To our friends currently detained in Bandung,
Though bars and walls attempt to separate our bodies, they are incapable of imprisoning our will, our memory, and our consciousness as Unique beings. In a world that constantly tries to reduce individuals into mere numbers, symbols, or instruments of something supposedly greater, your existence affirms something that cannot be confiscated, ownership of oneself.
We write not in the name of abstractions, not in the name of hollow humanity, nor out of imposed moral obligation. This letter arises from affinity, from one ego recognizing another, from wills encountering and acknowledging each other, not because we must, but because we choose to.
The State may call you offenders. Official morality may label you deviant. Yet we know how often those grand concepts are merely specters demanding sacrifice without ever truly living. You chose not to bow to those specters. That choice, whatever its consequences, belongs to you alone.
The solidarity we send is not a demand for you to become symbols, martyrs, or representations of any movement. You owe meaning to no one. Precisely because of that, we stand with you, not as a mass, but as a union of conscious egoists who remain together as long as we strengthen one another.
Behind prison walls there may be silence. But know that beyond them there are individuals who remember you not as icons, but as friends. We honor your decision to remain yourselves amid pressure to surrender.
That is the most radical form of ownership.
May you continue to safeguard yourselves, your minds, and the small flame that no one can confiscate. If the State stands upon claims of power, then we stand upon will. And will is not easily imprisoned.
With love,
Going Underground / F.A.A.F