From "Laure Akai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Statement #1
Innocent people never deserve to die for their country or because of their
country.
Yet, now the realities of airstrikes and mass destruction has returned to
the US. Newscasters, politicians and other shapers of public opinion all
chorus that none of them have ever seen such things, yet many people around
the world have this kind of devastation in recent memory and in fact have
suffered on a far deeper and greater level. This is the one thing that has
to be remembered above all in this situation, that airstrikes and murder
are nothing new and that although all the victims before these have been
dehumanized in the US media, people around the world have been suffering,
often at the hands of the US military, for many years.
We are quite sad that civilians are killed in incidents like this. We have
been sad for years. We've been mourning Chechens and Palestinians massacred
for resisting or just for existing, we've been mourning the victims of wars
around the world, of repression and political displacement.
The so-called terrorists, they surely must feel that they, their people or
compatriots have been victimized by the US, and it's probably true. They
probably have no hope at all that the US military will stop doing this, in
particular since it arrogantly and inhumanely refuses to address many
complaints about the plight of the Palestinians and the US role in
supporting their suffering. And for these policy choices, who knows how
many innocent american (and probably other) people have just lost their
lives, victims to US foreign policy. (Perhaps also victims to a
religious-fanatic reaction against globalization.) The State will be
calling for terrorist blood, but it will continue to enact its murderous
and socially irresponsible policies without accepting moral responsibility
for their repercussions.
The State acts with or without the consent of the people but it cannot
exist and act in such ways without the active consent of the people or
without their passive apathy. The American populace to a large extent
shares responsibility for the deaths of their compatriots, as they share
responsibility for all deaths carried out by or in the interests of the US
military. The americans en-masse have given up their citizenship in the
real sense of the word; they act unconcerned about even the most alarming
of political events, except when it hits them at home. Then they act
indignant when the actions of their State has unwanted repercussions. But
this is not civic responsibility, this is not global citizenship. Such a
thing only starts to happen when people think about the consequences of the
State's actions as they would think about the consequence of their own.
That is, something real, something lived, something that has its
consequences and something that each person should take responsibility for.
We call on anarchists around the world to use this opportunity to step up
the attack on the State, the institution of representative power and on all
military agression carried out in State or religious interests. People must
be made aware that by choosing a life of civic passivity instead of
self-government, they are letting their lives be run by uncountable
murderers who bring all sorts of disaster upon ordinary people. In order to
stop the killings, we have to stop the government and the wars made of
people deemed inferior by the powers of the world. We must also fight
against the reactionary jihad and all forms of resistance which threaten to
deliver equally murderous fates to their opposition.
The question in the end is a very simple one: how many people have to die
before people act decisively to take power away from the murderers? And how
many people have to die before the americans realise that they are people
not at all different than they? Now the americans may feel pain that they
are losing "some of their own", but as human beings, being been losing too
many of our own for too many senseless reasons for years.
STOP THE GOVERNMENT NOW!
Praska Anarchist Group
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