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ta by ode ad ee Tort iets & wind Te . sthey Gora ‘4 lutantiy Agctraysd ars Cunciss:.- trust that sonic af us sill bo heved te. 7 i tened ie the poole agmm} mo ity tag a milftar; scarp had taken picee and claim tar guch o thieg could not im pea here. The people that! grow up around sere so politictly a> {ve thot thelr eencentions of A . military enup unly recognized « thoge that have occurred in South America and Africon osuntrica , where the military ond ruling ‘ * glass took over the goverament ty an open forec of arms. Byt the method of tking over tho government was different hero. we the comp was simply accom= \ thed by sssassinsting the thea president john kennedy, and tien ; assossinating any further opps J Sition to the dictator whe was to take power; thot dictator is the current prepident richardniite on. In 1964 I wimesgsned these and other somewhat hidden bo-= Pinnings of the military/corporate State which we now Hve in, And i neard my teachers and the go~ vernment controlled media sprea Kes about what had happened, I saw the Civil Right’s Protests, the killings and bombings of my black brothers and sisters and the conditioned reactions of ex~= treme récism in my school and home. When I questioned my teachers about how these occur- rences related to the meanings of democracy and freedom that were told existed to protect _ wil, the answer I got was thet _. we were better off not knowiag the truth about what was happen- family and frtends, that f felt what we were si} being used as yawns 3ad puppets, and that thoze who had taken over the ¢.; semmment were trying to keep us acleep and in 4 political stupor. I asked my teachers to te)l me what hap= pened in Nazi Germany; I asked them to tell me the meaning of fascism; | asked them i tell tne we meaning of genocidey and when 1 began to hear about a war in Vietnam, | asked them 19 tell me the meaning, of ime perialism, The caswer to all my pesuens then vag elfter cileTte - Fethinw wed oa me “+ enn en eee DS ee = and thar the actions of te more experienced SLA combat unites cil? wuly serve to benefit the poo= ple ond ansuer their neods.. The. action taken by the SLA com= tat unit tn reference to tho Onke- land Board of Education was 2 specific response to political po= lice state programs and tre thie lure of the Board to heed tha rights and demands of the p2s-- ple in the community. The sgo- cific program was one of the fhoto identification (similar to the system of apartheid in Socth Africa), biological clescifiectica in the form of bio=dosziers hich classify students eccording to fare computer files, and ormed police state patrols_ within the echools. teHigence opornst by units STICE Out abla to obinin cee pire was the Grct to oppmir the Nixon Administration izspired proposal for armed polics agers within certain Oakland cchools ond vartewo forms of toiitates classification of students, Feethar Imeltigence tevedled that Fovtor’s bockground insludad memtercdp ea the Fhilriotphia Crimo Co-a= rose mong. that my responsibility is i, | tolé my teachers an4 my and political beliefs, internaltar= to aid rhe combat units with ine Intensely \ohorwug> ine tp ne of ekocles information en are confronted wi Information that Foster's sigensigk of rod Le political police state death cquads, |. Since’ when does one have to be. thite in ord2s to fee] for the star=- ving children in Appalcchia, since when does one have to be Asian in order: to care about stopping the napalming of children in Viet=- mim, since when does one have e &2 Brown in order: to fight egsiogs: the mags gloughters be~ img conducted by the military funta in Crile???? Since when???? Not. since we have come to realize thar. cra are all on2 in struggle. k om G member of the Sym- hiozese Liberation Army infore mtienfiazelligence unit, and that. formatioa, and keep myself armed ct cH times. I am in G race leors how to fight, because w survive, SLA op Sen, starvation ond tr d2tq thots fecedom thes they wont figs. I hos been the history of many political leadors to gup~- grcca this will of the people, Gad to pretend that the people d> rot have the right to fight, and io pretend thar the poopie will comehov echieve their liv termites cithout roveluticzary vic case. Bre the wuth io ths? tho- to Rog woe S.ae ptet sont 1 om in O rece eo information/ have a military/ fiance with SLA combat unicAvhat the tex revolutionary Oakland City) anj California State police plot: to discredit revolutionaries and} confuse poopie. Freedom fighters: ect only in the imerest of the | people, they do not unnecessarily shoat down 9 helicopter whose crashing would endanger lives of people in their communities, nor a> they svredit themselves with events or accidents that occur in which they had. no part, nor do they issue threats which they are unprepared to carry out, nor do they expose tha mature and whereabouts of their forces, as for example in the recent s ant issued by August 7u; saying} intelligence unt -palitten? al - at means fs that information un= its totally support a gtruge gie, Boras reson gt mem= bern of the SLA understand thot” polities aro Insepsrable from ste rugple, in foet politics have no meaniey without armed combat, and information units to give por iiticg 5 purpose. Tha Syn. ionece Liberation Ar- my is unkc mony existny pow litics! organizations in this coun which support the armed I+ tien sireggies of pcoples the sanghoen we: yogic, bur shen | Ged; it. Vt wt we that thar ver. read Dae AU Fats Voge 3S br ten bay eee . R af ivai-fancliowmng pas ines lS | fovt research bonks, ani cove «i liberation poste=a on th. w+ Also, let ise tel} you shit 5 living of coming te hat bac. | 4} Was o part of the SLA cambor : forces. This can be casily varios first of all F avo oyu in SLA combat forces is oifensively armed with cyanide bullets In al! cecpons that they carry; and up until today this had NOT been the case for SLA ‘information/ 4 intelligence units or amy support | mits, £3 R combat were only defensively ar= BR mad with hand guns and carried # mo cyanide bullets. Scoomily, we ° Y can eastly verify that the balli- f stics on the .380 now In tie honds that time all unita but of pig ayents do not match trese of the weapon used in the stock ws j on the Oakland Hoard of Educa~ Son. information intelligence u= tits or any support units were never allowed to posseso or have any contect with combat unit wes pons. eginning January lith howe ever, @ directive was issuad by the SLA and The Court of the People stating that as of thutdate, all cnits of the Symbionese Li- beration Army are to be heovily end offensively arnied with cya= fide bujlets jn all thar weanoas. i would like to convey the word, to my 2 captured compeneros: you Gaye not been forgotten, and you will be defended because the ere hag been no set back and al! combat forees are ntact. There really are nm words o-= vailable to me to ‘expresa whot I fecl about the capture of my two companeros. They are in a eorcentration comp gow because rene of us were offensively are ods ond because 1 was Kot aware thoz they were under atteck. Slut my beautiful brothers, a3 te have eaid many times, we lear from cur mistakes, ant we icarn from aur oetive participaden in atm gie, not from political rhetore So Ge wor’: cry, but simply Aight an; and right oa with that, A comrade: of minc, Bo, says seme= thing thot i"d like to feave you with: “There are oo Unngs to remember aboit revoluties, sva Orc Aine tO (et our dI3e% kiciia)