Well done!

What sort of criminal idiots think that they can somehow "smash NATO" by vandalising 3 cash machines ?

Did you leave a "manifesto" or a signed confession at each machine, or are you trying make Indymedia somehow complicit in your crimes, as the only channel for your propaganda ?

"Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?"
(From "The Threepenny Opera" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill)

@unimpressed by criminals:
Maybe you are prepared to bend over and take it from the banks but thank god some people have backbones and fuck the banks over. What a pathetic little brown-noser you are to be impressed by the criminals who run the banks.

Barclays stopped investing in Huntingdon Life Sciences as a result of a campaign by animal rights activists. This kind of action isn't pointless.

Whilst i sympathise wholeheartedly with action against organisations that support Nato, sabotaging a cash machine is a bloody STUPID thing to do. What if you have not got any money to buy food and you need to use a cash machine, and the ones nearby are out of service. Immediately your actions have just pissed off loads of working class people. Please try some different tactics to get people on your side.

Sabotaging a cash machine is like pissing on a bush and expecting it to stop a forest a fire. Not going to happen. These banks are insured out of their arses, both by fellow banks, shareholders, private insurance companies, and the tax payer.

You causing a few hundred pounds of damage which they can make up for within seconds of trading, is simply keeping a repairman in his job. It's not an inconvenience for the bank in the slightest as they know full well that their customers can use any free ATM on the street or one within the branch.

One has to question whether the people committing this action are simply trying to massage their own egos rather than doing something productive. You need to look at things which causes in the regions of millions of pounds worth of damage rather than hundreds. £500 is pocket copper for a bank.

OK, so smashing an ATM doesn't do much. But perhaps raiding it of all of its money would.

Used to great effect by animal rights activists. Banks are run by individuals who are vulnerable to personal pressure.

But I think small things like trashing cashpoints are effective. If you have ever worked in a large corporation you will know how things like this get all the bigwigs in emergency meetings. It's because it's political - if it was random vandalism it wouldn't have any effect.

If all the cash machines in the world were destroyed, would that not be a massive action with lots of political and cultural outcomes? Of course it would. So destroying them one by one, or three at a time, is good, is valued by comrades all over the globe, and does piss off companies and hurts their profits...even if its pence and a few pounds, it is still profit - thats what makes these capitalist pricks so hungry, remember. If all a banks windows go in, that costs thousands, so a burned cash machine does not cost a few hundred, as someone here has asserted, they cost thousands.

On the issue of the working classes being driven to insanity by not being able to get cash from the wall to buy another Macdonalds: most of the working class are alseep, slaves in a comatosed state of existence, living only for the fucking cash machine or the television. It's pathetic to think of all working class people - of which i am one - as stupid, starving robots only capable of living with the cash machine installed! Give us, them, the rest of my working class comrades, more credit than that. Aware workers, those that are politicised, those that know they are a slave, wouldn't give a shit about a burned cash machine, not least because there are so many around, but because they know it is retaliation against those in power, a power that they should not have, a power that should be destroyed and over thrown - by the very working class that someone on here puts on a pedestal but has no real imaginings about about how to help it, the class they so vehemently defend and care for....come on, get real......most of the working class are so demoralised and enslaved that they haven't the energy for revolution...a general strike? no chance. a workers revolution? no way. personally, i think the working class is fucked. thats why i, personally, dont give a fuck about the working class - remember, that includes myself - when a cash machine is burned.its not the working class that is killed by militias armed by barclays money, its poor african villagers protesting land grabs and oil exploitation. its not the fucking working class affected by drought, famine or disease when barclays funds projects that denie human rights to locals in africa.....get fucking real. this is a war...the working class can decide for itself which side it is on........simple as that. i care about the working class when bankers get billions in bonuses...i care about the working class when they care about themselves and strike for better working conditions and pay deals. but if someone cant get to a cash machine - one that is built on the back of developing countries inhabitants suffering - then that is tuff shit. find another one, and if thats burnt, take the money out the bank and keep it under the bed! complian to the bank, protest the bank, but dont blame those that act.

also, if you think burning a cash machine does nothing...think again. everyday, LITERALLY, every single day, a comrade or group of comrades, all over the globe, strike back against the enslavement of the people of the world by capitalist globalisation and new world order henchmen and women. our brothers and sisters all over the world are meeting and planning and acting against the enemy of all the people, the machination that is global order, global law and global profiteering and warmongery.
solidarity to those that act, and fuck you to those that dont.........your time to choose will come, your time to act will arrive, what will you do when it does? will you moan about the way the world is messed up and has been but that you've done nothing to help stop? will you blame the leaders or countries when really the one at fault is you, for not acting when we had the chance? will you blame politics, sectarianism or social divide? will you blame class divide? why will you blame anything else for, when you, the one who does nothing, will be to blame.............

you keep using that word but i can't understand what context you are talking about.
utter gibberish. I havn't heard of anything so barking as when those loonies burnt the harry potter books.

I like cash points. They are a service of convenience. The alternatives are stuffing my money under the mattress (and becoming a target of violent burglars) or waiting in a queue ridden bank to get a tenner. They make my life a lot more convenient so i can buy bread/milk/food (not mcdonalds or televisions), we don't all eat crap food and enslave ourselves to deal no deal. People actually do have a life and are busy living it unlike mr. I've-superglued-my-ego-into-a-cashpoint-because-i've-got-no-hobbies-or-life

a person,male or female, young or old, who endeavors to undertake missions, actions and planning and logistics, research, demonstrations, telephone calls, lectures or otherwise, that further a particular cause, one often shared by other people involved in the same tasks......

maybe?