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“ol tha al nd r eee eee’ e 2 Sees ce ed @ : background taught me is that one of the thinas that every revolutionary docs 1s to ftght to get back the fruits of her or his own lebor and the cantrol of his or her ovn destiny. The experience of Living in Amerikkka has taught me the realities of what fascism, imperialism and genocide mean, and I have discovered tre truth about our police state agictatorshio, not because I studied about is in college, but because I see it everyday, and because truth is something; that is honestly known as easily as beauty is seen. There 4s no need for me to relate here everything that I have seen, or everything that I am sure you are already aware of. I am sure, my sisters and brothers, that you realize that the government is in the rapid and steady orocess of removing the means of survival from the lower class and giving these benefits to the middle class in an effort to relly support from them. And as the government is removing these means of survival from the people, then naturally . the psople who heve been robbed must in turn take back what rightfully belongs to them, and take back what they need in order to survive. This the current dictatorshiv calls a crime, whether they take food from the grocery.satore, or - take to the streets to make a speech or teke a gun in. their hend to defend themselves. : no As a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army informe- tion/intelligence unit, I fight against our common onnoressor, and this I do with my gun as well as my mind. I try to use my mind and my imaginstion to uncover facts, so that when the SLA attacks 1t will be in the right place, and that the actions of the more experienced SLA combat units will truly serve to benefit the people and answer their needs. The © action taken by the SLA combat unit in reference to the Cakland Board of Education was a snecific resvonse to noli- tical volice state vrograms end the failure of the Board to heed the rights and demends of the people in the community. The specific program was one of photo identtfication (similer to the system of apartheid in South Africa), bio- logical classification in the form of bio-dossiers which clessify students according to rece and political beliefs, internal warfare comouter files, and armed police state patrols within the schools. Thorough intelligence opera- tions carried out by SLA information units obtained factual information that Foster's signature was the first to appear on the Nixon Administration inspired proposal for armed police agents within certain Oakland schools and verious forms of computer classification of students. Further intelligence revealed that Foster's background included