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Title: After the Fall
Author: CrimethInc.
Date: September 30, 2001
Language: en
Topics: 9/11, analysis, terrorism
Source: Retrieved on 7th November 2020 from https://crimethinc.com/2001/09/30/after-the-fall

CrimethInc.

After the Fall

The CrimethInc Ex-Workers Ex-Collective Revolutionary Task Force on

Terrorism:

A New Morning Breaks…

When I laid down my weary head to rest on Monday, September 10, 2001, I

felt that I had a fairly clear idea of where the anarchist project was

heading in the next few years and of what my part in that project was to

be. We were picking up momentum, patiently building the infrastructure

that we hoped would ultimately facilitate the system’s demise and

occasionally confronting it, overtly by day and covertly by night. We

did the quiet work, built quiet armies, and went largely unnoticed while

the powers that be largely slept — so fat, lazy, senile and

over-confident that it really did seem like maybe we could just evade

them until we could bring them down. When I woke up Tuesday morning to

the twin towers falling and the Pentagon burning, it became quickly

apparent that this trajectory was no longer realistic.

This unexpected development has understandably thrown most of us for a

loop — to say the least — but we need to accustom ourselves to the fact

that the times have changed somewhat. We need to realign ourselves to

this new situation, and we need to do it quick or we risk quickly

becoming irrelevant as all of the ground we have won recently is lost in

the flood of the coming war, the likely recession, and the quite

plausible specter of nuclear fucking armageddon.

For better or for worse the new situation opens up possibilities that

were not present before. If we can move fast we may get somewhere —

soon. In that spirit, this here is a modest proposal from some

individuals affiliated with the CrimethInc. Ex-Worker’s Collective: A

few humble suggestions as to where to go, where we have been, and what

is to be done from here. For starters, expressing unabashed jubilation

or even tacit approval of the hijackings is an exceedingly bad idea for

a variety of reasons. There is absolutely no way to get around the fact

that over six thousand people died horrifically — “disappeared” as they

would say in Latin America — leaving many thousands more parents,

children, friends and relations to pick up the pieces or the lack

thereof. If we allow ourselves to gloss over this simply because it’s

“cool” or “exciting” that the Pentagon is finally on fire we render

ourselves completely alien to almost anyone with any sense and rightly

so. We do the State a very great favor in the process by fulfilling

every crude caricature that they create of us. This is unwise

tactically, if for no other reason.

We don’t need to impress each other with facile displays of militancy.

We should recognize that we are in some degree of danger right now and

act accordingly. To pick a fight with the government at this point,

while remaining blithely oblivious to the fact that we are currently

unable to win it, would demonstrate a clear inability to understand

power and the fact that right now we have very little currently — at

least in the domain of physical warfare.

Make no mistake, we are preparing for war. The day will come when we

will have to fight it and there is no reason to set it off before we can

prevail. In the meantime, it will be important to remember that the

system’s not just made of bricks; it’s mostly made of people. The demons

of domination and abuse which plague our relationships with each other

will not be exorcized by destroying buildings — however odious — and to

massacre people at will is to contribute to the problem. The type of

wholesale slaughter that we saw on September 11^(th) is a clear

expression of an authoritarian arrogance that is the exclusive province

of hierarchs, archons, and ideologues. The war that our self-proclaimed

leaders have begun to wage will be an even clearer expression of that

arrogance.

We should think twice before pledging allegiance to anyone or anything

that claims to tell us who is innocent and who is guilty as if such a

dichotomy actually existed. Those who speak, with the heavenly judgment

of God himself of the infinite justice that will befall those who have

fallen from grace, are bloodthirsty maniacs and no friends of mine.

So, “in the meantime”, what?

And The Sun Still Rises Over the Western World

The beast has been awakened — snarling — and wants to bite someone…

soon. We fear, not without reason, that it may be us. At this moment the

Underground Armies of Barbarian Anarchists are getting scant attention.

Still, we are on a very short list. We have recently been considered a

genuine threat to national security. We have yet to be linked in any

manner to the hijackers and their supporters, despite the obvious

advantages that the reactionaries stand to gain by doing so. This will

not last forever. We are being given a grace period, to rally around the

flag and return to the fold, or else. They will connect the dots or

create the dots to connect, and just because many of us are Americans

does not mean we are safe.

