un•s. pubht'fdUC'a11on. (ot('1,tn aid. and ,·ar,ou1othtt IICK"ial t'ltpl'l'lmmlP. let him go, thrusting him out into aban ALIASES: llfk·I~ Sam. Puhhc s.rvan1. Wrllarto Stair. Rig flmlhtt. \\oMd doment. Peacrm;ikf'r, rt al. DESCRIPTION: hl"t,thl pilM hiKhrr and dffP"r '\l.'t'1Jlhl .i11 mut'h ii' hr t"an rhm" arnund ry1-,, h1!t ....:n,:·· l,i: l'Vtt)-.'httr The State has nothing to be more OCCUPATION: 1H'llll'IQ,,1nn11l 1hull nt thr "i PLEASE POST than every occasion that offers ~tself to ,...... ______-~~ - , me for realizing value from myself. ••• What a slave will do as soon as he has broken his fetters, one must - await ••• !"" Max Stirner - • * •• * * * * •••• *. * * * * * •.••• * * •• *. * ••• * ••• * * •• We £ound this floating around and thought we'd share it with you - SUPERINTENDENT: Leap~ tall buildings with a single bound, is more p~srful than a locomotive, is faster than a speeding bullet, walks on water amid typhoons, gives policy to GOD. ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT: Leaps,short buildings with a single bound, is more powerful than a switch engine, is just as fast as a speeding bullet, walks on wat~r if' sea is calm, talks to GODo RECEPrION CENTER CLASSIFICATION AND PAROLE SUPERVISOR: Leaps short buildings with a running s.tart and favorable winds, is almost as powerful as a switch engine, is not as fast as a speeding bullet, walks on water on indoor swimming pools, talks to GOD if special request is approved. · CAPTAIN: Barely clears Quonset huts, loses tug-of-war with locomotive, can fire a ~peeding bullet, swims well, is occasionally addressed by GOD. . SERGEANT: Runs into buildings, recognizes locomotives two out of three times, is not issued ammunition, can stay afloat if properly instructed in the Mae West, talks to walls. COUNSEWR: Falls over doorsteps when trying to enter buildings, says "look at the choo-choo," wets himself, plays in mud puddles, mumbles to him self. OFFICER: Lifts buildi,ngs and walks under them, kicks locomotives off the damned tracks, catches speeding bullets in his teeth and eats them, freezes water with a single glance, HE IS GOD ••••• Peltier: Time Runnir1g Ou~ t ing engagement, fund raising and meetings.with any grou_p.that By Arthur J. Miller . . . Norman Zigross, head of the F.B.I. office m _R..fil>Id <;1t_y, S.D., will listen. If you are interested in doing support work or g1vmg a defended the Bureau's use of illegal actions-agam~t Indians, s_uch little money for Leonard please contact his defense com_mitt_ee. as detention and searches without warrants by saymg that Indians Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, P.O. Box 1492, Rapid CJty, are a "conquered nation." The F.B.I. is merely acting as a "colon S.D. 57709 U.S.A. Please write letters to inquire about Leonard's ial police force." He w~nt on to say, "When you're con_q~eredc_t~e health and safety. Address them to the Dir. Bureau of Prisons, people you're conquered by dictate your future. i:ri1s 1s a ba~1c Attn: Norman Carlson, 320 First St., N.W., Wa5h., D.C. 2053.4. philosophy of mine. If I'm part o~ a. con~uered nation, then I ve And, Warden, U.D.P. Attn: Harold G. Miller, P.O. Box 1000, got to yield to authority." With this m mmd the story of Leonard Marion, IL. 62959. Arid please send letters of solidarity to Leo Peltier is easy is understand. . . . nard Peltier, #89637-132, Box 1000, Marion, II 62959. As most of yoµ know Leonard Peltier. is an Amencan ~nd1~n Movement activist who is currently servmi two consecutive ~1fe This article is part of an ongoing project ?Y Bayou_ La Ro~e an? sentences in Marion Prison. Leonard was convict~d ofmurderm~ STRIKE! to bring