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CA I a te 7 . Meee B . . . . - Sa lh ee ese ae ee . : . + oe ee geal Oren Letter to the People we are ex-members of the Symbionese Federation. We resirned collectively fron the Fedoration immediately after the essassination of Dr. mETUS, “Foster. echad . . intended singly to dissociate ourselves frou the SIA in :Yactice, ty ceasing to work t vith them. Since tke kidnepping of Patricia Hearst and the publication of the Declaration, however, we feel compelled to make a public statenent econcernin: cur eriticisas of the SLa and our history with the Federation, tecause c* their destrucive she obvicus first ste: is tc deal misrerresentation of the revolutionary movement. with <he SLA's trasic misuse of violence, The revolutionary role of “necessar;" violence is tne opposite cf what the SLA believes, and practices. as recently, where they decided, se:arsiely frce the rest of the Federation, to mircer Foster. Vitlence slone cannot tesin 2 revolutionary -Tactice, but only the feilure of that vractize: useless se) f-se-rifice Yiolence, fariport revoluticrary strategy, but never orivinete op guctity wh wane ean anos wl OT moccesary » San FTLACLOrt Tr : a it. ee ‘By resorting to abstract violence, the SLA net only ceparated itself ffor the rest of the revolutionary movement, but became the examrle to avoid, the sterectyze of the “mad terrcrisi” so indispensable to our oppressors to put us doen even tore with new lave and restrictions. The surest wey to dictatorship is a revolutionary movesent rerresented ty provocateurs. “ovwever, re have not given anc will not give information vresardirg our location or the location of the SLa to the authorities, for the follotinzg reesonss 1} “hile we no longer consider the SLA to be a genuinely revcluticnary organ- ‘ ization, we ere no friends of Randolch Hearst or the class tc whicr he celonzs, that is, the class which orms and controls the means of life -- the factcries, land, schools, conmunicatims, and much of the housing -- in the United Stetes, and through- out the werld. 2) ‘e are fully avrare of the biased and politically rerressive nature of the "justice™ system which would use our past connection with the SLA to fraze us for the revolutionary woverert and halt our activity. ; 3) “e are in hiding since the split, expecting reprisals from the SLA. setarately, not knoving each other at the time,..ut for similar mavely, thet re couliine loncer treler.te the eughitey tp fs = 2 er a ee eee eel F ‘ oin 28 x oF OD i tn TSEOCTR PA rivate and public zives -- revressive educution that ves no more or making obedient slaves, boring an@ humiliating jobs, de- clining "standards ving", and a polluted, ugly environment. And, as far us we could see, things were getti g worse. All the reforms re fought for in the '60's 7 par *tetroan pnaerk ond were ~radeninta ¢n cee wt th OFT oh ee Be we ig c D rees* ana coreitions sso methan an assen':ly " i" Ee at thr) ‘i Ay TSF: et I co he ( &y Obs bee . . eras Bl me ip a i ms) pp Saeeete a Ne ete eee ge 7~15200 reer. 4