Phoenix from the Flames
this was so fuckign moving.
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First Epistle: Phoenix From the Flames
By Sadie and Exile (prosecuted by the state as Joyanna Zacher and Nathan
Block)
Now that we have been sentenced we have the opportunity to ease our
reticence
concerning our situation and would like to candidly address a few points.
Firstly, we would like to offer our sincere and heartfelt gratitude to
everyone who has offered support and solidarity with us since we were
kidnapped by the state and held prisoner for these past sixteen
months. To each and every individual who has offered material support
through monetary, postal or other means, and also to those who through
their voice or in their hearts have stood in alignment with us, and in
opposition to cooperation with or apology to the state--we would
extend a most honest thanks. Your flame burns bright.
It has been extremely heartening to know that there are those who
stand with us when it seems that so many whose strength we once
considered unassailable have had their roots dislodged and their honor
torn asunder. Those who hear the call of Direct Action should not
fear the prospect of imprisonment if those, or those similar to, who
have supported us continue to act in such a responsible and dignified
manner in support and solidarity with those of us who have attracted
the wrath of the state. Again, a great thanks to all who have
assisted us and continue to do so.
That said, it has come to our attention that perhaps through naivete
and perhaps through the deliberate spreading of misinformation, there
has been some confusion over who amongst the indictees is worthy of
prisoner support; meaning to us: who has NOT made statements
implicating others, as the purpose of such statements is the further
prosecution and imprisonment of others. Let us make this clear: all
those amongst the indictees who have been apprehended, other than Ms.
Waters, Mr. McGowan, Mr. Paul, obviously the authors of this piece;
the so-called Ms. Zacher and Mr. Block, and sadly Mr. Rodgers, have
dishonored themselves, their families and the very lineage of struggle
which they themselves were once an integral part of, by becoming
vicious traitors and handmaids of the state. To actively support
these indictees who have been apprehended but not aforementioned is to
support not only our incarceration but to wish that same fate upon
many others currently living as fugitives or being sought similarly.
If there are those amongst you reading this who feel the need to make
excuses for those responsible for our imprisonment, we would ask you
to refrain from offering a Janus-faced 'support' to us also, as it is
completely antithetical to the reasons for our captivity.
Those who have signed their cowardly allegiance to the state and
through the state to those powers that seek to prostitute and
obliterate the natural world, as well as strip-mine our souls,
clearcut our minds and pollute our very being, are not only directly
responsible for our imprisonment, having given the state our physical
description, names and legal names, along with statements on our
involvement in Direct Action, both witnessed and in conjecture.
No, they hold not only that burden of responsibility. Some of them
hold responsibility, and the others a deep dishonor, for the death of
a dear friend and one of the most gentle and pure-hearted beings ever
to be found, namely Avalon (or Bill Rodgers).
Most importantly, those who now work in collaboration (under the
innocuous term 'cooperation') with the same powers which they once
felt compelled to raise themselves in opposition to, have in their
wicked apostasy, desecrated the sacred covenant that exists between
nature and those who align themselves with the very Element of Fire
and the very Essence of Destruction in the defense of the Wild.
Perhaps these vile turncoats deserve compassion, in the same way that
all creatures deserve compassion, and indeed they once deserved
acclaim for their physical deeds, but now they deserve neither praise
nor forgiveness, for in the hour when the struggle returned for them,
when the predator had once again become the prey, they failed in
spirit and resolve cowardly breaking long held oaths and begging for
mercy from their captors, hoping to gain leniency by offering as a
sacrifice to the alter of a perverted 'justice' their former friends,
trusted colleagues and any dignity they once held.
Let the spirits of imprisonment, treason and weak delusion haunt the
atrophied vision of those who would turn their backs to the flame of
Green Fire that burns in all our beings; and let those of us who heed
the calls so often ignored stand upright, with clear vision, whether
illuminated by the great Sun or by a more obscure Light, which rides
with the night terror with all creatures of the hidden hours: the
clawed, the winged, the hoofed, and also with those beings referred to
by the euphemisms of 'the ancestors', 'the fair folk', or indeed, the
'elves'.
air trees water animals
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First Epistle: Phoenix From the Flames
By Sadie and Exile (prosecuted by the state as Joyanna Zacher and Nathan
Block)
Now that we have been sentenced we have the opportunity to ease our
reticence
concerning our situation and would like to candidly address a few points.
