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No television, no phone, no radio
for the voters

Hors Service - Belgium - July 2014
The day before the European and national elections.
24th of May 2014. The circus of opinions and the incessant bombardment of lies and promises is coming
to an end. The voter is getting ready to do his duty as
a citizen. He is complaining, that’s beyond doubt. He
is complaining that politicians don’t have ideas anymore, that they are all the same, that they are one big
mafia. But still he goes to the ballot box. But still he
will choose his master and give his approval that everything may continue as before. And so he becomes
an accomplice of the politicians. And so he becomes
also the enemy of those who reject this whole circus,
who refuses to still have masters or bosses, left or
right, corrupted or “honest”. He becomes our enemy,
the enemy of those who fell in love with freedom.
The day before the elections. During the night, in
Wavre, an huge transmission tower antenna of the
French public television and radio RTBF is put on
fire. The arson provokes a total black out of several
radio stations, some digital television broadcasts are
disrupted. In the province of Brabant Wallon and in
the south of Brussels, the whole mobile phone and mobile internet network of the company Base is down,
because the tower antenna also functioned as a knot
between tens or even hundreds of mobile phone antennae. Elsewhere, in Veltem-Beisem close to the city
of Leuven, in Flemish Brabant, another transmission
antenna is hit, this time belonging to the Flemish public television and radio VRT, also arson. There, some
radio stations are disrupted. So, on the night before
the elections, on the day of the elections, hundreds of

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thousands of people were for once sheltered from the
data bombardment, of the frenzy of modern communication which is nothing but alienation, of the mind
control the powerful are realizing through their apparatuses of propaganda.
The day of the elections, we were all supposed to
be listening to the voice of the master, reaching us
through the internet, the television and the radio. We
were supposed to speak all day long about the results
of the elections. But maybe, thanks to these sabotage
acts, some might have spoken about something different, who knows. Sabotage provokes a rupture, a crack
in the normality. Something which wasn’t supposed
to happen. Something abnormal. It’s not strange then
to see the administrator of the RTBF declaring that
“When a media is attacked, it is bad for everyone. I
think somebody wanted to send a disgusting signal.”
Disgusting? For who? Disgusting is the word we would
rather reserve for the elections circus, for the world in
which we are living, for the spectacle by which power
assures itself of the assent of its subjects by presenting
it as a “choice”. Disgusting are the media who brainwash, the journalists who transmit the voice of power
and legitimize all atrocities committed in the name of
power, from war to total poisoning of the environment
and the murders by the cops. Disgusting is that we are
living in a time where the communication means are
omnipresent, but where nobody any longer knows how
to communicate, to dialogue, to discuss, to reflect, because everybody is repeating what the machines and
the screens are saying to them.