The Great Game of Civil War

Author: Tiqqun

Date: 2001
Source: Retrieved on 12/8/20 from http://tiqqunista.jottit.com/the_great_game_of_civil_war

rule no. 1
until further notice, all your rights are hereby suspended. Naturally you should keep the illusion that you still have some for a little while. That way we can violate them one by one, case by case.

rule no. 2
Be nice. Don’t mention laws, the constitution, or any of the lucubrations of another age to us anymore. Some time ago, as you will have noticed, we passed certain laws that put us above the laws, and the rest of the so-called “constitution.”

rule no. 3
You’re weak, isolated, stupid, abused. We are numerous, organized, strong, and enlightened. Some might say we’re a mafia; that’s a lie — we are THE mafia, the one that’s won out over all the others. We alone are able to protect you from the chaos of the world. And that’s why it pleases us so greatly to make you think you’re weak, to make you believe you are “insecure.” That’s what makes our racket profitable.

rule no. 4
For you, the game will consist in you escaping, or at least trying to escape. By escaping we mean: going beyond your dependent state. For now, it’s true, you do depend on us in all aspects of your life. You eat what we produce, you breathe what we pollute, you’re at our mercy for the slightest tooth decay and above all you can’t do anything against the sovereignty of our police forces, which we have given the full range of powers both in terms of discretion and action.

rule no. 5
You’ll never manage to escape alone. You’ll therefore have to start by building the necessary solidarity. To make the game a little harder, we’ve liquidated all forms of autonomous sociality. We’ve only let one thing survive: work; that is, controlled sociality. This will be what you’ll have to escape from, through theft, friendships, sabotage, and self-organization. Ah, by the way: all the ways of escaping have been made into crimes.

rule no. 6
We’ll always say it again and again: criminals are our enemies. But from that you should understand this: all our enemies are criminals. As potential escapees, each of you is also a potential criminal. That’s why it’s a good thing that we keep our lists of the numbers you call on your phones, and that your cell phones allow us to locate you at any time, and that your credit card lets us get to know your habits so easily.

rule no. 7
In this little game of ours, anyone that escapes their isolation will be called the “criminals.” As for those who have the gall to protest this status, we will call the “terrorists.” The latter may be shot to death at any time.

rule no. 8
We are quite aware that life among our society contains almost as much joy as a suburban train ride; that capitalism has up to now produced, in matters of wealth, nothing but universal desolation; that there are no arguments left to defend our worm-eaten “order” besides police flash-balls. But what do you expect, that’s the way it goes! We’ve disarmed you mentally and physically, and we have the monopoly over what we prohibit to you; violence, collusion, and emergence. And after all, frankly speaking, would you do otherwise if you were us?

rule no. 9
You will know prison.

rule no. 10
There are no more rules. All assaults are permitted.

signed,
YOUR GOVERNMENT

SQUATTERS #RESOURCES

[W]e must insist on the struggle for the satisfaction of immediate needs and desires. In other words, the seizing of buildings for shelter, the organized looting of sustenance for our bodies and minds, and the cultivation of new ways of living and providing for one another so as to sustain our attack against the structures that impoverish our lives. At this moment, in relation to the horizon of the gradual generalization of building occupations, we must pose a question: what would it mean to begin a broader project of expropriation?

— Opening Doors: A Primer
— The 75 River Do It Yourself Occupation Guide
— It’s Vacant, Take It!
— How To Squat A Building
— Trespass Journal
— Squatters Handbooks
— Squat the Planet | Nomad Community
— How to Claim Squatter's Rights to Stop Paying Your Rent

#zines #pamphlets

(sub)cultures are not enough. The punks and the linux nerds and the uni socialists and so on down the line will do little alone, but think what they could say together in spontaneous acts of creativity.

The 70s taught us important things. The anti-war movement saw eye to eye with the Civil Rights movement who saw eye to eye with the women's suffrage movement once upon a time and so on and so on.

When you tie together the various fringes of society you get something decentralized and revolutionary.

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Join the CrimethInc. telegram! CrimethInc. has been a beacon for decentralized organizing since the 90's. Following Facebook's footsteps, Instagram deleted their page yesterday. As a way to stay connected, they now also have this channel!

“There is a brand-new Telegram channel to announce CrimethInc. projects and provide a forum to discuss them.
At the turn of the century, CrimethInc. cells established and curated some of the early online spaces for horizontal discussion and coordination, such as the now long defunct forums crimethinc.net and crimethinc.info. As emerging 21st-century megacorporations integrated communications networks into Internet 2.0, designing them to promote competitive individualism, we focused our attention on offline collective collaborations. Today, we are excited to participate in a new experiment in anonymous online discussion, without the pressure to curate a personal brand that other contemporary platforms promote.”

Read our full statement here: https://crimethinc.com/2020/12/21/surviving-the-social-media-crackdown-the-instagram-ban-and-how-to-keep-following-us

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Resources, Tips, Communiques For Direct Action and CCTV Sabotage

We reclaim the right to possess “disguises.” We reclaim the right to a private life. We reclaim individual freedom, not simply the freedom to exist, but all freedoms.

— Blinding the Cyclops—Wrecking the Panopticon:
Camera Hunting in the Metropolis

— Lights, Camera, Action!: Destroying Video Surveillance Cameras as an Act of Rewilding

— Guide: How Can I Destroy Surveillance Cameras?

— PLANNING AND EXECUTING AN ANTI-SURVEILLANCE ACTION (tutorial after communiqué)

— PLANNING A HIT

— Guide to CCTV Destruction

— Sabotage of the Corporate Colonial System: A Field Guide to Low-Level Sabotage

— Dark Nights: Against Surveillance State, Against Facial Recognition

— A recipe for nocturnal direct actions!

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