a bandit gang writ large warning the wire spoilers within

fig23a you can sleep easy

"Without justice, what are kingdoms but great robber bands? What are robber bands but small kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men, is ruled by the command of a leader, and is held together by a social pact. Plunder is divided in accordance with an agreed upon law."
- St Augustine

fig23b roberts rules say we gotta have minutes

"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

fig23c many ways to play the game

"The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime."
- Max Stirner

fig23d quiet violence in the merikan desert

"I have my own army in the NYPD - the seventh largest army in the world."
- Mayor Michael Bloomberg

fig23e military surplus for the war on terror or immigrants or whatever

"So these villains, who call themselves governments, well understand that their power rests primarily upon money. With money they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort money. And, when their authority is denied, the first use they always make of money is to hire soldiers to kill or subdue all those who refuse them more money."
- Lysander Spooner

fig23f cmon books are you really gonna go there - yeah i went there

"For if the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the state, if it were convinced that the state is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the state would soon collapse to take on no ore status or breadth of existence than another mafia gang."
- Murray Rothbard

fig23g once theyve stopped working for the state theyre just dudes with a sweet ride

"Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people."
- Richard M. Nixon

fig23h damn people think they can just use their own bridges whenever they feel like it

"Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal."
- Frederic Bastiat

fig23i stop resisting

"You may think you belong to a big gang, you may be 50 people, even 100, but we have 32,000 in our gang. It's called the metropolitan police."
- Chief Inspector Ian Kibblewhite

fig23j see also a list of countries by size of police force

surely there is data to be considered here

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
- Charles De Montesquieu

fig23k the more translucent the window the more invisible the state

that
did not take as long
as i thought it would

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we must link activist stress with emotional & transformative justice

ongoing postmarxist critique

older now but
this article
the immediate need for emotional justice
speaks again
experiences in sectarian
socialism

not only my own emotional
luggage
that of
burnouts wanderoffs
jadeds tired outs
overstressed
folks
all around

stress confrontation
buildup & letdown

fig13a lets not forget the sectarian student recruitment fetish while we are here

so few ways to vent
so few ways for feelings
to be taken seriously
always talking about
sacrifice
like for blood
im going to have to write
more on that later
but

fig13b with narrative logic like that no wonder enrollment is at historic lows

speaking to abuse
in the activist community
in which i seem
to have taken interest

lacking emotional justice

folks from homes
broken

by capitalism
the state

turn to what theyve learned
violence abuse
coercion manipulation

mirroring
in these communities
those very dynamics
poison dynamics

which the world we
want to change
consistently
regenerates

if we cant fix it
in ourselves
our loved ones
comrades
trusted

how can we empower
friends
acquaintances
strangers

& even our enemies

yet
i know sectarians
wont listen
at best theyre slow to change
its all about building
glorious proletarian revolution
without ever addressing
personal problems
problems must in essence first
be polticized
too often at the cost
of dehumanizing
the problemed
sacred logic ending
with dismissal

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press 1 to plead guilty press 2 to plead innocent

article entitled paperwork against the people
tackling some very issues i have
even down to dmv

dissent quarterly
looks pretty cool check it out

so only thing i have
to add to all that
is that bureaucracy
though its existed more/less
since ancient china

so legend goes

hit its stride with invent
& sophistication of
the state
that bestest of our friends

just like how markets
transactions profit
commodities
all existed before capitalism

clerks paperwork
enlightened meritocracy
all existed before the state

but they wuv each other
so much

bureaucracy being
the mechanization of human society
paperwork being programming

even our justice system
just answer yes or no
boils down to binaries
two privileged storytellers
an official judge appointed
by the state
and a gallery of spectators

all that paperwork
contorting details
to fit in the box
called justice

never forget
especially as you sit in a meeting
a political meeting a work meeting
a public meeting
that death by committee
is an old old thing

and that the terror
hinged on a group calling itself
the committee of public safety

le comite de salut public
safety & health
the same reasons they shut down
occupy

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exigency revealed

dorners not just mad
about getting fired & crazy

in a typically blind pro-cop
american media sort of way
they skirt around the fact he was fired
for ratting
on corruption

as much as you can avoid
corruption and racism
when talking about
the lapd

so bad
that when this happens
chief beck has to come on tv
say hell reopen the case

it takes this

we can take for granted
that dorner is insane yeah
that manifesto breaks down halfway

starts talking to tebow
shout outs to hillary clinton
like hes won the oscar
for best mass murderer

shit
hes got the worlds attention
he knows it
they always know it

fig9a we are naturally familiar with this concept

be easy to blame the media
but more accurate
to note how media & manifestation
of violent insanity
have this lewd public relationship

capitalism consumer capitalism
birthing its own monsters

imperialism too

veteran turned cop

in the militarized police

navy sharpshooter

eight times decorated

talks about values he learned

fig9b value added to a product by military labor

i am a walking exigent circumstance

meaning hes the thing

that cant be planned for
an antichrist rendered

through 21st c fabric

may or may not be so

while i write this theyre still

poking the remains of the compound

compound being the word

for cabin once hostages are taken

naturally

either he does outsmart them

going on undermining their cred

hurting more people

or

they do stop him

testament to how desperately

they need to save

face

irregardless

he's a loose

dangerous

cog

apocalyptic

look at the way the cops

shot at innocent people

barricaded a truck unrelated to the case

it looks bad

fig9c necessary on so many levels

it looks really bad

this would be a wakeup moment

an enlightenment

if we can tune out the news

and listen to our gut our instinct

we all knew

dorner was only a matter of time

hyping up the dramatic parts

leaving out the backstory

media has the gall to come at this

all surprisedlike

so most of us will stay in the trance

nobody saw this coming?

are you kidding?

this isnt the beginning

this isnt even the end

fig9d what is violence? whateven is mental health?

we dont have

collective cognitive framework

for whatevers going on

much less

whatever

comes next

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I am a walking exigent circumstance

deep
shit

lapd officer christopher dorners manifesto

you create your monsters
i suppose

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postmarxist critique re transformative justice

i spent a number of years in a marxist organization

i have a number of proleftist critiques & contributions

fig4a howtodifferently

the first is most specific & important
a spectacle whichin i participated
first in a showtrial
then in very poor reaction
a good friend introduced me
to the concept of transformative justice
which i think
essential not just to aiding
victims of sexual assault
on the left
& elsewhere

but to confronting this beast
called capitalism
a system of dehumanization

& move to recognize
humanness
in oppressor oppressed
alike

handle things
in a delicate nurturing energetic way

that maps a new route
to confrontation
with the mechanizing monster
which would make
rote of our flesh

a squalor of hypnotism and violation

and look instead
for the way
that there might be hope
for us all

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