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first things first: 100% solidarity for Yiannis Michalidis, for all of our POW's who have escaped, and all of our POW's WATING to escape (that's presumably all prisoners).

Nothing (short of a flat-out revolution) shows the pigs who's REALLY got the power quite like escapes from prison. Breaking someone out of prison is the ultimate in prisoner solidarity, and dissidents escaping prison by force or stealth breaks the back of efforts to intimidate people into submission.

On battlefields from the Bastille in France to El Salvador to Iraq, one tactic used by strong enough insurgencies (of ANY kind) has been to storm prisons and free every inmate inside. This also returns to the fight most or all the POW's held there and can be a springboard to outright battlefield victory.

Imagine what it would have done to the FBI's morale if every ALF and ELF prisoner held in the US had been forcibly broken out of prison in say, 2007. Now imagine what this would have done to insurance rates for industries ranging from vivisection to whaling. HLS would probably be dead and gone if nothing else. Probably a lot less fracking and no DAPL too.

As for the very small number of imprisoned fash whose escape is the price of freedom for our people and all the ordinary folks now housed in these dungeons, dealing with them in the streets is a cheap price to pay for prison abolition.