SLA Revolutionary War Declaration, Program Outlined (Feb. 13, 1974)

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S.L.A. Revolutionary War

Declaration, Program Outlined

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77r / j w t he comple tedocument regarding th edeclarat ion o f war andth e goal s o f th e S.L.A.whose publ i cat ion w asmandated in a let terre c e i v ed ye s t e rd a y b yRa d i o KP F A.

THE SYMBIONESE FEDER-ATION & THE SYMBIONESEL IB E R A T IO N A R M Y DEL-C A R A T I O N O F R E V O L U -TIONARY W A R & T H E SYM-

BIONESE PROGRAMA U G U S T 2 1 , 1973

Th e Sy m b io n es e Fed er a t io nand The Symbionese Libera-t ion Army is a united andfederated grouping of m e m -be rs of d i f f e r e n t races an dpeople and socialist politicalpar ties of the oppressed peo-ple of The Fascist UnitedStates of America, w ho h a v eu n d er b la c k a n d m in o r i tyleadership formed an d j o i n e dTh e Sy m b io n es e F eder a tedRepublic and have agreed tostruggle together in behalf ofall their people and r aces andpoli t ical patt ies interest in thegaining of FREEDOM andSELF DETERMINATION andINDEPENDANCE for all their

people and races.The Symbionese Federation isNOT A GOVERNMENT, bu tra t h e r it is a united an d feder-ated formation of m e m b e r s ofdifferent races and people andpo l i t ica l pa r t i e s w ho h a v eagreed to struggle in a UNIT-ED FRONT for the independ-ance and self determination ofeach of their races and peopleand The Liquidation of theCommon Enemy.And w h o b y this federatedformation represent thei r fu -t ure an d independant pre-gov-er nm ents and nations of theirpeople and races. The Sym-bionese Federation is NOT APARTY, bu t r a ther it is aFederat ion, for its m e m b e r sare 'made up of m e m b e r s ofal l political parties an d orga-nizations and races of all themos t oppressed people of thisfascis t nation, thereby f o rm-ing unity and the full repre-sentation of the interests of all

the people.Th e S ym bionese Liberat ionArmy is an army of the peo-ple, and is made up o f m em -bers of all the people. TheS.L.A. has.no political poweror political person over it thatdictates w ho will f ight and dieif needed for the freedom ofou r people an d children, bu tdoes not r isk their life or f ighttoo for our freedom, bu t r a th-er the S.L.A. is both politicalan d mili tary in tha t in theS.L.A. t h e a rmy officer ,whether female or ma l e i salso the political officer an dthey both are the da ugh t e rsan d sons of the people andthey both f ight as well asspeak for the freedom of ourpeople and children.Th e Symbionese Federat ionand The Symbionese Libera-tion Army is made up of thea ge d, youth and women andm en o f all ' races and people.Th e name Symbionese is tak-en from the word symbiosisan d w e def ine its meaning asa body of dissimilar bodiesan d organisms living in deepan d loving harmony an d par t-nership in the best interest ofall within the body.We of the Symbionese Federa-tion and The S.L.A. defineourselves by this n a m e be-c a us e i t states t h a t we a re nolonger willing to allow theenemy of all our people and

children to murder , oppressan d exploit us nor define usby color and thereby maintaindivision among us, but ratherhave joined together u n d erblack and minor ity leadershipin behalf of al l our dif ferentraces and people to build abetter and ne w w o r ld for ourchildren and people' s f u t u r e .

