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ANARCHIST
SURVIVAL
GUIDE FOR
UNDERSTANDING
GESTAPO SWINE
INTERROGATION
Subtitles
STAYING FREE

BY SHUTTING
THE FUCK UP!
BY ANARCHIST AUTHIONR, POET,

JAILHOUSE LAWYER & PEISONER
HAROLD H. THOWIPSON
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The primary thought you must have firmly in your
mind, keep in your mind's forefront, when questioned by
police is if they, your police interrogators, possessed a solid,
airtight, open and shut case against you they would not be
bothering to question you at all. When you are approached
refuse to be questioned and immediately demand an
attomey be present to advise you of your constitutional rights
before any questioning takes place. In an ideal world, and by
well established law, at this point all questioning is supposed
to stop but that does not always happen as “clever” ploys
are_used by police fo get you to volunteer for questioning or
be forthcoming with information that rarely benefits you, a
suspect but furthers the goal of their investigation. Never
answer any questions, no matter how innocent they sound,
after you have invoked your right to an attomey. Do not
respond to any“question no matter how fucking tempted or
how harmless you think it to be! When read the Miranda
rights you was told anything you say can and will be used
against you in a court of law and that is precisely what it
means! Anything you might say of even a microscopic
incriminating nature willbe interpreted as a major admission
by creative minds which can and will be used against you
You can take that fact to the bank.

Police interrogators aren't your friends! Don't provide
them with anything to use against you, only provide your
basic statistical personal information such as name, age,
address, birthday and social security! They're your enemy if
questioning you! Volunteer nothing! Either you are a
suspect, friends or comrades are suspects or they are
attempting to gather information to be used against you or
your associates in the future. Your best interests, you as a
Person, is the last thing on their minds. They'te merely
Performing their goverment job. Don't allow yourself to
become frightened or worse stil to be lulled into a false
sense of security. If they assault you can practice the
popular American martial art of “I Sue"! Politely isten to their
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games, Remain silent no matter how long questioning lasts
and, don't allow yourself to be wore down with time, a
favorite tactic employed by skilled questioners. Recognize
their games and realize their societal job function is to lock
you up to clear a case file that may result in destruction of
your life, making you, your family and loved ones suffer,
sometimes for months and in the worse scenario for years!
Remain silent. Sooner or later they will give up questioning
you altogether. They will fo move on to a weak willed person
to manipulate into prolonged imprisonment.

There are two logical outcomes to interrogations.
When questioning is done you are free to leave to join family,
friends or comrades within the movement, a wiser, stronger
willed soldier tested by fire, or you are locked up. If locked
up, and you kept your mouth shut, as soon as possible and
the opportunity presents itself after you request your one
allowed phone call then call a bail bonding company or your
lawyer. Your attorney will be pleased he/she has a client who
remained silent and did not give no statement! Because of
your wise silence your attorney may be able to perform the
magic taught in law universities and colleges of law. Your
attomey may be able to have the case dismissed in court
later due to the lack of evidence at preliminary hearing if you
are charged with a crime! If you have felt the need of
confession other than to a priest then forget about lack of
evidence dismissals. You volunteered so endeavor to enjoy
your unique incarceration experience, dummy! Should there
be other evidence against you (‘Opps!
Fingerprints are Hollywood bull shit, right
remain silent you have expanded your lawyer's defense
‘strategy choices which may win your case in court in front
of a jury made up of people of average ignorance. Those of
you who immediately thought of the O.J. jury, shame on you!



Give up nothing! Give up nobody! Don't let your
mouth put your ass in jill Retain your rights! Remember
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you have the right not to incriminate yourself! Say nothing
you or your friends will regret later in court while facing a
stem faced judge and anal retentive, irate government
prosecutor!

If you stayed with me to this point, the following will
be some shallow, laughable mind games they may try to
play on you with al the intensity of a child examining the first
insect they encounter! Remember the cops talking to you,
cajoling you to bear your soul, clear your conscience, "make
yourself feel better” by telling them what happened because
they “understand” after you do will laugh in your face, later in
their locker room how! with laughter with each other about
how utterly naive and gullible you are, call you an ignoramus
and various other things, pat each other and themselves on
the back and then pleased with their day's work go home to
screw their wife, boyfriend or gilfiend and kick their dog, or
vice versa.