to you the case of a resistance fighter 1mpn two F.B.I. agents on Lakota land. Npw new ev(dence contrad1- soned and of an ongoing struggle which desperately needs our cting and proving all the evidence used to convict Leo?ar~ was help. manufactured by the F.B.I. has been found and_on this evidence "2255 Writ of Habeus Corpus" was filed. The Wnt asks for a new trial for Leonard and supposedly the U.S. Gov.ernment Judge has 60 days to decide. At the end of 60 days the judge (Paul_.Ben~?n, 8th district court) gave himself another 60 days and at this wntmg that has become 180 days and there is still no wor ,. ',· .. Wall"; -.rnends ·anct-neigbl5ors; that just -abo.u-t wraps it· uf·:forthi;-r:~;~nd and we'll catch you again later. We hope you've e~joyed this issue. Check out the SURVIVAL NE'IWORK~ P.O. Box 52282, New Orleans, LA.., 70152. We've recently joined it and things are looking good their way. We're sorry it's taken so loQg to get this issue to press, but things got a -bit busy for a while. Hopefully, we'll be able to return to a schedule more frequently and keep to it. But don't worry about things·if' you don't hear from us for a minute or two. We're bad pennies and we'll always show up again. Freedom is the most precious thing we have. Like silence, it is easily destroyedo No one has the right to command another to do anything against their ·will. To do so is to infringe on the sovereignty of that individual. If no ONE has this right unto themselves, it stands to reason that no GROUP - and there fore no GOVERNMENT - can have this right. From time to time we've been "accused" of hitting hard and shooting a bit too straight. However, as the enclosed quote of Max Stirner shows, freedom is an absolute value. Freedom "from" something or freedom "to" something are sim ply pieces of this absolute and the realization of one piece of freedom should not stop us from obtaining the whole of freedom. To stop short of attaining the absolute is to remain shackled by chains we've placed upon ourselves. So, be freeo Be yourself - because nobody else can be you. Because that's all Anarchy really is - BEING. - ABDC - DOWN BUT ~NOT. OUT MALISEET NATION -·· FISHERMEN'S COMMITTEE RR 3,Box 50 Perth, New Brunswick EOj 1VO Petition TO ALL OF OUR SUPPORT GROUPS March 28,1983, I am writting to you because of the problems we are having in our community with regards to our aborignal rights to hunt and fish. Over the past five years we have been consistantly harassed and raided by both the Federal Fisheries and Provincal Fisheries agaist our annual takinr--. of 'Saloman for our food. We have suffern. many in,1usticess, including a mmber of hu~an rights infractions by both rovernnent depertments, who conti-riue to trespass and confiscate our fis'!'J.inc eq:~ir r.ent aTJd c:1.J sri c1ssul t and t1:reat~!' wi t'b violence our In<'l ian fis'herrian. We have always used the seasonal catch for 011.r -own use in our traditional diets, ever since time imemorial. T~is past summer five Maliseet Indian fisherman wre charged for ilegal fishing by t~e Federal Fisheries, con trary to and in violation of our treaties, Royal proclomations, as well as sect:Lon 35 of the Canadian Coristi tutio!l.. • In response to these .p:r.nhlems the Maliseet Nation Fisherr1ans Committee was formedto help combattine: v:i_olations ap:ainst our inharent right to hut:J,t and fish. We are still at the bep,i:rmine: stage anc_ we are askinc reople as well as or~anizations to support our cause,in order that we nay 9op:tinu~. i!]. ou~__ st.rur:le _to .mainta;L!:. our_.,_ -~ .~ -· -<. - - . ~~-:.±:n... w.