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The Symbionese Liberation army is unlike many existing political organizations in this country which support the armed liberation struggles of peoples throughout the world, but when it comes to the struggle here in Amerikkka, tisy consistently denounce militancy and revolutionary violence, and in so doing denounce one of the few means left to ihe neovle to achieve their liberation. I believe thet when- ever veople are confronted with oppression, starvation and the death of their freedom that they want to fight. It has been the history of many political leaders to suppress this wiil of the people and to pretend that the people will somehow achieve their liberation without revolutionary -violence. But the truth is that. there has never been a precedent for a non-violent revolution; the defenseless and unarmed people of Chile can testify to that. Ali members of the SLA recognize that we, right here in Amerikkte., are ina state of war, and that in a state of war, all muss be armed and understand the true meaning of self-defer:e. When any member of the peovle's army strikes out at the murderer of our people and. children we are doing so in self~ defense; we are doing so because we are left no alternative, and force of arms is-now our only .. means to affect revolutionary justice. However, the natural instincts of many neonle in our country have become serverted by the - ¢onditionings to which they heve been subjected. They have been conditioned to be afraid of revolutionary violence. I no lionger have these fears because as a comrade of mins named Osceola has taught me, “The only way to destroy fear is to destroy the makers of fear, the murderer and the oppressor." Everyone in the SIA combat forces if offensively armed with cyanide bullets in all weapons that they carry. Up until today thts had not been the case for SIA information/ intelligence units or for any support units. At that time 411 units other than combat units were only defensively armed with hand guns and carried no cyanide bulists. Beginning January llth, however, @ directive was issued by the SLA and the Court of the People stating that as of that date, all units of the Symbionese Liberation Army are to be heavily and offensively armed with cyantde bullets in all their weapons. I would like to convey the word to my two captured companeros -- you have not been forgotten, and you will be defended because there has been no set tack and all combat forces are intact. There really are no words available to me to express what I feel about the canture of my two companeros. They are in a concentration camp now because none of us were offensively armed, and because I was not aware that they