FEAR CHANGES SIDE
On Thursday night 12/1 we organized and carried out an ambush against cops of the DIAS [motorcycle police] group in the area of Zografou. The way the ambush was set up and the intensity of the attack we carried out, resulted in the serious injury of a cop and the total destruction of a motorbike -only this one arrived at the scene- of this particular group. The high strength of firepower used was proportional to the impunity of this group, which already counts 2 murdered Roma in the last 16 months and dozens of incidents of “police arbitrariness”. This was a powerful response to the crescendo of police repression orchestrated by the New Democracy government, which has given the police force free rein to beat, torture and shoot in cold blood, knowing that none of them will be punished and their crimes will be covered up by the lies of journalists, the impunity of the bourgeois justice system and the cover of the political leadership.
We say to the cops in the ranks and to their superiors: For the wanton violence you have used, we will punish you with our own hands. Your colleague’s cries of despair are proof of your weakness when faced with organized forces of revolutionary violence. Panic, pain, fear, insecurity, these are the emotions we offered you during the ambush against you. Draw your conclusions from them because your sense of omnipotence ended with a bang in a dead end at Zografou. With this action we want to pass the message that with organization, planning and discipline we can hit the forces of repression by causing fear and material costs to both animate and inanimate material.
The law and order doctrine that the New Democracy government has been applying since the first moment of its election has left behind dead, wounded, tortured and raped. The constant impunity of the cops is not an accidental fact but the essence of this doctrine. The last link in a huge chain of incidents is the cold-blooded execution of the 16-year-old Roma Kostas Fragoulis, because he ‘dared’ not to pay 20 euros for petrol.
The state is sending the following message to its praetorians in all possible tones: You can execute unarmed civilians, beat up whoever you want, torture and rape inside the stations; there will be those mechanisms that will make sure that you get the oil. This message has been received by the police force as their demoralization has gone beyond all limits. The question is when we will receive it too. Attacking the pigs of the police at the present juncture is an existential issue for the struggle itself. If the fear they sow wins then we will be defeated for good. If the fear changes sides, then we will become their hunters.
The puppets that staff the Greek Police are not invulnerable, they have families, homes, vehicles, hobbies. What is missing is the will to track them down and organize an act of revenge against them. Because this is the only way to break in practice the culture of decadence where responsibilities, personal costs, consequences, are buried under hollow words, unaffective activism, academic frivolity. Revolutionary war is not a theatrical performance, nor does it survive in the misery of cycles of inaction. Rather, as a living process it will develop in the tensions, the passions, the inverse of the instincts that capitalist society cultivates in us. It will develop when political thought develops a critical stance, sees the world around it with a clear eye, breaks the glasses of ideology that cloud its vision. When it realises its true magnitude and moves with the steps that its footing allows it to strengthen itself within the anvil of revolutionary practice.
So let’s go back to basics: things in the field of police repression are simple, the facts are on the table, anyone who is interested observes them and takes a stand. For our part, with our limited forces, we have made it clear that no state murder will go unanswered. That the attempt to annihilate any form of resistance, the futility and the entrenchment of fear in our souls and minds will not become a reality. Comrades, heads up, the attack on the doctrine of law and order always and especially now that we are entering an election period multiplies our political momentum and deconstructs one of the main agendas of the government. With planning, belief, determination, our actions will be our best judges.
Strength and Solidarity to anarchist hunger striker Alfredo Cospito who is fighting against the torture of the 41 BIS solitary confinement regime
Strength to the imprisoned member of the Anarchist Action organisation Thanos Chatziangelou
Solidarity to all political prisoners around the world
Solidarity to the struggles of prisoners against the new prison code
Vengeance Cell “Kostas Fragoulis”
Source: athens.indymedia
Translation: Dark Nights