From Hommodolars Contrainformación via Liberación Total:
November 4, 2009
Some context from a contributor to Hommodolars:
The disinformation regarding what happened goes more or less like this: “A bomb exploded at a BCI bank.” Or: “A bomb exploded in front of the Marriott Hotel.” Worse still: “Surveillance cameras would have caught whoever left the bomb.” What’s certain is that the device was left in a hotel bathroom, with the timer set for a certain hour. The perpetrators warned the hotel so that it would be evacuated and no one would be injured. Sadly, a hotel employee noticed the device, which was inside a laptop bag, and brought it to the front desk, thinking that it belonged to someone. There he received the warning call, and in an act of extreme risk, brought the object outside the hotel (according to him, that’s part of hotel “protocol” . . . like, “if you see something suspicious, take it and leave it outside . . . it could be a bomb; if it explodes, bad luck . . . if it isn’t removed and explodes inside the hotel, you’re fired”). Apparently, a short time after he left it outside (near a BCI), it exploded and some shrapnel hit him. Confusingly, it emerged in the press that “security cameras would have caught whoever left the bomb.” That’s strange, as it was left inside the hotel. The only thing the bank’s security camera would have caught is the guard leaving the bomb outside. Unless they have cameras in the bathrooms.
Communiqué: We bombed the Marriott Hotel
The following communiqué, which claims responsibility for the Marriott Hotel bombing, was sent to us via e-mail:
There was a warning. And other comrades before us had given the same warning.* The tranquility of this world, built by the defenders and administrators of a system based on hunger and slavery, has come to an end.
At 1:45 a.m. yesterday, November 3, a full crew of comrades thwarted all the systems of surveillance and control set up by the exploiters in the eastern ghetto of the city of Santiago—thereby crossing all the narrow page margins of the disinformation media that has ridiculously attempted to minimize the act—in order to detonate a powerful bomb that was meant to explode in the main hall of the Marriott Hotel located on Avenida Kennedy in the Las Condes municipality.
As a show of the humanity that the exploiters lack and really don’t deserve, we warned the front desk by telephone 15 minutes before the explosion, mainly so that unruly workers (if there were any) could go out on to the sidewalk and rejoice at the sight of the Marriott Hotel exploding (to the workers in question, we leave you a warning in case you decide to collaborate with the police). If the front desk obeyed orders to not waste minutes of work by evacuating the building, and instead sent the security guards to die for their crummy wages, then the owners of the building are the only ones responsible.**
We want to make it clear that this action was not meant to hurt or harm just anyone; we are well aware of who we are attacking. We are directly attacking the people responsible for the maintenance of this rotten system, which is nourished by theft from the workers via AFPs (Pension Fund Managers), by terrorist bosses who use workplace exploitation in order to turn work into a social law that only reproduces this slave-society, by shutting people in cities—built in the style of prisons—that in turn reproduce the capitalist violence promoted by the exploiters, by the existence of an exclusive commercial health system that leaves the lives of millions of people in doubt, by the maintenance of an educational system that diverted and deformed the struggle for egalitarian assemblies carried out by the high schools. We are attacking the privileged who are comfortable sustaining this exploitative society based on blood, death, misery, and permanent terror.
Finally, we are doing no more than attacking the real terrorists, the owners of this world, who are beginning to feel the consequences of the social war they started.
We repeat: This is a conscious act, it is an act filled with anarchist content, it is an act of war, it is an act of antiauthoritarian expression planned and executed with all the creativity of minds that intend to be free. To that effect, we have chosen an autonomy that allows us to be unpredictable and to select our targets according to our perception and analysis. The action that we just carried out is an example of that; it is an example of the spontaneity granted to us by that choice, which also allows us to continue to operate while constantly outwitting the terrorist state’s repressive apparatus and control.
The state does not possess a mythic or epic existence, nor is it the fruit of social consensus; rather, it was born as the apparatus of absolute power, replacing what was erected by the monarchies in their time. It is simple and basic political theory. This violent, enslaving social death is derived from a politics whose epicenter is genocide and classic European xenophobia; it is exported under different labels that conform to whatever formulas the consumer needs, and it is generally personified by the characters of its exponents, who see and feel themselves (consciously or unconsciously) as being called forth to illuminate with the “light” of their “old world.” We are born in that world. That world is sustained by the figure of the state, and it is the reason why all states exist. We grow up under those states. But we renounce them. We renounce and reject their command over us. We renounce their imposed nationality and declare ourselves stateless. The war has already been declared. The existence of states was its declaration.
We understand that the existence of those who dominate within society, be they bourgeois or bureaucrats, is directly related to the existence of the state. It is they who shape it, they who reproduce and reinforce it, strengthening and extending social relations based on authoritarianism and the domination of millions of people. It is they who think of themselves as “illuminated,” they who see themselves as protected by the existence of the state. As a concrete example, we can mention what is happening today in Mapuche Territory: brutal repression and harassment by the Chilean state against the weichafes, with the sole intention of defending the interests of those who dominate.
Attack. This is the maxim chosen by countless groups in this social war. We attack the physical spaces where the daily life of the exploiters takes place. We attack the planned centers of economic and military occupation in the territories we inhabit. We attack the simulated perfection of the violent world they represent.
Through our action, we attacked the exploiters who keep alive this terrorist state—the gendarme that protects bourgeois and bureaucrats alike, and which nevertheless could not protect them today.
Today we bombed this building, tomorrow there will be others.
Attacks of this this type will continue, increase, and worsen . . . be careful.
LONG LIVE THE INSURRECTIONAL STRUGGLE OF THE MAPUCHE PEOPLE FOR THEIR AUTONOMY!
FOR THE EXPLOSION OF THIS WORLD: PLANNED, DIRECT ATTACKS ON THE CENTERS OF DOMINATION!
FOR THE SPREAD OF INFORMAL ANTIAUTHORITARIAN ACTION GROUPS!
- Efraín Plaza Olmedo Blasting Crew
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*For example: “We’re warning you: Tread carefully. Wherever you go, there might be a bomb: in your homes, in your supermarkets, gyms, stores, and restaurants. In short, the days of peace are over for you. Your neighborhoods are turning into a minefield, so watch each step you take, because you might be stepping on one of our explosives.” [“Communiqué: Explosions in Las Condes and Vitacura at two gyms for the wealthy”] Hoy en Terra then comes out with: “Mayor of Las Condes criticized research into bombing prevention.” Apparently, the world that a certain class (simple puppets of the capitalist dynamic) administrates is beginning to worry about what it has created, now that the contradictions on which it rests are seemingly beginning to be directly expressed in its own spaces . . .
**And not only do the compas say this, but so does the bourgeois press: “A guard from the bank branch stated that Monsalve checked the spot where the bag was found and brought it to the front desk, as he thought that a guest had forgotten it. At that moment, the hotel received an anonymous call warning that there was a bomb, so the guard took the bag and removed it from the premises in order to bring it to an underground parking garage, but he was unable to get there and should have dropped it.” [El Mercurio, November 4, 2009]
