Letter by Vassilis Palaeokostas, Greece’s fugitive social bandit

Vassilis Palaeokostas, Greece’s legendary social bandit and helicopter
jailbreaker, offers a penetrating critique of power and servitude from
the deep underground.

On Sunday 31/1/10 Eleftherotypia, the liberal left greek daily,
published the first ever letter to come from the hand of Vassilis
Palaeokostas, greece’s legendary social bandit whose double jailbreak
from Koridalos prison with a helicopter has made him a symbol of
freedom. The letter comes on the eve of the trial of the Milonas case,
relating to the abduction of north greece’s richest industrialist and
head of the industrial board two years ago. Two anarchists/
revolutionaries, Polykarpos (Polys) Georgiadis, and Vagelis
Chrisochoidis are sitting on trial accused as accomplishes of the
fugitive Palaeokostas (“providing refuge”). It must be noted that V.
Palaeokostas is accused of bank robberies during which no one has ever
been harmed, including cops. He and his brother Nikos (also a legendary
social bandit) are reputed for helping the poor in the destitute rural
areas of mountainous greece. They form a living continuation of the
social banditry that flourished during the Ottoman Empire and the first
100 years of the greek state and are subjects of solidarity by the
anarchist movement. The translation of the letter is based on the one
provided by rioter.info, with some linguistic corrections.

“On the occasion of the upcoming trial on the kidnapping of the
like to clarify certain issues. Through different periods of my life I
hope there’s more of that coming) and 8 years a prisoner. During all
those years that I have lived hunted by the official state, there has
not been even one snitch to deliver me to the hands of my prosecutors.
Even though, during my first escape in August 1991, there was a large
without even minding the risk they took for themselves. People that
surprised) people that honor the traditions of honor and solidarity to
the hunted. Proud people that despise snitching, servitude and the
constable [use of word for the police current under the junta]. I
publicly express my gratitude to all those remarkable persons for their
valuable help and for giving me the joy of having met them. Two of them
are Vaggelis Chrisohoides and Polys Georgiades, each one of them stood
personal gains, but only acted upon their conscience. Declaring my
solidarity to these two young men, who the state strangles everyday
expect to see for once the magnitude the Republic of Greece takes
prides in. Because its pettiness I consider myself more than competent
to describe: it’s an Abyss. I will say nothing more. I only address
those that care to retain some garment of justice and dignity. And
to do.

coastal road of Alepohori, suddenly three cars blocked my way and
armed mercenaries of the Greek state where on a prowl for blood. This
alley, comes another car with the driver standing aghast and stopping
guys opened fire with their machine guns and handguns aiming right at
me (the only thing undamaged was my car’s tires). From my considerable
car, while he was inside it. These unscrupulous, blind shooters of the
Greek Police where determined to carry out fully the order they had
take from their natural and political leaders. Trace and kill. In this
the daring. [transl. see latin: “Fortuna Favet Fortubus”]. The reason I
was not reported and the car never appeared anywhere, it magically
disappeared. Just like the other car (hit and possibly riddled with
that actually took part in the scene, without his will of course,
watching the whole thing from start to end.

So, instead of inquiring all these important facts to show what
exactly happened in that scene, the daring and ingenious reporters of
exclusive reporting were waving around my unwashed underpants,
informing by means of flaming howls the uncomfortable, ignorant,
petrified tv-viewer. This fact clearly reveals the “journalist
community’s” will to silence and cover-up, which essentially consents
to the criminal activity of police desperados and those who give them
orders, in full cooperation with them. “We will allow you to enter the
media would get their money, since underpants are worth more in their
police and its leadership holds that a man must be killed just because
he is wanted, why should we disagree? They brag: whenever we need
information, the police’s head officer obliges. While, the hunted man
a signal. This is the way our daring and independant journalists think.
organizations, police and media, could even integrate in one, for
functional reasons. It’s both innovative and carries many advantages.
as president of ESIEA (journalists-editors union). If only these
ingenious reporters, showed the same eagerness they manifested towards
my underpants, for performing a diligent control [on the state i.e. the
supposed role of the media according to the constitution], denouncing
to the Greek citizens that:

illegality), subjected along with their families to total exploitation
by the official state. Who after passing the symplegades [deadly
clashing rocks in the Argonauts myth] of a corrupt police and an even
worst justice system, end up with heavy penalties in medieval
conditions, by which this rotten system strives to control and then
annihilate whatever dares to make a mockery of it.

* The armed guardians of the Greek state kill in cold-blood citizens
citizen’s own eyes. Humiliating and torturing to death people in the
police stations. Setting up wilfully indictments sending “guilty”
humans in jail for years. Setting a whole network of criminal
activities not controlled by anyone.

* If they really cared to exercise some control over the modern
election system and the blessings of the Mass Media take over the
Parliament, turning it into the headquarters of full domination on
their voters citizens. Into a nest of intertwining interests, dealing
becoming an obstacle in their plans will feel upon him the brutal
democratic violence of a blood-thirsty repressive organization. He will
that understand his personal liberty as a necessity to do what he’s
going on around them with their own actions.

* If they revealed the great responsibility of this criminal
organization for the establishment of a police state in Greece, through
which they exercise an unbearable psychological violence to the citizen

* If they denounce these and innumerable other things that de facto

recommendations, even less for matters of the regime. That’s correct.
In the place democracy was born, they can do whatever they want with
her [i.e. democracy], even burry her if they so wish. It’s a good thing
to die in the place you where born. But, they shouldn’t feel angry when
the kids throw stones to her. They see her old and rotten, it’s stones
she’s gonna get. Primitive as they might be, these insticts are
unmistakable. Because the kids are more honest and upstanding than the
grown-ups. Nobody would want to grow up just to find a dead body in the
closet that his parents have been hiding so as to exploit her pension.

thousands others conscious people, that the damage caused to the social
body by one shiny tv-presenter in a single news bulletin (preferably
the 8 o’ clock one), cannot be equaled by me even if they give me 10
lives to spare. What’s the damage my old shot-gun [transl. use of term
for 18th to early 19th century guns of the mountain bandits and
guerrillas]. I have never turned it against an other human, much less
against another human’s mind. Now my question is why it is I with my
old shot-gun the prosecuted one who risks his life at the hands of an
enraged death-squad, while my judges and my hunters are those who with
their lucrative superweapons degenerate and sterilize the spirit of a
whole people, leading them to mental necrosis. a On second thoughts
maybe the law on weapons should change. Whoever holds an old shot-gun
should be prosecuted for a capital offence!!!

allegoric enigma-quiz, I find it won’t trouble you much to solve. What
and always risking his life arrested and gave to justice some dangerous
award, also fed the ambition to have his triumphous achievement turn
independent Balkan state. Who, to my exclusive information keeps
fantacising about and anxiously sweeping for new “troublemakers”! To
Democracy, Revolutionary Fund, Ghetto, Communicating Vessels,
Destabilization, Zero Tolerance, Organized Crime, They will be arrested
and prosecuted. He is also a devoted fan of snitching and loves “rats”
and his hobbies include setting prices for the heads of wanted. Keeping
clarify that any similarity to real person or events is totally
unintended. Every police reporter that solves the quiz, enters a
lottary for an exclusive interview.


PS. Some oil guys, they do rust.

signature and fingerprint Vassilis Palaeokostas

fonte: Libcom.org

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