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: - St awe mate ey , . Ee LeSOSSALyY, Can sariort revolutionary strategy, but never orizinate or justify it. . - . ; By resorting to abstract violence, the SLA not only separated itself ffon the rest of .the revolutioary movement, but became the example to aveid, the stereotyne i : of the "mad terrorist" go indispensable to our oppressors to put us down even more with new laxs and restrictions. The surest way to dictatorship is a revolutionary movement represented ty provocateurs. Lovever, we nave not given and will not Zive information regarding our locetion or the location of the SLA to the authorities, for the following reesons: ; 23 “hile we no longer consider fhe SLA to be a genuinely reve lutionary orgin~ s jo: “ izetion, we are nc friends of Randoirh Hearst or the Class-to hich he velongs, that fs is, the class which orns and controls the means of life -- the factcries, land, ‘| Schools, communications, and much of the housing -- in the United States, and through- i oO out the world. 7 OS. pot, ° 2) ‘“e are fully avare of the tiased ard politically rerressive nature of the "justice" system which would use our yast connection with the SLA to frate us for the = revolutionary movenert and halt our activity. <4 ‘y. 3) We are in hiding since the Split, expecting reprisals from the SLA. - 0 . “ . | eee t | We joined the S%A Setarately, not knowing each other at the time, -ut for sinilar é ? . . : : ‘ Yeascns, as we later Ciscovered, nately, that we could no lonrer tolerate the quality H 3 :f + rs - § ures $ ; iv x. ; a4 + —— -Sapmes: ; and conditions of ovr Private and public lives -- revressive education that was no hore” —. 77s | than an assemi:ly line for making obedient slaveé, boring and humiliating jobs, de- GS cClinine 'ktendards of living", and a Polluted, ugly enVironient. And, as far as we could see, things were getti S worse. All the reforms we fought for in.the '60's - had failed, or been “aken back, and were inadenuate to start with. 421 of us were frustrated with the ¢ivided factions of the so-called revolutionary left. That movement was based on guilt, on always making the revplution for somecody else, in the name of somebody else's Oppression, supposedly greater than our own. “t was dome inated by egotistical leader-bureaucrats and leader-stars cho cared enly about their . "revolutionary" careers. - They led @ mass of follover-lackeys rho broved their orn *- decretitude by tolerating and in fact creatine such leaders. The con“usion of anti- War groups, sexual liberation groups and national liberation groups were all rresenting the image of militant opposition, but we wanted to do more than merely talk back to vhe TV screen. We vere looking for -rothers ind sisters tho felt as urgently as ve are cid that the time te seize back our lives was how. The Synpionese people we contacted bee were self-disci:lined, serious and efficient revolutionary cadres, Willing to risk : he alm Nera Nee mA Oe ey tn Fh Oe tetas me eden os anything in order to gain everythinz. hen we joined in the first founding conference Bet of the Synbionese Fezeration last June, we thought we had found & plece for ourselves - in a revolutionary orgenization that was on its way ceyond the Left, ol@ and "ney", : | We joined in auract. earbng whe Caray ctace or tne writing ef the originel Declaration of the Symbionese Mae 248 Pederaciuwm-- hot the same one that the SLA nad published in the hapers ~- basic PTE O80 Oe Orne ren rere Cheha? serene etese-rrre5- pe,