Editorials, schmeditorials!!!Welcome to Livewildordie!land. .. "Geez,Lovweez, oig about timen you say.Well, gosh there t'ain't nothin'but bqd @xcuses,bad, bad, bAd.. but here's the long AwAlted issue # 3. We hope you'll €njoy the humor & passion, etc. 3 Maybe even be inspired here & therE. {Alhearty thanx to everyome who's sEnt in cArtoons, | spme of which we used, E ing creative...to 13 CAFE CAMELEON CLOSES ffi’“ ETERNAL SLAMDANCING ving wild! Enjoy! Hére in santa Cruz, people who live close to the earti are winding down another beautiful blue sky meadow brignt sunshine forest dark $hadow Spring day of walking o roads and trails through thickets of trees downtown off the mall street musicians réckin out folkin out jazzin ail punked out very heavy in black with shiny metal bond- age cqipment clanking tatoos and spike hair and shave head or shave eyebrows and tatters of sweaters from thrift stores and dumpsters and food stamps and freight- hopping, biking, propagand- izing, payphones and yard work and artwork and court- dates, making tee-shirts to 11 and love affairs and furniture moving and letters ac the P.0. Box from Mom Dad sister brother friends pris- oners and everyone wants to buy land and live there with friends and maybe start a community while working with children in schools calling home for some money taking classes and smoking and drinking and laughing and fucking and-hating-and watch= ing the ocean and feeling better, taking your clothes rants, writings,lecters and poEmS somE noc.In Any cAse please be encouraged. . .tO continue from twisted Santh Cruz — Lee LIFE IS LIKE THIS FRIEND OF MINE, HE'S DRIVING ALONG ON MISSION STREET & LOOKS OVER & THERE'S THIS ONE NATURAL FOOD STORE IN ‘TOWN SEEMS THE OWNER IS ALWAYS PUTTING THIS & THAT SAYING UP ON THE STORE MARQUEE USUALLY SOME POLITICAL STATEMENT OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER OFTEN TENDING TOWARDS THE WU- ‘WU, USUALLY FAIRLY LAME, 449 ANYWAY MY FRIEND SEES THIS WEEKS INSTALLMENT [READS:"THERE ARE NO MORAL ABSOLUTES"... WHATEVER', HE THINKS, BUT THE FUNNY PART IS THERE'S A COUPLE OF 'SIGN-CARRYING PICKETEERS OUT IN FRONT PROTESTING y __"THERE ARE MORAL ABSOLUTES"..WELL, THAT'S ABOUT THE FUNNIEST & WEIRDEST THING MY FRIEND'S SEEN ALL WEEK & HE'S ¥ GAWKING & LAUGHING & 'WHAM HE SMACKS INTO THE CAR IN FRONT OF HIM. 'WHAM! TO THE TUNE OF $2700 §4 WORTH & NO INSURANCE & SHIT THE NEXT WEEK THE # STORE OWNER CHANGES THE MARQUEE TO READ "THERE ARE MORAL ABSOLUTES"! ISN'T LIFE LIKE THAT? off for money or for fun or out of desperation or numbness being cold being cold being cold being cold being coid being cold being cold from houses to rooms to shacks to cars to teepees to wicky-ups to treehouses and tarp rope and sleeping bag homemade little caves computers and cooking with propane and planting and growing food, growing pot wait- ingtables petting cats vasectomy theory eating coffee xerox publication of radical wiretap anarchist views late night at Kinko's dreaming about the little red-haired girl about burning buildings and bombs and punk rock zines eco-zines homemade anarchist zines Ero-zines Austral-zines Canadienne ramming the occasional drift netter hitchhiking talking dampness campfire barbed wire rallies Dead shows and altered states, wanting someone to sleep with trying to get a S%, bowredemets hold of people who don't have phomes to get that ride to the Rendezvous, Gathering, Council, hunt, out that number? Well, they hang out a lot at Cafe Cameleon. No WAY!!! Yeah. It's worse than the earthquake. NO WAY!! heck of a party. The party to end all parties. Slam dancing Like I've never seen. The pit got pretty haily; I lost my belt pack, my shoes, and I was actually on the floor three times. WOW. I'M DEALING WITH SOME SERIOUS GRIEF. Yeah, you shoulda been there. Slamming was totally necessary. I THINK Jigmivedfuseickiox | UNDERSTAND SLAM DANCING FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THIS MOMENT. - Yeah, I'm sure there was some grieving going on, but the energy was really high and happy. It was a good release VHERE ARE WE GONNA GO NOW? PERG IS AS SNOBBY AS EVER, AND JAHVA HOUSE ISN'T REALLY COOL--THEY ASK YOU TO LEAVE IF YOU SIT THERE TOO LONG WITHOUT BUYING SOMETHING. Well, my friend is trying to start this thing where people would volunteer their houses one night a week for an open coffehouse. HMMMM MO0, . .THAT COULD BE INTERESTING... If you know anyone with a house who might be into it, give em this number: 426-8656 OKAY. WILL DO. o' ot e, s e e e emsaves o1 iere by "One can oty goess whwt s -- MIA action with people who don't live in boxes with numbers on the front. How ya gonna find them with- But didn't you hear? It's closed. I know, it's really sad. They had a Because we celebrate life and battle Because we are not satisfied Because it is up to us Because we love to sing and dance Because the pressure is upon on us Because there are governments and borders and cops and courts Because the boundaries must be broken Because we are out of control Because they said we couldn’t do it Because we feel like it New planet-approved Birth Control Strategy: Permanent sound- Proof Dental Dam for Weird words neverireally die I never thought LWOD would take so long to do. In the beginning we recieved several boxes of a couple years worth of submissions via Portland. We had mo prac- tical place for working on our naster- piece. LWOD spent its formative time in Dan died before we finished. I know he vould approve of the final product and I'm glad he got to watch this issue grow around his easy chairduring his last months here. Dan was in excrutiating pain mOSE Of the time,but he was happy thac s boxes stoved here and there, mostly in my he could give us a place fo vork noe ta® €35t the Pope.. living room. We'd pick through them and = mention have the cogclnual pleasure of L RMMMIy, scurry off to our individual spaces or to our delightful company. He's sie in bis o & cafes to work on bits. easy chair, bent and cranky, like a croch- "4 As we progressed, so did our frustra- ety old king, squinting noy and chan o *, tion. No work space meant no sharing of our antics. I like to think we heloed fim % ideas in a bigger sense, and it was hard as much as he helped us. - = to visualize the paper's growth. During all this, my friend Dan, who was getting sicker and sicker with AIDS, managed to score a roomy two bedroom apartment. I was caregiving for him and we listened to each other's daily complaints. As a radi- cal faerie, artist, and supvorter of all things wild, Dan offered LWOD the use of his Tiving foom. Ve got the brunt of this like to dedicate this fssue of Lamn to done in his place and if it weren't for Dan, who 1ived wild and died him, it would've been a whole lot harder. S Cten I won't forget those months with Dan, and Lee and Rufus. Dan gave us a place and 50 much more: 'a bond formed between us all and I hope it never broken. Dan lived a wild, hedonistic 1ife and even though his end was rough, he made room for this untamed paper. His heart beat wild to the end. To get to the point, I'd A VIETER SPIE 1 wi11 never forget the sy theoush He anox in the soonltght £/ 1abored breathing up. the mountaine the wild o ehe dreamhice & : ancing vith the slightest moveaent of my head £1r boughs bent 1n heavy silent grace fron even"the youngest trees KiDS To GET GUT TMERE AND STEAL. S0 HAVE A GOOD TIME AND,. .. 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IFORTOMATELY THE Businesses) BE ACSPANEON DUEE. ourianr, e [HAT DESERVE TO BE RIPPED OFF THE mOST, vmeh e e e Finaily energing for the lory hike bac Dot long before the firet iight that spreads the real silver and gold a1 our muscles ache T T, BIG OES, ARE ALSO The HARDEST 10 STEA. FROM (WITH A FE EXCEPTIONS ,LIKE SUPER~ HARKETS) BUT EveRy SYSTEA HASITS ), u I¥ youARe | - P et C R oume oot How T4 UM\ ExpLoiT THOSE WEAKNESSES FOR Qa0 uR Own 1LL-GOTTEN GAIN ! nos1ee PotarTike nunger Ehe “Gancing 1igh £ snow crystals o there, in By mine aore precious ch 25 v atash our ool oy geas et the Stace “ith 14fe our swirling partner deftant bear, not hibernating EOUTLAWING *ADVENTURE lvays been adventurers, but adventurers have not always necessarily been outlaws. Until about the turn of the century, or even later, it was easy for people to just take off with nothing more than what they could carry on their backs. They could camp almost anywhere, bathe in any river, stream or pond, and wander where they chose, without'the fear of being busted. 1In cities, they could play music, juggle, dance or otherwise perform on the atreets in exchange for food or money. In the wilds, they could gather, hunt and fish for food. They could choose their own risks, decide for them- selves what ch But now, real adventure is largely against the law. This is no surprise. Industrial civilization is based on control, and control is easiest in a mono-culture. Diversity tends to under- mine order and, as much as possible, is suppressed. S0 today, even on public lands, where to camp, where to bathe, where 6 climb. , to let the government know what we are doing. In most cities, a permit is required for street perfor- mance (and, in many, it is outlaved), which means getting approval from a government committee (or, in Boston, the police department). And if you wish to Revolt becomes unnecessary when you can't pick your target out of a crowd: Return of the - om the better late than never department comes the story of the second, but more accurate pie attack on a forestry official. The Revolutionary Bcoterrorist Pie Brigade, long known for its lack of respect for “thoughtful radicalism,* last April launched another successful assault against the forces that would destroy the last of the Redwoods in Northern California’s Headwaters forest. Admittedly, though deemed 'juvenile and immature’ by some, the brigades honorary membership roll has swelled by 100V over the last year, and more members are expected s00n, ' to terrorize both those deserving overmature activists who would so label us, and those whose practices endanger or Gestroy ecosystens. Spengers’ Grotto and fern bar at the foot of University Avenue in Berkeley has long been known as one of the finese olaces to dine on scafood, until we visited last April. We feel very sure that Speners and other such restaurants would not want this embarassing splotch on their record, and they can do 5o by zefusing such groups in the future. Reservations were made for the Society of Amerikan Foresters for » banquet roon with, conveniently enoush, an emezgency exit located only two bounds away £rom the speakers podium. The dinner featured John Cambell as the keynote speaker £rom the Pacific Lunber Company, with several Lunber company officials (Just as deserving) in the audience. Cambell addressed the ser- ious and pressing issue affecting his company, that of public laws passed by California's legislature that affect private lands, or in our interpretation, how greedheads can maxinize profit with minimum bureaucratic influence from rubber stamp aencies 1ike Ca. Dept. of Porestry. Little did Cambell know that the REPB had a stake on his skin clad head. Several REPB supporters accomp- anied this initiate to his goal, along with a standard cream pie, due to local unavail~ REVOLUTIONARY — —— ELO-TERRORIST back to the city archy and dam glad of it there s something about the suburbs that gets on a town lady s nerves fat slick tabbies sitting around those country clubs and lapping up the cream of existence none of that for me give me the alley archy me for the mews and the roofs of the city an occasional fish head and liberty is all i ask freedom and the garbage can romance archy romance is the word maybe i do starve sometimes but wotthehell archy wotthehell ilive my own life wander in foreign lands, passports and visas are required. The government will tell us that this is all for our own good, but in reality, it is an attempt to limit diversity, the possibility of adventure and the extent to which people can experience wildness and wonder. The'authorities are Striving to restrice wandering to its commodity form. vacation. They want the wilder: be a spectacle to be observed but never in. They want the streets associated with work an Pay...not with the amazement and wonder that'street performers often bring. They want music, dancing and playing to be entertainment, and uninhibited street performance could go beyond that and become a festival of free play. With- out the constraints of these restrictive laws, too many people might get a taste of wild freedom and of the marvelous, and might start rebelling against work- and-pay society. No society can actually abolish adventure. At worst, society utlaw adventure, and I doubt that many people reading this are afraid to be outlaws. RAs society strives to enforce conformity, we will it with an attitude of rehellious defisnces ting it with our refusal to be le all we desire o be. Like all rel have wild imaginations and are quite capable of finding ways around the rules. No law is stronger than its ability to be enforced. By keeping a low profile, we can camp where we choose, wander where ability of eco-meringue green cream. After a quick discussion about our tactics outside the banquet room, I opened the double doors, held back an adrenaline rush for the dash, and walked calmly up to the podium, delicately balancing a box on Ay left hand. The speaker Ppeared completely absorbed in his subject, and only when I stepped in front of the Podiun 41d he notice my unkempt appearance, how I could not have possibly fit in the crowd that evening. Who are you?