It is a thought that has always puzzled me, why does somebody want to become a prison guard, a gaoler of other humans. It seems the most deranged or deluded mind that would wish to earn their living by locking up individuals in cages. I know a lot of us take shit jobs for survival, but surely a spark of humanity in anybody would make them draw back from earning their living by treating members of their community like animals or worse. However history teaches us different, there are those people who for whatever reason will pick up the baton and the gaolers keys, we have still a long way to go before we can call ourselves a civilised species. However, I think it is right and proper that we make our opinions known regards those who would choose to earn their living as the state's skivvy and become a gaoler of people.
The following from Act For Freedom Now:
We receive and spread:
The national recruiting competition for the selection of prison guards took place on13th January in Paris, and the walls of the Parc des Expos exhibition centre and the Porte de Versailles metro station served for us to blow our top.
What can make a person lock up another up by force, deprive them of their freedom, personal initiative, identity, responsibility and loves? The lure of gain, no matter how derisory? Blind infinite obedience to an omnipotent authority that orders them “do this for me”? Sadistic delusion masquerading as benevolence, telling oneself “I’ll do it better than anyone else”? A torturer’s dubious ambition? Pressure from the job centre adviser?
All these reasons disgust us, that’s why we made sure to organize a welcoming committee from the bottom of our hearts for all the adrift and human crap who turned up to the recruitment competition for prison guards on 13th January 2021, 12:30, at Parc des Expos and Porte de Versailles, Paris. The walls of the exhibition park along the route of Tram 1 and those of the metro station corridors served for us to blow our top and were copiously covered in what we think of people who spend three hours competing to become jailers, as well as the world they defend:
Against confinement revolts and freedom
Fire to the prisons
Here we recruit prison guards
Rather unemployed than screw
Screw, watch out
Rather do nothing than be a torturer
Screw, choke on your exam certificate
Fire to the jails and your cars
ACAB
In the hope that they give up, or at least have some nightmares, but also because we will not passively let individuals become lockers-up. There is no such thing as a “kind screw” a “nice prison guard” or a “caring jailer”. The screws who’d have you believe they are there to help you back into society or to get through your sentence, are and remain the people who lock you up, who have chosen what side they are on: that of authority, oppression, control, prison, the State. Everything we hate.
Let’s not forget that competitive exams are often run to hire the various servants of power, all of whom deserve our contempt. By the way, the next session of this exam will take place in March.
A word to the wise…
P.S.: to have an idea of what this exam is: DesDetenus
