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po ets ee ner LOPEYR = 39 serve any useful purpose. The explosion was probably used to justify the creation of 10 new guard positions in the new budget. “When they ret bored watching for proplest forces, they will shake down cells, hassle people on the yard, agitate unrest, and all the other things they do for amusement or out of dedication. To enpture one we might call a pig in order to force the release of comrades inside is madness. Could we cut his throat after the O [HAP PCop siAre In Pesue Contenz bluff was called, as it surely would be, and call it principled tactics? Imagine the reaction that would follow. The police, whosa power we are Slowly diminishing, would become immensely more powerful and everyone would have to suffer. Goading them into harming a lot of brothers and sisters is not prin- cipled! That is not the way to educate the people. Many people are oppressed by lust for power, greed, selfishness, and other vitiations of consciousness and they, in turn, oppreso others. The ruling class we cnll them. To set out to punish all the oppressors is a very large task indeed for very few are wholly innocent. As our comrades of the New World Liberation Front have wiscly seen, the first priority of the revol- ution is the conception and acceptance of principled theory, strategy, and tactics, in that order. If we recklessly ndopt the tactice of the unprin- cipled enemy, we may become the thing we profess to hate. How cnn we tell a real revolutionary from ao phony, a Fopaye Jackson or an Alexander Jason? We must ntart with « clear and neceptable definition and thia seems ensy: A revolutionary is a .siater or brother whose actions are in the interest of the people. Anyone (who puts their own interests before thone of the people, could not be cone{dered very revolutionary, A revo- lutionary in nelflenn, an pig in oolftoh. Tt takeo Tittle more than a cane u UES. Bron ATG wey a . aya,