* demanded Cambell. T replied with my alias and asked his the ame question to make sure he was the mark: “Are you John Cambell, Chief Forester of PALCO?* bathe where we choose. ..as the "Altefnative Living" articles in L¥OD have shown. In cities, if we want to play, dance or sing in the streets, we can o 8o, stopping or claiming we're only doing it for our own pleasure if the police try to harass us. If enough people gather to hear or to join our fun, the cops may not be able to qet through. If the permits are photo- copiable, it may be worthwhile o get one, photocopy it and pass it along to anyone who might be interested, under- mining the purpose of the permit. Where street perfornance is completely illegal...who's to stop you from playing for your own pleasure in a park? 'And if the festive spirit spreads, so much the better Some will ask..."but why not just stick to the wilderness in our adventure; isn’t 1iving wild what we're interested in?* Cities are part of the reality created by civilization. Millions of people live in cities and ignoring them won't make them go away. If a spirit of wonder and wild adventure is impossible in cities, then the creation of a world £ree of domestication is a pipedrean. For what is going to tear down the cities, if not the wild energy of rebellious city dwellers tired of the drab, homo- genized, sterile existence the ity offers them, and inspired by a vision of how full and passionate life could be? And would not wandering wonder and rebellion, freely sharing music, dancing and piay be a way of inspiring such a vision. So, wild adventurers, let's vander whare ve choose, spreading wonder and rebellion in defiance of a society that strive to outlaw adventure, --.A Nameless Gypsy Outlaw wet Teshirt owned by a Han gloss person who gotrained on atier i por cal action table was taken by the authorities. , What 4o you want?® “I've come to deiiver desert:® And with that, the box dropped away to reveal a cream pie, flying from point blank range into Cambells' face and neck noose a I took in a deep breath, bounding for the door. I heard signs of a scutfle to follow Just before hearing the supporters chants of "Stop the Clearcuts, Abolish Maxxam, Save the Redwoods, ... but I vas gone without a trace. 'Bevare, we don't just Pick on foresters, corporate criminals. Your face may be the one we'va saved the cayenns cretm ple for. e R — .. o - K. i 37— n'the autme of 1963 8 12pe rocordng o a teephane Comversaton boweon Margarel Thatcher and Presdent aagan was sant anorymusly 1o newspapors i vanous pansof o workd. A covoring nole camed thai 1 tapo was. & rocoring of cossed ineon which was heardthe o aaders iephons conversaton I January 1964, 1o siry was aken Up b ih Surday Tmes and ihe San Frandsco Civonce. The Times doscribed he (2po a6 par of 3 KGB ropoganda war.The US State Department sad hl he zpe Wwas ovidnce of an ‘creasingly sopisicated Russian ‘Saiormaton campaign’ In{aci1h 12p0 was made by mermbrs of he anarchit Purk ock group Crass. T tape FREAKS Well if finally happened in sogqy Portland, home of many a trendsetter. The meeting of the minds. the highly underground information net computer pirates, and on the other, the standard paradigm subverting, media monkeywrenching Earth First'ers. . "Tvas the evening of the longview log Export action, December 7th 1989. After a hard day at the demo, with four arrestees facing double felonies and the press hav- ing their media bites, with all the flyers passed out and the banners folded avay again, that Mr. and Ms. (name omitted) activists returned to their semi-plush home in the west hills. like any returning folk, they responded to the 1ittle blinking 1ight on their answer- ing machine. A message lying in vait; "Hello, this is the Mad Hacker. I've been cabbling around these ATST' files and T've found a federal work order to have your line tapped. Just calling to infomm you. (To that ef- fect). Goodbye." This tape caused a bit of fuss here at speculation central, If the line was tapped, why vwould the Mad Hack- er leave his calling card, thus driving himself farther underground? Was this an elaborate, albeit subtle joke perpetuated at the number which was listed as a contact for the export action? Vere these guys for real? Mean- vhile, across town, the former hot house of EF! activity espied two unmarked vehicles on sloppy stakeout. With images of the feds slinking in unison both in the vest hills and at their very own doorstep, the residents, with video cam, walked out and filmed the vehicles and asked the loitering driver, "Are you watching this house?" If they veren't, they would be now! Hell, why not? With the blatant Painforest Roadshow van parked out front, we at speculation central seem a likely target. o springs ago, after the new salvo of Bull Run actions waged by spec. central's resident eco-punk hit the fan, strange things started happening. Mainly the phone calls. George the Bomber would call up and try to get us to agree over the phone to lend him money so he could huy. dynamite to blow up the Erietentush Bricge. George the Bomber didn’t seem too bright for a monkeywrench- er, but just about the level of an entrapper. Our response, "Come to the monthly meeting, it's open to the public. Ve're non-violent." His response, "Ghandi was a wimp." George calls again and again trying to get us to take down his phone number. No go. But that's history nov. Wait Is there a con- nection to those Bull Run related activities and this current speculation? Tt lies, I speculate, in the recent publication of a letter which vas sent to the Portland Free Press. The letter, signed by the Bull Run Avengers, publicly declares that the Olive Sale adjacent to Bull Run has been spiked. Eco- varrior meets the press. SIoppy entrapper meets a brick wall. Stake-out stooges meet a carnival. All the while, T've been speculating on the future of mon- Keywrenching in general. Tt seems that a viable tactic would be that an effusion of computer viruses aimed at the nerve center of the Freddies, BIM, etc., would have a consideratle impact. Calling all Mad Hackers! fTo arms! The most convenient way to smash the state is to jam commmication satel- lites! Yahoo! But is the Mad Hacker, now elevated to mythic standards, the wave of the future? Or more importantly, is he for real? The an- swer came via NPR radio a few weeks ago. The FBI has recently ar- rested a small band of computer pirates who are charged with accessing the computer banks of ATST as well as hreaking into some US armed forces information banks, said the report. Reality as reported and validated by NPR. “There you go. Could it be that the Hacker, seeing his own doom in the triggering of big corporate data de- fense snares, paused to make that sociable call to Mr. and Ms. activist while the full veight of the shit vas crashing down all around? Ve can only speculate. .. On one hand, —Nildthang. e g Vs et b | IRl B ¥ 355 o g e T S Amagh, s oo son I///{(//W o b s oo o Y e e A e &% T g b e O P e e s o e =~ 21 ULY) DAY informati “, ca ctricity Toe itchel Benson. By Mi and Lee i Writers Pokesmay ‘Mercury N_zv- fi';“ y's "::_‘:‘: e Wtage Cuargng etebr ations were ot | o v oR radical more oo ; ism and o Monday served Jage o orning; after’ up a raucous l: er o dan 'F.S“p,m““% nta Croz 0| the gapy Street. . __ ., ococsives the CUt com U.S. power grid vulnerable to rifle users, Senate told o ion group said Fove Poge i Service ists, hurricanes and earthquakes. environmental o should have sionalled to activists that the mvement vas abaut to be hit herd by infiltrators, informers, and qoverment agents. Instead, the moverent, for the most part, s refused to see that Trutt was the victin of a bigger hidden agenda, a covert wer against. the ovenent. Three different Federal Grand duries, and at. Teast one Oregon grand fury, have probed the anim] rights moverent. in Californfa and the vest cosst, leading to the subpoena of at Jeast 15 activists - and harassrent by the FBI and other goverment agencies of poss1bly hun- dreds of other activists. East coast groups apparently are also the focus of the goverment investigation. Virtua1ly every scenario autlned by Brian Glick (1n Wer at Hore®) - and others wo have docunented goverment harassrent.of polftical groups - has been sed agatrst activists n Californta, incluing burglaries of activists' hares, disinformation campaigns agatnst key activists and infiltration by informers. As fn past roverents, informers ot only spy on political activists, but are used to discredit and disrupt. As GIick notes, “The FBI and police exploft. (fear) to snear geruine activists as agents,” which is exactly what hgpened recently in Sacranénto vhen ctivists attempted to expose known agents and nforments. Those informants have been the saurce of a series of Yies and frvendos in rorther Calffornia which have been desgned to neutral ze the rovenent there. Socra- ento s been the center of significant animal rights activity since 1963 when 3000 people attended a rally at LC Davis. The first ever U.S. anima] rights civi] disobedience occurred there in 1984, and in 197, the first ever fire set by activists destroyed an unfintshed anime] research laboratory. But fnformers in the area have, Toyal to the script suggested in G11ck’s book, attenpted to destroy this activisn since soretime in early 1967 when the first Grand Ay in Sacrarento ves irpeneled. A dis- Information carpaton has spread rurors to fnflane disagreenents amng activists. Campaigns have been sabotaged, including one against. pound seizure. Informants have provoked Jealousy and enborrassed progressive groups. Dedicated actvists have even been accused of bef overment agents, & camn ploy to under- ine the activists' effectiveness and focus attention sy fron thelactus) fnfomer. California's activists, generally, do ot yet realize what has heppened. In fact, mst do ot uderstand that they have been 'set-up" as Gl1ck states, and fnstead honesty bel feve the disruptions fnvolving different factions are caused by ‘personality’ conflicts. A Group of Sacranento activists - frcluding several who my have already informed on other activists - has even entraced a confessed informent. Althouch the informent. adnitted fn a pblic meeting that she would fnform again’ if asked by the goverrment, and the activists were varned such a person could Jeopardize their camatgns in the area, they vited her back. The goverments var: s working, in part because the aniral rights movenent {s Yo REALLY DECDED Wa? BacK. BACK To THE CAVE DAVS. / WERDD NIMAL. RIGHTS THING Whes FoPLE LiveD IN BIZZ < CATS AND I TAUGHT THEM To SHAVE THIER HEAD> (o ip — ALST 0F Gad * TvAT O, Teams around the world have already been training for this dramatic event! It's not too late for your team to enter. Entries are being solicited for these events: \ Tossing- Juesind and tne aeares of tstroction 7088 aestr x Wpren BRIC 50 & 100 Sistance Aecuracy Aot Guantity Tocivees tnree riaTauON- s 11 mignt group cor nee, ans Jail Sehiearity s 1o cor paToN RELX Bt host darios 1t Tause ve Juaged o tcactions Speed is an essential element in the won him high “brick toss and dash" event. This marks with ANARCHIS T OLYMPICS! Look for this up and coming Japanese ath- lete; he pro- es to be a gold-medal inner in the pithet hurl- ing compet: tion., A per- sonal flair for style was exhibited in his facial grimaces and finger point- ing, which Phillipine relay team came in last the judges, From the South Korean friendship games...here in recent heats... the state police team has been training rigor- ously for the synchronized student stomping e- vent. Definitely a team to watch out for... Dear Wiss Guided, Recently at & demo T began to chant "Give Pea While being arrested (I vas cooperating, of