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| sea The revolutionary role of "necessary" violence is the opposite of what the SLA rs ov ‘ izetion, we are nc friends of Randolrh Hearst or the class to which he relonzs, that ail od AALN EAM AES 9 ot PN RE Pte lat = ETS BR § tl oh Wiens’ sien de Den ae anal > « Open Letter to the People Tet ~ ga _ /We are ex-members of the Symbionese Federation. -We resigned collectively fron . : the Federation inmediately after the assassination af Dr. Marcus Foster. ‘“e -had intended simply to dissociate ourselves from the SLA in rractice, by ceasing to vork vith them. Since the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst and the publication of the Declaration, however, we feel compelled to make a public statement concerning our criticisms of the SLi and our history with the Federation, tecause.cf their @estrucive misrerresentation of the revolutionary movement. ‘the obvious first step is to deal. with the SLA's tragic misuse of violence. wee e" believes, and practices, as recently, wheré they decided, serarately frem the rest of the Federation, to murcer Foster. Violence alone cannot begin a revolutionary vractice, but onl; the failure of that -ractice; useless self-sacrifice. ‘iolence, when necessary, can suport revolutionary strategy, but never orizinate or justify __ it. ° ‘By resorting to abstract violence, the SLA not only separated itself ffom the rest of the revolutionary movement, but became the example to avoid, the stereotyre of the "mad terrorist” so indispensable to our oppressors to put us down even more with new lays and restrictions. The surest way to dictatorship is a revolutionary movement represented ty provocateurs. Hovever, we have not given and will not give information yregarding our location or the location of the SLA to the authorities, for the following reasons: . 1} “hile we no longer consider the SLA to be a genuinely rev: lutionary organ- aateh a wee is, the class which ovns and controls the neans of life -- the factcries, land, schools, communicatims, and wuch of the housing -- in the United States, and through= out the world. . 2) ‘“e are fully aware of the biased and politically rerressive nature of the . “justice” system which would use our past connection with the SLA to frare us for the a revolutionary tovenert and halt our activity. 3) We are in hiding since the split, expecting reprisals from the SLA. N70. PF t Te Gate ad dt ot: Wao goth: tO DRA reverctaiv. net knevias each ofsr at the tice, ont fer siviler reese:S, 23 we later discovered, nemeiy, that we could no lonrer tolerate. the quality ‘and conditions of our private and public lives -- revregsive educaticn that was no more than an assemi:ly line for making otedieni slaves, boring and humiliating jobs, de- clinins 'stendards of living", and a [Tollutec, ugly environvent. And, as far au we. 7-15200 a, 2 £L | a a a e735 arti. |... x a . es, a Se ee ee a ee ae ee _ 48