After the interrogation is over as a just reward for
your cooperation with these hardworking public servants
who serve and protect the public, you will be led away to a
fithy barren cell reeking with combined odors of sweat, body
waste in liquid and solid form, stale tobacco smoke and
hopelessness with dubious characters as your cell mates.
You may have to fight to keep a food tray, a place to sit or
sleep if you aren't immediately bailed out, you may discover
yourself in a struggle to retain your shoes, shirt or jacket
from predatory social prisoners. Remember how you felt
your privacy was violated when a bathroom door was
accidentally opened by another person on you at home,
office, workplace, or elsewhere? Well, prepare yourself to
forfeit all privacy expectation when Nature calls and you
must answer the callin the sight, presence or within arm's
reach of other hapless people! You may be forced to learn
what it means to literally and figuratively stand your ground
for the first time in your life in a jail or in prison. You may be
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forced to defend your sexuality, defend yourself against
sexual predators or some people are forced to temporarily
switch their sexual preferences becoming bisexual by
circumstance to survive incarceration intact. Yell for help?
None is forthcoming except in cases of extreme brutalty or
mutual combative situations as those who swore to serve
and protect usually turn a blind eye to prisoners. If you
confessed to police interrogators, aided with the crime
investigation efforts, in an il-fated effort to prove yourself
intellectually superior to those questioning you stuck your
foot in your mouth, you have condemned yourself with your
‘own words, then you wil in all likelihood, not pay the slightest
attention to the following word of caution. Once booked,
fingerprinted and slammed in a cell you should not talk about
your case with those around you who may express interest
in why you are locked up! Each prisoner wiling to listen to
your tale of woe is a potential threat of showing up in court to
testify against you as a jailhouse informant or a cop put in
the cell with you whose sole purpose was to gain confidence
and solicit a confession! You may be a target so realize this
fact and shut the fuck up! A classic example of this is years
ago in the early 1980's, a Stale prisoner in Tennessee
named Gary Hartman confided to a cell partner, Raymond
Frazier, about a murder in which he was involved. Frazier
got with another prisoner, Kenneth King, and they, with the
aid of prison officials, contacted the attomey general's office
and law enforcement, collected a $1,000 reward and
Hartman was convicted and sentenced to death. Alter a
decade plus on death row Hartman's death sentence was
‘overtumed on appeal and he was sentenced to lie in prison.
Just like during WWI and WWII, loose lips sink ships!

Ityou made a statement you may as well be pleased
with your lousy career, life and health choices since you
have volunteered for a stint, however prolonged or brief, in
your chosen hell by “cooperating” with police? Not exactly a
Norman Rockwell picture, is it? | refuse to "sugarcoat” this




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description of a potential first confinement experience horror
to save your sensitivity or cater to your squeamishness. |
would rather shock you to serious thought by speaking truth
motivated by love for my sincere activist brothers and
sisters engaged in struggle against the monsters of the earth
guided by their hearts and knowledge of what is right rather
than let you find out the painful hard way and begin a
nightmare which will rob you of your life, of your productive
years, and the progress you could have made during those
forever lost years to the struggle.

GESTAPO STYLE INTERROGATION, 101

SUBIRCT CREDIT: RENATNING FRRE

Following are some of the mind games the police
play on the unwary to extract “voluntary” confessions. Know
your enemy well, recognize their games and the many
variations of them, as many and as varied as personalities of
the accused and their interrogators. Your ability to remain
free may someday well depend on your strength of
character and knowledge of the tactics used, techniques
employed and psychological pressures. Each one is
designed to elicit a response from the person on whom they
are employed

1. The interrogator displays confidence in the quilt of
the suspect with an air of "Convince me otherwise?”

2. The questioner points out some, but by no
means all, of the circumstantial evidence indicative of a
subject's quilt. This is a variation of "I know more than | am
saying and you are fucked if your story does not match what
know.” More often than not they know zip, nothing, and so
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capitalize on any information you may provide, tum it around
and throw it back at you to extract additional information.

3. The interrogator often calls attention to a
subject's physical or psychological manifestations that may
predict guit, pulsation of the carotid artery, excessive activity
of the Adam's Apple; avoidance of eye contact, foot wiggling,
wringing of hands, finger tapping, picking at fingernails, other
individualized nervous mannerisms or gestures evidencing
themselves when a persons under stress/pressure. These
are common “tells” high roller gamblers are aware of when
exhibited by players. If a suspect is emotional then the
questioner calls attention to the “peculiar feeling inside",
playing on the concept of moral quit atterpting to extract a
confession.



4. Interrogators often sympathize with subjects
being questioned by commenting to the person something to
the general effect of ...1 might have done the same thing
myselt." or "..Anybody else under similar conditions
(circumstances) might have done the same thing’. This is to
portray themselves as an “ally" or “friendly” in a hostile
environment who can be trusted to help the subject...but only
if the targeted subject accepts the offered “common ground
of friendship and understanding’ deception bonding and
confesses, opens up, to incriminate themselves or others.

