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a sr ae aaa “ as - separ rennet ail . . Pe) a - 2 ©. Defense of Self Defense 0.9. 1957) . ; . . " . - ~ - . “- ge ‘power latent in our numbers. in 1957, in the midst of a hostile ‘ yaciat nation whoee hidden racism is riring to the surface at a phen- ominal speed, we are still so blind te our critical fight for our very -* | * wurvival that wo are continuing to function in petty, futile ways. Divided, confused, fighting neong oursolves, we are still in the ele- _Iantary stage of throwing rocks, sticks, empty wine bottles and beer , ane at racist cops who lie in wit for a chance to surdor anzread - - * ‘Black poople. “Whe racist cops ‘have warked out a system for sup~ |. pressing these spontan webeliions that flare up from the anger, -.. €rustration, and dcsparqtion of the axsses of Black people. We can “- "Oe longer afford the dubious luxury of the terrible casualties wan- tonly inflicted upon us by the cops Guring these spontansous rebellions, me yh Go uryan,, Black people must now wove, ‘from the grassroots up through the poe “""fomed circles of the Black bourgeoisie, to-feize by any means necessary . & proportionate share of the power vested and collected in the stre- . eture of America. We must organize and unite to combat by long re- . sistance the burtal force used against us daily. The power struc- ture deponds upon the use of force within retaliation, This is why i they have mile it o felony to teach guerilla warfare. . This is way they want the people unarmed. Doe oe i : ; She racist dog oppressor fears the armed people; ‘they fear mont of all Black people arnsd with weapons and the ideology of the Black Pan- thereParty for Self Defense. An unarmed people are slaves or «re subject to slavery at any given moment. If a government is noi «fraid of the people it will arm the people from foreign aggrestien. Dlack people are held captive in the midst of thelr oppressors. Tucre isa world of difference between thirty million unarmed, subaissive Birck people and thirty million Black people armed with freedom and defense guns and the strategic metheds of liberation. When & mechanic wants to fix a broken-down ear engine, he must have thennecessary tools to do the job. When the people move for liberation, they must have the basic tool of liberation: the gun.. Only with the power of the gun can the Black masses halt the terror and brutality perpetuated against them by the armed racist power atructure; and in One sense only by the power of the gun can the whole world be trans- formediinto the earthly paradise dreamed of by the people from time immemorial. One successful practitioner of the art and science cf Rational liberation and self defense, Brother Hao Tse-tung, put it this way: “We are the advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be sbolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take op the gun." The blood, sweat, tears and suffering of Black people are the foun- dations of the wealth and power of the “hited States of America. We were forced to build America, and if forced to, we will tear it down: The immediate result of this destruction will be suffering and blood- shed. But the end result will be the perpetual peace for all mankind.