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Not everyone sees him- or herself or his or her friends
under the direct threat of being imprisoned or deport-
ed, but absolutely none can withdraw from the grip
of power entirely, which has integrated and absorbed
everything and everyone (justice, work, religion, tech-
nology and its endless possibilities in the future, cities,
money, family, school, gender, property, nation, me-
dia, consume, production, medicine, data, militarism,
science, energy supply or whatever – power is simply
everywhere, there is no outside of it). Prisons play an
important role in this, but even if prisons where abol-
ished it would be only because the judicial authorities
would have found more effective and socially more ap-
propriate ways of threatening and punishment. But it
would change nothing about the fact that all of us are
forced to live in this monotonous, well structured socie-
ty, that keeps us trapped under the same laws, the same
values, the same lies, the same disturbing reality, the
same emptiness and the same uniformity. Society would
condemn us to continue this one path and to apply our
dreams and desires to this reality. Maybe it is exactly
this what makes society the way it is. So, if we don’t
fight for the end of this civilization, the destruction of
power in all forms and the possibility of self-determined
experimenting, for the complete reappropriation of our
lives in all their pride as well as the dark sides, for what
then? For a little bit less racism, for more “humanity”,
the destruction of one single prison, for a better surviv-
al, against the plundering of a plundered planet, against
the greed of the greediest, the self-organization of the
existent? Well, have fun with that.
But we where at our struggles. To stay focussed on the
objective without neglecting the attack onto the circles,
the social dynamics around, perceiving them as integral
parts and requirements of the chosen objective is the
crucial tightrope walk we have to handle.
As well as to broaden our critique as to inspire the most
different individuals to act. Simple example: If there
would have been more attacks against surveillance
cameras in the city or companies that profit from the
ongoing armament of surveillance and repression, in
addition to the ongoing attacks against profiteers of the
prison building and if these attacks would have been put
into context of a struggle against the prison society in
general, the field of struggle would have been expanded.
The struggle would have been more likely to be able to
point out the social dynamic of oppression and, at the
same time, call and incite for the onslaught onto a con-
crete, not yet existing building that is a symbol for this
dynamic. Maybe people, who are really upset with all
the surveillance cameras around would understand, why
other people fight so vigorously against a prison. May-
be these persons would not make a difference between
these two forms of control and oppression any more…
Maybe, maybe… we for sure can go on like this forever.
In the end, the attack onto the Bässlergut actually is an
attack onto this stupid wall between USA and Mexico,
because it is an attack onto the world of domination.
It will never be over!
Anarchist critique has been pointing at Bässlergut for
years already and will continue doing so. Anyway in
which direction these struggles will develop we can say
already that this prison is not only telling a story of to-
tal, even if sometimes subtle oppression, but one of the
radical resistance against it as well.
Realistic voices might state that this prison will be
built anyway and it would for sure be between hard
and impossible to convince them of the opposite. But
this can’t be the starting point and by far not the mo-
tivation for rebellious, anarchist hearts. The resistive
seed has been and will still be sowed, the longing for
a different, completely different world as well as the
possibility of direct attack most people should have
recognized. What others do with it can neither be in
mine nor in others hands. The question that should
concern us is, where and how we sow these seeds of
rebellion how to cultivate and grow them. It’s never
impossible that ideas actually spread, that people ac-
tively decide against continuing to obey, to stop wait-
ing and to start here and now to define and to influ-
ence the circumstances of their own lives and their
surrounding. If anarchy can not be a simple opinion,
no philosophy about some possible, better future and
much less a programme, a clearly defined goal, it can
be a journey of constant discovering and shaping your
diverse and chaotic self in confrontation with a he-
gemonic truth or authoritarian dynamics. Under cir-
cumstances without any authority it would be much
more possible for all of us to shape ourselves and the
world around us with our ideas and imaginations.
Living under the severity of the existing circumstances,
formed by state and capitalism, is not the end of our
freedom-loving existence or anarchy.
They will search their path, even under these
nauseating circumstances.
And they will find it.
This way or another.
A strong embrace to all those who are on the run.
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