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Portland: slashed tires on yuppie cars for Kerry and Kiki

Fri, 01/11/2013 - 01:02 -- Anonymous (not verified)

Tonight the tires were slashed on 6 yuppie cars in northeast Portland. All that was needed for this small expression of complicity was a sharp knife, a bike for a quick getaway, and plenty of rage (which seems to be in abundant supply lately).

Solidarity with Kiki (Sergey) Turzhanskiy, who supposedly threw a molotov cocktail at a cop car and was just released from jail on terms of not talking to other anarchists; and Kerry Cunneen and all others throwing a wrench into the gears of the Seattle grand jury.

Eat shit, yuppie scum!

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Submitted by Sam E. (not verified) on

Not trying to be a dick, just asking an honest question. What does slashing expensive cars accomplish? I mean, I get cop/ security cars, or even heavy machinery. I've always been a little confused about pissing off random middle/upper class people (with random being the important word there).

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

If the "yuppie" (luxury) cars were burned instead of just having their tires slashed, as happens as a frequent anarchist action in many other places in the world, particularly Germany, I doubt you would be questioning it in the same way. So in that sense, you should be looking at burning the car or slashing the tires as two similar actions of different intensity.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Setting fires in residential areas is evil. What if the fire spreads to a house and kills someone? Why would you risk that?

Submitted by Sam E. (not verified) on

Nah, burning cars is just as weird to me. Of course, only vehicles belonging to random middle/upper class people. Like...if it was a limo belonging to the Waltons, I would get it. If its random, I'm confused.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

What's random about it? It's upper or middle class people. Not the exploited class.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

you literally have no idea what people's situations are, I hate little snot nosed anarchists like you holier than thou because you eat out of a smelly dumpster

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Were all the tires slashed on cars that were in front of the Red and Black cafe ?

Submitted by Fact Checker (not verified) on

"I hate little snot nosed anarchists like you holier than thou because you eat out of a smelly dumpster"

- Derrick Jensen

Submitted by Voice of Reason (not verified) on

No doubt, I can understand vandalism if it's, you know, actually targeted and clearly justifiable in some political context. This, however, is just some random person having their day ruined because some asshole slashed their tires for no apparent reason.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Shut the fuck up. This isn't the 19th century where there are two distinct classes. Shit is complicated now.

Submitted by Anono (not verified) on

this is just another action that points the finger at random passersby instead of at the owners of capital. you don't know anything about these people's lives and to every other person in the world this seems just like randomly lashing out at innocents. Are you aware that people lower class people sometimes own luxury cars? it's called a loan dickhead. These people could be your parents. The only result of your actions will be that the local guy that sells car tires will by his daughter a new bike for christmas. oh except you got to feel like some weenie rebel, HA. In ten years you'll be shopping at whole foods like everyone else. Maybe you could bother to take the time to EXPLAIN to your ideas to the people whose shit you vandalize, instead of just assuming that they'll understand the action in terms of class warfare. they have no fucking clue. Also, this has nothing to do with Kiki or anyone else. don't pretend you were helping anyone. This is the kind of ineffectual action that's gotten us where we are today, which is nowhere.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Damaging cars owned by random families is horrible. Do you get pleasure from making people feel hurt and unsafe? How does attacking families help your life or the lives of your friends?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

The flagrant display of wealth is an offensive sight, especially in this current context. Such offensive sights must be attacked.

How you going to be driving around a Lexus past people who can barely afford to keep their houses and act like there's nothing offensive going on?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Not only that, these yuppies live their lives with an inflated unrealistic expectation of safety. This is why the US was able to commit genocidal campaigns of terror for so long against so many communities in the middle east, asia, latin america, eastern europe, and africa. No, this is good and it is necessary. This is how you do it at the minimum threshold.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

The term 'yuppie' is as about as much as an accurate class description as calling someone 99%. It's an arbitrary slur that is not an actual class position within capitalism. Furthermore, to base someones class position on the 'niceness' of ones car is also problematic. I love my fellow A's in pdx and I'm happy to see solidarity actions, but this shit is kinda infantile.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Yeah I live here and I've seen other examples of anarchists targeting random cars and how unstrategic and even counter productive it is. I've also lived here long enough to see examples of how anarchists and punks use the term 'yuppie' to mean pretty much anyone who doesn't fit their sub-cultural standards of fashionable.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Hey holmes, thanks for fixating on semantics, I though we were talking about tactics. But whatever, right, so long as you can challenge someone's credibility somehow, what they're actually saying amounts to shit, right?

