[Note of Sans Nom: In Germany’s seventh-largest city, Düsseldorf, located in the North Rhine-Westphalia region, the “Angry Birds Commando” has been regularly generating conversation in recent years. In August 2024 for example, it claimed responsibility for setting fire to railway signal cables in Mettmann, adding to its previous sabotage attacks on rail traffic: one in Düsseldorf in January 2024,and five others in the same city claimed in May 2023.
After the translation in January 2025 of their text “Switch off Deutsche Bahn – Communiqué #4”which returned to their vision of collapse, we publish their following communiqué, concerning the sabotage of three cell towers in the district of Mettmann, released on June 1, 2025 on de.indymedia]
Switch Off Everything – Sabotaged Cell Towers
Action Claim #5
Over the last 200 years, industrial society has acquired unprecedented capabilities. It has clearly demonstrated its absolute inability to cope with this responsibility by causing the sixth mass extinction, a process that could potentially far surpass any other extinction event in the history of life.
This potential for apocalyptic destruction manifests itself in climate change, the atomic threat and the many other appalling things whose consequences we can currently only guess at. Genetics, nano-technologies, Artificial Intelligence, total surveillance and geo-engineering are just a few examples. These are based on a combination of technological capabilities and the competitive pressure to employ them. The various currents of the established political spectrum have positioned themselves on this combination in accordance with who they are. Although their attitudes can only be roughly characterized, we must nevertheless attempt to do so in order to distance ourselves from them.
In the worldview of the right, competition is of paramount importance. Conservatives and liberals put it at the top of the list for its innovation-promoting properties; on the far right, some even speak candidly of selection. The strategy of the far right is therefore essentially to bring people together to form the strongest possible group (“Nation”, “Race” etc.). Competition within the group is limited to what is strictly necessary (“community of the people”). It naturally follows that, against all rationality, those on the right must deny the effects of technology such as climate change. In the clash between modern states, only those who use and abuse technology can ultimately persist. The fact that so-called conservatives lament the disappearance of traditional values and ways of life, even as they zealously invest in technology to be more competitive and stay on the warpath, manifests their short-sightedness. And when those on the margins of the right-wing spectrum acknowledge the progress of environmental destruction, it’s only to use it as a pretext to intensify competitive behavior in the face of inescapable decline.
On the spectrum of left, all the negative consequences of technology are immediately attributed to capitalism, which is said to be the source of competition. Sometimes, it is even the much more recent neo-liberalism that is identified as responsible. There’s an optimistic view that we could put an end to the struggles of competition on earth, and then peacefully use the wonders of technology – yes, that it might even “remove the shackles” from the forces of production. No thanks!
A quick glance at a biology book is all it takes to see that competition is not 40 or 400 years old, but 3 billion years old. There is incontrovertible evidence of its presence at least as far back as the Cambrian explosion, 540 million years ago. Without lapsing into vulgar Social Darwinism, we must recognize that it is an integral part of life. This million-year-old component of all living beings must now be abolished, either by changing the ownership of the means of production, or by using friendlier (!) language.
Our critique of leftists does not focus on their attempt to replace competition with solidarity! The problem is that, in the long run, even minimal rivalries lead to the exhaustion and extension of technological means of power, and thus to an escalation of the vicious circle. All efforts in this direction will therefore only be successful in the short term, as long as the technological question remains unresolved.
Just as quickly as these pitiful attempts break down when they come into contact with reality, the culprit is found – it’s the fault of humans. We need a “new man”, the man of the future! They all agree on this, from left to right, from dreamer to cynic, from esoteric New-Age to scientist, from naively woke to tech-bro, from Nazi eugenicist to Cultural Revolution redguard, from Nietzsche to Skinner, from Harari to Kurzweil. Ultimately, it’s about adapting humans to the needs of the social machine, and thus domestication. It’s about an undignified existence as a cog in the machine.
And indeed, our current psyches (as well as our bodies!) are the result of violent past adaptations. The radical changes in our relationship with time since the advent of clocks and electric light, and the associated stress, are just one example. Anyone who can’t adapt quickly ends up in a psychiatric hospital. As the exponential competition between states pushes them in the near future to ever more drastic budget cuts in the social system, we can expect that those unwilling or unable to adapt will fare worse and worse. In the context of increasing social coldness, it is clear what fate awaits the “useless”.
For our part, we say: leave human beings as they have always been, just free them from the machinery they lost control of long ago!
As a small symbolic contribution to this, at the end of May we placed incendiary devices on 3 cell towers in Langenfeld, Erkrath and between the “Auf dem Sand” and “Hülsen” industrial areas in Hilden. Unlike our actions in January this year and last year, nothing was reported in the media. Since the local press reports every week with great interest on the burning of garbage cans and car tires, the lack of media coverage can clearly be attributed to police tactical considerations.
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Angry Birds Commando
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