~,g.;-~:r$_~~ ·. well as people or instithtions t~at are willinff to donate some finacial assistance however small would help •• WE are also trying to raise 5,000 dollars to be used as a lee:al fund for the fisherman that are beine_: charg-ed. Their trial date has been set for April 19,1983. We are circulating this petition so that we may e~hance our support mechnisrn by developinz a mailing list as well as a phone tree, so that we may also have our own emergency response networ-k. On the reverce side of this page you will find a place in ·which to sign , when it is complete. it can be returned to the above adress. Your friend in unity ~L Relations ------~----~------• ------~------~------Name Address Phone No. .,. -1 I I .., I .. ... - .... 1· -~-·------+-~:------l----,------ ., I I I REVOLT! AW, &JR\7IVE .1)1HE P10A 1',amalla I.aQueta am Artllur J. Miller ~~- ~4' for Bayou La Rose/Survival Nets«>rk · _ ' , _. ,~ We are enterinJ a crucial stage of history. No l.ooger j l. ,/''v can anybody ignore the realities arourrl us. Manifesta- . .r· "' tions of Statism are threatening the very existance of oor Planet. '!be nukes, irdustrial polluticn and so on canoot be Qi. - ·,t; taken lightly, WE MJST S'IDP THEM! 8~/eonard \W,~ Quietly think far a secotYl, think oo hcM the State has taken everything £:ran you that ever ·really mattered and replaced it with JUNK!! Even your foc:rl is JUNK! '1hlnk about the reality that every seoom of the day all life U[X)n the earth is threatened by hunan instrunents of mass death. '1hlnk about a society that yoo have no SB.Yin that can take you £:ran your bane and lock you up in a cell for defy in:J it's dictates. Iook U[X)n racial, sexism, nationalist prejooice and realize that the State has institutionalized such decay. lkJw much ioore can you take? rs· yoor job kj.llinJ you? Are you a victim of rape or aoose? When are you really goinJ to say nnx;H 1 1? •• Not with my life they don't! 1 When you have reached that point where you feel that you must fight back •••Drop us a line for the work of resistarx:e is plentiful. First, you can join with ANARCHIST BUCK I>RNX>N and us in the work of the Survival Network. '!be Survival Network is a cooperative effort of autoraoous groups and imividuals struggling to aid each other and to help initiate a imvanent for sw:vival. UlG:Nl'LY NEEDED INF<»!ATIOO ! ! 1 'Ifie survival Nebibrk urgently needs infonnation on Asbestos. Please send anything you may fird. '!be Survival Network needs to fird saneone in the State of Okla hana who would be willinJ to ?1t IT'S A NEWWORU) FO~ JOE i up Rita Silk-Nauni, a Iakota wanan J.._NE . IT 'S NOT l,LWAYS fACi'f urder a sentence of 150 years for . .. 8VT IT ISWT BO'Jllt,J(, ANYMORE. . the self-defense killin:J of a cop. She was out oo bail previously but her so-called SUf.PC)rt groop wi.Wrew her bail be cause they didn't like Rita sperrling her time with black frieoos am because Rita confronted them about them pocketing her defense ncney. BAYCU IA ROSE/SURV1VAL NE'lmRK PUBLICATIONS 1. BAYCU IA ROSE - a jomnal of w:>rking-class ecological anarchism. FREE{?) 2. ANAJOllST BUCK DRAGON - f:can Washin;Jton State Penitentiary. FREE. 3. SClJTHERN OOFFAID lN>IAN PRISCN PROORAM s-12\TF.MEm'. FREE. 4. SURVIVAL NE'1W)RK P1CFET 00 RITA SILK-NAUN!: $1.00. 5. SURVIVAL NE'nGK P~ ON THE SURV1VAL CF THE IDRI'HERN OiEYENNE ID1EIANDS. $2.00. 6. SURVIVAL Nml'DRK P~ 00 '!HE MM.ISEET NATIOO FIS1tEif.1mS' cn+ll'I'l'EE. $2.00. 7. THE ~ IPSE, AN .ANAICHIST CXN:!EPTION CF REM..I'IY AR> OOPE - by Arthur J. Miller arx1 Kanalla LaQueta. $4. 00. . ... _,_ ,... , ..:_\ - « < l <..J • -' ... .' ' (";IIPF: 9•_3 ·t ' :; ' t , !: ' I• -- - ~-'• GAy Cornmvv\ t1y t\/e.. w-1 / J \ 7 T r e.rl-10()-r-- S 'r-: 01.J I