[Maxim is alleged to have taken 13 hostages on a bus in Ukraine in late 2020, releasing them unharmed when the country’s president recommended publicly that everyone watch the film “Earthlings”, which depicts the suffering of animals that are eaten routinely by humans.]10.12.2024, ACTION OF SILENCE. International Animal Rights Day, prisoner of conscience Maksym Kryvosh (Plokhoy) sewed up his mouth. The action is a protest against human cruelty towards animals, against the terrorism of political-oligarchic systems over the Living Nature of the Earth. His open letter will be published…
Open letter by Maksym Kryvosh (Plohoy): “Every form of life is unique, worthy of respect, regardless of its benefit to humans.” (UN World Charter for Nature Conservation)
The name of the protest action: Silence. Sewn-up mouth – a metaphor for the silence of the Conscience of people who torture and kill billions of animals for food, clothing, experiments, and entertainment. The dead silence of meat displays, the dead silence of sausage shops, and home refrigerators silences the Conscience of people. My Silence is the cry of billions of silent victims of our daily atrocities, the cry of innocent souls, the cry of the Living Nature of the Earth.
People, we cannot live like this! Murder! we have made it the norm of our lives: we have created a legal, political, and economic system that justifies and legalizes our atrocities, making them “legal”; a system of total lies about the Meaning of Life. Our Home – Earth! we have turned it into a house of prostitution, a house of corrupt people. In the name of the dollar, not in the name of Truth, not with our hearts, but with our stomachs – this is how the majority exists.
Putin, Kuchma, Trump, Xi Jinping … – these are the faces of this majority of spiritual invalids who sell their Will and Conscience to politicians, the faces of the thieving political-oligarchic system that is killing the Living Earth. The hundred richest people on the planet own capital greater than the fortunes of four billion poor earthlings … The real enemies of humanity, the real terrorists – politicians and oligarchs who robbed the Earth, stole what belongs to everyone; terrorists who are destroying the Earth’s Biosphere for the power of money. “Everyone is equal before the law!” – this is the biggest lie of the government.
Above all, the interests of big business… State terrorism has turned the Living Earth into a weapons factory, a meat market, a military-police barracks, a prison for the disobedient. 800,000 people commit suicide annually. The system kills them. It kills with the lack of meaning in life. The spiritual bankruptcy of humanity is obvious, but politicians and churchmen do not recognize this and continue their total lie, total manipulation of people’s consciousness.
War! – is a consequence of the unconscious and irresponsible existence of the majority – a consequence of the war of people against the Living Nature of the Earth. War – the result of the unjust mental state of people, a state-consequence of our theft of animals. Blood begets blood. The killing of people begins with the killing of animals. Theodor Adorno: “Auschwitz begins when, looking at the slaughterhouse, you think: these are only animals.” MEAT – IS MURDER! We must refuse to use it. By refusing to kill innocents, we will change the bestial state of consciousness that gives rise to war.
Spreading DO NOT KILL to all sentient Nature is the only way to our spiritual and physical salvation. Factory farming is the main killer of the Biosphere, the main cause of global warming. Meat eating is one of the main causes of air, soil, and water pollution. The senseless and immoral habit (it is a habit, not a pressing need) of people to eat the corpses of murdered animals is destroying the planet. Economic growth of states is the result of ecocide. Factory farming is the greatest crime of humanity. A crime against Life. We have built our “well-being” on the suffering and death of innocents, on total injustice, on a global lie about Love.
Humanity?! It is absent where there is no compassion for animals. Normalized indifference to the suffering of living beings makes our humanity false; the system creates fake people. Veganism, that is, the refusal to kill – the main sign of humanity.
Love – is an effective compassion for all living things; without it, all the meanings of our life will be self-deception. In our world of conventions, relativity of things, there is one unconditional, absolute thing – SUFFERING. Therefore, everything that a person does must begin with the question: will living beings not suffer from my actions. The ability to suffer, to feel pain! It is obvious and proven by science that this ability is present in all animals …
Hypocrites need to understand: killing yourself and eating those killed by others – the essence is one – murder; to understand that there is no difference between killing a person and killing an animal. There is an obvious cause-and-effect relationship between the daily killing of millions of cows, calves, pigs, birds, whales, dolphins, seals … and war. We reap what we sow!
All living are one Life; by killing an animal we kill ourselves. As long as we, our stomachs are graves for the corpses of animals – all our hopes for a happy life will be in vain. When we sow suffering and death, we have no right to want peace. Hypocrites need to admit: everything that is right for the protection of human rights is no less right for the protection of animal rights, because their right to life and freedom is no less than ours.
It is impossible to effectively fight the terrorism of indifference, the terrorism of people of the system over the Living Nature of the Earth, remaining within the framework of state laws that legalize this terrorism, which are created for the needs of Capital. History says: the real struggle for Justice is always “illegal”. Laws on the protection of animal rights do not reduce, but only regulate the atrocities of people. And various “green”, “zoo-protection” parties have turned the cause of Conscience into a political tool and a way of profit.
The UN predicts that by 2050 the livestock population will increase to 120 billion (in 2012 it was 60 billion), that is, the demand for meat is growing … The system educates cruelty to animals from childhood, irresponsibility for the Living Earth. Our humanism will be a hypocritical lie until we extend our mercy to all Earthlings. Our justice will be self-deception until we understand that the killing of people begins with the killing of animals. The evil of terrorism over Life is so generally accepted and habitual that it is impossible to resist it with “peaceful protests”.
Biocentrism and not anthropocentrism: The Living Earth is for descendants and not for the interests of a global gang of politicians and oligarchs. Stop ecocide, protect animal rights – the duty of every person. The global EXISTENTIAL CRISIS is the result of our cruelty and self-deception. Salvation is in returning to Nature. Look into the eyes of those you call meat … you will see yourself.
You cannot live with the death of others! Veganism is the first step to self-healing. Veganism is a simple way to solve our problems: suffering, cruelty, ecology, spirituality … Life is One! its great dignity is in all its forms and manifestations, in all levels of consciousness there is an immortal Meaning. It has been said: a person is an Effort to be a person; the basis of these efforts is an all-encompassing effective compassion for everything that testifies to the great dignity of Life. This is true Love.
People! you cannot live like this! Albert Schweitzer: “Nothing will bring such benefits to human health and increase the chances of preserving life on Earth as the spread of vegetarianism.” Sewn-up Mouth – a manifesto of ANTISYSTEM – an ethic that extends DO NOT KILL to all living beings. I dedicate the action to the memory of a man with a big heart – animal rights activist Barry Horn. He died in an American prison. He died in the fight for Love. His words: “The souls of the cruelly tortured cry out for justice, and the living cry out for freedom. It is in our power to carry out justice and in our power to grant them freedom. Animals have no one but us, and we will not betray their hopes.”
Watch the film “Earthlings”. This is a film about terrorism, our terrorism over the Living Nature of the Earth. Animals are our hostages.
Release the hostages!
Viva Antisystem!
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