Attack on East Bay Police Station

I hope you are right that this is only just the begining. Maybe that tool Obama won't have a country to rule by the time he gets there. Nobody has control of your life except you. Live it and it will be. Greece to Gaza, Oakland to Ohio. Let's start living the way we want and tell those who would tell us how we must live that they are sorely mistaken. Try not to hurt anyone. Why not hope for it to be peaceful too? Smash on.

thank you for inspiring others!!

fight back!!

careful, don't give the pigs any clues

Much love comrades, great action. Keep the spirit alive!

Solidarity

"The first rule of of Fight Club is: We do not talk about Fight Club!"

Do what you feel is right, but do not talk about it, do not brag about it. Let others talk about it. Loose lips sink ships.

Godspeed.

"Last night at 3:00 a.m. we attacked the police station across the street from Ashby BART."

Though the sign says police, and technically it's a Berkeley Police Department substation, that's actually the home base for the parking enforcement officers (aka "meter maids") who ride Cushman scooters around town writing parking tickets. They're unarmed and are not trained or authorized to use force or to do anything else besides writing parking tickets.

Police station or not, this is a symbol and instrument of regulation and control in our community. and that's more than valid enough. Bring the War home!

Grow up, would ya? Do you think yourmisplaced ignorant actions do anything other than make you look like a bunch of morons who have no idea what you're doing and why? What do City of Berkeley meter maids have to do with the BART shooting? Nothing, that's what. Your actions have hurt Oscar's family even more than they have already been. Does that make you proud? You don't give a shit about anything excpet your own misguided agenda. If Oscatr were alive, he'd tell you to go fuck yourselves. We knopw who you are; typical privileged white trustafarian flunkies. We see right through your actions for what they are - pointless and stupid, so much like yourselves. In fact, you'll understanc just how stupid you are when the cops cloes in on you by tracking you down via your boastful post. You're pathetic. You'll probably one of those 'anarchists' who couldn't survive without the gov't. Man, you guys are pussies of the highest order. Do you even know what anarchism is? No, you don't. Jackases. I can't wait until they find you and I can laugh in your faces. I'm no fan of the police, but you guys make them look A LOT better by your actions. Good job.

Funny, you think no one saw you but I live in the neighborhood and caught everything on my camera...before you put your black and blue bandanas over your face. The film has been turned over to the Berkeley police so it's just a matter of days before they close in on you, especially now that we have this posting to give them as well. Don't fuck with my neighborhood, you stupid suburban white guilt losers. You made a HUGE mistake. I can't wait until you're arrested. HA!

Aww, how cute! Are the little dum-dums documenting their crime? It must be nice being able to run around destroying others' property when you know mommy and daddy from Concord/Lamorinda will come rescue you from the big bad government and bail you out of jail while you cry about having to eat substandard jail food. Waaah! So brave! So fierce! So...pathetic. You're not anarchists. You're stupid children who know nothing of the world. One day, when your trust fund runs out and you actually have to work for a living like the rest of us (it's easy being an anarchist on mommy and daddy's dime isn't it? Oh, you work? Then you pay taxes which makes you NOT an anarchist. Just like every time you purchase something from the store. lol), you'll understand how lame you were and will be embarrassed. If you make it that far. Show your face in South Berkeley in the day time, why don't you?

Wow! You really are anarchists, arent' you? I see you removed (i.e. censored) my post that let you know I handed over videotape of you collecting bricks and putting on your bandanas that I toook that night. Why did you remove my post? Are you a true anarchist if you censor someone else's free speech? No, you';re not,. You're just a tool like you just proved. See, you guys are idiots and ignorant. AND hypocrits. The cops are going to find you. You are stupid more than anything else. Haha! I got censored by an "anarchist". I love it!

What happened to the post from the person who said they handed over video-tape to the pigs?

Pussy is as pussy does and your meat curtains are flapping wildly in the wind. I can't wait until you get caught. I will laugh for days. You do know there are cameras in the 'hood, right?

Whats up with all the hate mail? Yeah, present your opinion but your just name calling. So much in fact that it reminds me of the anonymous letters sent by COINTELPRO, expressly designed to divide a movement and diminish its support. Maybe you would say that attacking a government building does diminish the movement. Then say THAT instead of belittling people that took a great risk to do something that they believed in.

Wow. What a great debate on tactics and strategy: "meat curtain" baiters and gynophobes versus "trustafarians" versus "more anarchist than thou" provos. That's great.

Meanwhile, breaking glass sends monies from one fund (tax money given to an insurance company) to another fund (insurance money paid to a contractor replace the glass.) How did the action change the social relationship between the Police (yup - meter maids are still police, even if they are not armed police - just try to attack one and find out what your charges are) and the people?

