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Sil we * Ss A Bates be ee be oY ) tomes MTN Fa we gee aS bokeh ee ( ) - SYMBIONESE LIBERATION ARMY TAPED COMMUNIQUE NO.4 Subject: Demand for a Good Faith Gesture Issued By: The Court of the People Date: February 8, 1974 TO THOSE WHO WOULD BEAR THE HOPES AND FUTURE OF OUE PECFLE, LET THE VOICE OF THEIR GUNS EXPRESS THE WORDS OF FREEDOM. Greetings to the people and gompade brothers and sisteri, My name is Cinque and to my comrades I am known as Cir. 2 am a Black man and a representative of Black people. I hold the rank of General Field Marshal in the United Federated Forces of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Today I have received an ordez- from the Symbionese War Council, the Court of the People, to the effect that I am ordered to cmunvey the following message in bea half of the SLA and to insert a taped word of comfort end verifde cation that Patrioia Campbell Hearst is alive and safe, ° — The Symbionese Liberation Army 1s composed of military/polie tical elements of many different liberation struggles and of wumny different races. Our unified purpose ts to liberate the orrress3é peonles of this nation and to aid other oppressed people around the world in their struggle against fascist imperialism and the robbery of their freedom and homeland, Sines this is the purpose ani goal of the SEA, it is therefore clear to us, as it will be to all oppressed people, that our interest is to serve and defend the people and not ourselves, since the people shall always sons first in our hearts and souls. The SLA has arreated the subject for the crimes that her mother and father have, by their actions, committed against wo, the American people and the oppressed people of the world, In understanding this charge, we must first understand who the Hearsts are ami who they serve and represent. Randolph A, Hearst is the corporate cheirman of the fascist media empire of the ultre rightewing Hearst corporation, waich is one of the largest propaganda instutions of this present mili- tary dictatorship of tharminitosaly enpedrcanper pte Shettnthatn PerBV gl £F° wPPETadBtrorm the neceasary propaganda and smoke-serean to shield the Amerikkkan people from seeing the realities of ths corporate dictatorship which Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford rerra- sent. This network of propaganda and confusion has succeeded in hiding the truth from the people. That truth being that ths netion hes suffered its first military corporate coup anc that the Constitution which some of us still believe in has been overthrown.