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HEARNAP — Part 38
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thers and sisters, frustrated by their inability to make ropid change ina
system that could do such things, were ready to tear the system apart with
guns and bombs. Would the revolution manifest a large underground of terrorists
to fight a class that would not yield to any lesser pressure? Popeye said, "Yes",
He called those already underground a bunch of punks and plastic revolutionaries.
For a sister or brother who had put his life on the line for the revolution and
was trying to be a model of courage, Popeye's words sounded like trashing. Even
some of his closest partners thought he went too far.
Sleepy: “I always felt that trashing the underground groups was trashing the
work they did... I pretty much uncritically support the underground." Part
of Popeye's attitude was, of course, projection, He wns not, after all, doing
any of the actions he was urging on others. He had no taste for living under-
ground,
Popeye: ‘The reason I never wanted to escape was because... I didn't want to be
continually ducking and dodging and not being able to even get stopped by the
pigs, knowing if they run a make, I was going back to jail. I didn't want to
live under those conditions,” It was more than projection though, he wanted to
put his fist in the face of the enemy. Just as he had marshalled the strength
of the movement to whip the board, he would direct it in delivering more telling
blows, Popeye now had prenter stature in the movement and his grent anger was
now clearly focused, rather than dissipated in a thousand trivial hates. Pop-
eye was a hard man to ignore. He now, had a cadre of revolutionaries in the UPU
to back his play, and amplify his voice.
There were a few distractions however. He had wronged a lot of bro-
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