That's what I love about real anarchists. Like Food Not Bombs, or Critical Mass. These change relationships, challenge fundamental power, and look absolutely ridiculous to suppress. The cops look like they're punching the tar baby when they go after them... but if they wrap up some folks who broke windows, really now - who is going to look at that and cry? How is that window breakage going to show the system is brutal, and how that system can be made obsolete? How is this not bringing a brick to a rifle fight? Using guerrilla tactics without guns is like fucking without a condom. (Suicidal)

Remember Crystalnacht in Germany? Yeah, you know - the one the SA encouraged so that the SS could then supplant them and bring Hitler's power in line with Corporatist agendas? The liquidation of Hitler's mass base and institution of his elitist / military rule? Why would you want to copy that technique? Why wouldn't you want to find out the cellular telephone numbers of all the BART cops and publish that, instead? You know, make the bastards all change up their shit because their paranoia starts waking them up at night... Anyone getting busted for that would look not only smart, but would probably have sympathy from the right audience.

Or how about finding old Johannes and making his hide-E hole a public record? You know, so the Press can contact him promptly...

Or how about publishing the BART card protocols and fare skipping techniques so widely that their fare collection system breaks down, on the demand that they not only fire the persons who trained, hired, and supervised the shooter, but DISARM all of the remaining BART cops?

Whatever you do, it will work a lot better if it can be done by a large group of people after an open discussion. I know that it sounds hard, but having direct consultation is not only pro-anarchy it's a tougher thing to supervise and control than small groups of militant folks.

And mass mobilization is freakin' impossible to fake, unlike small 'militant' groups - which get faked all the time, and hit the wrong targets. Basra Sept 2005, for instance. (Two SAS guys caught with 'arab' gear and explosives by collaborator police in Basra, Iraq)


Good luck, here's hoping we're not saying 'good night' as well.

1+1=3

Breaking windows isn't going to solve anything, but I agree with the last poster said. If you want to hit BART where it hurts then kick them in the wallet.

http://www.2shared.com/file/4615965/2aa1492d/Defcon_Presentation.html

This explains between pages 19 to 39 how to spoof BART tickets. I suggest that everyone download this- don't worry, it's a clean .pdf file, feel free to scan it- and distribute it. I know it's about the Boston transit system but they use the same hardware that BART uses for fare control.

I take no responsibility for what anyone decides to do with this file, but I'm sure there's a few hackers on here that could make very good use of this information.

Ride Free!

That's the way to go,smash all the police stations all over the world! It's about time for a worlwide social revolution!
No gods,no masters!
....solidarity from greece,we'll meet in the barricades brothers and sisters,keep fighting!

well done...smash the cops all over the world...
ΜΠΑΤΣΟΙ ΓΟΥΡΟΥΝΙΑ ΔΟΛΟΦΟΝΟΙ
COPS PIGS ASSASINS

Foodnotbombs doesnt change anything and challenge even less. They do the job any christian charitygroup does - how does charity challenge power?
Criticalmass is just a bunch of hippies riding around on bikes.

Attacking a policestation is a direct attack on a stateinstitution. It does change things. Imagine if more people started attacking policestations like they do in Greece - you telling me that wouldnt change anything!?!

Solidarity to all the comrades fighting against the capitalist dictatorship.

Keep on doing your actions against the capital and especially don't listen to the trolls that are talking shit about your actions. If you look at their messeges, you can see that they posted their messeges in less than 10 min, probably coming from the same source (police or some liberal fuckwits)

and don't pay attention to liberal douchebags talking about being 'peaceful', revolutionaries don't care about borgouise constitutions which's main purpose is to legitimize this system of explotation, which bans poor people from their basic rights (food, healthcare, education) and on the other hand leaves the murderer cops unpunished. Our legitimacy is coming from the fact that as the opressed people of the world, we have the right to fight back against the opressors. What these liberal douchebags are trying to do is to narrow people's actions down to ineffective levels thus giving legitimacy to the capitalist dictatorship and continue the illusions that USA(=Facist States of Corporations) is the ''land of the free'' and this is an ''isolated accident''.

Continue your fight and dont let these liberal bastards fool you, show the state that they can't get away with their brutality.

(A)

this post looks suspicious to me. considering that the Ashby bart station is two blocks away from an Anarchist infoshop, I have a hard time believing that one of us did this attack. you know the old saying "don't shit in your kitchen". this sounds to me like something done by people in that neighborhood to try to discredit the Long Haul.

The writing sounds stilted and artificial. the description of "how you can do this too" sounds like the writing of someone who's read too much mickey spillane. the guy who says he took pictures of the vandals is obviously full of shit. I mean, who takes pictures of people walking down the street at 3 am?

I wouldn't be surprised if whoever wrote all those nasty responses is the one who posted this chestnut, just so they could have an anarchist straw man to vent their spleen at. whoever wrote all that shit is really painfully ignorant.

If this was done by actual anarchists, I have to say that y'all picked a pretty lousy target, and I'm disapointed that you'd bring the heat to that particular neighborhood. Ordinarily I totally support burning pigmobiles and smashing up cop shops, but this one seems really suspicious.

