Germany - August, 2017

Letter from Buddy Richard
Political prisoner imprisoned during G-20

I am currently being held at the Billwerder prison in Hamburg. I was arrested on Friday, July 7 at 7:30 pm near Rote Flora. They accuse me of insulting the state, endangering public safety, actively participated in a group of fifteen people who challenged the police, in particular by attempting to harm a Bloomberg Special Unit police officer who intended to make arrests and find evidence.
I do not recognize the dichotomy "guilty - innocent", proposed by the judicial apparatus of the State. What I mean is that I am proud and happy to have been there in Hamburg during the uprising against the G-20. The joy of living in the first person the determination of people of all ages and from all over the world who have not succumbed to the temptation to submit to the logic of money and the capitalist world; This can never be stifled by any form of imprisonment. In a historical epoch in which capitalism tries to inflict the final blow necessary for its stabilization in a constant oscillation between internal war (special laws, closing of borders, deportations) and external warfare (indiscriminate massacres, destruction and poisoning of planet Earth). The revolt in Hamburg against the G-20 demonstrated what is most important for those who still care about freedom: the possibility of its realization.

The technological, physical and tactical efficiency of the German police was as impressive and monstrous as first futile to neutralize then to repress the need to fight against the absurd and catastrophic global society that the twenty Pathetic State Leaders were exhibiting there so miserably in the heart of the city. The resigned and the reformists can say that, considering the power relations developed in the last decades between the power and its subjects, Hamburg was the umpteenth mass experiment to evaluate the international security apparatus.

After all that was also said after the G-8 in Genoa in 2001.
Rebels and revolutionaries, however, do not take into account the conspiracy theories of politics, but their own feelings and projects.
In any case, I think I can say that even if that were the case, the experiment totally failed. The streets of Hamburg breathed an uncontrolled freedom, an active solidarity, the determination to reject a lethal order imposed by a few and so powerful on the rest of humanity. Without endless rows of cars and composite processions sanctifying daily the oppressive killer liturgy of the capitalist system.
There are no indifferent masses forced to bow and sweat for anonymous survival in favor of the wealth of some greedy boss. There are not thousands of empty glances pointing to some aseptic display that alienates and deforms our life experience.
I saw individuals lift their eyes to the sky and try to catch it.
I saw women and men shaping their creativity and more repressed dreams.
I saw the energy of each one with the intention of lending a hand to others who do not put themselves above anyone.
I saw the sweat dripping from the foreheads to satisfy their own desires more than those of some henchmen. At the time of the revolt nobody is really alone.
A big hug to all my comrades, to all the rebels imprisoned by the German State. Passionate greetings to Anna, Marco, Valentina, Sandrone, Danilo, Nicola and Alfredo, partners in trial in the operation "Scripta Manent" in Italy. The revolutionaries and rebels imprisoned in prisons around the world.
A kiss to Juan, wherever you are... wherever you are... you are always with us!
While I am alive:
Always against authority!
Always with my head up!
Long live international anti-capitalism!
For Carlo! For Alexis! For Remi! For Liberty!

From: instintosalvaje.org