An open letter of solidarity with all imprisoned freedom figthers
and those under trial!
I'm long past disappointment with black flags, books on theory in
red covers and ideal utopias that never age. I've been asking
"what next?" for quite some time now.
Everybody gets older, quits, sells his ideals of youth for comfort
within the system. Nobody is ready to sacrifice his feeble status
for freedom and utopian dreams. I don't believe in anything anymore.
Belief won't get us closer to freedom. What inspires me are your
letters, comrades. Letters from those who had been violently put to
cages of stone. You await letters from "outside" just as we wait for
another letter from the "inside". You are so many. Your dignified
and uncompromised stance warms our hearts. That is why I dedicate
these lines to you.
You are the ones who challenged our enemy. You are the ones who feel
the breath of our enemy with the back of your heads everyday. You
are the ones whos will they want to break. But your strength and
bravery encourage me, help me to banish my fear of tortures we are
subjected to now or will be in the future. In places without visible
borders there exists a multitude of psychological methods of
subjugation. In our world of defeatism and cooptation, where
comrades choose life of oblivion and consumerism, nothing is more
inspiring than your letters and actions.
It is not ideas that empower people. It is those who have already
taken up arms who inspire others. By isolating you they made us
closer. You have become even more important for our struggle
"outside".
Those who are afraid of our struggle for liberation, would like to
portray you as heroes. But you are not heroes – you are people just
like us, those, who happened to stay "outside" prison walls. If one
understands the fact that you are ordinary people, she would be
forced to ask herself: "Why am I afraid of fighting for freedom like
they did?" "Why am I not as faithful in my own struggle as they
are?" "Why am I so afraid of a night of tortures whereas they are
subjected to tortures on a daily basis for many years?" You are not
our heroes. You are the breath of our struggle, empowering and
refreshing.
It is very possible we won't ever meet or have a chance to chat.
But our breath and heartbeat become one every time we remember each
other.
Your dignity, moral sense of right and wrong, willpower help us a
lot in our daily struggle in this fake "outside". Everytime I read
your letters or communiques I become stronger myself.
You were not separated from our common fight for freedom, you are
still part of it.
You are always on my mind!
Solidarity with all prisoners of war, everyone charged with freedom
fight or convicted for freedom fight!
And with everybody who is evading arrest!
- MY