cours to this the cop drew his baton and beat me sbout the head and to ponder, here in my hospital a1 responsible for thist” 4 Chance ). In response shoulders. Having plency of tis room, 1 can't help but vonder Politely, Bruised and Confused ed and Confused, shase! Had you been sore attentive at your non-violence vould have recalled guideline 34-J-B9a which clearly your cesponsibility not to provoke violence. Nov I'm sure the peace officer in question vas a responsible individual and if you vould have stopped singing he vould have stopped clubbing. Give pesce officers a chance, too. Dear Bru; For prep you outlines Dear Miss Guided, s o salor deso organizer 1 vas appalled at @y most recenc desmo when sose 111-behaved, immature, so-called broke windows at & local bank and fast food chain. This vas tocally inappropriate as both these establishaents give not only to several husanistic cavses but also donated generously to Eacth Day . Their behavior accosplished absolutely nothing positive and may vell have seriously Jepordized my organization’ anarchists' Sunding base. How vould you suggest 1 distance ayself from Chen and regain control of the situstion? In Pesce, Disgusced Dear Disgusted, Oh my this is indeed seriovs. It seems these people have made ic quite cbvious wich heir behavior that they vant chaos, and not a fully functioning non-violent society. It is wp o you to stare creating that society now, cosplete wich a fira and thouzough self-regulating sechanisa. Let them know hov coamitted You aze to a vorld vithout violence by docusencing their violence Vith photographs, pointing thes out to the police, and sgreeing to testify against them in court. Remember being a court vicnes: agatnse violence askes you a true vitness for peace. Dear Miss Guided, FUCK SHIT PISS . ACK. Torch it all....Asasgsss. Asuegh. Ha ha b Bombs ! Bombs!. Ka-500N. _Saash the state P.5. T knov vhere you live. Staceraly, an anarchist Deat Anarchist, The suthorities are dusting your letcer for prints. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— guiie or copnestatically Sre legitimizing the goverament and fte Tey Mot to think of voting as Tunceions. » chance for refors Valfaation o regaratess o Lol Tlections which people and in ominate and control cetarandun or fniti and s institutions to Fxing for revolstion ting chans feel compelled, vhether out of liberal ure or drug-induces fona, to vote in the next election. 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It is getting complicated, delicate, scary. Not scary like a roller coaster or 8 demon but scary like o winter storm or a rock something negotiable, something within our grosp....but still scory. I've seen people be hurt and hurt EETSE A T ) P B | [l " T RO R Orc_of_the fundamental lies of our culture is that it isP70gel W A ‘the cxistential nature of life itself, rather than of our culture, to feel alone. Once we believe that it is our basic sed to experiencing our basic nature nature to feel alone (as op With many “others* isn't tentlel for pain even greater? Does non-monogamy mean the watering down of nt personal enperience In order to avold thresholds of pain? My mind Is enamored with the Idea of non-mongamy, but my heart is skeptical. | have been emotionally and dogmatically monogamous for my entire sewual life. But my life has been changing. s I've grown to love more and more friends and grown more and more outraged at our mainstream culture, monogamy hes whithered under scruting. | want to fove freely, without' bounds, and without shortchanging myself or my community of friends. But my insecure heart is flashing nger,” and | don't know whether to heed the warning or to Just tell my heart to grow up. ym— te> ¢ a duct the first time This week for the first time we are spending time with friends who are or have been one another's “others* | am scrutinizing our non-monogamy with a critical but open mind and with a scared heart. | am trying 10 1ind out If this all Just a sewual entension of anarchist politics, or 11t Is a place for the heart & well. 1 keep thinking I should be “over® these emotions, even though | know it doesn't work that way. | don't share the particulars of my experience and speak only in abstract concepts about insecurity, because I'm embarrassed by them. | mean I'm all grown up and have been at this non- monogamy gig for years and still have emotions which feel like high-school flashbacks We are all having dinner, friends from a community we both love dearly. There is a long- standing lover/friend of mine there and a new lover/friend of yours. |am aware of a new distance between this new lover of yours & I She and 1 have been developing a friendship as of late and | don’t want to lose that. How do she & I integrate this new dynamic without it becoming a focal point? I hear her say something hilarious and see S Two bold adventurers voyage into the deptis of the oft- explored but rarely docunented universe of non-monogamy. Their exploits are made public here for in this LWOD exclusive... - by tracy & rufus you laugh in response. I feel a stab of jealousy. The extent of the alienation created in a split second is staggering. Suddenly my point of perception leaves me and tries to enter you, separating me from myself and so from any possibility of connection with you. [ also feel alienated from her and feel the grinding of the gears between head and heart. | can identify it: [ am feeling competive in order to be “special® to you. It feels like shit. I notice that I did not even enjoy her joke, I was so busy with my own internal distractions. |am sad to feel separate from a source of joy So I stop and take a deep breath. | want to allow myself to feel but not allow emotions, particulary those systematically mutilated by this culture, to run over what | know to be true. So I spend a little time with myself retrieving my point of reference and reaquainting with how much 1 usually enjoy being me. Then 1 shift my focus to you and call forth the awareness that you love me and how close we are growing. Then I bring my attention to her and take time to appreciate and re-experience all the things that make me want a friendship with her. Then the focus broadens to take in everyone. | am moved by how much I love and how much my sanity depends on this community which is so grounded in a vision of living free. Reality clicks back into place and my consciousness steps out of my taing to keep that aloneness at bay, Much of the psycho- = as one of communal identity) we can be coerced into almost any-?wflncss self and community E&, losical infrastructure of this culture is built on thagg¥ Iy TP = The "system' knows A it's bad P.R tary in the brick s a major mo miserable jobs, that people thout any hope can be con trolled only at gunpoint (too much work, money, and besides S for a "democracy"). It also knows that human beings desire penuine interaction (peonle will tolerate Living situations, because it gives them somrthing as close to conmunity as they believe they can get). The ome window all this offers is romance. tivator behind this culture's obsession with even the mili- It seems this E, 1 -l =l Sex and romance (monogamous, of course). Consider the pre- =g ponderance of the topic in books, movies, songs, conversatio mental focus, etc. It is exoressing people's desire to break out of t The catc! ir isolation into genuine relation , which serves the system so vell, ternalized sexism, homophobia, et al, rigs the beginning. But instead of ques > ure (fear of the ome window in the wall getting bricked upEoeggy with another, is that our in the game from oning the whole stru that just wasn't the ion, you ana I are roug! Lacl. from some of the truck the v in the bac! watching the sunset landscape go by. Our bodies are crammed together under piles of sleeping bags and backpacks. Our conversation wanders from en- vironmentalism and action to sex and art. Ve reflect on the joy of not having monogamous con- healthy plentiful sex, we claim to believe in straints on our interactions with one another, on how nice its been spending time working to- gether, .. Romantic interlude? Prelude to wild sex? Not quite. You see, we're don't seem to do that We're friends, not lovers, self. And boy, it irks me. I hate closed options when I don't un- derstand why they're closed. It's not that I'm desperate for vild gay sex - it's just that there are men whom 1've loved beyond "just friends and I've never known wiere to go with those feelings. I resolve it now by being happy just having love for you, and by vowing oo, That whole scene was. 5-10 minutes out of an enjoyable evening. I'm both proud and embarassed. Part of my embarassment comes from internalizing exactly what this culture wants me to internalize: that it's my problem —- an intrinsic flaw - a personal shortcoming revealed — that makes me feel insecure. (Pay no attention that behind the curtain lies a cultural Medusa which is designed to render our psyche a flinching labrador in the face of perceived rejection.) On the other hand | am proud that I peeked behind the curtain to see it for what it is and am moving through ways to cope., In preparation for this evening we set up a pact, a plan, whereby o simple gesture of reassurance might prevent one or the other of us from clamming up with Insecurity while around one another's lovers. We decide that a firm hand squeeze will suffice to remind us of our commitment to one another, without making o scene. 1 thought initially that this tactic was for my sake, as it is only my first attempt at moving beyond exclusiveness in relationships. But it turns out that you, even with your enperience, are just as interested In reassurance which brings home to me that non-monogamy is not ed state of ewistence but process through which we must continually strive for freedom. e iy both guys, and us guys stuff with each other. I have to remind my- s wtte 3 ) & o 0n one front, for me, reassurance comes on ts own. Due elther to chance or to the shared ideas and bellefs of our community, | truly enjoy your fongstanding lover/friend. Despite some initial awkwardness, the depth of your friendship together is more soothing than threatening to me. But on another front | feel brewing: the way I'm handling having two lovers here at the same time Is disturbing m 50, (of course) Instead of feeling Joy about being around so many who | love, | feel crummy and withdrawn. Maybe this interaction shouldn't have happened in the first place - maybe | should hax told my other lover that | wasn't yet comfortable having multiple partners around at the same tim jbe | could have not invited onight. But, eventually | want to feel comfortable in these sltuations, so | did. Another case of my mind racing past my heert, perhaps. When she first walked in the door | immediately feit self- conscious about how affectionate 1 wanted to be, and her feeling the same way has left us both floating and disconnected. We all Jokes. We ail underlying sense of strain. | know these are less than ideal circumstances. | had decided previously to spend these days primarily with you, and though she realizes this, there is ‘edditional awkwardness due to the newness of my friendship with her. | know that she and | can deal with processing this stuff later in a more simple environment. What | find disturbing though, Is that she and to talk to you about it later. Always "later". It's something I've always wondered about while watching my free-love friends (myself included) going about their business...we're all into exploring new relationships, men with \women, vomen with men. As well as enjoying the non-monogamy as a political statemen be free to love one another in any and every way the boundary between "friend” and "lover" is arti- ficial and all that But what does it We should mean when we close the door on people because of their genitalia (is it sex- ism?)? Are we really creating something new or s, 1 are dealing with our mutual discomfort now by withdrawing from one another instead of connecting. find I notice that it Is rubbing off on you. Her uncertainty leading to a triangle of uncertainty. It starts to affect more than just we two. Thera Is uncertainty about whet to do with the affinity st and | feel toward one another. Is obulous that some distance Is needed in this situation. But it needs to be a distance achiev by mutual consent, not by a cold shoulder. | like to think that | would give that space to someone If they openly asked for It, and it Is & grand fuck-up that | didn't sk for it myself. 