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Territorial Pissings / Rehab by the Blade
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I am not encouraging you to act as Ravachol did, nor do I plan to do so, however, there are such people in great number and there is no shortage of ingredients to make more. Ravachol was violent, not blind. He knew when it was raining; he knew when it was fine; he knew how deep the **** was.
The following is on Wiki from the declaration of Ravachol at his trial - for each quote the original is followed by a translation:
* « Si je prends la parole, ce n'est pas pour me défendre des actes dont on m'ac*cuse, car seule la société, qui, par son organisation, met les hommes en lutte continuelle les uns contre les autres, est responsable. En effet, ne voit-on pas aujourd'hui dans toutes les classes et dans toutes les fonctions des personnes qui désirent, je ne dirai pas la mort, parce que cela sonne mal à l'oreille, mais le malheur de leurs semblables, si cela peut leur procurer des avantages. »
* "If I chose to speak, it is not to defend myself of the acts of which I'm accused, as only society, which by its organisation puts men into continual struggle each against the other, is responsible. Indeed, today do we not see in all classes and walks of life, people who desire, I will not say death as this sounds bad to the ear, but misfortune for their fellows if that can bring them advantages."
* « Que peut-il faire celui qui manque du nécessaire en travaillant, s'il vient à chômer ? Il n'a qu'à se laisser mourir de faim. Alors on jettera quelques paroles de pitié sur son cada*vre. C'est ce que j'ai voulu laisser à d'autres. J'ai préféré me faire contrebandier, faux-monnayeur, voleur, meurtrier et assassin. J'aurais pu mendier : c'est dégradant et lâche et même puni par vos lois qui font un délit de la misère. Si tous les nécessiteux, au lieu d'attendre, prenaient où il y a et par n'importe quel moyen, les satisfaits comprendraient peut-être plus vite qu'il y a danger à vouloir consacrer l'état social actuel, où l'inquiétude est permanente et la vie menacée à chaque instant. »
* " What can he do who lacks the necessary work, if he comes to be unemployed? He has nothing but to let himself die of hunger. Then a few phrases of pity will thrown on his cadaver. That's what I decided to leave to others. I preferred to make myself a black-marketer, forger, thief, murderer and assassin. I could have begged: it's degrading and cowardly and even punished by your laws that make a crime of poverty. If all those in need, instead of waiting, took wherever there was enough to be taken and by any means whatever, the satisfied would perhaps understand quicker that there is danger in trying to consecrate the current social condition, where worry is permanent and life threatened at every instant."
* « On finira sans doute plus vite par comprendre que les anarchistes ont raison lorsqu'ils disent que pour avoir la tranquillité morale et physique, il faut détruire les causes qui engendrent les crimes et les criminels : ce n'est pas en supprimant celui qui, plutôt que de mourir d'une mort lente par suite de privation qu'il a eues et aurait à supporter, sans espoir de les voir finir, préfère, s'il a un peu d'énergie, prendre violemment ce qui peut lui assurer le bien-être, même au risque de sa mort qui ne peut être qu'un terme à ses souffrances. »
* " We would no doubt end up understanding quicker that the anarchists are right when they say that in order to have moral and physical tranquillity, we must destroy the causes that create crimes and criminals : it is not by suppressing he who, rather than die a slow death by the deprivations that he has had to and will have to undergo, with no hope of seeing them end, prefers, if he has a bit of energy, take by force that which can assure him well-being, even at the risk of his own death which can only be an end to his sufferings. "
* « Que faut-il alors ? Détruire la misère, ce germe de crime, en assurant à chacun la satisfaction de tous les besoins ! Et combien cela est difficile à réaliser ! Il suffirait d'établir la société sur de nouvelles bases où tout serait en commun, et où chacun, produisant selon ses aptitudes et ses forces, pourrait consommer selon ses besoins. Alors on ne verra plus des gens comme l'ermite de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce et autres mendier un métal dont ils deviennent les esclaves et les victimes ! On ne verra plus les femmes céder leurs appâts, comme une vulgaire marchandise, en échange de ce même métal qui nous empêche bien souvent de reconnaître si l'affection est vraiment sincère. »
* " What is needed then? Destroy poverty, that source of crime, by assuring to each the satisfaction of all needs! And how difficult is this to achieve? It would suffice to establish society on new bases where everything would be in common and each, producing according to their aptitudes and strengths, could consume according to their needs. Then we would no longer see people like the hermit of Notre-Dame-de-Grace and others crave a metal of which they become the slaves and the victims! We would no longer see women flaunt their charms, like a vulgar merchandise, in exchange for this same metal that so often prevents us from recognising if the affection is truly sincere. "