5. An interrogator often will attempt to extract a
confession during a questioning session by using phrases to
reduce a subject's guilt feelings by minimizing the
seriousness of the offenseicrime, especially with charges of
murder or violence. Examples: "Lots of other people would
have done the same thing under the circurnstances of your
situation.” "If somebody done me the way he/shelthey done
you, | would have done the same thing myself!”

6. Askilful questioner may suggest a less revolting,
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more morally acceptable motivation or reason for the offense
you are charged with than that which is presumed.

7. In order to break an accused will to extract a
confession a skilled interrogator will often sympathize with
the suspect by (a) Condemning the victim; (b)Condemning
any possible, or charged, accomplice ‘suspects; or (c)
Condemning anybody that any degree of moral responsiblity
might conceivably be bestowed on for commission of the
offense in question or already charged.

8. Interrogators fake understanding and sympathy
to urge a subject to confess while making some physical
contact, pat on a hand or shoulder, grip of a hand often
followed by proclamations by the interrogator that it his
mother, father, brother, sister, wite, child, gitiend, gay
lover, etc., was charged with the subject's crime he would
“advise them to confess...", "..speak (tell) the truth.
Interrogators will often invoke moral concepts with phrases
like "Confessing is the only decent and honorable thing to
do.” or "You should relieve your conscience and get it over
with so you feel better..." in low, sympathetic tones to
attempt to establish an emotional link with a. subject,
particularly with a person who has been subjected to several
lengthy periods of intensive questioning and underwent an
emotional battering from continuous questioning most often
with interrogators performing in shifts". The infamous
"Good Cop-Bad Cop" or triendly/untriendly routine is most
often used after other tried techniques and ploys utilizing
mock sympathy and understanding have proven ineffective
to the dismay of Chief Inspector Impotent, Officer Orifice or
Detective Dinky Winky. Whoever hasnit'seen this Mutt &
Jeff routine used to death on television and in movies, please
raise your hand? However, believe it or not, as sadas itis,
these theatrics often work’after a dullard is subjected to a
prolonged period of psychological battering. Falling for this
merits a groaned Duh!
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9. A skilled interrogator often uses a ploy of pointing
cout the possibilty of exaggeration on the part of the accuser
or victim or exaggerates the nature or seriousness of the
offense charged in order to frighten a subject into making a
“justification statement” wherein they attempt to explain
away ‘what really happened” and. thereby hopelessly
incriminate themselves! This merits a double "Duh"!

40. An interrogator will attempt to have a questioned
person hypothetically place themselves at the scene of the
crime, in some sort of contact with the victim or the
occurrence giving rise to the crime or crimes they are
subjected to questioning about to gather information or
attempt to have the person inadvertently make an admission
(of guilt through a slip of the tongue.

11. Ifa person is naive enough to admit to being at
the scene of a crime the interrogator will watch for
inconsistencies in the subject’s version of what happened by
requesting repetitious telling of the subject's story then point
out discovered inconsistencies to seek admissions of lying
about some incidental aspect of the occurrence or orime.
Each such admission elicited from a subject makes the
subject more psychologically susceptible to coughing up the
"whole story’.

12. An interrogator will often appeal to the subject's
ego and pride through well selected flattery or a direct
challenge to honor thereby using against a subject, and
capitalizing on, the basic human trait to seek and enjoy the
approval of others as if predator and prey are in a normal
societal environment or setting,



13. The futility of resistance to telling the truth or
confessing will be repeatedly pointed out during questioning,

14, Askillful interrogator will repeatedly point out to
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the subject the grave consequences of a continuation of
his/her “criminal behavior’. This is an argument which falls
flat on its’ face, is a guaranteed failure with politically
motivated suspects who are motivated out of a sense of
righteousness. This ploy quite often works with social crime
suspects because during the course of their ill chosen
criminal careers many repeat offenders experience a fleeting
desire, ot possess intentions, to rehabiltate or reform
themselves.