What you liberal fuckers dont seem to udnerstand is that capital is all around us. It is represented as much in the neighborhood mom and pop store as in big multinational corporations like McDonalds. And they keep us - the workingclass - alienated from our good and our surroundings and our ability to live, as much as big corporations. In the ghetto, the small stores represent capital - that is why the korean storeowners was attacked during the LA uprising. That is also why the windows was smashed in the riot a couple of days ago. People say that this was misdirected rage, but for revolutionaries it was just the right direction and show that the workingclass - on some level - spontaneously understand what this prison that we live in and which transform and seperates us all to commodities at the same time that it keeps necessary commodities away from us, are made upon. This also shows how useless and reactionary the left is in their pathetic attempt to direct the "dumb masses" in the "right way".

Also, im sure the people dont give a fuck what the mother of grant thinks because this struggle has allready transcended him and what happened to him (just as it did in Greece by the way). This is about the opression of the policestate, something that everyone of us feel every single day. We dont need hers or anyone elses premition to rebell against it. And anyone who wants to make this about this individual case or the individual cop is a reactionary who is disrupting our struggle. Basta.

...one of the responses said: "You're not anarchists. You're stupid children "

...well : revolution starts in the mind if a child..

I am palestinian, I see what the greeks have done in athens, and makes me really proud to be of that medetarrian blood!

you have to take thing in your own hand, they want you to think that you can't make a difference, beleive me these little things do make a difference, its how you show the world that you are not happy with the system is what matters first, then when you win the majority on your side , then you build a better one...I understand that alot of times we end up buying Mcdonalds or starbucks , or can't control where are taxes go and to who.....thats not a reason to stop your revolution, THATS THE REASON TO KEEP IT GOING......... I am palestinian when i walk into a shop to buy water any place here in the arab world and I have no choices but to buy bottled water from nestle' (biggest zionist supporter)...then what do I do, I boyycut....but how about the poor old palestinian lady who doe snot read english and does not know that she just bought water and payed money for a company that buys the bullets for the zionists to kill palestinian children?.....THATS WHY WE CONTINUE THE REVOLUTION...BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM PALESTINE TO GREECE TO CALIFORNIA..SOLIDARITY ...THAWRA (REVOLUTION IN ARABIC)...

SALAM

I can understand why the people who did this action would be anonymous, and also why the cop-loving P.O.S., "LN", who claims to have photographed those folks would be also, since he might receive his just desserts otherwise.

But why would those advocating peaceful, legal actions like FNB or Critical Mass not identify themselves? And those like the self-styled "Beast Girl" who presume to know that the people doing these actions have rich parents and trust funds, without claiming to actually know the people involved?

And so what if they do have trust funds and/or better-off parents? It's a good thing when people who are less vulnerable because of their skin color and social class take this kind of risk, rather than leaving the burden of confronting the state and capital on poor Black and indigenous youth. Or maybe fake "anti-elitist" demagogues like "Beast Girl" really do think that it's more righteous for people with class and race privileges to just use those privileges to live comfortably within the system, or only "oppose" it in safe, legal, ineffectual ways.

I'd be happy to have a discussion about tactics with people who support the action as well as those who argue against it on tactical and strategic grounds from an anti-capitalist, anti-state perspective. But until the editors of indybay show both the will and the ability to keep such discussions free of right-wing static, it will be hard to carry on such a discussion here -- which is, I think, the main reason those right-wing trolls post here so much.

I am tired of those embracing hooliganism assuming the mantle of anarchism. True anarchists think a little more carefully about their actions before grabbing bricks. Anarchy as a workable philosophy requires compassion and personal responsibility. It requires the ability to imagine how ones actions impact other people. Demonizing police and calling them pigs is akin to what soldiers, etc., are taught to do to better enable them to dehumanize and thus murder without remorse--take, for example, calling Vietnamese "gooks" or "Charlie" in the Vietnam War. This practice strips one of compassion and humanity, making it easier to commit atrocities. Furthermore, name-calling in no way substantively furthers ones argument.

Furthermore, that station is for police who deal with parking violations, etc. They are not the same police as the BART police, and any message by attaching them is going to be a bit distant from your core object of concern. Smashing their windows is pretty much the same as smashing the windows of black-owned businesses and small-business owners, which I assume either you or your 'comrades' also did in this past week. Responding to atrocities such as the execution of Grant with more atrocities seems unlikely to be productive, and just hurts more people... innocent people.

Well, you obviously wouldnt know anarchism if it kicked you in the face. Dont tell us what "true anarchists" will do or not do because you obviously dont know shit about "true anarchists". Anarchists think about our actions and the affect they will have. The difference is that we are anti-capitalist and not against violence. Unlike the cry-baby liberals in this and other threads.

Fuck you for trying to subdue and limit our struggle. Fuck you for being unaware servants of this system that kills us.