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The question of dignity
Letter from Nikos Romanos - Greece - May 2014
“And one day I will tell you how much I loved you, but
you will have to find me personally.
Like the executioner I watered the roses of compassion
in their sleep I, an ill man by belief, a genius of misery (who blew his brains out once for a better era) and
maybe our tears go further than dreams.
As it got dark I had to find all my innocence again in
order for the stars to be there on time.
And usually we kill the present with fear or guilt but
mostly with dreams.”
Tasos Livaditis
The purpose of this text is to build bridges of communication with all comrades who maintain the choice of
destruction, to give life to my thoughts and contemplations which through these lines travel and meet with
people like me who believe that only through continuous
struggle can we win back our lives on our own terms.
A continuous struggle expressed in a thousand different ways directed to one cause.
With enraged voices and clashes in the protests, pen
and paper on which are written dangerous thoughts,
discussions and confidences with which life relations
are built, weapons, bombs and fire which avenge a
whole world that threw us into the void.
A desperate journey of freedom with comrades, the
stubbornness and “craziness” of all those who decided
to risk and walk against the possibilities, conquering
their own fate.
In this journey, the individuality is the core around
which the liberatory struggle is structured, being the
spiritual base upon which radical intentions are collectivized, it must decline the logics of authenticity and be
left in the storm of great internal transformations which
are externalized through development into action.
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Knowing that we are infested by the remnants of a
sick world the internal clashes taking place in the wild
journey of our lives are battles against the daily pulsations we receive living in hostile environments.
Our contempt for conventions we are made to make in
order to survive, the mental anguish of lurking deadends, the war against fear, the harsh realization that in
the end the world of struggle is not as “clean” as it may
want to appear.
Because anarchists are neither soldiers that sacrifice
themselves for a cause, nor the gatekeepers of an alleged
subjective truth imposed as the only objective one.
Away from me! oh revolutionary marketers and formulators of the toughest, “meanest”, and most revolutionary!
A few words concerning the new prosecutions
A while ago I was called to appear before the inquisitors Mokas-Nikolopoulos in order to testify for a new
case based on the findings from houses the cops raided following our arrests.
This case concerns our participation in incendiary attacks and bank robberies based on “matched” DNA
and alleged recognitions by bank employees As for
me I am not accused of any of the bank robberies but
only of the incendiary attacks by FAI-Fires on the Horizon, FAI-Unit Fire to the Galleys, Flaming Shadows
and Militant Minority.
At the same time, based on a fingerprint of mine on a
beer bottle in the house producing new prosecutions in
Halandri, a new indictment is formulated against me
and I am detained (since I did not appear before the
interrogators to testify) for a 4th time [1] for the three
bomb attacks of the CCF (Katseli, Hinofotis, Macedo-