* « Oui, je le répète : c'est la société qui fait les criminels, et vous jurés, au lieu de les frapper, vous devriez employer votre intelligence et vos forces à transformer la société. Du coup, vous supprimeriez tous les crimes ; et votre œuvre, en s'attaquant aux causes, serait plus grande et plus féconde que n'est votre justice qui s'amoindrit à punir les effets. »
* " Yes, I repeat it: it's society that makes criminals and you jurymen, rather than striking them, you should use your intelligence and your powers to transform society. At once you would suppress all crime; and your work, in attacking the causes, would be greater and more fecund than your justice that limits itself to punishing the effects. "
* « J'ai travaillé pour vivre et faire vivre les miens ; tant que ni moi ni les miens n'avons trop souffert, je suis resté ce que vous appelez honnête. Puis le travail a manqué, et avec le chômage est venue la faim. C'est alors que cette grande loi de la nature, cette voix impérieuse qui n'admet pas de réplique : l'instinct de la conservation, me poussa à commettre certains des crimes et délits que vous me reprochez et dont je reconnais être l'auteur. »
* "I worked to live and to make a living for my own; as long as neither myself nor my own suffered too much, I remained that which you call honest. Then work got scarce and with unemployment came hunger. It was then that that great law of nature, that imperious voice that allows no retort: the instinct of survival, pushed me to commit some of the crimes and offences that you accuse me of and that I recognise being the author of."
* « Jugez-moi, messieurs les jurés, mais si vous m'avez compris, en me jugeant jugez tous les malheureux dont la misère, alliée à la fierté naturelle, a fait des criminels, et dont la richesse, dont l'aisance même aurait fait des honnêtes gens !»
* " Judge me, members of the jury, but if you have understood me, in judging me, judge all the unfortunates that destitution, allied with natural pride, has made criminals and whom wealth, even just ease, would have made honest people."
* « Une société intelligente en aurait fait des gens comme tout le monde ! »
* " An intelligent society would have made of them people like everybody else! "









THANK YOU.
Ask yourself what your willing to give to see these changes that society MUST BE FORCED to make.
Ain't nobody in HerHis-story gave less than their life to get life.
I'm for life.
What are you for?
And what's holding us back?
Just thoughts that I'd rather state plainly, to hell with fear cause that's where it makes it's home.
Funny thing is the story of Ravachol is one I need to refresh my memory on. And he sure had a way with words..
THANK YOU.
Another thought, from the Dalai Lama;
It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of peace and dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make our world a truly global village, I believe there will come a time when war and armed conflict will be considered an outdated and obsolete method of settling differences among nations and communities.
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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This is the latest incarnation of the Gutenberg press. Ushering in a whole new era to accomplish...
everyone finding out "we're all One" no matter how trite it sounds.
I don't want to cut anybody.
Thoughts?
Took care of other stuff then dogpiled [searchengine] Ravachol and realized I needed to thank you again. Brought some anarchists back from my past and the days of rage I'd mostly forgotten about.
These are lives lived that can still be lived if we remember them, and we need to.
So..
Thanks again.
All we are is our message. [The Indian Runner' movie. by Sean Penn]
Now I remember by Ravachol was put back in my head. After reading a few articles on him.
The means determine the end. We see how he ended and it was because of his means, like robbing those as destitute as himself, for one, and those beyond destitution, the dead, for another.
He is not the personification of propaganda of the deed from where I learned anarchism. Mine was more like Stephen Gaskin of the farm type folks. Lived their talk peacefully far as they could and their fruits were tasty.
Ravachol is one amongst many that I learned from by not following their example. Crime and violence is in degrees of commission, as much as you put out you'll also get, so I'm cautious. And besides that the only rules I really care about is gravity and the golden rule, so I'm cautious.
The biggest reason he didn't play a large part in my uptake of anarchism's past is because I'm not french.
I wouldn't recommend anyone follow his example. No matter how my words are interpreted.
[Still, least he did something...]
Days later..
So I realized YEARS ago I don't know when to shut up and you may not want to get me started again but, I did 'assume' you were referring to me when you posted this blog.
So did I make an ASS [of] U [and] ME??
If I did assume incorrectly I apologize.
Steve
PS, after trying to PM you with this I find out you don't accept private messages.
So I say it here.
You gonna be like so many on this site that don't know their supposed to respond when spoken to?
Seeing these comments for the first time now. I just unblocked my privates.