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vee owNewe ee’ — rr awn ee ee ae er heen oa Oe eee lee ee eee eee ew owe awe me wae ig of oe Federation, ", pécicted ectectscae ge we are ex-terbers” ‘of the Symbionese Federation. Fe resigned cellectively fron the Federation immedi ely afters the assasfination r, Marcus Fester, “e nad intended simply to dissociate ourielves from the SLA En rraotice, by ceasing to rer -with them. Since tte kidnapping of Patricia: ‘Hearst érd the’ publication of the: Declaration, however, we feel compelled to make a public stetement concerninz cur eriticisus cf the SLA and our history with the Federation, beceuse of their Jestru Awisreyresentation of the revolutionzry movement. “he obvious first step is to deal ‘with the SLA's tre vic misuse of violence. ry The revolutionery role of “necessary” violence is the: osposite of what the SLA believes, and uractices, as recently, where they decided, se: rarately frem the res of the Federation, ic murzer Foster. Violence elon? cannot terin « revolutionar ractice, Sut'onl; the failvre of that -ractice: useless self-sacrifice, ‘solerce ! Fehon necessary, cun saniort revcluticnary stratesy, but, never orizinate oz Suctify "it. . . ; mc ‘By resorting to abstract violence, the SLA nct only separated itself ffonm the Brest of .the revolutienary movesent, but became the example to avoid, the stereotyre “re: . ‘#of the “aad terrorist" so indispensable to our oppressors to put us down even core Fwith new lavs and restrictions. The surest way to dictatorship is e revelutionary . gmovenent rerresented ty rrovocateurs. bLovever, 1 we have not given and will not five. anformation regardinz our lecation or the location of the SLA to the authorities, Sfor the follcving reesons3 ; ; . 1) -shile we no longer consider the SLA to be a genuinely revelutionary organ- jizetion,. me.are ne friends of Randolrh Hearst or the class to which he velcnss, the! is, the. class which orms and controls the neans of life -- the fectcries, land, . - schools, consunicatitns; and much of the housing ++ in the United States, and throu; Fout the werld. sot - oo, ee ; a 2) “we are fully evare of the biased an@ politically rerressive nature cf the dujustice” systen vhicn would use our past connection vith tne SLA to fraze us for tt | ery movenezt end halt our activity. a ve are in ‘icing since the sz lit, expecting reprisals froo the SLA. - ° b ye ba + t We joined the S14 serarately, not knoving each other at the time, :ut for sini] + s©eastns, as re later discovered, nanely, that we could no lon-er- tolerate the nua2ii? Jang conditions of our privete and public lives -- rerressive education that ras nor dhan an assem: ly lin: for meking otedient sleves, boring and huvilieting jobs, de- ielining ‘standards of livini", and a polluted, usly environzent. And, as far es re tcould see, things were getti g worse. 41] the reforzs re fought fer in the '60's ‘had failed, o> been taken teck, and rere inadenuate to start with. All of us were | ifrustrated with the civided factions of the so-called revoluticnary left. That {movement ras based. o= guilt, cn elvays making the revolution for sonerody else, in he nane of somebody else's oppression, supposedly greater than our orn. “t wes doc inated ty egotistical leader-tureeucrats and leader-stars sho cared only about theiz “8 "revolutionar;" Carsers. They led e mass of follexer-laskeyvs sho proved their om sGecresitude ky tolersting and in fact creatine such leeiers. The con*usion of enti- ;War groups, ‘sexual ..literation groups and national liberation croups were ell rreser. the insre of nilitart orposition, tut we wanted to do nore than uerely telk tack te at TV sc. scxeen. “Ne were looking for -rothers end sisters vho felt as cently SS re cid thet the tine te seize tack cur lives vas nov. The Syrtionese reople xe contac ‘were self-discirlined, serious and efficient revolutionary cadres, willing to risk eoythias in crder to fain everythinz. «shen we Joinet in tne first foundirz exnts wes das Seen Ss Zor the Syabionese Fzier-tien last June, we thought ve hod found a plece fer rursely - an a revoluticnary o organization that nas on its way beyond the Left, old and’ "pew". Fe joined in ausust. Daring the eariy stase of the rriting of the originel Decleretion cf tre Synbia _ eration -- not th: same one that the SLA had sutlishéd in the repers -- basic : UN HAN, SSA SOL ay SES iat ON, SNE A a :