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POVLYE | By Jacques Rogiers "For those of you who don't know me, my name is Popeye Jackson. I'm from the United Prisonerst Union, and I came today because I have some questions for my comrades underground," ») ‘With these words, Popeye began his last speech in Ho Chi Mihn Park on May 180, ! in Kerkeley, California. The rally was called to advance unity between the above and underground radical groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Popeye's apeech started a wari "The questions I have, I want answers, particularly from my underground com- rades. Why aren't we instilling fear in the ruling class? We bomb buildings, we call, we warn them... at no time do the ruling class fear these things be~ i cause none of them is dying... I wonder why, when we drop bombs in buildings, particularly Eveyll Younger (State ‘Attorney General), why don't we bomb him ; so dead dogs can begin to become afraid... until we begin to adhere to these things that these comrades (the SLA) are teaching us in their death, then and only then can we say that we are revolutionaries..." He went on to criticize the New World Liberation Front's actions in bombing a building at San Quentin by saying that they should have captured a pig instead, held him in ransom for AY the release of captured comrades. | Two weeks later, the NALF responded with an open letter that was both anpry and defensive. “Had we sufficient ‘strength -and backing...-we_damn. sure would