It’s no coincidence so many of us on the fringes of society find ourselves as fragments of what we formerly were.

The struggle to make ends meet, to keep it together – ICE tearing families apart. The feeling – the knowing – that we don’t fit in, in the system here to exploit and alienate us.

From these alienated margins, we see the government operating to manipulate the ways that we move, and to control us with its contradictions. The same system tanker-jacking cargo from Venezuela is the same that labels us criminals for life for holding up a gas station for seventy bucks. That’s like the grease calling the oil slick!

The fight to control us doesn’t stop in the streets. When we’re thrown in prison, extreme measures are taken to disarm us from every sense of autonomy. Radical literature, relevant literature – banned. The colourfully drawn letter – photocopied, portions of them amputated. Kiosks and tablets – void of imagery, are screwed in place, mechanising emotions.

Completing groups – like “Cage Your Rage” – is required for making parole. The brain that rebels against confining conditions is locked away in the behaviour modification program. With fascist precision, reform regulates all movement in lockstep with ideals that have only led to where we find ourselves now.

But the Frankensteinian efforts to control us have failed! Isolating our bodies in fluorescent lit cells 24/7 has proven unable to desensitise us.

The programs used to scientifically modify our behaviour has been rebelliously breached. Instead of caging the rage, the radical within is autonomously being tapped into; to transform that rage or redirect it to rip apart the false logic that caging people with caging ideas could ever free us from caging conditions.

No door closed in the mind is unable to be unlatched. Every attempt to divide us only strengthens mutual aid. The more the idea is repressed, the more zines like Fire Ant are found dangerously crawling in circulation.

The dignity the DOC aims to strip from us by digitally scanning our correspondence gives rise to Mothers Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity.

In the face of those who try to ideologically disarm us, our outreach has become dangerously extended. Every volt from their tasers appear to only electrify us, disobedient to their orders, uncontrolled by commands. The ripped-off, the broken-down, the torn-apart can be seen repositioning ourselves as parts of each other, with alarming recognition that their Frankensteinian efforts to control us have failed!