0id habits have Kicked In, and we avoid bringing It up. Part of my reason for engaging in non-monogamy in the first limitations from how | feel about peaple | love. But in this situation T've limited my f communicating. communication led to awkwardness, awkwardness led to distance, and distance hurts when you're not ready for It. | quess that there is a price to pay for the honoring of d and the “free" enpression of love. You have to be painstakingly deliberate about loglstics and communication, and you have to work hard at knowing your own intentions and feelings. Maybe then these sticky, potentially painful situations can be avoided. This work and commitment 10 those | love Is my non- monogamy. 1t Is not simply multiple partners, not flings, not casual sew; though In the future | might enjoy these as well. For ‘me, non-monogamy Is enpanding SISO [T el o Sevomins . Teants oz oo gy Lo¥ i pritarmtl Soder sl MR R e S e T G s are we perpetua- ting the norm? The faeries, queers, dikes, fags, bisexuals, transexuals, transvestites, androginists,etc. have shown ef- fectively that there are so many "genders" in hu- manity so as to make the word meaningless. Isn't "sexual preference" a cop-out in this world-without~ gender? Should non-monogany as a belief system necessarily in- clude_homo/bi- sexuality? I'd love to hear some resonses. Papgy, boundaries of love and passion, not so they are watered down, but 50 they are and Some It is shitwork. Shitwork that is necessary in this soclety to create true freedom for ourselves. So....... our first round at dinner went okay but then when we were all together for an extended time we learned and relearned some things the hard way. Though most of the dynamics were between you and your other lover | was both under and over involved, in different arenas I was not involved enough in re-opening the question of how time was to be divided. Since we had planned to spend this time together and she arrived spontaneously, | didn't push reassessing the arrangement to factor for everyone's needs. This was motivated by pure selfishness; 1 had what 1 wanted. ( My being unconscious of my selfish motivation did not in any way reduce the impact on others. | must look at I consequence and not just intention, i.e. * I didn't mean to... * doesn’t cut it I'm responsible for paying attention to others and not just myself.) 1 hate being in the role she was stuck playing. So, I felt particularly bad about being a party to something that put her in that role On the other hand, I was overinvolved in the untangling of that situation 1 felt like | was mediating a relationship between the two of you, who should have done it for yourselves. We're all new at this particular gig and so some involvement was. appropriate. | have a lot to learn about each of us individually and how we are to be in relation to each other. But later, when | was away from the situation, had retroactive feeling of anger: (*Hey wait a minute - that's not my job!*).1 am afraid of getting relegated to (‘and my own emotional withdrawl into) the “pal” role for being the one who is * 50 easy to talk to* about these things. It has happened to me before. Its occurrence this time helps me see it as a pattern that | had not identified before. It goes like this: 1 want to be a friend and don’t want to say no to being emotionally helpful,so | don't admit when I feel that I don't want to hear or talk about other lovers. I fear I'll see myself and be seen as jealous, unable to deal, demanding, in the blank. So 1 get into the buddy role and help a lover process their stuff with other lovers. 1 feel like a counselor and not a lover and | cover the hurt. So after enough of this | withdraw my romantic emotions so that the pal feelings remain and are thus consistent with the external structure of the relationship. 1 then feel safe but the price is high: little or no romantic or sexual expression This whole gig seems a classic example of some gender dynamics in our community. Because men don't make_it enough of a priority to learn to take care of each other emotionally, they find it easier to do that with the women in their lives who are often lovers. Because women still have that “we should be all or It's your party and I'11 cry if I want to... One of the things I enjoy about the eco-anarchist culture I hang with is the freedom I usually feel to be myself. I can make jokes about women without it being recefved as mockery and about/to men without receiving defensiveness. I can be enraged, witty, {deosyncratic, bumed, sarcastic or horny and not feel 1ike folks wish T just wouldn't be those things. It feels desperately alienating to feel us/them 1ines being drawn in my mind in one of the few connunities I finally get a break from them. But, of course, it happens. It happened Will someone more clever than I please come up vith a word or phrase to des- cribe non-monogamy that does not use the mainstream norm as its point of reference. All the ones I've heard are either too academic or inaccurate. "Poly-intimate" sounds like an anthro- pology textbook and "pan-sexual" implies that one will fuck anything, vhich may apoear to be true for some of our com- rades but is not generally applicable. avoidance? (‘I'd like to meet your other lover in a circumstance where I feel safe® seems to be an acceptable request, but °I don’t want to know about anybody else” feels like it would just be avoiding uncomiortable emotions*.) 1 have a right to set boundaries while simultaneously having a responsiblity to be aware of their impact on others. things" training to unlearn it is hard to set boundries. It is difficult to say * Please ask me if it's alright to discuss other lovers as | may not always feel like i But as 1 look at setting boundries I also have to look at their appropriateness. Am | being manipulative? (*I prefer to spend this time just with you* seems OK, but °I don't want to ever have to see you with someone else” feels manipulative to me.) Is the boundary for protection or Writing this article, while experiencing the events and Pprocesses it describes, was a useful tool in honing and focusing our attention. It helped teach us about the level of attention that Is necessary to pull this off We don't know where all this is going from here, so this Is an inconclusive conclusion. Hopetully, there will be more sroup discussions as we all learn to reframe our ‘personal” lives, to be responsible to the whole community as well as to ourselves. To all who are on that path, we wish you well. 1'have never, nor has any woman 1 know, expected the female crotch to be a patn-free zone. Exper- fence never taught me that efther. When preg- nant 1 could choose be- tween a painful abortion or painful childbirth. I have known pain from sex, cramps, pain” etc.. to me recently. A group of about 7 of us (I was the only were having a birthday dinner party. One of the men had recently had a vasectomy so the con- versation was drawn to the topic my interest response was: "This is cool, men talking about vasectonies. Go bros..." But then the content of the conversation began to center around, and did not move from, *Did ft hurt?.." *I guess I'm just a wimp" (laughter a1l around)..."I'm afraid of (a1l accompanied by mock shudders and protective ball grabbing at the mere thought). I was starting to get mad. I thought about making a humorous remark to call attention to all this but realized I was too angry At first birth control, abortion and %) tubal Tigation. (When de- ciding to get a tubal 11~ gation pain was a concern but not one of the factors in the decision.) So it made me angry to hear men avoid- ing a decision, which fmpacts their women lovers' 1ives, be- cause "t might hurt". Men have the option of avoiding pain and do so simply because they can. In talking with some men Tater (I chose not to bring it up that night. . mean really who wants to bring up rage, pregnancy, and abortion at a Birthday party...) at this pofnt for it to come off as anything but caustic. It seemed better to be clear, to be either funny or angry, but not try to pass one off as the other. I could feel myself withdraw. I felt outnumbered. My friends became. ..MEN. Tegitinate issues were raised. Issues about the process of making so final a deciston (evolution as distinct from procrastination), about fear, about our own eco-anarchist version of peer group pressure (since steril. 1zed 15 the new cool thing to be) Y i T T DB men's responsibility in birth control, pregnancy, etc....All worthy topics. So why didn’t the men bring them up to each other? The same reason I didn't bring it up in the large group: Fear of ex- posure and rejection for bringing up uncomfortable issues. It's not complicated, but simple and easy are not the same thing. So to the straight/bi men I would offer this: Take more responsibility. One for process, many women are better at process (that vague term we all understand differently but similarly enough to work with) and are usually willing to help and share skills - but ask first. 1 know T usually am happy to do so but I get resentful when T feel I'm doing it for you instead of with you. ATl the experience in the world doesn't remove that awkward e fearful "jumpy stomach" feeling experienced when bringing ot . up something uncomfortable. That feeling doesn't go away, you just have to say it anyway. And take responsibility, also, for making a decision about a vasectomy. Make a thoughtful deliberate de- cision, but make one and act on it. The fact remains e that a vasectony is the only thing you can do (or not et Y0 have intercourse) which completely frees a woman from o gt (at best difficult, at worst dangerous) birth control. LT s If you choose not to have a vasectomy you should use 350 Sxsod condoms (which, of course we should all be doing any- way for safe sex), but in themselves condoms ;o™ are not an effective method of birth con- 5 trol. You can find out your woman lover's v cycles and stay aware of them, avoiding @SO% intercourse during the most fertile St time (ovulation and 4-5 days on either 398% “Side). You also have a responsibility o6 to ask a woman's intention in case e ¥ of a pregnancy; be clear of your in- tention and express it before having > sex (Erotic mood wrecker?...So's an N abortion). o 1 am trying to give what I want to get. T hope friends in this community are willing to not just call me on my bullshit, but also ( assuming I take responsibility) help me through it. We are all damaged by this cuTture. T think we sometimes perpetuate it by slamming and running. 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Today the new morality is offended by a God who condemned all humanity to eternal torture for the sin of seeking enlightenment, then changed his mind and decided to forgive some of the sinners, provided they ate the flesh and blood of his Son, who was also the Divine Father in human form, sent to earth for the express purpose of being sacrificed to himself, an allegedly loving Father who decreed his Son’s painful slaying, then punished those who carried out his order. This bloodthirsty Son-killing or self-killing Father, who was one but also three; who professed to want good, but created evil; who pretended to love his mortal children while preparing for them a hell sadistic beyond belief; who ordained all things in advance, yet held humans entirely responsible for the errors he knew they would make; who talked of love and ruled by fear—this deity was hardly a product of rational minds. SEE ... THELQRD Daring Anthropology Selflessly braving untold hazards, the authors have collected several primitive chants from the secret Javacrucian sect, which are recited by cultists while grindin beans, during the Transubstantiation o water into starter fluid, and while actually imbibing, The most widely practiced Javacrucian sacramental rite is as follows: Facing Rising Sun (where applicable, otherwise generic Eastor any source oflight will do), and holding the Mug of Brewe. celebrant takesfirst sip, elevates cup and tones, “Gods, I needed that!" and means (it s said that in very ancient times, in the daysof Atlantis, the Sun rose inthe West. Ths, those following the Atlantean trads face West for this rite.) Other rare and previously unrecorded chants are offered below: A Grinding Invocation: We all worship the Black Bean! Body of the god, Caffeine Where there is Lie there is Coffee! Where there is Coffee there is Life! (repeat as needed) Hayduke's Transubstantiation Chant: Chemicals! 