On Monday, August 1, during the Republican National Convention, in the city of Philadelphia, I was arrested
            along with one other brother in a preemptive strike ostensibly aimed at those, like myself, who intended to protest
            the U.S. social/political system through means of direct and uncompromising action later that day.

            While walking down the sidewalk in downtown, we were surrounded by 10-15 bike cops and soon after put
            into custody at the Roundhouse jail complex. This all occurred an hour and a half prior to any known acts of civil
            disobedience, street fighting, corporate/private property destruction or legal demonstrations.

            At the Roundhouse, I was charged with (1) Possession of instruments of crime, and (2) Possession of
            instruments of crime, conspiracy. My bail was eventually set at $10,000, and on Wednesday, August 3, I was
            turned out pending further court hearings, despite the fact that I refused to sign my release forms.

            SOLIDARITY

            My court date is set for September 16th. By the time this communiqué is made public, I will already have refused
            to appear and a bench warrant will have been issued for my arrest.

            I AM A REVOLUTIONARY ANARCHIST

            As such, I do not recognize the authority of the State of Pennsylvania judicial system. I refuse to appear before
            them in order to plea my "innocence". In addition to being absurd, such an act would confer a recognition of
            legitimacy upon them which I refuse to give. Besides, the court system is simply a tool of the State, and as such,
            it too is my sworn enemy. Therefore, my necessary relations to it will never be and can never be that of
            "innocence". To state it plainly, I am GUILTY. GUILTY of working towards the destruction of that very same
            court system which seeks to place judgment on me and others. GUILTY of working towards the absolute
            demise of the whole life denying State apparatus. GUILTY of dreaming of a liberated world where wo/mens
            consciousness and material relations will at last be free to develop creatively in a society of love, equality,
            abundance and direct participatory democracy. In a word, all I am willing to confer to Pennsylvania, the Federal
            Government, as well as any and all authoritarian, bureaucratic and innately oppressive STATES is the absolute
            hatred and rejection that all exploited people feel and know towards their natural enemies.

            However, let it be known that my hatred runs only as deep as my love for humanity and the dream of complete
            Social Revolution.

            Therefore, I have come to the decision to continue my small role in the ongoing social and political revolution by
            semi-underground means.

            From struggle comes victory and dignity. Strength and courage to the Black Bloc.

            --from somewhere in the New American Dawn.
            David