No answers

Stasi prison April 26, 1985

Questions, questions.
Questions.

“Why are you threatening in the document that you might use certain connections to Western media to make aware of your situation?”“You also write: ‘don’t forget that there are possibilities to involve Western media'. Elaborate defendant!”“Why do you retain uncertainty about the number of copies and their distribution?”

Another day revolving around the 3-pager manifesto.
It contains statements about copies to third parties.
It also threatens the possibility to leak the whole thing to Western media.

As long as the threat was designed to put pressure on my cause without action I believe §214 stands.
I debated this with Mario in the neighboring cell at length.
But it is all merely speculative.
We are no lawyers.

Obviously the Schubert twins want to arrive at a conclusion that warrants an additional §219 charge.
‘Unlawful collaboration with a foreign power.’ - maybe THE key charge.
That would be the case if the 3-pager found it’s way to the West.
With or without my doing - I guess.

“Why are you threatening in the document that you might use certain connections to Western media to make aware of your situation?”

“You also write: ‘don’t forget that there are possibilities to involve Western media'. Elaborate defendant!”

“Why do you retain uncertainty about the number of copies and their distribution?”

Careful!
This could go down to sheer semantics.
I decide to not answer today but to invest in some word smithing.

Back in the cell in the evening after another exhausting day I want to tap-code Mario.
“He’s gone.”
“What do you mean 'he’s gone’?"
“THEY picked him up, I heard them command to pack about an hour ago.”

There goes my sparring partner.
Will I ever meet you Mario?
Thanks for being a friend!
Across prison cells.

*Testimony -> Start. This blog entry is part of a linear narrated testimony of the contemporary witness Jens Thieme who was imprisoned 1985-1986 as a political prisoner in various GDR prisons by the GDR Ministry of State Security. Stasi prison, Stasi jail, Stasi detention.