W e are a United Front andFederated Coalition of m e m -bers f rom the Asian, Black,Brown, Indian, White, Wom-en, Grey and Gay LiberationMovements.W h o have all come to see andunderstand that only i f weun i t e an d build our new worldan d f u t u re , will there reallybe a future for our childrenan d people. We of the Peoplean d not the ruling capitalistclass, will build a new worldan d system. Where there isr ea l ly f r eed o m a n d a t r u eme ani ng to justice and equali-ty for al l w o m e n and men ofall races and people, and anen d to the m u r d e r an d oppres-s ion, exploitation of al l peo-ple.W e of the Symbionese Federa-tion and The S.L.A. are thechildren of all oppressed peo-ple, who have decided to rede-f i n e our selves as a Sym-bionese Race and People. Yet,

recognizing the r ich culturesof each and enforcing ourr ights to ex is tence of ourm a n y cultures within a unitedfederation o f in d ep en d a n t a n ds o v e r e ig n n a t io n s , ea c h ofthem flour ishing and protect-ed by Us own laws and codesof self determination.W e a r e o f m a n y colors, butyet of one mind, for we all inhistory's t ime on this ear thhave become pa r t of eacho th e r in s u f f e r in g a n d inmind, and have agreed thatth e m u r d e r , oppression andexploitation of our childrenan d people m u s t end n o w , forw e all have seen th e m u r d e r ,oppression an d exploitation ofou r people for too long underthe hand of the same enemyand class of people and underth e s a m e system.K nowi ng this, the SymbioneseFederation and The S.L.A.know that our often m ur der -ou s alienation from each otheraids

and is one of thefunda-

m enta l strengths behind th eruling capitalist class's abilityto m ur der and oppress us all.But no t allowing them to de -fine us by color, and alsorecognizing that by refusingourselves to also internalizethis false division definition,knowing t h a t in mind andbody we a r e facing the sam eenemy an d that we a r e a l lcomrades of one people, themurdered and oppressed, weare now able to become aunited people under the Sym-bionese Federation and m a k etrue the words of our codes ofunity that TO DIE A RACE,A N D BE BORN A NATION.IS TO BECOME FREE.Therefore, we of the Sym-bionese Federation and TheS.L.A. DO NOT under ther ights o f h u m a n beings sub-m it to the murder , oppressionan d exploitation of our chil-dren and people and do underthe r ights g r an ted to the peo-ple u n d er The Declaration ofIndependence of The U n i tedStates, do now by the r ights ofour children and people andby Force of Arms and withevery drop of our blood, De-c l a r e R e v o l u t i o n a r y W a ragainst Th e Fascis t CapitalistClass, and all their agents ofmurder , oppression and ex-p lo i ta t io n . W e suppor t byForce of Arms .the just strug-

gles of all oppressed peoplefo r self determination and in-dependance within the UnitedStates and Th e World. Andhereby o f f e r to all liberationm o v e m e n t s , r e v o l u t i o n a r yworkers groups, and peopleso r g a n iz a t io n s o u r to ta l a idan d support for the strugglefo r freedom an d justice for al l

people and races. We callu p o n all revolutionary blackand other oppressed peoplew i t h i n th e Fa s c i s t U n i tedStates to come together an djoin The Symbionese Federa-t i o n an d f i g h t in the forces ofThe Symbionese LiberationArmy.TH E GOAL S OF THE SYM-BIONESE L I B E R A T I O N

ARMY1. To uni te all oppressed

p eo p le in to a f i g h t i n gforce and t o destroy thesystem of the capitaliststate and all its value sys-t e m s . To c r ea te in itsplace a system and sover-eign nations that are inthe total interest of all itsraces and people, based onth e t r u e af f i rmat i on o flife, love, trust, an d hones-ty , freedom an d equalitythat is tru ly for all .

2. To assure the rights of allpeople to self determina-

t ion and the r ights to buildtheir own nation and gov-ernment, with representa-t iv es th a t h a v e s h o w nt h rough their actions to bein the interest of th e i rpeople. To give the rightto all people to select an delect their ow n representa-tives and governments bydirect vote.

• 3. To build a people's feder-- ated council , w ho will be a

male and female of eachPeople's Council or Sover-eign Nation of The Sym-bionese Federation of Na-tions, w ho shall be ther e p r e s e n t a t i v e s of theirnations in the f o r m in g oftrade packs and unifieddefense against any exter-nal enemy that may attackany of the free nations ofthe federation and to formother aids to each others 'neeos.