How about this, how about instead of yuppie you say something like tired ass ex-hippie old douchebag with to much money and a sense of entitlement he doesn't have to criticize to much because he buys local organic food (also, a good reason to look down on them poor folks and their shitty irresponsible fast food addiction to boot).

It's painfully obvious what's happening here. Anyone can claim to be an anarchist, communist, socialist, leftist, in solidarity with this or that person or oppressed, so why not get a bunch of statist apologists, self rightous leninists and throw in some sincere liberal jelly fish to criticize any and all attempts to resits outside of the terms defined for us by the state.

And by the way, should you happen to accidentally fuck up some bullshit YUPPIE wannabe anarchists prius, they call that collateral damage, so then, we do too.

Submitted by anono (not verified) on

you think collateral damage is a term we should be using? maybe you should sit back down in that armchair, bud.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

AMEN. I am sick and tired of people playing the rich off as victims. For fuck sakes they can afford to buy new tires a dozen times over and a car again as well when most people don't have enough money to fucking put shoes on their feet - the only NATURAL method of transportation hehe. Fuck the bourgeoisie

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Your seriously trying to argue that most people in this country don't have enough money to put shoes on their feet? GTFO! No ones calling rich people victims, we're calling the person(s) who did this fucking goofs. Stick to dropping banners...

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

"The flagrant display of wealth is an offensive sight, especially in this current context."
So I supposed then all of you anarchists will be turning in your iphones, the computers you wrote this on (unless you are at the library on a public PC), your fancy backpacks/messenger bags etc.? You have no idea how privileged all of you idiots sound/are. Slashing random people's tires is not a "revolutionary act" or inherently anarchist, it's a mischievous prank of vandalism that conflates the issue of grand jury resistance when it is claimed by someone as an act in solidarity with/resistance to. Burning cars in the actions/riots in Europe has specific context of social upheaval and cathartic release where folks are engaging in upending authoritarianism in the streets... this act does not have that same context even if that was "the spirit" you were going for. Sorry, but in my opinion, such actions don't help the cause of the GJ resistors, nor do they further the anarchist anti-capitalist movement. They make us seem like peevish morons who wanna break stuff. Go after the real enemy and smash some cop cars, banks, Federal buildings etc if you really want to prove your point.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Who said anything about "inherently" anarchist. Did you know that capitalist pigs slash tires too. Worse, they'll repo your car if you can't make payments. Try going to work to catch up on those payments afterwards. You're such a fucking moron you can't tell when the appropriate use of "inherent" is. Just. Shut. the. Fuck. Up. And. Go. Away. Lame. Ass.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Lol you're basing the act's "inherent" aspects on the amount of people engaging in such actions. B/c Europe is in a worse state than USA and more people are burning cars, therefore it MUST be revolutionary, but b/c a few anarchists in isolated Portland slash a few tires this makes it vandalism? Analyse your logic before you condemn someone's actions you fool.... (also, you don't seem very anarchistic telling people HOW THEY should engage in revolution... IDIOT)

Submitted by Against Nonsens... (not verified) on

Without getting into a contemplation of the effectivness or appropriateness of the actual actions this document talks about, the document itself is, in my humble opinion, severely inadequate at explaining the actions and their logic.

This is not an isolated incident: in the fifteen years I have been studying anarchism and involved with anarchists, I've seen a slow but steady downward spiral of anarchists' written communication becoming increasingly incomprehensible -- not just to the general public but to other anarchists or people with close philosophies and sympathies.

The oppression Northwest anarchists are experiencing through the recent Grand Jury abomination and other legal attacks is horrible -- not as horrific as thousands of other events happening around the world at the same time, but horrible nonetheless. It is also very interesting because it sets a new precedent of heightened police oppression, at the same time as it gives many young anarchists of privileged backgrounds more direct, personal experience with the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex -- among other things.

