Necessary Words: After 15 Years in Prison
Text from comrade Marcelo Villaroel
March 15, 2023
I have been in prison for 15 uninterrupted years. 22 months in Patagonia, territory occupied by the Argentine state where I was detained and the other 13 years and 2 months in the maximum and high security sections of Santiago and Rancagua where I write these words today.
Necessary words as an unequivocal reference of the passage of time and its implications.
As an inescapable trace of a memory oiled with the gasoline that has ignited thousands of barricades and implacable fires demanding the release of anarchist and subversive prisoners through the years of struggle and resistance inside Chilean prisons.
For 15 years, I have been living in high and maximum security confinement regimes in which sensory deprivation tends to be normalized along with the hostilities of the environment, the structure and the whole internal order of the daily life of prison. The goal is to break your will and make you a citizen prisoner, respectful of all its repressive and authoritarian internal order built to break the indomitable spirit of those of us who walk with our heads held up, dignified and without fear within the prison reality through which we have had to pass.
Even from captivity, I have seen and experienced the oblivion and amnesia of most people, the comfort and the conveniences of many, the complicit silence and the artful attack of the press and the police, their politicians and all those who in some way or another have made us invisible, defamed and attacked us from the comfort of a computer, from their comfort zones, from their privileged positions as harmless citizens servile to the normality of the existant.
But I’m still here!!
Aware that I am waging a daily struggle for life and liberty together with my pack, comrades and kindred spirits scattered in different parts of the planet.
Aware of the state vengeance that perpetuates my imprisonment using the lowest trickery that power uses to justify a concealed life sentence that they can’t even explain in legal terms, and only apply it because they control the country and the monopoly of violence turned into law.
That is why today I am not imprisoned by the Chilean rule of law but rather held hostage for reasons of state in Boric’s Chile.
When there is no legal justification and domination uses this to annihilate the resistance embodied in people who fight in all scenarios without bending at its own convenience, it is because the decree of the state is above any democratic position boasted by all those who affirm the current state of affairs. This includes positions which justify the current government and its functional citizen bullshit to the status quo, allowing the foul advance of the policing of life; those positions which base social tranquility on the extension of repressive laws along with the maintenance of a large repressive apparatus disguised as democratic stability to, obviously, perpetuate the privileges of the ruling class.
With the strength and clarity given to me by each one of the complicit hearts from different places and territories, with the necessary temperance to maintain the subversive anti-authoritarian resistance in prison konektado With my heart and mind I greet and embrace with all the insurrectionary love to each kompañerx and hermanx who have never lowered their arms in this fight to death against the state, the prison and the Kapital.
With the strength and clarity that each of the complicit hearts from different places and territories give me, with the necessary temperance to maintain the subversive anti-authoritarian resistance in prison, connected with my heart and mind, I greet and embrace with all my insurrectionary love each comrade and relative who has never given up their arms in this fight to the death against the state, prison and capital.
For the enemies of yesterday and today – nothing!
To Alfredo Cóspito, light of world-wide struggle against prison society…
For all the anarchist, subversive, antiauthoritarian comrade prisoners of all tendencies in Greece, Italy, Chile, Spain, Byelorussia, Russia, USA and the whole world…
For the Mapuche people and their communities in Resistance and their imprisoned weichafes…
For those who are not here but still strong in our memory of subversive resistance!!!
All my love and untiring loyalty until we return to the streets!
For the annulment of Pinochet’s military justice sentences, still shamefully in force!!!
As long as misery exists, there will be rebellion!
Subversive anti-authoritarian, anarchist and mapuche prisoners out of prison now!!!
Marcelo Villarroel Sepúlveda
La Gonzalina de Rancagua Prison Factory
Territory occupied by the Chilean state.
March 15, 2023.
via:https://publicacionrefractario.wordpress.com/2023/03/17/palabras-necesarias-a-15-anos-de-prision-texto-del-companero-marcelo-villarroel/
Translated by Act for freedom now!