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page 3 In Dcfenoc of Self Defengr: (Junc 20, 1ss7) power'latent in our numbors. In lgs7, in thn midnt of a hostile racist nation whose liduen racisn is rising to the surfacc at a phen- ominal spccd, we are still so bJind to our critical fight for our very survival that we are continuing to function in petty, futile ways. Divided, contuned, fightiny omong ourselven, we are still in the ele- mcntary stage of throwing rocks, sticks, cmpty wine bottles and beer Black people. The racist cops have worked out a system for sup-- prossing thcse spontancous rebellions that flare up from the anger. frustration, and desperation of thc m:sses of Black peoplc. He can no longer afford the dubious luxury of the trrrible casualties wan. Black peoplc nust now move, fron the grasnrocts up through the per- fumcd circlcs of tho Black bourgeoisie, to seixe by any neans neccssary a proporticnate share of the power vcsted ani cclleetcd in the stru- cture of Amcrica. We must organisc ans unite io combat by long re- sistance the burtal force pscd against us dnily. The pouer struc- they baye nsde it a felony to tench guerills. wrfare. mhis is why thoy want the people unaried. The racist dog opproutor fears the arncd ysoplc; they feax nost of. all Black people arasd with wcapons and thc idroloyy of the bleck I n- thereparty for Srlf Dafense. An unarmed pocgio axe slavcs or ox subjert to slavery at any given mosout. If a yovernncnt is not afr id of the prcplc it will axr the puople tron foxcigr. Rggrcssion. Blacl people are nold ceptive in the micat. of thcir ooprnssorn. Where is a people and thirty aillion Blick psoylo urrsd with frcccon and dcfcnse guns and the stratoyie mrthods of Isboration.. When a mechanic wantn to fis a broken-deun car cnoina, he must hove thenncceanary tocls to t'o the joh. thon the prople move sor liborntion, thcy must: have the banie tcei.of lineration: the son. Only inth the power ot tho gun can the rlaxk naswes halt the texror and brotality perpcturted ag:inst thuna by the arurd racist pover siructuxe: ond in Onc sense cnly ly the powor o? the qun can the whole worid be trans- formodiinto the carthly paracise dxonncd ot ny the peorle Sroa tin? innehorial. Ono succcsssul praetiticuor of ths art ain! scionce of this wey: "e are the advees.tos os ths aboljtien cf wnr, we Co-not want war; Iui. wr cm oniy ba abolished throngh wer, and in oxder to get rid of. the gun it is nrecssary to tal.e up thc gun.". The blood, sweat, tesrg and susfrring of slael: poorle are the foun- dations of thc wealth and power or tho Wnited states of Amerien. We The inncdiatc result of this desiruution wijl be suficring and blood- ched. But the cnd xesult will bc the perpeiual peace for all nunlind.