Extracts from Green Anarchist number 49:
GANDALF IN COURT
We don't want Justice, we want
Revolution!
CONSPIRACY:
People who have never met, people who attended the same
rally but never spoke, someone who received a 9 second
phone call, who bought an ALF T shirt, people who never
knew of each others' existence are all linked. It is not
what you said in that innocent letter, but the fact that
you wrote it at all. The whole concept of conspiracy
depends upon guilt by association. Welcome to the police
state suckers!
INCITEMENT: GA
is not responsible for the fact that people take @ction.
Animal abuse itself is the reason ALF actions take place.
When we report on road protests, our reports are not the
cause, the destruction of the countryside by roadbuilders
is. Nothing we say forces people into activity. No-one is
compelled to buy Green Anarchist. 'Anarchism is
about thinking for yourselves' as it said on the GA
blurb.
THIS AFFECTS YOU:
It is inevitable that techniques and legal shit used in
'Operation Washington Phase 2' will be used against other
radical publications or groups. Eventually, if that
carries on, all the radical media channels will be rolled
up. If you have any interest in freedom, you'd better
start protesting against this now! Today Green
Anarchist, tomorrow it could be you...
THE ONLY CURE FOR THE
STATE: The whole point of the Gandalf
prosecution is to intimidate the movement into
inactivity. Protesters who do nothing are no threat to
the system. So it is important that we refuse to be
frightened. They want to silence alternative news so that
the only way you can find things out is through their
state-controlled media, if at all. The answer here is to
carry on reporting the facts. The truth is no offence!
In the end it doesn't matter what happens to GA.
There will be other publications, better theories, better
analysis. A zine is just a zine but the revolution is for
keeps. Keep on kicking, and together we'll smash
civilization yet!
Extracts from Green Anarchist
number 38:
Diary of Animal Liberation
AUGUST
Channel Islands: Jersey
- Activist climbs on top of Jersey Zoo visitors centre,
covers the roof in petrol and sets it alight. £332, 000
damage. A few days later the same activist throws a
smokebomb inside the artificial insemination Centre at
Howard Davis farm. £6000 damage.
Lewes - Kitten liberated
from Fur, Feather 'n' Fins exotic pet store.
New Zealand: Christchurch -
ALF spraypaint Cancer Society HQ one week before their
Daffodil Day. On Daffodil Day the HQ is hit again. The
night before ALF target 8 branches of National Bank. 5
are spraypainted, 3 have locks glued. National Bank
sponsors Daffodil Day. National Bank billboard
redecorated with anti-vivisection slogans
SEPTEMBER
Australia: Victoria - 12
sick hens rescued from Happy Hens Egg World by Animal
Liberation Investigation Unit.
Germany: Koppen -
Autonomous Animal Protectors destroy six hunting
platforms.
Germany: Bad Soden -
Hunting platforms trashed on Earth Night destroyed again!
Germany:Offenback -
Autonomous Liberation Front glue and etch several fur and
butchers shops.
Hampshire - ALF torch
two barns at Hursley and hambleton hunt kennels. The
hunt's cheese and wine party is also evacuated after a
bomb threat.
Hampshire - Justice
Department leave hoax bombs at Hursley and Hambleton
kennels and pub.
Hampshire - Justice
Department: Anti Cartmell/Dowsett Campaign incendiaries
destroy APT owner David Walker's and Wickham Labs manager
Paddy Edwards' cars.
Stoneaton: Whitechurch farm
- Tom Osbourne of Mendip Farmers Hunt Club hospitalised
after being hit with a spiked club and acid sprayed in
face. Elsewhere nine Hunt Retribution Squad activists
trash the 8th Earl of Yarborough's Merc as he was driving
to a hunt meet.
Sweden: Umea -
K1,000,000 damage as three meat trucks torched.
OCTOBER
East Sussex - Justice
Department post mousetrap-based booby traps to Shamrock
Farm employees L Ford and T Welburn. Razor in envelope
sent to Shamrock vet Paul West.
Finland: Kuopio -
University vivisection lab spraypainted.
Germany: Hamburg -
Autonomous Animal Protectors attack hunting organisation
offices and vehicle with stinkbombs and slash tyres.
Hampshire - Justice
Department post mousetrap-based booby traps to Bucks Head
(Hunt pub), hunter/poulterer P Humphreys, hunter D Hunt,
Wickham Lab's C Bishop, Simon Day of Torsby Farms, P
Phillips Froxfield Farms vivisection breeder, and K Coker
hunter.
Extracts from Green Anarchist
number 40:
Technocracy is Tyranny:
You may look to your lifestyles of convenience and luxury
when technology is questioned, but don't forget
techno-industrial civilization is only possible because
of intense division of labour and pillaging of global
resources. Our everyday lives are at the mercy of
unaccountable experts and systems beyond our control - if
technology is not questioned, they will determine our
future instead of us. It's not about replacing one set of
experts with another either - tyranny is inherent in the
logic of the techno-industrial society. It must be
destroyed if Anarchy is to live!
Disclaimer; This
zine and all items sold through GA Mail Order are
produced for entertainment purposes only. No material in
it is intended to incite any action liable to lead to
criminal or civil charges. Can't you take a joke?
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Following the sentencing of three volunteer
editors from Green Anarchist magazine to three
year prison terms, and with further trials in the offing,
Index on Censorship is using its website to
publicise an attack on free speech which has recieved
alarmingly little media attention. Neither professional
journalists organisations, nor the majority of
organisations dedicated to free expression and the
defence of civil liberties have chosen to take up the
case.
In the interests of free
expression we at Index have decided to reproduce selected
items from Green Anarchist, including some cited against
the defendants in court, on account of which they were
found guilty of 'conspiracy to incite persons unknown to
commit criminal damage'.
We do not endorse the
threats of violence against individuals made by some of
the groups GA gives a platform to. But there is
nothing new in political agitators using violent and
inflammatory language - it's hard to imagine a call to
overthrow the state that didn't! Think of the writings of
Tom Paine or William Blake, do we today look fondly on
any court that jailed them?
But it is not the opinions
of GA or its contributors, however violently
expressed, that are the issue. What is at stake is the
liberty of the press, large or small, to report freely on
any subject they choose. Index frequently
reports on the restraints that affect British journalism,
most recently in our current issue (Index on
Censorship 6/97, p36). However, with this
investigation and trial the situation has worsened to a
shocking degree - is it acceptable for sixty police
officers to target one small newsletter? Why was MI5's
role in this affair shielded in court by the use of
Public Interest Immunity certificates, last used in the
cover up of the Matrix Churchill scandal? Can it honestly
be right to imprison people simply for what they have
written?
Index believes that Green
Anarchist is fulfilling the role a small independent
newspaper should play, in reporting news that the
mainstream misses and serving a special interest group.
It also fits squarely into the long-established British
tradition of dissent, a tradition that has frequently
been held up to the world as a model of tolerance, and
the mark of a mature, confident society.
If the day comes when the
British press feel only able to tackle issues which won't
inflame, won't enrage, won't draw cries of anger and
shock from the establishment, then on that day dissent is
dead. And with it dies freedom.
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