Central Maryland: Solidarity Action Against Trump and His World

The following anonymous communique was submitted to It’s Going Down, which we reprint below. 

The communique reads:

On the night of the waning crescent moon about a week ago, one full year after Trump was inaugurated, we wanted to do something to make our complicity with the rebels of J20 concrete. We were also inspired to do something dedicated to our buddies apathetically dreaming of a world in which all forms of life can thrive. So we took our small scratch at the hyper surveilled open air prison in the center of the global empire.

This took the form of a Howard County sheriff cruiser which presented itself to us parked less than a mile from the Central Maryland Correctional Facility. So we snuck up to it and sliced each tire several times. As we were leaving we whispered “fuck the cops!” and felt happy imagining how the sheriff would feel upon discovering this in the morning. We were quite nervous beforehand but afterwards we were laughing at how easy and low key it was. Clearly this is an almost laughably small gesture but we have many nights ahead of us.

A year ago, a whole bunch of our friends threw down hard against Trump’s inauguration. The actions they took pushed the boundaries of what typically goes down in the capital city of the amerikan empire and sent a message that the rise of the alt-right would not be taken lying down. The resulting images and stories were inspiring to us as anarchists, and were widely covered in the mainstream news worldwide, for whatever that’s worth. All this really did something significant to make the old dream of a new liberated world seem viable again. Given the circumstances, backlash from our enemies was inevitable, but the way we are going to talk about these things and respond to them is up to us.

We can safely leave talk of innocence, justice and rights in the courtroom for two-faced lawyers to argue about. Legal defense strategies are one thing but as anarchists who are as yet still at large, we have no need for this sort of hypocrisy. To position ourselves against what has been going on here for the last 500 years is necessarily to position ourselves as criminals. We need to take a step back from our immediate situations to see these things in perspective. We are a tiny part in a continuous resistance that started long ago and that has to keep going until we win. We have to believe in the invisible threads of solidarity or complicity or love or whatever you’re going call it that connect all the ones with glowing hearts together as comrades, even when that can be hard to feel.

If we are to maintain our anarchist politics only up until the point where we start to see some harsh repression and then suddenly we decide that we need to take a liberal turn and start crying for justice and fairness in a “democracy,” then what was the point in the first place? Obama, Trump, even president Oprah Winfrey, for us, it really all comes to the same thing. We’re going to need to keep pressing our attack forwards, making our way quietly through the video-taped streets and tiny stands of forest to attack the institutions of capitalism and colony.

With fierce love for all of those facing repression for the actions of j20, especially the “guilty” ones. Until all of the cages are empty. Until all of the borders are erased. Until all of the cop cars and limos are in flames.