So there is reason to pay careful attention to these events and there is reason to be quite upset and to act from that emotion as you see fit. I would have to have a personal relationship with the people writing this document to feel I could question whether their attacking 6 cars really came from how upset they were about particular legal situations. But I am not interested in moral or strategic questioning of their actions.

However I will point out that attacking the property of individuals who are not connected directly with the criminal justice system that you are mainly upset with is an action that does not clearly communicate anything to the general public. To the general public these actions appear as random vandalism without a written communique explaining them. This communique provided, however, fails to actually explain anything any better. Why attack luxury automobiles because the police have upset you? I myself can think of fairly succinct explanations, but this document does not provide them.

So my advice to the people who wrote this, and to young anarchists everywhere, is to EXPLAIN YOUR LOGIC RATHER THAN ASSUMING EVERYONE ALREADY UNDERSTANDS IT. Even if people don't agree with you, you'll still be taken more seriously if you act in this manner -- as I learned by spending my twenties and thirties trying to communicate sentiments similar to what you believe.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

I have to imagine you're going to run into folks saying that ineligibility in the sens you mean it is part of the "technology of empire" or something along those lines. I'm still trying to figure all that out myself, personally.

Perhaps the VERY general understanding that "bad stuff happens when anarchists get fucked with" may be good enough.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

sorry I meant "intelligibility"

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

well, that's the thing. the communication IS NOT AIMED AT THE GENERAL PUBLIC. it's a message sent to other anarchists, anarchist news readers in particular. it's like sending an email saying you're really pissed off, except writing the email comes with the chance of a felony charge.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

people are going to do what they're going to do. but it needs to be said that the idea of "yuppie" cars rests on some pretty stupid logic. lots of people who are really quite poor drive bmws and audis and other fancy cars. so, if it's a ferrari you can be sure the person is a millionaire. but if it's a bmw then you really have no fucking idea. you're basically just attacking a brand choice, not wealthy people.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Do you remember that communique from portland that said a car was attacked because cars run on fossil fuel and are built by oppressed workers? Are those better reasons than the yuppy thing?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

I don't remember that communique, but it still sounds kinda stupid.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Okay wait, the document only went out here? That means that a bunch of tires got slashed randomly, as far as the world outside this place is concerned (and the cops that troll it). That does accomplish something: it accomplishes unease. But it sends no clear message in anyway related to these court cases. So is that the deal, is this a stategy to generally increase social tension? Or if it's just a way to let out steam, which increasingly seems the case, why the hell risk discovery and arrest by posting about it? Obviously they wanted to encourage other people to do similar things, right? But those similar things would just add to the unintelligibility...anyway, my complain is not so much about this situation as about the general trend I've seen, which includes people who go around in small midwestern cities wheatpasting oversize pieces of paper filled with tiny text talking about current local events that seem to assume that people have read Tiqqun and are all just waiting for the moment when they can actualize communization...maybe it's that they all were raised communicating with fucking text messaging with their incrowd friends, but the ability of anarchists to present their ideas in an articulate, simple and accessible way -- even if they are highly controversial or offensive to the general public or anyone who doesn't want to wade through specialied jargon that imitates academic-speak -- seems to have vanished almost entirely.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Yeah anyone who questions the strategic value of slashing random tires in the middle of the night must be a 'cop'. Cool analysis bro.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Tiqqun and indiscriminate tire slashing are both stupid, but I am pretty sure that tire slashing or any kind of action that happens in real life is more "legible" to the world than that wheatpasted Tiqqun shit. in other words I would rather have my tires slashed than have to read to more of this coming insurrection-style shit that no one gets except for maybe the few hundred people who hang out on this site.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Fuck the property of our enemies. Let them cry over the milk they spilled. More slashed tires! more yuppies crying themselves to sleep!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Yeah fuck the property of our enemies, but did the property of our enemies actually get fucked? This the problem with this actions as that the targets were random (or based off some subjective standard) so I have no idea whether or not my enemies property was targeted. Another question we should be asking ourselves is if this tactic of targeting random cars is actually advancing our struggle in any tangible way. I really fail to see how this is in anyway moving things forward and if anything it has actually been counter productive in the past, but if anyone has an argument or example of how this will further the struggle here in the PNW in anyway then I'm open to it.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

