From: August 21st, 2014
“As a child I had a strong and persistent negative reaction to the ideas that popularly comprise our models of law, ‘justice’, and prosecution. The reason was simple: it was obvious to me even then that these were fictions, and that the modes of concept and description that empowered these fictions were poisonous. They lie to us about the nature of humanity, action, value, meaning, force, and identity. They lie about the nature of truth, justice, and fairness… and the nature of these lies is explosively and consistently self-inflating. The resources used to accomplish and sustain that inflation come directly out of our own minds, lives, hopes, ecologies, families, work, and history. And when those run dry, they are stolen from the future of our species and life on Earth.”
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“We are going to take you out into a field and make you disappear, and there is nothing you or anyone else you know can do about it.”
— Immediate declaration of lead San Francisco Police Officer Elaine Economous (badge 283) to the author, after having been dispatched by an unknown party to ‘check on my well-being’, March 12th, 2001, 3:30 p.m.
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Warning: One quotation in the language recorded in this essay contains racist epithets spoken by police I encountered firsthand. I chose to render them as spoken because I think that to reduce their severity is unjustifiably deceptive…
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