Without a doubt, the government is killing an immense number of people,

in Afghanistan and soon elsewhere, in short order. They are already

moving troops into Pakistan, despite furious protests from many of the

people who live there and they are already bombing Afghanistan to

rubble. Some of our old friends and erstwhile associates have already

been given their notice and for the first time in most of our lives

conscription seems within the realm of remote possibility. What starts

as a stream becomes a flood.

It seems clear that the government’s behavior is going to provoke more

attacks on us, and equally clear that they cannot protect us. If

anything, the attack on September 11^(th) made clear that no government

could protect its so-called “citizens” from violence. Government, being

based on violence on all fronts, can only bring violence and inflict it

upon others.

The stock market has been in a nose-dive since it reopened. They claim

we’re not going into financial chaos, but most of us don’t really know

whether to believe them or not. The airlines and many other industries

are laying off thousands of workers and the economy in general seems

weaker. All of these events should cause us to crack a little smile. The

foundations of our despair are not as solid as their architects would

have us imagine.

Already we are seeing a rash of arsons, murders, and assaults on Arabs

and other minorities, their homes, businesses, and places of worship.

The flags are flying, the radio is playing “Proud to be an American”,

and we have seen many of our neighbors and parents acting a bit more

than patriotic and a bit less than fascist.

Are we ready for this? Is the world that we were trying so desperately

to set on fire about to blow up in our face? Are these truly the last

days? Do we need to lay low and hope this blows over?

Solidarity Forever – with Exceptions?

We are not soothsayers. But here is some advice:

Don’t panic. Most of us don’t need to run to the hills just yet.

Remember that paralysis — a state of powerlessness or incapacity to act

— is generally the least effectual reaction to threatening stimuli.

Doubtless the road will become more difficult, but don’t blow this out

of proportion. You will see that many things have not changed. Do not

contribute to the demoralizing hysteria that is understandably running

amok amongst us.

Stay up on what’s going on but don’t watch the television too much. It

immobilizes you, to say the least, and it is designed to scare you and

make you feel isolated. Go outside. Talk to people. Figure out the mood

on the street. Try to casually slip in your analysis of the situation in

conversation with random people. There are thousands, if not millions,

of people who are looking for answers who distrust the government and

the media implicitly. Find them. Make plans. We are not alone.

Revolutionaries are hiding around every corner in your town, even now.

This is not going to blow over. We cannot afford to lose momentum, it

may be much harder to regain in the near future. Right now is the best

opportunity we will have to move, not after this madness has been given

more time to develop. This is urgent. Everything is at stake. At this

point, we’re fighting for our lives – and more importantly, for

everything that makes them worth living.

None of the conditions that have motivated our activity have changed in

character. We are still held hostage, flying on a suicide course that is

going straight to hell; tied to ecological, economic, and political time

bombs; with madmen or possibly nobody at the helm. If anything, these

conditions will intensify as globalization becomes increasingly

militarized, as economic apartheid becomes racist slaughter. To renege

on our attempts to bring the empire down from the inside would sabotage

any such attempts to do so from the outside, because at this point it is

this empire which ultimately enforces the entire world order. Such

spineless behavior on the part of American revolutionaries would reveal

an immense amount of arrogance and privilege, since most of the world

does not have that option. Those who are by nature dangerous to Capital

and the State, such as the starving farmers overseas who exchange their

plowshares for guns and groups closer to home like MOVE, do not have the

luxury of leaving the struggle. Truthfully, neither do we. It seems

absolutely certain, with the course we are now on, that there will be

massive suffering and degradation in the quite foreseeable future, and

there is no guarantee that we will be spared this time.

The smoke has cleared, and the stakes have been raised. Our resistance

was becoming comical and scripted. Our actions were repackaged and sold

to us as harmless videos, with ritualized, predictable, and no longer

dangerous roles such as “The Black Bloc”, “The Direct Action Protesters

with a Three Letter Acronym”, “Puppetistas” (a group engaged in valiant

art but possessing a name absurd to the Zapatistas and Sandinistas who

actually died participating in armed rebellion rather than providing the

papier-mâché backdrop), “CrimethInc Ex-Workers Collective” and so on.

Hopefully, now that these roles will no longer be as safe, we will be

willing to abandon them, change our masks, and charge headlong into the

future. Revolution walks the thin line between victory and ruination,

even thriving on danger.

