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Statements at the trial on
3/02 in Koridallos prisons
February 2014 - Greece

Statement of Giannis Mihailidis
Up against the police-juridical complex as a declared
enemy of capitalist democracy…
Disarmed by the officers of order, but determined to arm
my speech against them…
In the cheap theatrical play called trial, the judges like
wretched actors, struggle to hide the rawness of the
violent imposing of state authority. The democratic decision of a lengthy sentencing to the correctional hellholes is presented as a product of dialogue in which the
accused also participates. Authority washes the blood
away with appearances of justice, humanism, leniency
or worst case scenario, necessity. And the word of authority is articulated in the code of the law, that is the
language of fraud which serves the maintaining of the
status quo of state and capital.
I refuse to speak the language of the enemy in order to
negotiate my sentence and this is why I do not recognize
any legal representation.
I refuse to participate in this play, I respect of course
the attempt of the comrades to sabotage it by refuting
the monolithic speech of civil justice at every stage of
the procedure.

It is generally, because I refuse to accept the whole obsession of the juridical mechanism, not only the way its
applied now but also any possible application of it in
different kinds of regimes. Because no institutionalized
special body has jurisdiction to impose its judgement on
the choices and actions of other people. And no code
of laws can fit the wealth of human relations in such a
complex reality which every group of rules fails to mold.
Such a procedure stems from state imposition and this
serves, keeping connected the authoritarian social web
which as an anarchist I want to destroy, in order for raw
human anti-authoritarian relations, whose only connecting web will be emotion and conscience, to shine.
If the above seem abstract generalities, my refusal is
specific when it comes to accepting the ethics of capital,
the sacretization of individual property which the whole
legal code is orientated towards protecting. I have been
a thief and robber disputing the sacred chalice of capitalism. Because property means exclusion, it means accumulation, it is the womb of the dominant form of exploitation and oppression, the economic. And its force,
is its diffuse, its everywhere, in everyone, like the ticket
to the world of capitalism.

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