Libcom.org Nov. 23, 2009
The following letter was written by Panayotis Masouras, one of the 3
people arrested and kept in prison pending trial in relation to the Nuclei
of Fire case in Athens, explaining the situation of his arrest and his
position regarding his persecution.
On Wednesday September 23 and at 8.15 as I was leaving my house in Galatsi
on my way to the gym, I was arrested by 25 persons of the anti-terrorist
squad.
In a matter of seconds I found myself on the sidewalk, hands cuffed behind
my back, while at the same time they were informing their senior officers
that “everything went well” and that they “have me”. I was taken to the
12th floor of Police Headquarters (note: anti-terrorist division). The
next day I am informed that at the same time with me another two friends
of mine have also been arrested.
In the meantime the show has already started. Without any sleep for 48
hours and physically exhausted, with my face to the wall and then a long
questionnaire following, while at the same time some police officer goes
from office to office announcing in a delirium of pleasure that what is
happening is called war.
After that comes the interest for my career, the friendly chat, the
bravado and the humane approach to the misguided youth that followed the
wrong path in his life while they self appointed themselves to straighten
me out and to make me see reason, not for them as they said but for my own
good, to help myself, speaking to them about situations and persons that I
know nothing about. Later I was informed from an officer that I was the
stupid asshole of the 12th floor because the others as he said had
“snitched on me” and “cleared themselves” and that if I didn’t speak I
would go down for things other people have done, so I was yet again called
upon to answer about situations unknown to me.
The guard shifts started: “good” cops with a sensitive touch and childhood
traumas, as they said, that recognized injustice and wanted to help. On
the other hand the “tough” commandos wearing full-face masks, “stern”
appliers of the law and representatives of morality, acting in an absolute
way leading to physical and mental exhaustion, as a means of revenge as
they said because “I kept my mouth shut”.
That I refuse the charges against me does not mean that I would ever
refuse my political “identity” and “origin”. I would never hide my dignity
under the carpet of incarceration, overlooking the fact that I am a
political entity which also takes its position against the values and
institutions of this society by the means of critical revolutionary
thought and practice. I am an anarchist and I am on the side of revolution
and at the same time of myself.
The reason why at the present my two friends and I find ourselves in
prison is crystal clear. Even the most naïve mind can perceive that fixed
situations due to the elections play a role in the present condition,
situations moving in the service of political and communication interests.
The hyperbole surrounding the situation, the armed to the teeth EKAM
escorts (note: Special Forces Police) and the role of those despicable
snitches the journalists in combination with the political condition of
these days was enough to create a feeling of order and safety to the
average Greek in face of the elections, so he can move sleepwalking in the
role of the active citizen towards the voting poll in order to deposit yet
again in someone else’s hands his share of responsibilities for his being.
It is well known nowadays that public opinion has no opinion, so someone
has to take on the role of shaping it. The tone of these days was mostly
set by the lowlifes of the media and their all-devouring thirst for
“maniacs in Galatsi” and “monsters in Chalandri”, for serial bombers who
have ties with “renown” revolutionary organizations from which they take
orders to accomplish missions. About guns and bullets found at my house
until money that was suddenly a product of robberies because it was well
hidden-next time I’ ll leave it outside the front door.
Society is not divided into classes but only into choices and
consciousnesses. So let as learn from pain and pleasure, from blood and
the street. We were born to exist as a whole in our inapprehensible
uniqueness, inapprehensible because we can stand the pain, unpredictable
because we were taught on the streets, ruthless because we will move
against everyone, because we will learn to meticulously tie steel on our
skin and paint the cement with revolutionary blood.
We execute morality as a prologue for destruction, we whisper with rage
biting the words: WAR ATTACK because there is only beauty and strength,
but some cowards in order to balance came up with justice.
Wherever there are barbed wires, let there be bloodied hands that rip them
apart, wherever there is cement let there be cries full of rage that tears
it down, wherever there are bars let there be souls like corrosives that
destroy them, wherever we are buried alive let us bury with us morality.
We owe it to ourselves to bite on our shackles even if it is that we die
biting. Because we are nothing more then our own choices.
For honour, dignity, revolution.
FREEDOM FOR THE COMRADES: V. PALLIS- Y. DIMITRAKIS- Y. VOUTSIS-VOGIATZIS-
P. GEORGIADIS- I. NIKOLAOU
IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF MY FELLOW ACCUSED H. HATZIMICHELAKIS- M. YIOSPAS
Panayiotis Masouras
Avlona Prisons
21/10/2009 e
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