If Their Explosion is Their Message…

The explosions on September 11^(th) did not happen in a social or

historical vacuum. We all know why someone would want to destroy the

World Trade Centers, and the Pentagon. The official explanation is that

the hijackers were by nature evil and jealous, and possibly possessed by

the devil, demons, a tall thin man with a beard, or some exotic

religion. We cannot agree.

The Twin Towers were a nerve center of a global economic arrangement in

which a very great many of the world’s people are impoverished and

dispossessed. They were also possibly the world’s most potent symbols of

this arrangement, which is called capitalism. The Pentagon is a nerve

center of the military might that is capitalism’s ultimate guarantor,

and possibly the world’s most potent symbol of that might. Since the

hijackers are Middle Eastern, they were likely incensed by the

Washington’s decisive diplomatic, military, and economic intervention in

support of Israel’s brutal military occupation of Palestine, the daily

humiliations to which Palestinians are subjected, the expanding

settlements which are designed to break up the occupied territories and

take control of their resources, and other actions which are recognized

as acts of war throughout much of the world. It is also conceivable that

they were motivated by Washington’s decade long assault on the civilian

population of Iraq, which has devastated that society completely and

caused over a million deaths, including over five hundred thousand

children. Or maybe the specific impetus was Washington’s complicity in

wholesale slaughter in Lebanon during the Eighties or possibly the

Clinton administration’s bombing of the Sudan with no credible pretext,

destroying half its pharmaceutical supplies and killing unknown numbers

of people. Who knows?

The hijackings are the fairly predictable result of this government’s

particularly foul and odious behavior in the Middle East, which has

caused untold suffering, sorrow, starvation, and humiliation. The United

States government has the capability to overwhelm any conventional

military force in the world, so no one in the world has the option to

oppose them in a conventional way. When these forces are the ultimate

guarantors of intolerable situations unconventional means will

inevitably be employed. When these forces are the ultimate guarantors of

intolerable situations unconventional means will inevitably be employed.

The hijackings were not an isolated and random event that should strike

us like a meteor. The conditions of widespread suffering and attendant

reactionary ideology that led to the hijackings have been around for

longer than the short memory of the complacent West can comprehend. This

act of madness serves as an extremely convenient pretext for something

which our self-proclaimed masters were going to have to do anyways in

order to maintain the status quo: The consolidation of military control

in the third world, particularly in central Asia. The extremely finite

nature of petroleum reserves was always the Achilles heel of industrial

capitalism, and even now it is the great blind spot, the great point of

denial at the heart of the priesthood’s theology of growth and

accumulation. A copious supply of oil is absolutely necessary for

civilization as we know it to function at all. The entire infrastructure

that provides most of us with food, water, housing, heating,

transportation, and dumpsters is completely dependent upon it. World oil

supply is in short and irreversible decline, but there is still a great

deal in Central Asia, particularly in the old Soviet republics. We are

seeing the same process by which the major capitalist states

consolidated control over Middle Eastern oil play itself out in a

different context in central Asia. World oil is already in sharp and

irreversible decline, and with it our current civilization. Following

well-rehearsed patterns developed in the Gulf War: the United States may

well try to establish a foothold in the form of a client state (using

Pakistan much like Saudi Arabia) while a nearby country (Afghanistan

instead of Iraq) is reduced to smoldering ruins and wreckage — and the

engines run, the toilets flush, and the bulbs light as the sun sets.

The gears of civilization churn on… for the time being with us

underneath.

We should not fool ourselves into thinking that the status quo can

perpetuate itself without increasingly resorting to Wild Conflagrations

of Massive Carnage Overseas. Even if it survives in the short term it is

still not going to be able to last forever. The events are out of

control of even the global bosses, who are blundering from one reaction

to the next in a system that was already incredibly unstable. There is

no reason to think that they will not resort to mass murder of entire

peoples if they feel that it is in their interest to do so – which may

well be the case. Anarchists half jokingly refer to the coming downfall

of civilization, the fascist backlash, and the massive wars abroad. Do

we think the world will wait until we are ready?

What is Our Message?

The climate has changed after September 11^(th), but the instincts and

desires that fuel us have not. We cannot forget what we are trying to do

with our lives. While unanimity is impossible — and not even to be

desired — we all in our own way are attempting to bring this horrific

ten thousand year reich to its fucking knees. This has not changed.