15. Sometimes interrogators rather than seek a
general admission of guilt will first ask the suspect a
question about some aspect or detail of the crime or make
inquities as to the "reason" for its commission as if puzzled
as to why it happened? This is nothing more than a play on
the impulse to confess which becomes more intensified the
longer most people are grilled and especially with the young
and inexperienced

16. When suspects are questioned after previously
listed griling techniques have met with failure or it is
surmised they will fail if employed, interrogators will often
take pleasure in pitting suspects against another. They are
separated during questioning and each told the other, or
others, gave statements placing primary blame on the
subject each interrogator is questioning. The person is
asked to “Set the record straight before he/she/they make.
you the fall guy!” or "You are stupid for not making a
statement! Your buddy gave you up so you may as well tell
us what happened!” Revelations such as these are
accompanied by angry gestures and bullying. If a suspect
shows weakness he or she is then displayed mock
sympathy. Know the people you are with when you do a
direct action! Have your stories straight before you go on
any action! Keep your mouth shut! Depend on them as
they are depending on you. Don't fal for transparent games.
This most successful of questioning techniques requires no
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further explanation as it has been portrayed ad nauseam in
cheap B-Grade gangster movies for decades. This is a tried
and true, timewom, method of obtaining confessions which
few accused should logically fall for but many do in the
criminal world due to distrust of their associates. With
politically motivated suspects divide and conquer ploys
have much smaller success rate but still sometimes
succeed.

17. Interrogators will seek admissions of knowledge
of a crime being investigated by asking if a suspect knows
“why” they are being questioned. A grievous error is
committed when a suspect volunteers information or any
knowledge of a crime providing details which he/she could
_only possess if that person committed the crime or was
present when it was committed. Admission of such
knowledge aids investigation efforts as the interrogator is
aware the subject of questioning is either the perpetrator of
the crime, was complicit in the commission of the crime or
is a witness. The best advice is volunteer nothing and
remain mute except for required personal identity
information. Protestations of innocence only serve to open a
dialogue with questioners, often proving counterproductive to
the interest of the accused.





18. The interrogator begins a questioning session
by asking a subject to relate all he/she knows about the
victim and other possible suspects leading up to questions
about the actual incidentioffense/crime. It often proves
difficult for most subjects of questioning to stop talking once
they have started than to never start talking in the first place.
People enjoy talking and trying to impress others with what
they know on any subject.

19. Skilled interrogators will attempt to obtain
detailed information from the subject about their activities
before, at the time of and after the crime. Some subjects will
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attempt to place themselves at the scene either before or
after a crime has been committed or in close proximity to
where the crime occurred thereby driving nails into their own
coffin at future prosecution.

20, When facts of a crime are already known by
police interrogators they will often ask about these known
facts in a casual manner as though the facts was not already
known by the authorities to rattle a suspect's nerves and
make them more vulnerable to aggressive interrogation
techniques. This is done in order to create suspicion in a
suspect others involved have already made a confession.
‘The volatile emotional mixture of fear, distrust and suspicion
has tured friends, lovers, partners and family members
against each other. If interrogators can pit one against
another to achieve a confession they will do it with immense
pleasure, wrecking friendships, causing betrayed trust and
destroying families! Your family, friends and you are about
as important to them as discarded toilet tissue! If you realize
this you are light-years ahead of falling for pressure tactic
mind games!

At demonstrations where there is even the slightest
chance of a cop riot try to always to stay close to trusted
friends in case you get swooped up by the cops! Trust them
if you are arrested or if you all are nicked! If you are arrested
in the chaos and confusion of a cop riot, they will know what
happened and can get you a bail bondsman or attomey while
you are trucked off to jal. If you are all busted then there is
morale strength in numbers, you can pool resources and all
get out of the can, The old concept of all for one and one for
all! Go to demonstrations and other direct action activities
with your trusted friends. Take only those tried and true
friends you trust on all direct action operations! When your
ass is on the line then it is the wrong time to test their loyalty.
Realize the strength of your comrades during questioning,
shut the fuck up, stifle any urge to talk, and definitely don't
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confess to anything to effectively volunteer to become a jail
or prison population statistic.

21. Aninterrogator during a questioning session will
sometimes at intervals ask a suspect questions about other
people in a manner implying correct answers are already
known. One such question would be asking how long you
have known John Smith rather than if you knew John Smith.
Another ploy consists of prefacing a question that does not
bear directly on guilt or innocence with an admonishment to
think carefully before you answer the next question. It is
most commonly used while the interrogator shuffles through
papers or while holding papers, a question is posed and
followed by an expression of doubt after you give an answer
to whatever question was asked. This type of questioning is
a probe for a justification response from you. Offer nothing
whether you think it is already known or not and ignore this
category of question entirely.

22. An interrogator might refer to some nonexistent
piece of incriminating “evidence” to see if the suspect will
attempt to explain it away. Ifa suspect does it suggests guilt
as the guilty are concemed about covering their tracks and
worry about the police discovering incriminating evidence
inadvertently overlooked at the crime scene. An innocent
suspect has no tracks to cover so obviously does not have
to speculate about the discovery of incriminating evidence.

