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———t @ . ; i I would like to begin this statement by orming the public that I wrote what I am about. to say. -It’s what I feel, I have never been forced to say anything on anyi tape, Nor have } I been brainwashed; drugged, tortured, hypnotized or in any way confused. As George Jackson wrote, *'It's me, the way I want it, the way I seo it.’’ | i ; Mom, Dad, I would-like to comment on your efforts to supposedly secure my safety: The PIN give-away was a sham, You attempted to deceive the people, the SLA and me with statements — about your concern for myself and the people. You were playing games — stalling for time - time which the FBI-was using in their attempts to assassinate me and the SLA elemerits which , guarded me.’ You continued to report that you did everything 4n your power to pave the way for negotiations for my release ~~ I hate to believe that you could have been so unimagina= tive as to not even have considered getting Little and Remiro released on bail: While it - . was repeatedly “stated that my conditions would at all times correspond with those of the captured soldiers, when your own lawyer went to inspect the "hole’ at San Quentin, he epprev the “deplorable. conditions there -~ another move whichy potentially jeopardized my safety.’ : My. mother’s. acceptancp of the appointment to a second term as a U.C. regent; as you well j new, would have calusod my immediate execution had.the SLA been less than "together’ about j their political goals, Your actions have taught me a great lesson, and in a strarze Kind of way, I’m grateful to you, | 4 ae . , ; Steven, I. imow. tt hat you are beginning to realize that there is-no such thing as neutrality in'time ‘of war, There can be no.compromise as your experhences with the FBI must have shown you,'.-You have-been harrassed by the EPI because of your’ supposed connections with so-called radicals,’ and some people have even gone:so far as to suggest that I arranged my o:m arrest, We'both know what really came down that Monday night -- but you don’t .lmow what's ‘_apoened since :then,...I have changed ~~ grown. I've become conscious and cang never go bac’: to the. life.ve led before, What I’m saying may seem, cold to you and to my old’friends, tut love doesn’t mean the same thing to me anymore. My love has expanded as a result of my cxperionce to” embrace all!.people.’ It’s grown into an unselfish love for my. comrades here, in rrison and: on the streets.: A love that comes from the lmowledge that *’no one is free until we are'all free.’”’ While I wish that you cold bea comrade, I don’t expect it -~ all qi oxpect is.that you try to understand the. changes I’ve gone through: a I-have been given the choic of 1) being released# in a safe area, or 2) joining t:o0. forces of the Syublonese Liberation | Army and fighting for my freedom and the freedome of all oppressed people. Ihave! chosen to stay and fight. One thing which I learned is that the corporate ruling class will do anything in their power XH in order to maintain thoir positior of control over the masses, even if this means the sacrifice of one of their own, Tt should be obvious that people who don’t even care about their own children couldn’t possibly care about anyone else’s children; The things which are precious to these people are their money and power -- and they will never ingly surrender either. People should not hav: t humiliate themselves by standing in Lines in order to. be fed, nor showld they have to pive in fear for their lives and the liveb oftheir children as Tyrone Guyton’s mother will sadly attest to. °°. | ’ Dad, “you said that. you were concerngd with my life, and you also said that you wore sacra @ with the life and interests of allfoppressed peopled in this country, but you aro’ al ier in both areas and as a member of the’ruling class, I know for sure that yours end Mon’s interests are never the ‘nterests of the people. Dad, you said you would see aliout ¢ tting nore. job opportunities for the people, but thy haven’t you warned the people what ic ying to happen to them —~ that actually the few jobs they still have will be taken away. “pe . ae i! oot ur art . . v . yy ry . . . 4 ot . 4 -.t . ? ‘ f.