Destroy what must be destroyed, and create what must be created, by any

means necessary. What those things are is up to you. We can only hope to

hear your advice and aid in your actions. We must realize that people

are legitimately terrified and angry, and that their feelings are not

delusional. They know that they are in danger, and this changes what we

can do. Often we have dealt with problems that could be ignored.

Children dying in Iraq and clearcuts in Northern California are

relatively easy to avoid if you don’t happen to live there, and no one

really knows how to explain what the World Trade Organization does

anyways. But the attack on the World Trade Center made many people fear

for their safety. They want to know why this happened and they want to

know what to do about it, and they not nearly as sheepish as the media

pretends or as activists believe. Indeed, they probably suspect already

the audacity of our self-proclaimed leaders who refer to the hijackers

as faceless cowards (when at least they killed themselves too) while

these maniacs just convince other people, mostly ordinary people — many

of our grandfathers, fathers, uncles, and now friends and brothers — to

do their shit for them.

Currently the State’s answer is that Our Enemies are Evil and Jealous,

and the plan is to Exterminate the Brutes. This is the only viable

explanation and the only viable plan that is being presented to the

great majority of Americans. Many may harbor secret and not-so-secret

doubts that this is wise, but for lack of better options most will

follow along. To counteract this we must produce our own analyses, and

our own programmes; which address what is happening here, and present a

course of action that seems to make more sense than worldwide

state-sponsored butchery.

We should point out to our neighbors that maybe they should remember the

horror of this experience the next time the government decides to reign

hell down from the skies on little dehumanized brown people somewhere.

When they become enraged at pictures of Palestinian kids waving and

cheering in celebration of mass murder we should remind them of many

fifth grade American classes, where comfortable white kids did just that

during the Gulf War. We can be disgusted by the rank hypocrisy of the

professional rationalizers in the media, who wring their hands when

Americans are slaughtered, and grin contently when Americans do the

slaughtering. We can also point out that declaring war on countries like

Afghanistan will only further lead us down the road the mad bombers of

September 11^(th) perhaps wanted – a full out war between many of the

Islamic countries and the West, a war that has already entered its first

stages.

Already such alternatives to the government’s actions are being

presented by peace groups — most of which by nature are haunted by a

privileged pacifism, ridden by religious morality, and are unable to

grasp that this situation was created by global capitalism, unable to be

stopped without the overthrow of global capitalism. Many peace groups,

while in the Eighties posed a threat by revealing the system’s

machinations overseas, also have a tendency to become harmless and even

congenial by limiting their actions to marching in circles and

“witnessing” wanton destruction in distant lands. Then the whole array

of bizarre and ineffectual Old Left relics, with even more three letter

acronyms, understand only too well the cause of the situation, but by

casting it in ridiculous Marxist jargon, unabashed moralizing, lack of

any real action — and using it as a pretext to seize control of power

themselves — ultimately only damage any movement. Neither of these

groups analysis or plans make the least bit of sense, which is why most

people will avoid them like the proverbial plague — which is still

different than believing that a never-ending world war is the answer.

The anarchist analysis of the situation also appeals to people, if only

because it hopefully fits to reality more than the 21^(st) century

cowboy movie our leaders are currently engaged in. First, the prime

justification of the existence of the state is that it will defend its

people against terror. The state’s ability to do so was tested by the

events of Sept. 11^(th), and despite the clamor for war people above all

want to be safe. Carpet-bombing Afghani villages to find terrorists will

seem more like sheer madness than a just war after the initial patriotic

thrill is over, and if retaliatory attacks inside America continue,

these wars will seem even more futile. The anarchist case that the

government is neither infallible nor invisible, incapable of serving its

people and the environment, is only being proven. As our so-called

representatives blindly march in line with drumbeat, funding the war

machine and the large corporations, the point that big government and

big business are the same and fundamentally undemocratic will be driven

further home. Their hypocrisy will be further revealed as they decry

religious violence from Muslims while singing “Onward Christian

Soldiers”, as they invade other countries to protect our supposed

national sovereignty, and as people slowly become unable to

differentiate our “just” war from terrorism.

When kids start returning in body-bags people will be only more sad and

angry than they are now – and their rage will need something to focus

on. Anarchists should try to channel that valid rage against the real

culprit of the government that put the world in this situation to begin

with, otherwise they will channel it back to the government-approved

targets such as the Afghans, Osama bin Laden, or even us.