23. A skilled questioner may ask if a person being
questioned has ever "thought" about committing the offense
being investigated or one similar to it. If you are clue less
enough to answer such an inquiry your questioner is likely to
show up in court to testify about how you bragged or boasted
about thinking of commiting the crime! A resounding reply
of "No!" is a characteristic response of innocent people. If
you allowed yourself to slip and answer in the affirmative the
next logical question will be something like “Thinking like that
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finally got to the point where during one of your weakest
moments, when you was under the extreme pressure, you
gave in? | can understand that so tell me about it?” Duh!

24, With vandalism, property destruction or theft
cases the interrogator will attempt to coerce a suspect into
an offer of restitution which is a clear indicator of guilt. The
normal response of an innocent suspect when restitution is
mentioned is a loud and clear statement from them they are
rnot going to pay for something they did not do or steal. The
response being fished for from a quill person is agreement
the aggrieved individual, party or business should be
reimbursed for their loss followed by a. proclamation the
suspect did not have anything to do with whatever it was
detaced, destroyed or stolen. The suspect has placed
himself in the position of appearing to be a guilty duncel

25. A suspect is often asked if they are wiling to
take a polygraph test? Innocent people almost always
agree to take practically any test immediately to prove their
innocence. A guilly person is prone to refuse a lie detector
test immediately or find excuses to back out of taking it ater
agreeing. The truth is few communities have this service
available as an investigative tool and are using the only
resource available, a skilled, common sense interrogation
without aid of electronic instrument assistance in their quest
to pin the tail on the donkey. Should you agree to take a
polygraph examination 99,9% of the time the offer to provide
the test proves nothing but a smoke screen, a bluff or ploy to
determine your wilingness to prove your innocence. A
savvy person will press the issue and demand such a test in
these circumstances. The back pedaling of the authority
figure might even prove amusing to watch for comic relief in
a stressful situation?

26. Police investigators know, beyond any doubt,
the suspect who states something lke “Al right, I will tll you
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what you want but I didn't do it"is, in all probability, guilty

THERE ARE AS MANY VARIATIONS OF
INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES AS THERE ARE COPS!
THOSE PREVIOUSLY LISTED ARE MERELY A FEW OF
THE MOST POPULAR, THE MOST OFTEN USED ONES.

THE BEST ADVICE | CAN GIVE REGARDING
POLICE INTERROGATION, IF THE ENEMY PERSIST IN
QUESTIONING YOU IN SPITE OF YOUR REQUEST FOR:
AN ATTORNEY, IS TO REMAIN SILENT DURING ALL.
QUESTIONING AND ANSWER NOTHING ASKED!

DO NOT OFFER INFORMATION, NO MATTER
HOW UNIMPORTANT OR TRIVIAL YOU DEEM IT TO BE,
BECAUSE YOU MAY UNBEKNOWNST BE OFFERING
UP THE TIDBIT OF INFORMATION WHICH IS THE
PIECE THAT COMPLETES THE PUZZLE FOR THEM TO
PROSECUTE YOU OR OTHERS!

NEVER TRY TO FISH FOR INFORMATION AS.
POLICE WILL ALWAYS OBTAIN MORE INFORMATION
THAN THEY GIVE! ALWAYS! NEVER FORGET IT!

PLAIN AND SIMPLE, STAY QUIET, MUTE, AND
FREE OR GIVE YOURSELF THE BEST CHANCE TO WIN
YOUR CASE IF BROUGHT TO TRIAL BY USING YOUR
RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT!

| APOLOGIZE TO ALL PIGS EVERYWHERE FOR
DEFAMING YOUR SPECIES BUT | AM A PRODUCT OF
THE SIXTIES WHEN JACK BOOTED GESTAPO.
SNOUTS WITH BADGES WAS CALLED 'PIGS") TO.
POLICE EVERYWHERE | APOLOGIZE FOR NOT
LEAVING MONEY ON YOUR MOTHER'S NIGHTSTAND
WHEN I LEFT BUT | WAS SHORT ON CASH THAT DAY
SO GOT A FREEBIE! YOU MAD? WHY? SHE LIKED IT!

| WISH ALL MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN
STRUGGLE THE BEST OF LUCK! | HOPE | NEVER SEE
YOU IN HERE WITH ME! CONFUSION TO OUR
ENEMIES! STAY SILENT! STAY FREE! THEY WILL
NEVER GET US ALL!
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