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They are forced to lay quietly on bunks for as 1ong as months at a time. They call it "Administrative Segregation.” Vie've heard of it as “the hole® or solitary Correction administrators learned from Prisoners of War who have been "softened up" and prepared for brainvashing by being subjected to solitary confinement. ‘e experiments have revealed that sensory deprivation can have marked effects on practically every mental process, although these effects have varied from subject to subject . he most. comon emotional effects are restlessness, boredom, and irritability. Some subjects enjoyed the experience during the first fev hours, but tended to become apprehensive after two days of isolation. In some Cases anxiety rose to panic proportions: "The quiet vas so loud it vas like a knife stabbing through my eardrums.” The effects on thinking processes also increased as time wore on. Tn the first few hours they have found it increasingly hard to concentrate and control their thoughts. They finally drifted into daydreaming and incoherent fantasies. A afstinct loss in the ability not only to solve problems but to adjust to novel situations has been found. There vas also a general loss of efficiency in motor ability. Co-ordination vas poorer and reaction time vas longer than usual. (If an inmate in Folsom reacts slovly to a guard's conmand they can be punished further and usually are.) Two other side effects are particularly significant. It has been revealed that subjects vere more easily svayed by propaganda than the ones not under Administrative Segregation — a fact that helps to explain the use of isolation in brainvashing. Second, gross perceptual changes frequently occurred during sensory deprivation. Illusions and even hallucinations, similar to those produced by mescaline and other drugs have been experienced Although they vere in a silent environment, they heard strange misic and chirping birds or sa doorknobs on imaginary walls. 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In the abeence of Thematie 2o 1 continuous and varied stimulation, all gl ot Bimoeal it Comoopits i g " Rkt Wi Tty perceptual, and emotional changes associated e it Deghy Ty some with and consequent to deprivation leave the don't "% Sttora inco Subject 1ess competent to meet the prisoners €30 Lenon to telt Bapeational Gemande ot this mirooment, and R point. 1s and to he ‘they curse one brainvashing technique sometimes vorks to Snotner god €0EbE TOL, (e Cokeal \w: pe1eop. arl st 16 ooy tnother PELONIL, Yon heac anent serves to increase the danger to the general pecsonal population. by Anne hLove wi PNBox 311712 wad vay yout desé SR tox anday hst YORT 3 be knov ¥nat o peisoner P fone time o1 feed e once in S Srisener cor ov Yew Braunfels seara eron ehel Texas 78131 5 s reias ety cor S UL Hearted wOrds Nere one day at vason 70251640 mhe hole, 'adjustaent unit, the Box, Siberia, Kindike, Solitarys Isolations Ruby Jonaser “Administrative Segregation.” Poer VO s In one prison, an American Indian had been so uncontrollable that he had been Loy Kept in the hole for years. His cell door had been velded shut .eventually, 3 ne Varden released him. Bt by this time he had become blind. That vas in an old Y | prison, hut there are uncivilized practices in same of the nevest. B Difficult inmates may be segregated vithout specific offense or hearing for montha or even years simply because they are active in prison pOlLtics OF JUSt gcream night and day. Other political types that the plain ormery. In short, due process has not had a significant place in that most autocratic of American institutions, the prison. While Ronald Reagan vas governor of California he shut down most of the state vants murdered are usually sent to Folsom where stabbings take place reqularly. Folsom vas built in 1890 in Sactamento, institutions for the insane. Same Of the worst insanity cases are nov in FOlSM, (ajifornia. There, the inmates that are put in the vandering around, mittering to themselves. They vind up in the hole vhere they Can hole are being punished for such offenses like e fighting, possessing homemade veapons such as nails, ar Editor or drinking "julep.” Most often the complainant is ; TS e e dec1deq SO%¢ acrosy Nevertheless the officer's accusation is tantamount watont 50 drap ol JOUT o 1iateq 4, o toa finding of Guilt, for it in a correctional Tha yooReist of red SHOTE Hote seepii2® 985 Communy s, precept that the of ficers vord mist be upheld. For e’ have ‘avaling, B0F and a1y "%, YU ald in' i, erss ana example, if it looks like a fight has taken place Toag 10 £ree o prigeiiiV® reading magiioming the standard response is to treat the two as equally $he Lowt SISy ontngg 4 4 ateriag Guilty; they say weakly, "It takes tvo to tango," ngte s o prissiiod to the nd then lock up both suspects. (3 & '3; 20d thig nas Y COndition gomy? ty section Once the inmate has been accused he is put in o mySoa], ‘g0, Wmutes ous o Dligns poiet of 24, of the hote to vait for a hearing by the prison Shot take {he tinctse 18 ve T Sower, ‘i ser, £0i0€ o bureauctats. In the hole he is virtually cut qff 0116 o do . ‘hand from everything, ncluding his possessions, and it Brougnt ey 04 throw honarYSIBE poni biwg Tyt beomise meus” T Lo 17 il T 15 pimt e e cell ¢y, worse in N one there t; charges against him. This is a further means of d 14k o K2 10 be raceq ‘,A_A prolongirg his tension so that, long before questioning starts, his thinking may have begun to get distorted. He vill have been foraging in his &y other 8 your 14 g¢; Keoy mate sting 1o mind for all possible reasons vhy he has been 7°5F UP the £30d mo 77U BaY have 1eseivSd your Tnprisoned, and pechape finding every answer but. the i letter, that yo ,;}::h:dzo right one. He may even begin to believe his T wn speculations as though they vere facts. Nyats Boyegrog Confessions can be made vhich, though largely Kempg-gnamr 202 false, may come to be believed by both the examinet Loufciaanazk-4~B13 S E ATt nat. ThTalIN ocsmtan Eie el S 51 cak An601a, Lousgians 505 suggest. to the prisoner that he is quilty of a crine iena 70712 and teles to convince him. Even if the innate is innocent., the long tension to which he has been subjected may vell have already frightened him into 1 A Ao indoid: ot ade o b s WS B dont b elantarin P pdd LIgOD X Alands - o & 5 fely o . foup o 1 sl MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS ON AMERICAN PRISONERS Fhen Ronald Reagan vas governor of California, he lent his considerable authority to promote what he termed a violence center for the state. He intended it should be established on an abandoned nuclear veapons test site in oo & the Santa Monica mountains. He had tirelessly lobbied s Rofd b e BB B e searotary o Detense, am. o Ahom N o Akt et i) oy faderar Sguncies. to sppeove.the center and made 1b.a theme ([ + i ol fildopurinl | OF his 1574 State of the State mescage. e vas genuinely Ak, gudo in e I, mystified the outrage the proposal drev. Tt Gained Reagan 168 Hum Quit ol poos N 18P the name of the Great Satan. Sheykh Fadlallah, in Vest ok Gy O Beirut, addressed a rally on January 22, 1985. The day vas Topsn, Tt Bt prilade . G2 B ieca ol etoae ecamet HE¥iaxchud 8 Hhat iaiaseiit 1o ; s ot G 9SPSR amniversary of a plan by the Great Satan (Reagan) to teTnfoq e agrklin . Hepe U i introduce into his state of Califomia a special center st ‘iv wDi where their brothers, the Moslems of North America would Refan Divy have parts of their brains remved and electrodes jmplanted in their skulls so that the Great Satan could control them. Tt vas against such evil, Sheykh Fadlallah concluded, that they were forced to resist. When the state legislature canceled the project on the grounds that public opinion was too sensitive, Reagan continued to reflect the view of some of the country's leading physicians and brain surgeons that the center vas desirable as a means to bring under control the violence in the cities. The project remined on the governor's active file until he became president. (Journey into Madness/the true story of secret CIA min control and medical abuse. by Gordon Thomas.) suggestibility. 1f the examination is pressed, he may even begin to play back an old record -~ confessing to crimes suggested by the officer in earlier cross-exaninations. The officers, forgetting that the incidents wvere originally their own quesework, are deceived: the prisoner has nov “spontaneously” confessed vhat they have been suspecting all along. It is not. realized that fatigue and anxiety induce suggestibility in the examiner as vell as the prisoner. This increased suggestibility, or the paradoxical or ultra-paradoxical phase of reaction to stress is most likely to occur vhen such persons may be nost easily persuaded to make statements which not only increase their crances of conviction, but sometimes incriminate them unjustly. later they may calm down, return to a more normal state of brain ctivity, and ask to withdrav these statements. It is then too late. The prisoner often spends the entire period before his bureaucratic hearing, and during it, trying to understand how he came to sign so damaging a "voluntary" statement as he has given and wonders hov to explain or extricate himself from it's implications. Police have no compunctions about writing practical textbooks on the subject of how to elicit confessions. The lie detector and urine test has been found to be vonderfully effective for scaring the inexperienced into making confessions. Bven if a test is negative,the examiner can still pretend to believe that it is positive, to help vin a confession. "Career” criminals Tave learned by experience the danger of co-operating in any form with police questioning or examination and so refuse to ansver any questions at all. ‘he experienced criminal is handled by "keeping at hin" day after day until he "breaks." They get him into a mental comer, a vedge in as a start, vhich is his veak spot. Once the veak spot is found, the prisoner becomes confused, all his defenses have boen beaten down. fe's comered, trapped. That's vhen he breaks. The torture comes from his mind, not from the outside. With such a technigue, truth and falsehood can get hopelessly confused in the minds of both ‘the suspect and the examiner; and {f what he calls a veak spot is not present, the police exaniner determined to get a confession can create it by suggestion. The prisoner has merely given back vhat has been originally implied or suggested. They have both been brainvashed. Major A. Parrar-Hockley gave a description of the technique by vhich ideas can be implanted without the use of strong, direct and obvicus suggestion. He has been a British prisoner of var in Korea. "The Chinese are past masters at this technique. They vouldn't tell me what they really vanted. Whenever ve got near to something substantial, they would immediately come back to it from another angle and ve'd go all around it, bt 1'd never find out vhat it vas. And then they would go avay and leave me thinking. T believe if the interrogator vent on long enough with someone who i in a very veak state, and then sprang the idea suddenly on him, the chap would seize on it and became Obsessed by it. He would begin to say,'Well, T vonder whether in fact it's all really true, and this is what T vas thinking in the first place.’ Fvery time they vent avay T spent hours saying, 'tow vas it that? to, it couldn't have been that. T vonder if it vas 50 and 507" and that's vhat they vere trying to do. They vere trying to get me to a state vhen the idea would suddenly cope, and T would begin to wonder vhether I'd thought of it or they had. Another method is to gradually suggest something by talking round it and getting a little nearer each time and just giving a fragnent so that you build up the idea in your own mind. And they say,'But you said this, ve didn’t.' and you think you had.