Firstly, we would like to offer our sincere and heartfelt gratitude to
everyone who has offered support and solidarity with us since we were
kidnapped by the state and held prisoner for these past sixteen
months. To each and every individual who has offered material support
through monetary, postal or other means, and also to those who through
their voice or in their hearts have stood in alignment with us, and in
opposition to cooperation with or apology to the state--we would
extend a most honest thanks. Your flame burns bright.
It has been extremely heartening to know that there are those who
stand with us when it seems that so many whose strength we once
considered unassailable have had their roots dislodged and their honor
torn asunder. Those who hear the call of Direct Action should not
fear the prospect of imprisonment if those, or those similar to, who
have supported us continue to act in such a responsible and dignified
manner in support and solidarity with those of us who have attracted
the wrath of the state. Again, a great thanks to all who have
assisted us and continue to do so.
That said, it has come to our attention that perhaps through naivete
and perhaps through the deliberate spreading of misinformation, there
has been some confusion over who amongst the indictees is worthy of
prisoner support; meaning to us: who has NOT made statements
implicating others, as the purpose of such statements is the further
prosecution and imprisonment of others. Let us make this clear: all
those amongst the indictees who have been apprehended, other than Ms.
Waters, Mr. McGowan, Mr. Paul, obviously the authors of this piece;
the so-called Ms. Zacher and Mr. Block, and sadly Mr. Rodgers, have
dishonored themselves, their families and the very lineage of struggle
which they themselves were once an integral part of, by becoming
vicious traitors and handmaids of the state. To actively support
these indictees who have been apprehended but not aforementioned is to
support not only our incarceration but to wish that same fate upon
many others currently living as fugitives or being sought similarly.
If there are those amongst you reading this who feel the need to make
excuses for those responsible for our imprisonment, we would ask you
to refrain from offering a Janus-faced 'support' to us also, as it is
completely antithetical to the reasons for our captivity.
Those who have signed their cowardly allegiance to the state and
through the state to those powers that seek to prostitute and
obliterate the natural world, as well as strip-mine our souls,
clearcut our minds and pollute our very being, are not only directly
responsible for our imprisonment, having given the state our physical
description, names and legal names, along with statements on our
involvement in Direct Action, both witnessed and in conjecture.
No, they hold not only that burden of responsibility. Some of them
hold responsibility, and the others a deep dishonor, for the death of
a dear friend and one of the most gentle and pure-hearted beings ever
to be found, namely Avalon (or Bill Rodgers).
Most importantly, those who now work in collaboration (under the
innocuous term 'cooperation') with the same powers which they once
felt compelled to raise themselves in opposition to, have in their
wicked apostasy, desecrated the sacred covenant that exists between
nature and those who align themselves with the very Element of Fire
and the very Essence of Destruction in the defense of the Wild.
Perhaps these vile turncoats deserve compassion, in the same way that
all creatures deserve compassion, and indeed they once deserved
acclaim for their physical deeds, but now they deserve neither praise
nor forgiveness, for in the hour when the struggle returned for them,
when the predator had once again become the prey, they failed in
spirit and resolve cowardly breaking long held oaths and begging for
mercy from their captors, hoping to gain leniency by offering as a
sacrifice to the alter of a perverted 'justice' their former friends,
trusted colleagues and any dignity they once held.
Let the spirits of imprisonment, treason and weak delusion haunt the
atrophied vision of those who would turn their backs to the flame of
Green Fire that burns in all our beings; and let those of us who heed
the calls so often ignored stand upright, with clear vision, whether
illuminated by the great Sun or by a more obscure Light, which rides
with the night terror with all creatures of the hidden hours: the
clawed, the winged, the hoofed, and also with those beings referred to
by the euphemisms of 'the ancestors', 'the fair folk', or indeed, the
'elves'.
air trees water animals