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PN ee ee . + . el oe mo . . . fee lt i od . we LT RD beg ha 2 tae ite decstal Fife UTA om. tt Ute ted te oe: Spring 1974 For: Family; Friends and other loved oneseece or anyone interested. Betty - m y I've written‘'a number. of other letters to you, none of which “Were ever.mailed. for one reason or another... I’ve carried them around in my pants. pocket. for months at.a.timee . Then, I'll. take. them. outs. re-read them, and then, because things change: so. rapidly; thoy alvays ee6m' insignificant, outdated......80. they always get ripped into hun- dreds of tiny "security" pleces {the revolution can't yet afford a U.S» government bonafide paper shredder) and.sent. off to total obscixre- I hope you are. in good: mental and. physical health. I hove that you have kept my “activities” in perspective.and not..allowed. tuo pigs, capitalist media and. your hateful, petty-fascist "friends anéd neighbors” to harrasa you too much. I hope you still believe that i am not 2 criminal, crazy, suicidal or in any way sick or confussd. If hope. you ware able to listen. to or read. a.transcript of our. duno 7th communiques Any one interested in understanding us more. clearly-- ' especially anyone disesisfied with the reams of calculated lies ari misrepresentations put. out by the: medin®s fascist. apologists=--should hear or road it. , .. , Part of the.foscus of the communique: was to point’ out that we understand the. motivation behind people, who lack revolutionary consciousness, and who, out.-of love for us, pleade for our.surrender. Wo, too, were among the. millions .who. vwitmessed the televised. battie for 5Ath street .in Compton. But unlike.so many other white, middle-= class people who were shocked by tho terrorist tactics used by the militarily armed protectors. of capitalion, imperialism, racism, sex~ fem, ageism and all other forms. of oppression, exploitation and mur- der.«sowWS can honestly say of that display of state-viclenca: we expected it. It 1s precisely this awareness of the systematic and awesome. violence of the capitalist :.state that moved us to begin meoting it with revolutionary yviolence.: ‘ What happened in Los Angeles has happened countless times through out Amerikkka's history. I shouldn't heave to document this charge with historical data...but just .1n case...RECALL: The genocidal slaughter of all the many Indian:nettions. ‘The murder and bondage of tens of milifons of Africans, E1idnupped from their homelands and robbed of their culture and language.