* Of course, for this technique to work the prisoner must be put in Segregation Where the sensory deprivation is greatest. In the years 1644-46 vomen suspected of being vitches vere also put in the Hole with nothing €0 that the official witch-finders could gain their confessions. The U.S. Justice Dept. shares a long and distinguished career vith witch hunters, the Inquistion, the Russian Purge and Chinese torturers (For the rest of this article, either write to Ann Hove or request that it be printed in the next Live Wild or Die.) Riding some ones else's heat is receiving punishment for same one el an inmate manufactured veapon is found in Folscm any onc near it is thrown in the hole pending investigation. Recently, nine medius security inmtes vere unlcading a truck. A knife vas found in the truck so all nine inmates vere put in isolation. The report read °...your continued presence on this general population may be a threat to the safety and security of the institution The report did not indicate if Fingerpeints had been taken. The authorities simply vait, hoping that some one Will rat. The concept of labelling persons as "a threat*assunes an ability to predict future behavior. This is sonething best left to experts, not clerks. The inmates vho have shown a desire to improve by working at a prison job are systematically punished for their endeavors. The authorities make it their business to “keep them down, " to kill any hope for normality or for being human. "The impact of being cut off from other individuals, from forced idleness, from a lack of programs, being cut off from their families, has a very serious psychological impact...” Matthew A Coles, an attormey for the ACL said in a recent case against the Vacaville Prison in California. "It is unthinkably cruel..." Atrophy is a wasting of the muscle tissue from lack of use. This is commn vith people ¥ho are hospitalized for long periods of time. When they are vell enough to leave their bed their doctor puts them through therapy so that. they can gain reuse of thelr linbs. Their is no therapy for inmates who are found innocent. and released from the hole in Folsam. One inmate vas in the hole Just 17 days before he vas found innocent. of a fighting charge. Others can be Teld months at a time vhile their cases are being investigated. This inmate could only valk the distance of six feet a day, usually to pick up the food teoy. After his 17 day stay in the hole, his legs were not only weakened but HOWLS from the he was also in pain for days aftervard. Segregated housing not only strips prisoners of the social skills they need of they are to succeed on release but it also creates a har¢ and fast hatred. Why should you care?there are a couple of good selfish reasons. The most obvious is that you or someone close to you may one day £ind yourself in jail on some petty charge and end up being savaged. More compelling is the argument that prison has become one of the chief brutalizing agents in our society, making life less safe for all of us. doesn't take a multi-million dollar study or a Ph.D to recognize that men and women who have been subjected to brutality in our prisons are likely to pass on their trauma once released. and don't think they won't be released: more than nine out of ten of those we incarcerate end up back on the streets. When a man humiliated by the conditions of his confinement and outraged by his treatment at the hands of inmates and guards -- subsequently takes out his rage on the first defenseless civilian who has the misfortune of crossing his path, the cycle of It violence is complete. Should we abandon the use of HOLE Prisons? We should st least btuild better, safer prisons and be considerably more selective about whom we put in them (criminal categories and guards). Our current strategy of locking up groving numbers of people for longer terms in more and more crowded facilities is producing prison graduates who are increasingly violent. This is hardly a service to society. Perhaps one vay to encourage the development of safe jails would be to require lawyers and judges to spend two weeks in jail every five years. In Nevada in 1971 23 judges spent a single night in Nevaca State Prison. They emergec appalled at the homosexuality and inmate bitterness, and at men raving, screaming, and pouncing the walls." Judge Newton Vickers 5aid "I felt like an animal in a cage” and recommended that bulldozers be dispatched to tear the "¢amn thing to the ground.* The negative effects of caging reach beyone prison walls, allowing citizens a false sense of safety. Prisons, by their very existence, exonerate communities from the responsibilities of provicing the necessary human services which might effectively recuce "crime” or the desperate need for food an¢ shelter. “““T‘RADI CAL FAERIES So, Radical, because we have a rad- ical view of politics.and society as a repressed people, and radical solutions and wasy of organizing and dealing with cach other. Faeries, because we are those entities which gave rise to the tales of us living in the woods, wearing green, helping lost children, casting spells, and being magical princes and trolls and gnomes and pixies and leprechans. There are plenty of smaller circles that make up the whole: SN Leather/tattoo/piercing/body-scarring faeries, punk rock faeries, middle-aged businessmen faeries, loosening up and becoming more beautiful, older world- traveled faeries in jeweled cloaks of wisdom, shamans and others, that all interlap and, so far, have made it work. More permanent Faerielands and Faerie Communes in cities are created all the time, and make it very easy to travel. Many'of us look forward to more gatherings with wimmin, and they have happened. But knowing that wimmins' space has its own majick, we, as gatherings of males, are an essential part of the movement discover what males can mean to each other outside of competition and violence. As for political action in the wider society, many of us are involved in groups 1ike ACT-UP! and other AIDS hospice/acti- vist groups, the anarchist scene, anti- intervention, homeless issues, anti-nuke, etc. 1In June '89, the Radical Faeries and the Queen Anarchists staged a Fairy Action Gathering (F.A.G.) in New York to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. After a week-long gathering at an upstate farm, we cara- vanned to the lower east side. On Friday night of Gay Day weekend, we held a funeral procession for Judy. Led by a pair of ruby slippers on a satin pillow (trashy, ruby-glittered platforn pumps, actually), we carried her flowered coffin, complete with a boom-box blasting Judy's favorites, £rom Tomkins Square park to the site of the Stonewall Inn. Stopping to mourn Ioudly along the way, we handed out fliers to the incredulous and gathered a great crowd, including the anarchist punks Of the east village/Loisaida. The next night, footsore from ACT-UP!'s march uptown to Central Park from the Village (the original direction of the Gay Day march going out of the ghetto, before commercial interests reversed it 50 that the marchers would end up in the bars), we heol a theatrical commemorative riot. We gathered in front of the Stone- wall site, which is now something else, and heard'a few speeches. ALl of a sudden, some leatherboys in cop drag attacked a fow of the many drag queens. The queens fought back, and all hell broke loose. We had made up dozens of yellow foan bricks for the occassion, and they began to fly. It was fun for while, but we wanted more. There are some 10,000 homeless HIV positive people in NYC, and thousands of city owned warehoused apartments. Homophobic attacks are way up, and two'gay men had been killed that week with an inadequate response by the police, as usual. AIDS, and the government's response to it, is the most massive gaybash since Hitler's ovens. We headed for the Village, where fags sat in the b “Out of the bars and into the streets® went up the chant at each bar, and we cheered for those that joined us. Within a half hour, we were a loud several thousand, totally in control of the streets. We trashed a police station, blocked the west side highvay, and generally celebrated until some homophobes in a new sportscar picked the absolute wrong time and place to show their colors by velling, “Fucking faggots,” and backing into some people. The copé showed their colors by letting them go. We showed ours by unning them down on foot and destroying their car. Some gleefully collected the shattered glass to make earrings. It was fun and we all headed back to the basement of the ol Stonewall Bar where faeries had set up a living history aisplay. 1In nine stations, complete with actors, we were taken on a tour of the history/herstory of the world per- taining to us. The next day, we livened up the rather somber New York Gay Day parade with Fairy Charges. to let the parade get ahead, we'd fall Back a block or two then ali charge screaming forward. for the stunned onlookers. wild flowing bizaare outfits, and the high pitched hilarity, was an experience even New Yorkers weren't prepared for. action is a subtle thing that comes “from askance, a skirt on a boy kiss-in at an antichoice rally, a queer kiss anywhere for that matter, the projection of a faggoty architype on a night street, a bit of artful graffiti, and by our general appearance in public demonatrations. much greater reaim to being a human being than most people have been led to believe. 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The cramped cockpit, the noise of the blades, and helicopter's instability through the windstreams and air pockets were all soothing t his mind, compared to the bureaucratic nightmare that aranging the flight had become. It had taken five days on the phone to get the Burcau's liaison from Cleveland National Forest, the rep. from the Academic Oversight Comittee, the Navy chopper and pilot, and the marksman from Animal Damage Control assembled to complete the mission. ‘Godnick loved the view from the air - to him it was a fleshed out model of the the land use and ecological preserve maps that lined the walls back at BGBC SW region headquarters in Long Beach. The patchworks of island and corridor preserves in the sea of condo sprawl seemed so delicate. He could feel the pressure put on the land by the area’s impossible growth rate, and the sprawl of Tijuana, now exceeding San Dicgo in size, loomed across the border to the south like a hungry wolf at the door, waiting to devour the endangered but carefully managed ecosystems in SD. As the regional director for large mammal conservation, he wished he could manage the movement of humans the way he managed the movement of animals, to control the national border as well as the many preserve borders. The Bureau's many works in progress were visible on the ground beneath them, and Godnick ponted them out proudly to the other passengers. There was the levelling of eucalyptus groves on San Miguel Mt, the replanting of a quarter-mile wide corridor along the banks of sweetwater canyon in a rundown Latino neighborhood near Chula Vista, veral pool restoration near Tierrasanta... Mark Rhodes from the Forest Service, who seemed used 1o idle land management chit-chat, showed mild curiosity, and UC professor Deborah Fusari followed the conversation with skeptical interest. Up in the front, Issa Mansfield from ADC and the navy pilot whose name Godnick had forgotten seemed immune 10 his enthusiasm; both were preoccupied with the technologies in their hands, the pilot his control panel, and Mansfield her scope, rile, syringes, botles, and telemetry reader, which she was just switching on, “So whyd the digital telemetry and dart collar bust on this one?" she shouted above the din, interrupting Godnick's description of the Dunns Skipper butterfly's lfe cycle. “Are you guys still using that lousy equipment from the Interior Department gear depot? Any average wild cat is gonna demolish that garbage..” ‘Goxinick leaned forward in the cockpit. “This cat isn't even ours, and it doesn't have any gearat all; that's why we've got to take it in. I’ a rogue wanderer up from Mexico, and is been straying out of its habitat. The Hummel Ranch up in Dulzura lost three sheep this week to what they say was a jaguar, and our computer never showed cither of our jags crossing the reintro area - Mark went outlast Friday and found both Jag Alpha and Jag Beta safely in the NF up near Cayamaca...” “Martin, if this is a rogue wanderer,” Prof. Fusari noted, “then why are we tracking it with o He looked over at Rhodes, who glanced quickly at the professor, then back at Godnick, and they both shrugged their shoulders. Godnick sighed. "Mr. Rhodes here recieved a communique from a Captian Diaz in Enscnada about six months ago regarding some jaguar sightings - wanting to know if they were ours. Of course they weren'; the invisible fence on our reinwo boundary keeps our two in the Cleveland NF and would have detected any crossings. Tums out there’s some misguided punk eco-freaks breeding and releasing jags and bears down in Baja near Ojos Negros, and putting out educational fliers and comic books for the locals. The animals themselves are totally uncontrolled - no implants or dart collars, just archaic telemetry as far as we know.” “Are we talking about Earth Firsters?" asked Mansfield, who had wrmed around, wild , clutching her gun. "Is that who's doing “We don't think so,” said Rhodes, rolling up the sleeves on his safari jacket, trying © soothe Mansfield's temper with a smooth firm Voice. "We have reason to believe that the animals are genetic rejects from the BGBC's SW breeding center in Tucson, probably the ones that were stolen by the Animal Liberation people last year en route 10 some 2005 and an