ALWAYS KEEP A DIARY ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE ORGANIZING A UNION. The proof that you were organizing could prove invaluable in a wrongful termination suit. But really like, for real, journaling is such a useful tool outside of legal implications and I feel like it's a dying art.
No actually. I fucking hate this. Keep a physical diary. Keep it in a nightstand. If the cops have reason to obtain your diary and read it, you're fucked already. Just use a diary in whatever way you see useful.
I have been in 2 police raids justified as "suspicion of drugs" that were ultimately just fishing expeditions for anything and everything they could find. Charges were made and later dropped for possession of The Anarchist Cookbook among other absolutely ridiculous and small things they managed to trump up out of anything they could find.
I lived in a house where our stuff ended up searched after a housemember had a rare psychotic episode as a result of weed use combined with their undiagnosed schizophrenia.
Several other times something could have happened if we hadn't given the police the run around and not been followed back.
You're damn right I care about not having any record of incriminating activity. If the police care about you you're NOT fucked, they will be trying to make life difficult for you with whatever they can find, don't make it bloody easy for them.
to that end i've been arrested for organizing tenants and worker's unions when i clearly wasn't breaking the law. my friend was charged with (and ultimately had charges dropped) for wearing a dress in public. the point i'm trying to make is that if you're a target for the police, you're a target for the police, evidence and lawbreaking has nothing to do with it. And sometimes (often, really) it's tactically pertinent to discuss stuff like this with your friends. there's risk management, always, but the biggest trick COINTELPRO played was us never trusting anyone and never discussing our actions, or god forbid never acting in the first place. You can talk about things IRL, the chance of the police having an active bug on any of your devices is painfully low. But people's risk assessment nowdays is always at MAXIMUM FUCKING DANGER I AM LITERALLY FRED HAMPTON AND ABOUT TO BE ASSASSINATED. It's silly as hell. The government is not God and there are steps you can take to tell if you're being observed.
I'm not saying don't talk to people I'm saying don't keep a bloody record of illegal activities that will get you and everyone else in your record immeasurably. Whether that is thieving trolley loads of food from the local Tesco to fill up the food bank, knocking out rail line signals so they have to shut down, participation in vandalising local factories involved with Israel or any other bloody thing anarchists and communists are absolutely up to on the regular over here.
Making your life a bit difficult is completely different to giving them the evidence they need to put you in prison for 5 to 10.
But you'd have no reason to record the fact that you did those things. You could record stories and facts regarding supply line delays to track the efficacy of your work, but you don't have to directly put TODAY I PARTICIPATED IN INDUSTRIAL SABOTAGE. Tracking the efficacy of your actions is necessary to refining them. You can't just keep all that in your head it has to be recorded eventually.
Diaries are extremely valuable in court. Collectively created or not this is a diary and will be some powerful evidence. Good kids.
:this: historical records are suuuper important
ALWAYS KEEP A DIARY ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE ORGANIZING A UNION. The proof that you were organizing could prove invaluable in a wrongful termination suit. But really like, for real, journaling is such a useful tool outside of legal implications and I feel like it's a dying art.
Yes just only put the legal shit in it :sicko-hexbear:
No actually. I fucking hate this. Keep a physical diary. Keep it in a nightstand. If the cops have reason to obtain your diary and read it, you're fucked already. Just use a diary in whatever way you see useful.
Please keep detailed records of all illegal activities you perform my fellow communists! You're screwed anyway! :fedposting:
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Lmfao, opsec brain is gonna convince leftists to boil alive on Earth like a frog in a pot.
I have been in 2 police raids justified as "suspicion of drugs" that were ultimately just fishing expeditions for anything and everything they could find. Charges were made and later dropped for possession of The Anarchist Cookbook among other absolutely ridiculous and small things they managed to trump up out of anything they could find.
I lived in a house where our stuff ended up searched after a housemember had a rare psychotic episode as a result of weed use combined with their undiagnosed schizophrenia.
Several other times something could have happened if we hadn't given the police the run around and not been followed back.
You're damn right I care about not having any record of incriminating activity. If the police care about you you're NOT fucked, they will be trying to make life difficult for you with whatever they can find, don't make it bloody easy for them.
to that end i've been arrested for organizing tenants and worker's unions when i clearly wasn't breaking the law. my friend was charged with (and ultimately had charges dropped) for wearing a dress in public. the point i'm trying to make is that if you're a target for the police, you're a target for the police, evidence and lawbreaking has nothing to do with it. And sometimes (often, really) it's tactically pertinent to discuss stuff like this with your friends. there's risk management, always, but the biggest trick COINTELPRO played was us never trusting anyone and never discussing our actions, or god forbid never acting in the first place. You can talk about things IRL, the chance of the police having an active bug on any of your devices is painfully low. But people's risk assessment nowdays is always at MAXIMUM FUCKING DANGER I AM LITERALLY FRED HAMPTON AND ABOUT TO BE ASSASSINATED. It's silly as hell. The government is not God and there are steps you can take to tell if you're being observed.
I'm not saying don't talk to people I'm saying don't keep a bloody record of illegal activities that will get you and everyone else in your record immeasurably. Whether that is thieving trolley loads of food from the local Tesco to fill up the food bank, knocking out rail line signals so they have to shut down, participation in vandalising local factories involved with Israel or any other bloody thing anarchists and communists are absolutely up to on the regular over here.
Making your life a bit difficult is completely different to giving them the evidence they need to put you in prison for 5 to 10.
But you'd have no reason to record the fact that you did those things. You could record stories and facts regarding supply line delays to track the efficacy of your work, but you don't have to directly put TODAY I PARTICIPATED IN INDUSTRIAL SABOTAGE. Tracking the efficacy of your actions is necessary to refining them. You can't just keep all that in your head it has to be recorded eventually.
I'm not making a scrapbook of news stories despite how funny showing the grandkids something like that sounds. Do not collect crime trophies.
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Instead, for 80% of people we just get to read it while they're still alive, and then for the other 20% we never find out.