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- > ‘ ~ ou an . ’ . feed, ale atte ate che eee ee 6 Mew ae OOS of Ab aero r ) oo Aver seek rn es wrote it I was very concerned for your well being, I didn't know to what degree you were worrying and being harrassed, and I also wanted to clarify my position in order to help you understand what was happening and how that would help you maintain a healthy outlook on it ali. I wanted to be sure thet you would try to be proud rather than ashamed of me and, therefore, proud of yourself for you have helped make me whet I ame I'd like for you to be able to look any pig (Bloor fascist acquaintance) in the eye and say, "“y son is a revolutionary." Of course, it's better you kept any seditious foel- ings or ideas more to yourself because it te not really al- lowed in this "free" society. Anyone who still is confused ‘enough to believe that the people have fresdom of sneech should go check with a brother named David Hilliard who le "kept" in one of California's many concentration campse David, the ex~Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party, spoxe at a huge anti-war relly in San Franeiseo’s Golden Gate Part: in 1970 and in the course of his apeech he stated that the war in Vietnam would be ended if necessary by k111- ing Nixone He was arrested by Nixon's personal goon squad for threatening "the life of the president”. In amerikkKa & Black man cannot hops to remain frea for long ssnecially if he happens to threaten the life nf a tax-eveding, embez~ Zling thief and mad-dog, mass murderer. I know you are not & Black-man, Betty, but you may soon find that white, middie~ (o1a88, "law-abiding" mothers will get similer treatmen’s from fescistee Fe careful of what you say in front of the “bob craigs” of thin country, in Germany the fascists even made anitches out of little octiildrene I wouldn’t want any of your _ golfing "buddies" to convince themselves thet you are that Red under the bed"» Just be careful who you're proud with, and gust in case, remember, that in your bag of tricks an - eight iron makes one hell of a dent in the thick head of a pige At one point I reed that you said that I had become a pert of the SLA because of a reaction to my experience in Vietnams In some ways this ts true. But, clearly, Vietnam didnot make me “crazy".e It was but one of many things that have proven to me that revolutionary change will only come through armed struggle, add that it 1s now time to stop taik= ing and begin the fighte I suppose you are interested tn some minor details around day to day existancee I am in very good health, prob- ably the best shape of my life. The only drawback is that I am sti11 only 5'7" tall. But, thon, being hard to find ina crowd is presently a very handy qualitye There's a lot of stress and tension, but learning ¢o live in a hostile envir= onment and under adverse candittions is helping to make me a lot stronger smotionallye A woman we talxed with recently told Yolanda that she 1s the sanest person she's ever mete