exotic meats factory farm. Earth First has denounced the ALF's intentions to release the. cats, since they were genetically impure mixtures of North, South, and Central American Jaguars, Earth First hasn't released any large predators themselves since the wolf issue back in the 1990s..." Mansfield stared off to the south. “I say we forget the friggin' cat and fly straight into Mexico o blow away the terrorists. Godnick looked disapprovingly at the sharpshooter, remembering how much he used 10 hate the ADC and their kind. Issa Mansfield was a particularly enthusiastic killer; the stickers on her gun case read like a 215t century marksman's yearbook - US Veteran of the Iraqi Wars, Marksman. US Veteran of the South African Wars, Marksman. Alberta Bison Control Program. Texas Coyote Eradication Program. US Veteran of the Amazonian Rainforest Wars, Marksman... Godnick realized that he needed t0 clarify the situation. “Listen, Issa, we're here (o bring the cat in alive for genetic inspection, and if its clean we'll incorporate it into our breeding pool. If it is one of the Tucson jaguars then we can work through the proper channels to find the criminals in Mexico and bring them back to face trial. Slouching in her seat, Mansfield shot a mischievious glance over at the navy pilot, who was smiling quietly to himself. Avoiding Godnick's insistent glare, she retumed her atention 1o her tranquilizer cartridges. "Ya, Ya. Take a joke would you? Can'ta girl have a lttle She was interrupted by a beep from the telemetry. A green readout screen flashed on, and she jerked to attention. "East - Southeast...three miles. It probably up Eagle Peak in the National Forest - inside the reintro area. " The helicopter changed course, and within minutes they were circling the signal, Mansficld, rfle in hand, barking orders to the pilot. "North! North!...Now east - no - southeast. It in that mess of pines and boulders!" Godnick shouted. "We're going to have to land on that fire break above ! No sooner had the chopper touched down on the perched dirt road then Ret. Col. Mansficld, acting with perfect military technique, poured out the front door and disappeared with all her gear into the dust. More cautiously. Godnick, then Rhodes and Prof. Fusari, all exited the aircraft and made their way down the fire break to where she had disappeared into the bushes. They could already hear the electronic ‘barking’ from the ADCs dog pack simulator - which would send the cat scurrying for the safety of a tree - and shortly thereafier a victorious 'whoop' from Mansfield, who had found the cat. With medical case and sling pack in hand, Godnick leaped into the bushes. "Don't shoot it from the tree!” he tried to yell while clearing a manzanita bush and nasrowly missing a tree trunk. "Don't.." The sound of a gunshot exploded in his eardrums, cchoing off boulders, rolling down canyons. “Mansfield! Don'tlet it all!” Another shot rang out, and Godnick made it 10 the. clearing where she was standing just in time to ‘watch the great spotied cat slump over and fall out off its high perch. It crashed through a dead branch, landed for a moment in the crotch of another, then tumbled head first out of the tree: and onto the hard forest floor. ‘There, fading into ranquilized convulsions on the ground, fully loaded with ear tags, tattoes, implant scars and ment dary telemetry collar, lay BGBC Reintro Jag Beta - the wrong cat. As Rhodes and the Professor came onto the scene, Godnick watched with horror as the dant collar malfunctioned and activated, sending two high concentration wranquilizer needles like two deadly slaps into her neck. Godnick rushed up to her and to his knees, placing both hands on the jaguar's chest. “Cold...no breathing or heartbeat...Rhodes! Pass me the blankets and the anti-trang! Bring me my pack!” For minutes he tried with Prof. Fusari's help to bring the jaguar back 0 lfe, while Rhodes and Mansfield lurked off at a distance, anticipating the mounds of paperwork that would result from the louse-up. Finally Godnick sood up, rubbing his forehead - Jag Beta was dead. Everyone looked at Mansfield, who was still cradling her gun. Noticing their stares, she 100k a step back and raised her hand. "Now. wait just a minute. There's no way I could have known from this distance - its not my responsibility to. ‘Godnick waved his hands in the air, fending of her defense. “There’s no standard procedure for this type of operation, 50 there won't be any blame on any one person. Now; we've got two rifle shot tranq cantridges, a heavy but standard reg dose for this animal class. That's fine.” Mansfield was listening, but her attention had wandered to the readout screen on her belt. * And we've got two more from the collar - equipment malfunction from the fall, avoidable but explainable.... What / want 10 know is why we were tracking on the BGBC coded digital wavelengih; the rogue is on standard civilian wavelength...” He looked 10 Mansfield for a reply. “South southeast; 50 yards." Her cyes ‘moved from the readout to the woods behind her. “Excuse me?” Godnick's voice broke, and he stared with amazement at Mansfield, who was already loading a cartridge into her rifle and moving up the hill toward some boulders. “We were tracking on civilian wavelength, and the ‘civilian' rogue is still here...45 yards, this way.” “They were...together...” Godnick mumbled to himself. He stared at the lifeless, spotted heap over by the tree, visions of copulation and genetic pollution dancing in his mind. Jaguars, he knew, were solitary creatures and would only be found in such proximity if they were mating. Suddenly it felt like a mixed blessing - Jag Beta was gone, but gone 100 was the possiblity of a litter of genetic reject kittens, who, had they been born, would have become a management and PR headache. There was now a legitimate, less humiliating justification for her death - ‘genetic preservation’, instead of ‘mistaken target selection’. Rhodes was motioning to Godnick and Prof. Fusari 1o follow Mansfield, who was following her screen to the rogue's whereabouts. They joined in a line behind Rhodes, who was keeping a good ten paces behind the sharpshooter. Suddenly she stopped, crouched low, and whispered, *15 yards...east ". When the others had squatied ‘down, Mansfield raised her rfle and stepped into a bush to her left. With a sound of undescribable intensity, the jaguar let out a thunderous scream and lunged from a branch right onto Mansfield, whose rifle fired into thin air. Without stopping, the small but powerful cat pounced onto Rhodes, this time staying with its prey, sinking its teeth into his shoulder. Godnick, ‘who with Prof. Fusari had jumped back almost 10 the clearing, felt powerless 1o respond ©o Rhodes' screams for help. He was about to make a run for the helicopter when a barrage of pistol shots rang out through the woods, then another, and another, and the jaguar released its grip, staggered to the side, and fell o the ground, dead. Mansfield stood up, pistol still drawn on the cat, and dusted herself off. “Bullets,” she grinned. “They work a lot faster than tranquilizers.” I —— On the flight back 10 the Navy base, Godnick tried to cheer up his passengers with his numerous capture and release failure stories: There was the Grizzly reintro in Colorado when they had mistakenly relcased a completely unconditioned uncollared bear into the San Juans - it eventually wandered into Durango and was shot dead by a farmer. There was the dozen-0r-s0 San Dicgo gnatcatchers that had died in a mist net that couldn't be checked in time due to freeway waffic en route. And there was the entire breeding stock of Santa Cruz wallflowers that was incinerated due to a computer which had printed out their geneic evaluation as ‘impurc’. Mistakes, he assured them, happened all the time. Tt was o use - the presence of the two full body bags on the cabin floor, the bloodied rags that Rhodes was dabbing on his shoulder, and the scorching afteroon heat al kept the spirit low. Conversational attempts died s quickly as they started. There was no way around it - they had failed. S0 Godnick retumed his attention once again to the landscape below, which seemed suddenly chaotic. The foul-up weighed heavy on his mind, and he knew there would be a press uproar without careful communication management. At his monthly meeting with the Earth Firsters tomorrow he would have 1o recruit their help in explaining to the media the importance of genetic purity. They had been vital allis i the public relations following the Owens Valley Tule Elk eradication and the Cache Creek Roosevelt/ Tule Elk hybrid eradication programs last October in Northern Califomnia. The public never seemed to caich on 10 genetics issues when it came o large: mammals. ‘Bambiism’ was the word for it around the office. He realised that in order t0 shed his sense of chaos, t0 feel more in control of his work. he would simply have to re-engage in a few projects that were more positive in naure. He decided that after tomorrow’s mecting he would go get his hands dirty at the Vireo habitat wetlands mitigation site up at Mission Gorge: maybe he could even drive the grader, 1o really dig in 1o the He didn't want to become like his parents, who after years of active military service, opted for safe but boring military burcaucratic positions that eventually drove them both to depression. He wanted to stay on the front lines, to remain his whole life an active soldier for nature, helping maintain the genetic order that he heid so dear. For Godnick, that was his redemption. 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But before we even had a refreshing time to get any bright ideas about that to that ru oroven the Possibility, these people (who somehow were skinnier, blonder, sidewalk no designer out! up. are standing sil us, and more tan seemed possible) had all in an unmistakeable th For all the clains of the could have so show with such vehemence as Lees 1i then it dropped their jaws So about eight young and promising types ss the street from defin: Wt WML BIG Gy e e Ygar If they to remember them wearing a lot for that was a very fashionable color that of mustard, year I'm still not sure why, but Lee had cut ahole in this black wool blanket and was wearing it as a pon It was dragging on the ground in back, but short enough at the sides to show off his black sweat pants, cut another custom job. Jagged at the bottom - could think you could e the almost hear the thought going an cops park through their eight under-fed, 15 when we notice some very finely over-sunned heads "they dressed young people standing outside. aren't headed this way, ARE These were the beautiful people and I seem THEY?" We could have disappointed them, but why? "Hey, ho, hi," says Lee to the crowd from about fifteen feet away and closing. "We're On-ald's ~ anarchist hippy friends. Is the big guy here yot?" @ That wasn't going anywhere, so it was just as well when all = the necks whipped around in syncronicity and we knew Arnold had arrived, I was rather happy when he showed up for To b : L Karen and I hadn't found anything to occupy ourselves with L :r:?;;:b:afrdafinauy and I was starting to feel a little like a bloody body emerged from the silent-too-long part in a tank of sharks. R ita basldavadhysshadlke After much ado, Arnold gave a short speech about Skircssand, mithia nearly-normal health to an awe-struck, sweating audience. Then lots Eone | aaks Lasy tosnTinelpjyous of meat and cheese came rolling in on these tables, S g along with some booze. Suddenly, I knew our adventure Hi, yea. We're old friends of wasn't in vane. Ah-nalds,” He should be expecting us." When time for our formal introduction came, Arnold So she subtly glares from Lee's wasn't exactly unhappy to see us. eyes to his feet and then sort of stares You could say he wasn't expecting us right then into her clipboard for a few moments like and there. And Arnold is not someone you make a she's having a bad daydream and then she policy of surprising. Being a big star, he must says, with a public voice, "Yes, please get lots of death threats and he does have a come right this way." tough image to maintain. When the Rayon lady was So Arnold must have told her about us. giving him some details about something he kept The small woman, who's a few years glancinf at us like he was about to turn away older than the rest of the crowd, starts but couldn't take his eyes off us. heading for the door, gesturing for us to wOh. And these people say they know you.'" £ follow, At this point one of the jock-o's You know how many people say they know me? loses it and starts to jabber, "You he asked, It was