unimpressed, but please indicate how to avoid having ones car tires slashed- always owning shitty cars that always need to be serviced? or are you only slashing luxury car tires? as far as how the anarchists are trending these days i thought we were over "consumer" politics- if its ok to eat mcdonalds while in insurrecto meetings- its ok to drive non-lemon cars no?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

tyres slashed? how many tyres? was it 3 or 4...this actually matters in the sense of insurance - 3 they will not cough up for, 4 they will. 3 makes it quite clear, 4 is pretty ambiguous. so which is it - the yuppies who are minor functionaries and will definitely not understand being targetted as a matter of anything but 'wealth-envy', or the insurance companies who aren't going to bat an eyelid?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

No, cars run on fossil fuels and the blood of the workers and therefore fuck you if you drive one. Also veganism is still cool in Portland and WTF is an insurrecto meeting?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Dude fuck the workers. They're just part of techno-industrial spectacle and willing servants of civilizations. If driving cars kills workers then sign me up!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Last night in Eugene the throats of three workers were slashed in solidarity with wild nature everywhere. Also a workerist was punched in the stomach.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Tonight I jerked off in solidarity with Kerry and Kiki. I refuse to explain how me masturbating is a meaningful contribution to revolutionary struggle, but it definitely is, OK?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

the subtext to all solidarity action (and reporting of said action.)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Oh ok thanks for laying out the joke now i get that it is a joke hahahahhaha and not just a statement hahaha about masturbating hahahahahaha like it had a satirical point about other people's claims ohh haha thanks for explaining, yr smart

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

I like jokes!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

A lot of working class people aren't vegan and so their ovens should be vandalized in solidarity with anarchist prisoners.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

No, throw the working class into the ovens.

-Eugene anarchist

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Why would you, 'in solidarity', needlessly complicate the court case of someone you may not (and, I'm assuming, do not) even know? Fuck you for dragging Sergey into this and for attacking the vehicles of strangers, you self-righteous, politically infantile, unaccountable lot of shits.

Submitted by iconoclasta on

Certainly this is the lamest most ridicolous thing that the insurrectionists and "nihilists" have done that i have read on this site. Not that i think that what the ones who are accused of throwing the molotov cocktails did was wise either. i hope this doesn´t bring more trouble to their case. I am not proposing joining platformist marxist-leninist parties instead of doing this. Those things are just as bad or even worse.

Certainly anarchism can do better .

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

I wouldn't worry too much; at least half of the actions "reported" on this site didn't actually happen in real life

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Last night, in the dead of night, we took to the night and set fire to three servers in the CIA headquarters in Langley to draw attention to fake action reports once and for all! Solidarity with all model train engeniers! We will not go silently into the night!

Unless we do...

EXPECT US!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

No it was the egoists! No the anti-civs! No the lifestylists! no it was a little bit of every tendency that causes me anxiety and lurks in the dark shadows! :(

Submitted by Red Bayonet (not verified) on

There are a thousand hacking at the branches, to the one, hacking at the roots. (I forgot who said that).

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Thoreau.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

1. Slash ties
2. Write communique
3. ???
4. TOTAL FREEDOM AND WORLD PEACE!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

You sir, just wrote the Anarchist News Manifesto for Direct Action.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Just wanted to weigh in-fully agree that this is a tactically foolish and pointless act of vandalism. You slashed 6 tires of people who aren't targeted in some grander scheme? Way to put yourself and whomever you may have been with at needless risk for an "action" that will wind up annoying people who, more likely than not, have no idea why some asshole slashed their tires. And here's what will happen-they will simply buy new tires, dispose of the old ones, and further pollute the earth with several sets of old tires that were otherwise fine while new ones are manufactured creating a further demand for the whole fucking toxic process. Miniscule when compared to the grand scheme of things? Yes. But not as miniscule as the level of effectiveness here. Fucking stupid. And bravo on the person that said this puts Kiki (Sergey) Turzhanskiy at needless risk too. I'd be embarrassed if I was in their position. Anyone defending this outside of the typical AN trolls needs to seriously rethink their approach to realizing a healthy and just world.

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