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soy sare” <egte eet ee 0 eee ed 4 ey £ gata: pow . Neen ee A . eos ‘ 45. th is POPBYE = ?6° associates had become enemies, it was now possible to love him and he made renl friends. He stopped petting arrested and his new parole officer, raining res~ pect for the work he was doing, began to defend and commend him to nuperiore. He served on committees, and did not break up the mectings. He would nat attack his old enemies, even when specifically invited to do se. Toward his comrades he mellowed, and his anger became focused on his real eneny, the rul- ing class. It was they who were responsible for his years of suffering and for the suffering of his sisters and brothers, inside and out. Tt was a very large anger, and nothing but their physical destruction would patisfy it. Popeye was the major proponent of total warfare. No matter how difficult or dangerous an action, it usually fell short of what he would expect from a real revolutionary. lle defended the SLA when the most radical groups were unwilling to do so after the Marcus Foster murder, Cyanide bullets and an unknown target, a black one at that, just didn't make much sense but no one wanted to be less revolutionary than Popeye, the hero of .the movement, defeater of the’ board. Popeye not only defended the SLA, he insisted that they were the model for correct revolutionary action, kverybody reacted defensively and the peoples' forces underground stepped up the frequency and intensity of their operations. Many of them were Popeye's comrades from the days of Venceremos, The police must have been quite concerned ahout what Popeye was doing; this was a whole lct heavier than giving weapons’ instruction. The ruling class were on the way to reaping the very bitter harvest of anger that grew in a human being they had kept in a cage for most of his adult life. Brother Bob Dylan: ‘“Some- day they'll wind up and meet you at your crossroads, from inside the walls..." The revolution, the movement, wae at the crosoroads, A large number of bro- 4y 7 “4 Bhi eae Ney OE