understood to be a are not letting these FREAKS in (¥ BECAISE WE agg, - Thetorical question. He said it just loud enough so we knew it was our turn. Moments like that, I always forget what I'm doing (in spite of those three beers I managed to inhale.) Thank God Lee was on top of it. "Well Hello Arnold. A rough tour? This is some gym you got here, man. Of course, I'm not that into mirrors, but hey--" ~ "Do I know you?" questioned the big guy. "Arnold! Don't even joke about a thing like that. It's ME, Lee D." "Lee D.? I do not know you, but if I did I think I'd know your tailor, too," So then all the guys in the room -- the ones that you couldn't tell where their neck ended and their head started -- all laughed, "G-Huh," like really, I mean, ARE YOU?" He was kind of jostling back and forth betveen the other guys in some perverted fight mode which really looked funny in those penny loaf- ers. "Hey man, it's cool," I said. "Don't go splitting your acid vash. We're old friends of Ahneez." "Yea," pipes in Karen, "be nice to us or heads will roll when the big guy shows," We followed Lee and the lady in blue into the sliding glass doors of the World Gym (pronounced "Vurld Jeem") just in time to es- cape the consequences of testos- terone gone bad, Meanwhile, I'm checking out e T Seasq, Wew w‘r\t“ m‘:"«! .. our hostess' simple, sophisticated someone had knocked the wind out of skirt and blouse set. It's cobalt blue them, & Rayon and I had just heard how Rayon, a wood Hey," said Karen, "You and Lee are in the product, is actually made from oldgrowth red- ' same business, dude, but if you don't read the woods. Right then it dawned on me that the papers we won't hold it against you." person who told me that may have been pulling "o, of course not,'" says Lee, shooting my leg. Karen a look that could kill, So by now we've entered the mirrored, me- "And vhat business are you in, Lee D." tallic wonderland that is the World Gym, Lots says Arnie as if he's asking for the of guys and gals were in World Gym T-shirts punchline in an extended knock-knock joke. sweating with these wonderful looks on their "Oh, some semi-dangerous stunt stuff,' faces, like they've been practicing that look since says Lee. "I hang a banner here and the day they heard Arnold was coming. Except they there when I'm not rubbing ski-poles have to keep checking their looks in one of the many with buffalo hunters." mirrors to make sure they look good enough, earnest enough, that they've captured the look of that elusive middle-ground between hurting themselves and enjoying themselves. Vhen we came every neck in the room craned expecting to see the man, and I'm no P.E. student, but it seems you just shouldn't snap your head around like that when you'Te benching 200. Of course, everybody was tremendously disappointed for the moment that Lee was not over six feet tall and German. But unlike outside where our appearance seemed enough to start a riot, these folks just jerked their necks back into place and continued with their routine. I was a little disappointed by the lack of reaction but it just goes to show how self-absorbed this gemeration of Titness junkies really is. The Rayon lady deposited us in a room towards the back of the building that must have been used for private therapy sessions, Lut if she thought that would keep us out of sight she was vrong. Soon enough, Lee was out on the floor having some long-boned voman in a truly great turquoise unitard show him one of the contraptions. "Yes, just fit this around your wrists, there. And then when you walk you can see your heartrate, and see here the red dots show you how steep a hill you are climbing," she said. "But I can go outside and walk up onto the hill and see how steep the hill really is and plus see all the trees and hear the birds and not have to breathe this air conditioned stuff, ut then you wouldn't be able to see your heart- rate," she said, quite seriously. "Lee's so humble," says Karen. mmmg> Eertye = ot unlike yourself, Mr. Schwartz- enegger," I say. "4 regular terminator of the radical environmental movement," says Karen. "And man did he get a raw deal in the Montana courts," says me. "Would you two shut up?" says Lee. Ignoring him, I sort of sidled up to the Schwartze and say, "We could be very good for you, Arnold.” “How did these people get in here?" says Schwartzenegger. Right then the Rayon Lady appearec to be choosing which portion of the grey carpet she was going to throw herself down on to bep for mercy, and these three boobs in bomber jackets moved in to throw us out. "Don't make us leave," protested Karen. "Just because we aren't wearing the season's fresh new colors, I'm sure!" It took Lee's guy a minute to find a limb under the amorphous cape and we were on our way. "Oh come on, Arnold," I heard Lee scold. "We know you really want to smash the state," "Wait, I heard myself say. "I have a press pass, I'm supposed to be here. I'm on the list...," but by then we were back on the sidewalk, alone this time. ok I have a few theories why Arnold couldn't drop it after that episode. Perhaps he read the scathing article of the incident I printed in the UC weekly. Or maybe he has always been a radical at heart. it sai If this is that strange journalist who came with Lee D. to my Santa Cruz World Gym, I want to say, I hope I was not’ too abrupt with you, I'm sorry I had you dragged out Like that, for in a way, I think you and your friends understood me better than anyone has ever understood me. I know it sounds strange, but lately I've been. reading Emma Goldman and T no longer eat meat. Understand, I'm not quite ready to go public with the new me, but sometimes its best to go about one's work with a shroud of normaley,no? Always in your debt, Arnold Transformation is a mysterious thing and everyone has hidden potential. Who knows, Brother Schwartzenegger's World Gym has power- ful possibilities in the struggle against the state, And I'm sure I'm not alone in noticing the subtle, yet insidious, underlying anti- state themes of Arnold's recent films. But if you didn't catch it, don't go out and support the mega-million and seriously stupid Hollywood film industry. Just take my word for it. by Alibaster Bowmonster Instinctually, I feel the guy just really dug our style, our groovy image. He just had to be mainstream around those gym-junkies. You know, he's a business man with a product to sell. He's the fucking secretary of fitness for President George Bush for Christ's sake. He can't exactly be embracing anarchists at every corner. I got a letter at the college newspaper. It con- tained an autographed glossy of Arn in a snug polo shirt sitting rather posed behind a huge wood desk. The accompanying letter was the usual ‘thanks - for- being-a-fan' crap, but underneath in black ink cursive . oy working class was only 11 years. When the rulers faded out, several hundred years later, the life span shot up to 19 years. Anarchy may be healthy Government is bad for your health. At least, that's the strong ‘suggestion from a study of the ancient remains of villagers from Africa, comparing those who lived under tight government control with those who lived in a period of freedom. Researchers from the University of Colorado in Boulder found the villagers' life expectancy almost doubled when politicians disappeared. During the erd of ruling kings, more than 1,000 years ago, the life expectancy of the ““You could obviously say that the results indicate that these people were probably better off when left to their own political devices,” said Colorado anthropologist Dennis Van Gerven. He and his colleagues speculate that the burdens of taxes and tributes required by medieval governments put enormous stress on the poor villagers, affecting both their own heaith and their ability to adequately feed their children. SPIRAT JON wpfia ANC - African™National congress. CPLA - Colombis Popular Liberation Army. ELA - Greece. FARC - Colombia. FPR-LZ - Honduras. GRAPO - Spain. Iraultza - Basque region of Spain MRPF - Chile. MRTA - Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, Peru. NIA - National Liberation Amy of Colombia. SL = Shining Path of Peru. RC - Revolutionary Cells of W. Germany. Do people allow themselves to be that gullible? In the midst of a fierce Arctic storm, the lone male caribou bravely bellows his ancient mating call. But his cry will go unlnxwerx_‘rg. because we built o ol efinery sight smack-dab where his herd's maing ground wsd to be. His herd is dying they camnot reprodce anywhere clie. hod ;:?mmn, ou single-minded pursuit of profits, we're spending millions of dollars in We 0 open up the ‘Alsskan National Wildlife Refuge, one of the last remaining untouched wildemesses in North America, 1o development. That means that soon most of the majestic caribou herds wil be lost forever. ‘We know that we can get away with this, because ultimately you care more abou driving your cars and surrouning yourself with plastic pleasure toys than you do about some for-off caribou herds that you've never even seen. By cu opting the language of environmentalism, we allow you to continue to close your eyes to our outrageous exploitation and to preicnd that_your conspicuous_consumption marches hand-in-hand with respect for nature, all evidence to the contrary aside. And as long as we continue 1o reap profits atthe expense of human and non-human nature, that's just fine with us Do people /really assuage their pangs of conscience by accepting our transparent hypocrisy? People Do. Are you sensitive? Are you easily hurt? Do you take adverse criticism to heart? Do you sometimes feel that life is passing you by? That the other man gets more out of life than you do? 1 You do? Good. Well keep [ it up. That's why we in advertising make so much money. Legal. Decent. Honest. | Truthful. 1 Are you those things too? | Ohgoody. better and better. Yum yum yum. elected Incident Chronology *January 1978 - Bombed US Information Agency and American Express. (ELA) Gesce *August 1981 - Bombed the US Embassy, Bank of America, the Coca Cola bottler, and a Carnation dairy products firm, all in Lima. (SL) f *August 1982 - Bombed Bank of America and St (GRAPO) 3t “November 1982 - Time bombed subsidiaries of US Castle and Cook. (FPR-LZ) rertoutss “Decenber 1982 - Bombed the incomples plant. (ANC) Sovrw nekia *April/May 1983 - Bombed the Rank Xerox offices in Bolboa nd Pamplona. No injuries. (Iravltza) bave “May 1983 - Blew up 10 powerline towers that blacked out Lima, then bombed over 30 locations causind $27 million damage. (SL) fets *June 1983 - Bombed a General Motors-affiliated company in San Sebastian to protest US investment in Basque Region. No injuries. (Iraultza) ea *Novenber/Decenber 1983 - Bombed Coca Cola offices and bottlers, Bank of America, Rank Xerox, IBM, 3M, and NCR offices in protest of US actions in Granada. No injuries. (Traultza) Gmave +January 1984 - Bombed a Ford dealership. No injuries (Traultza) sae “May 1984 - Conducted a rocket attack on the Mobil Oil refinery, causing several million dollars in damage. (ANC) “November 1984 - Bombed IBM. Considerable damage, no injuries. (Iraultza) sssese *January 1985 - Bonbed a movie theater that was showing "Red [ No injuries. (Iraultza)ewave *Februacy 1985 - Borbed Firestone in solidarity with Latin America's 'struggle against US imperialism'. No injuries (Traultza) macve “February 1985 - Bombed seven businesses in Medellin including IBN, GTE, Union Carbide and Xerox. (FARC) cousmsn “March 1385 - Bombed Citibank and Republic National in Santiago. (MRPF) “March 1985 - Set fire to 2 Kentucky Fried €hicken restaurants and attempted a third in Lima. (MRTA) fer *May 1985 - Bombed Hertr and Avis offices. No injuries (Traultza) escase overber 1985 - Borbed Lima's Texaco offices. (MRTA) vcks “November 1985 - Bombed Honeywell Bull offices. No injuries (Iraultza) weae “December 1985 - Kidnapped two US employees of Bechtel Corp.; one died in captivity and one vas later released. (CPLA) coromtrn *January 1986 - Demanded $100 million from Shell Ol to continue their operations in Magaleas Valley. Shell chose to suspend their operations rather than meet their demands. (FARC) comain “February 1986 - Bombed Citibank offices on 'behalf of the anti-Nato movement'. No injuries. (Iravltza) $isaw *Decenber 1986 - Numerous raids on Us-owned oil production subsidiaries destroying machinery and stealing explosives. NLA) corembin *June 1987 - Arson attack on Rhine-Westphalian's chemical plant in Kelsterbach. Several hundred thousand dollars’ damage. (RC) wesr asenawy *April-August 1987 - Bombed many US-Colombian oil operations. 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