I just want to extend a deep thank-you

to the virtue convicts.

To the people who rip down the flock cameras

To the people who riot and overturn police cars

For the people who kill sex offenders in prison

For the people who spray paint, graffiti, wheatpaste, sticker. Anything at all that challenges the status quo

To the people who store weapons with "don't tread on me"

To the people who drive without a license, who don't pay tax (because in some countries it's actually against the law)

For people who storm the criminal courts and scream until security has to break your arm just to drag you out of the room

For the people who grow endangered trees by the corporate data centres

For people who burn down a warehouse telling the world all they had to do was pay you to live.

For the people who squat or use adverse possession to gain property from the wealthy

For the snowdens and so on who don't know whether it's truly illegal but deep down you can sende it's moral.

Who camp on lands against the bulldozers and the planet killers.

Who pass on data under non ISP protocols

Fuck all the hypocrites who stomp on you as a chickenhawk armchair critic after the fact. Who cower in their living rooms believing that their peacenik posturing complacency is real benevolence.

You will have a voice, a few voices, cheering you. And whatever ways I may join you (which I need not disclose) If and when the idiots wake up, we will try to seek your IS-BEs, and find you in a new life, and offer you a medal in appreciation, even though at the time your deeds were met with bigotry, hate, and punishment.

You are the real military. You are the soldiers on the ground. Today the only badge of honor is no badge at all. But that may change.

I hope you get to see this. You are not forgotten.