While we may lack the complete control over the corporate media behemoth

to shove our viewpoint down the throats of everyone, we have the even

more potent weapon of talking to people while not being arrogant pricks

about their ideas (which may at first be cloaked in the jargon of the

right-wing, but simply reflect their terror at their own inability to

control their world). Many people are already anarchists at heart and

simply do not know the word for their feelings, feel alone, or lack the

heart to stand up. Anarchists must present to people why such carnage

overseas is murderous to everyone everywhere on all sides, ruinous to

the earth, and that it is possible to stop it. Anarchists should offer

concrete assistance or attempting to destabilize the system at home,

which is inflicting the destruction in the first place. We should not

expect others to read our anarchist papers or come to our anarchist

social events. Instead, we can find ways to make ourselves relevant to

people by propagating our ideas in a form that can be understood and

digested by them. The good old toolbox of wheatpasting, newspaper wraps,

and guerrilla theatre are just a few among the many tactics we can

imagine. Yet the tactics that have not yet been imagined – those are the

ones that will prove vital in the coming days.

This Moment Despair Ends — and Tactics Begin

Anarchists, us motley crew who learned our politics by starving and

stealing, sharing food from dumpsters, by working bad jobs and learning

how to avoid them, by watching our parents sweat and scratch to merely

survive, by putting our bodies between civilization and the trees, by

breaking the windows of corporate complacency — now is not our time to

surrender. We realize that our forms of decentralized control and direct

action, rediscovered by us youth in only a few short years, are the key

to any victory. We must not let any pretentious so-called “leadership”

develop, and we should ourselves not devolve into boring marches with

the same uninspired slogans that will only serve to further alienate the

potentially sympathetic people. All sorts of people, such as older

people and families, will now be involved whose support is crucial. This

is a whole new development which we must be prepared for and welcome

with outstretched arms. Let our demonstrations for peace and in

solidarity with all those who suffer be festive and anarchistic in an

older sense of the word, folk uprisings against a bloodthirsty regime

and insane wars.

Let us never forget to cause actual damage to the system when they least

expect it. Peace is not pacifism. Rampant destruction of corporate

property at the next mass demonstration might be less socially

acceptable by either the general populace or the government at the

current moment. Despite the darkening times, we should keep up

clandestine activities when they are still effective, and this recent

event should have little impact on the perpetuation of acts committed in

the style of the ALF, the ELF, or the RAF for that matter. Perhaps even

the adaptation of these tactics against the coming war may be needed.

With the tightening of the petty freedoms our government so arrogantly

allows us, people will have to decide which side of the law they will

have to choose to operate on, and live with that in mind. People who go

underground for political reasons should be supported by whatever means

needed with utmost caution – with no illusions that to do will be easy

or safe.

Just as “America’s New War” will operate across borders, so must we. We

are much more effective if we work in concert with others who can do

things we cannot do and who we can aid by doing what they cannot do. For

example, it is easier to obtain money, books, replicate propaganda, and

steal computer parts in this country than it is in Bolivia. Unlike many

anarchists overseas, we operate in comparative safety, can acquire

resources quickly, can broadcast struggles overseas to a great many

possibly sympathetic audiences, and have relatively easy access to the

entrails of the war machine. We can make the most what we have and

attempt to aid our sisters and brothers, especially when the hellfire of

the U.S. military might rains down upon our potential allies. Let us not

confuse the whole of Arabian resistance worldwide with the wretched and

reprehensible right-wing religious networks such as the Al-Quaida and

the Taliban; just as we hope we will not be confused with the actions of

our government. Potentially revolutionary forces such as the

Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan are fighting for their

lives against both the clerical fascists and U.S. foreign policy, and

are ever in need of assistance. Many of our sisters and brothers in the

third world live daily with the understanding that they can be reduced

to charred corpses at any given moment by the government that claims to

represent us, and it is our special responsibility to undermine that

government’s ability to do so.

We should also adapt to the place and people we are fighting with, and

realize that anarchism in Afghanistan will be different than anarchism

for American train-hoppers, but just as effective and important. If in

some parts of the world the impulse toward a dignified and egalitarian

existence — as free as possible from domination and coercion – does not

self-consciously identify itself as Anarchism with a capital ‘A’, then

let us work with whatever segment of the population seems most likely to

tear down the existing both local and global hierarchies. We must work

internationally and with those who live down the street who we never

bothered to talk to. A cross-pollination of strategies, tactics,

material assistance and general activity will aid us all.

