"I am proud to have drawn attention to the terrible truth about the terrorism of the non-Guilty that is being told in the film ‘Earthlings’. The System only understands its own language – the language of power. MAXIMAL ACTION – this is an action of the One."
On the 21st of July Maxim Krivozh (Maxim Plokhoi) took 13 hostages in a
bus in Lutsk, Ukraine and declared this day an ‘Anti-System Day’. He did not
demand any money or recognition. He only demanded the heads of the courts,
prisons, police, Ukrainian intelligence service, Parliament and ministries
of Defence and Justice, the Prime-Minister, the Oligarchs and the heads of
the churches (he named them all) to admit publicly that they are the real
terrorists who also govern the country.
He also demanded the president of the country to post a video where he
recommends ‘everybody to watch the film Earthlings.
When I had read about this incident in the news I immediately got curios. I
found Maxim’s book on the web and started reading it, while he was still
keeping the hostages. After reading a couple of pages I knew straight away
that he will not harm anybody; when he said that he injured one of the
hostages, I knew he was lying. He allowed bringing water and food to the
hostages.
In his book The Philosophy of an Offender. Apology for Freedom.
Anti-System he claims that the biggest injustice is that the hypocritical
State with all its power owns a monopoly on crimes and evil with the biggest
crimes being wars and corruption at the expense of its people and at the
same time does punish everybody else who breaks their rules and laws.
He spent 14.5 years in prisons for crimes like robberies and arms possession
and during these years he was reading every day largely focusing on
philosophy and psychology. He criticizes the whole penitentiary and justice
systems we have, saying that they only reinforce more evil and do not
correct the offenders. While educating himself in the prison he realized how
the world is incredibly unjust with the essence of humanity being hidden
from the people. He states that love is the only Truth and only presence and
solely presence of love can distinguish good from evil, otherwise it is
relative and can be hidden under various labels. He claims to be freer than
all of us because he is free from any fear and can do anything he thinks is
right to do here and now. Upon release from the prison he volunteered for 5
years rescuing stray animals.
After 11 hours the president of Ukraine recommended
Earthlings on his FB
page in a video-message.
Thirty minutes later Maxim released all the hostages, they were all alive
and healthy. In fact later, according to Ukrainian media, the hostages
described Maxim positively and told that he was not threatening them. The
film got the largest attention in the Russian-speaking web.
Now Maxim is detained. He will be tried in the court as a terrorist. I got
in touch with him recently and he asked me to contact you and send you the
message below. The translation is mine, Maxim does not speak English. He
does not know about my text above.
Best regards,
Akmal
Maxim’s text:
“In 2006, the "Anti-Terrorist Livestock Act" came into force in the
United States. Its essence is in the following: if protests entail losses to
the meat industry, then its participants can be jailed as terrorists. This
was preceded by a statement by the deputy director of the FBI anti-terrorist
centre, John Lewis: “The most important terrorist threat in the country is
ecoterrorism, the movement for protection of animal rights”. This law and
this “legal terrorist”, John Lewis, resemble the whole pettiness and
insignificance of the System. The government of the state that carried out
the largest terrorist attacks in history – Hiroshima and Nagasaki – declares
the following organisations as terrorists: “Earth Liberation Front”,
“Animals Liberation Front”, “Sea Shepherd Conservation Society” (Paul
Watson), “Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty” (Jerry Vlasak, Pameline Ferdine).
‘America’ – sounds vile. Dependant ‘independent Ukraine’ just changed its
terrorist-owner: from Russia to America. That is why I am honoured to be a
“terrorist” under your laws; I am proud to have drawn attention to the
terrible truth about the terrorism of the non-Guilty that is being told in
the film ‘Earthlings’. The System only understands its own language – the
language of power. MAXIMAL ACTION – this is an action of the One. I am your
bad conscience.”
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