11-03-2019
Republished from a counter-information site.
“On 26 December 2018 we read a news item in the mainstream media about “a couple of environmentalists attacked, beat and took the gun from a hunter”. So according to what has come out, some people who encountered a hunter on their way did the obvious: they intervened and attempted (successfully) to prevent him from killing free sentient creatures. The details of the incident are not known. In mid-February a text was released by these individuals in which they make a clear statement as to the motives and ideological context that motivated them to get involved in the incident. According to the individuals themselves, the altercation with the hunter resulted in the removal of his hunting weapon. Because of this, they face a felony charge of robbery. The fact that their motives do not indicate robbery, as is evident from their own text, shows that the state’s choice to formulate such an indictment against them can only be vindictive.
A large part of society was consumed with the question of whether or not violence should be used against the hunter. The individuals themselves deny hitting him. For our part, as an anarchist collective for total liberation, we are not concerned about whether or not there was a beating. In a war where you are called upon to take a practical stand, any harm, moral, physical or mental, that you can inflict on a murderer of free individuals in order to achieve a temporary or permanent stop to his actions is acceptable. In fact, it is necessary. Just as it would be necessary for “public opinion” in the case where the killer-hunter was hunting dogs instead of other kinds of animals. His purpose, whether it be for hobby, food, or whatever, is of no concern to us and in no way should be a criterion for the position we take towards him, after all, in neither scenario is there any real need.
The bile that has been spouted in the meantime by this whole social coterie consisting of hunting clubs, butchers, fishermen, sexists, and even “calm revolutionaries” does not surprise us. The problematic collective morality and culture is nothing more than an expression of the reality of the culture that domination has constructed. The logic of imposition, however repugnant it may be to many people, is an element by which the domesticated human has been raised to embrace. Even among that small segment of human society which abhors human’s authority over human, it is difficult to find individuals who are not alienated by the opposition to authority suffered by individuals who are not of the human species. Even the old age of the hunter was used by some individuals as an argument to avoid challenging the brutal for non-human animals normality, as if the purpose of the action was not the prevention of murders, but the demonstration of power. But even these rationales where an action is judged in terms of power demonstration are nothing more than part of the authoritarian society we have all grown up in. But it is this authoritarian society that we consciously choose to fight against.
In this text we would not want to analyze our arguments about the concept of speciesism and the self-evident inclusion of antispeciesism within the characteristics of an anarchist group. We would not want, therefore, to document here why we are proposing to attack every animal hunter, every slaughterer, every egg-dairy-meat industry, every fur, leather or other animal “products” industry, every pet shop owner, etc. We give the priority to the words of the two individuals who acted with actions. In their text, each and every one can find the analysis needed to understand the logic behind such prepositions.
In this text our purpose is to express our support and solidarity with every such “perpetrator” until such “perpetrators” become many and there are no more oppressors of any kind out there. We are not interested in the label that each struggling individual puts on himself or herself. We don’t care if he/she signs up as an anarchist. We harbor no illusions of uniformity among the world of struggle. Of course this does not mean that we accept as our comrades and uncritically support any individual. Our criterion is their words and actions, and words that are clearly oriented towards linking various forms of oppression are certainly words we support.
SOLIDARITY WITH THE TWO PERSECUTED INDIVIDUALS
HUNT THE HUNTERS
Anarchist Collective for Total Liberation
PARASITA
parasita.espivblogs.net
parasita@riseup.net
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Below we quote in full the entire text of these individuals:”
(editor’s note: you can read the text by clicking here)