4. To aid and defend the

cul tural rights of all thesoverign nations of TheSymbi one s e Fe de ra t i on,and to aid each nation inthe building of educationaland o ther institutions tom eet and serve this needfor its people.

5. To place the control of allth e institutions an d indus-tries, of each nation intothe hands of its people. Toaid sovereign na tions ofthe federation to build na-tions w h er e w o r k contrib-utes concretely to the f u l linterest and needs of itsworkers and the commun-al interest of its communi-ties and its people and them u tu a l in te r es t o f a l lwithin the federation ofnations.

6. To aid and defend ther i gh t s of all oppressedpeople to build nationswhich do not institu te op-pression an d exploitation,

bu t ra ther does institu tethe environment of free-d o m a n d de f e nds th a tfreedom on all levels andfo r all of the people, andby any means necessary.

7. To g ive back to all peopletheir human an d constitu-t i o n a l r i g h t s , l i b e r t y ,

. equality an d justice an dthe r ight to bear a r m s inthe defense of theserights.

8. To create a system whereour aged are cared forw i t h respect, love, andkindness and aided andencouraged to become assets in their ow n w a y s totheir nations and to theirc o m m u n a l c o m m u n i t y .That the l i f e th a t m o v esa r o u n d th em i s no t a

f r i g h t e n i n g a n d m u r d u -rous one and w h e r e l i f e isnot a f ea r , bu t r a th e r on eof love an d feeling a n d o fun i t y .

9. To cr ea te a system an dl a w s th a t w i l l n e i th e rf o r c e people into no r f o r c ethem to stay into personalrelationships that they dono t wish to be in, and todestroy all chains institu t-ed by legal an d social lawso f th e c a p i ta l i s t s t a tew h i c h acts as a re inforc-in g system to m a i n t a i nth i s f o r m of i m p r i s o n -m e n t .

1 0. To create institu t ions thatwill aid, reinforce and e d-ucate the g r o w th of ourcomrade women and aidth em in m a kin g a n e w -true and better ro le to l ivein l i f e and in the def iningof themselves as a newand f ree people.

11. To create new f o r m s of

l i f e an d relationships thatbr ing true meanings oflove to people's relation-ships, and to form com-m u n es on the c o m m u n i t ylevel and br ing the chil-d r en o f th e c o m m u n i tyinto being the responsibili-ty of the c o m m u n i ty , toplace o u r children i n t h e •union of real com r adshipand in the c a re and lovinginterest of the revolution-ary c o m m u n i ty .

12. To destroy the prison sys-tem, which the capitaliststate ha s used to imprisonthe oppressed and exploit-ed, and thereby destroythe love, unity , an d hopesof millions of lives andfamilies. And to c re a t e inits p lace a system of com-radeship an d that of g r o u punity and education on acommunal and revolution-ary level" withi n the com-munity , to b r ing home ou r

daughters and sons, an d"" sisters and brothers , fath-er s and m other s and wel-come them home w ith lovean d a new revolutionarycomradeship of unity .

13. To take control of all sta teland and that of the capi-talist class and to giveback the land to the peo-ple. To form laws andcodes that safeguard thatno person can own theland, or sell th e land, bu tra ther the na t ions ' peopleow n the land and use it fortheir needs and interest tolive. No one can own orsell th e air , th e sky, th ewater , th e t rees , th e birds,the sun, for all of thiswor l d belongs to the peo-ple of this earth.

14 . To take control of a llbu i l d i ngs an d a p a r tm en tbuildings of the capitalistclass an d fascist govern-ment and to to tally de-stroy the rent system ofexploitation.

15. To build a f ed e r a t io n ofnations, w ho shall f o rmu-late programs an d unionso f actions and intereststhat will destroy the capi-talist anti-human institu-tions and who will be ableto do this by meeting allthe basic needs of all ofthe people and their na-tions. For they will be all

able to do this becauseeach nation will have f u l lcontrol of all of its indus-t ries and institu tions anddoes not run them forprof it , but in the f u l l in ter-est of all the people of itsnation.