Let us also not forget those who are struggling in the belly of the

beast, now that the old white men in suits are throwing about the word

“terrorist” with the same bellicose racism their doppelgänger

predecessors used the word “nigger” with. The waves of racist hatred

against Arabs must be combated with every ounce of power. Our freedom is

tightly bound with theirs. The current militaristic jingoism would serve

the particularly convenient function of killing off angry black

militants, especially those currently incarcerated. We need to make

plans for the day before, not the day after. If anything, now is the

time for anarchists, especially white anarchists, to come to the aid of

black and Arab radicals to prove ourselves the reliable allies that we

aspire to be. The alliance of white radicals with black and Arab

radicals needs to happen — for the government will eventually put us all

in the same boat, and we shall all sink or swim together. Every racist

indignity should be opposed – and we should be on the frontlines.

It’s fairly easy for white ex-suburbanites with dreadlocks to flee the

system, to dumpster dive to live, or to start farms and to grow organic

carrots. Escape can be more difficult for those who are dangerous by

nature, who capitalism has abused since birth, who have dirty hands and

tired backs and hungry mouths to feed. The point is not to denigrate our

struggle, which is as valid as anyone else’s, but to make sure that we

capitalize on the immense possibilities which will lie dormant until we

build mutually beneficial relationships with other sectors of the

population.

If anything, recent events should serve as a highlight to anarchists of

our own weak position and our severe lack of social power. If we were in

a position of strength we could effectively stop the war – today — and

this is a position we need to be in. So, let us involve ourselves in the

process by seizing by whatever means we can — both the means of

production and means of consumption (stealing and dumpster-diving are

tactics for consumption), creating self-sufficiency and autonomy.

Imagine the possibilities of an anarchist union refusing to let ships

out to fuel the war effort abroad. Impossible? Similar events happened

before Seattle and even more recently in Charleston and after the G-8

protests. Or is soldiers refused to obey orders, and killed their

superiors as was common during Vietnam. Nothing is forbidden and

everything is permitted – as long as these acts have the net effect of

bringing our modern madness to an end before it engulfs us all.

Now more than ever as anarchists we must create the world we want right

now. Redoubling our efforts to plant the seeds of revolutionary change,

which unnoticed in the current wartime frenzy, will blossom when least

expected. Independent media networks, autonomous zones, safe houses,

food programs, free clinics, and the like can only prosper as the

current system of human relations continues to shamble on towards its

impending doom. We must learn fast – how to grow food, heal ourselves,

defend ourselves, and much more if we to survive. We can be constantly

wary of false alternatives, traveling neither the path of ‘Ben and

Jerry’s’ nor that of the Taliban. The distinctions between the ways we

want to live and the way the system provides will only be sharpened, and

it is us who must sharpen our knives and cut the cords.

One Solution — Revolution

Our war is a war without borders or flags, without clear enemies or

predefined objectives. Capitalism, authority, domination are all more

tendencies than specific individuals or buildings — although over the

millennia these tendencies have manifested themselves to a dangerous

degree in certain people and institutions, even ourselves sometimes. We

must first acknowledge this in order to fight back.

We were always for the war, and we will always be for the war – and our

war is not the same the as the hate-mongering wars of any religious

fanatic or any foul government. We are for the war which we fight every

day when we struggle to live and die with dignity, in harmony with the

earth and each other. Our war is being waged by all those who suffer

under the thumb of this insane world order, by all those who realize

that we have nothing left to lose control over – and our own lives to

gain.

Can you hear the wind calling your name? Will you be the one who lights

the spark that starts the flame? For this we promise you – as this world

and its wars ends in flames we will be there with you, holding your hand

and planting a kiss ever so gently upon you.

-In memoriam for all those who have died in any battlefield, in any

office complex, in any nursing home, or from bombs of any nationality

falling from the skies. Your deaths are not in vain my friends. We will

assure you of that.

And in urgent anticipation of the day that will come when we can sleep

under the stars without fear of airplanes, bombs, missiles, stock

markets, civilizations, or buildings falling down.

---

— by Double Agents Osama Bin Bush and George W. Laden Warbinger Distro,

CrimethInc Ex-Workers Collective