clayforager

I was in a queue waiting for dinner in my prison the other day. I overheard a guy saying, "Yeah I got a 1 year sentence and I am still in here after 15 years." I see him around the prison. He has a resigned mood about him. Like you would if your life was being taken from you. No one is writing articles in the Guardian about him. The situation of Gaie Delap being sent back to prison because a tag cannot fit around her ankle or wrist securely is, of course, cruel and totally unnecessary. But then the whole prison system is cruel and totally unnecessary. It is massively underfunded and tens of thousands of people are being banged up for no other reason than state neglect. The whole system is "beyond absurd". It's a modern form of slavery - except the tags are now plastic not iron. It's only accepted because it has grown slowly into the obscenity it is and governments do not care. Those that aimed to stop the M25 were not "environmental activists" as the liberal press likes to pretend. They were resistors against a regime engaged in genocide. It was an act of civil resistance, not a "protest". We are in prison not because we are a threat to the community but a threat to the regime that is taking our communities into the endless hell of climate breakdown. Our sentences and treatment are not "disproportionate". They are illegal and criminal. We should not be in prison at all. Carla Denyer, MP, is lying when she says the actions were "designed to draw attention to the threat posed by the climate emergency." They were designed not to "draw attention" but to stop the climate emergency by pressuring the government to stop licenses to drill for more oil and gas. The climate emergency is not "a threat", it is an existing objective reality. There are 100,000 cars presently being scrapped in Valencia. $500 billion of damage has been inflicted on the US economy by recent hurricanes. The elites have conspired to lock in 2C, which will destroy the livelihoods of 1 billion people. And that will be just the beginning. This state sponsored vandalism will continue for 100,000 years. Politicians have known what they were and are now still doing for 30 years. It is the greatest crime in the history of humanity. And Carla Denyer is now part of the political class complicit in this crime. One day these people will themselves have to face British "justice". And whether a tag fits around their ankles will be the last of their worries.