The fight is back on

Stasi prison April 03, 1986

Worries day and night all week.

Comrades trying to comfort me.

There is some distance too by some.

Can’t blame them.

How would they know if I don’t even know?

How would anybody know anything at all in here anyway?

I could be a criminal prisoner spying on them.

Anybody could be a spy.

Old game.

It’s all a matter of trust.

So I focus on my bro.

And on action.

Asked to speak with the “political officer”.

He wouldn’t tell me about the investigation with my boss.

“I need you to understand that any effort to turn me will be in vain.”

“This decision is up to the state and the authorities.”

“Which I told you 1000 times I don’t accept.”

“You are a citizen of this country…”

“STOP!!! As my records state: I only accept the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany!

And this includes the Reunification Clause.

Which includes me!”

The reunification clause from 1949 was part of the preamble of the German Constitution. It included all Germans regardless of the side of the fence. It states: "The whole German People remains compelled to fulfill the Unity and Freedom of Germany by virtue of its right to free self-determination."

He ended the conversation quickly, not surprising.

This is going nowhere and I get the feeling that they need to feel the heat.

Got to become loud again and very clear with my rejection of the state and their plans.

It’s going to be a year this month.

Most comrades have left before that mark.

What keeps me in here might just as well get me back home.

Looks like they are constructing a story for the outside.

For after the release to tell everyone I was imprisoned for theft.

If this is true these bastards are even more evil and corrupt than I thought.

It’s fighting time again.

I need to work out a plan.

I need them to be afraid of my release.

*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.