16 . To destroy all forms andin s t i tu t io n s of Ra c is m ,

Sexism, Ageism, Capital-ism, Fascism, Individual-ism, Possessiveness, Co m -petitiveness and all o thersuch institu tions that havemade and sustained capi-talism and the capitalistclass system that has op-pressed and exploited allof the people of our histo-ry .

B y this means and the m u tu a laid and u n i ty of each nationw i t h i n The Symbionese Feder-ation, will each nation be ableto provide to each person an dcouple and f a m i l y free of costth e f i v e basic needs o f l ife,w h i c h ar e f o o d , health care,housing, education an d cloth-i n g , and in this w ay allowingpeople to be able to f i n d andf o r m ne w values and newsystems of relationships an din te r es t s b a s ed o n a n ewme ani ng t o l i fe an d love

IF THE QUEST FOR FREE-

DOM IS DEATHT H E N B Y T H E D E A T H O FT H E E N E M Y W I L L

BLA CK A N D O T H E R OP-PRESSED PEOPLE

FIND AND REGAIN THEIRFREEDOM

TO T H O S E W H O W O U L D. BEAR THE HOPES

AND FUTURE OR OU R PEO-PLE, LET THE

VOICE OF THEIR G U N S EX -PRESS TH E W O R D S

OF FREEDOM.

PatriciaHearst'sMessage

Th e fol low ing is a t r an-scr ipt of Patric ia Hearst 'smessage on the tape record-ing mailed to radio stationKP F A in Berkeley:

M o m , Da d I'm okay. I hada few scrapes an d s t u f f , bu tthey washed them up andthey are getting okay and Icaught a cold, bu t they ar egiving me pills for it and soI'm not being starved orb ea ten , or unnecessar ilyf rightened.

I've heard some press re -ports and so I know thatSteve and all the neighborsar e okay — that no one wasreally hur t, and I also k n o wthat the SLA members hereare very upset about pressdistor tions of what' s beenhappening — that they havenothing to do w ith the August7 th movement, that they haven o t been shooting down heli-copters or shooting down in-nocent people in the streets .I'm kept blindfolded usually

so that I can ' t identify any-o n e . My hands are o f t e n tied,bu t generally they ' re not, an dI 'm not gagged or anythingan d I 'm comfortable and Ith ink you can tell that I amno t really ter r if ied or any-thing — that I 'm OK . I wasvery upset to hear about thepolice rushing in on thathouse in Oakland and I'mjust really glad that I w a s n ' tthere, and I w o u l d appreciate

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S.L.A. Emblem ExplainedThis is the Symbionese Liberation Army's explanation of the se ve n-he ad e d cobra

emblem first publicized several w e e ks ago. The leaflet reproduced above is

written in Engish, Spanish, Chinese and East African Swahili. These ve n-he ad e d

cobra symbol, said to be 170,000 years old, is printed in red on a circle of

yellow on the face of the original leaflet. The explanation, part of a letter

receved yesterday by Radio KPFA, is as follows:

UMOJA-IA UNIDAD-UNITY—To strive for and maintain unity in our household,

our nation and in The Symbionese Federation.

KUKICHAGULIA-LA LIBRE DETERMNAGON-SELF DETERMINATION—To define

ourseves, name ourseves, speak for ourselves and govern ourselves.

UJIMA-TRABAJO COLECTIVO Y RESPONSIBIL1DAD-COLLECTIVE WORK AN D

RESPONSIBIL ITY—To buildand maintain our nation and the federation together

by making our brothers' and sisters' and the Fe d e r a t ion ' s problems our

problems and solving them together.

UJAMAA-PRODUCCION C OOPERATIVA-C OOPERATIVE PRODUC TION-To build

and maintain our own economy from our skills, and labor and resources and to

insure ourselves and other nations that we all profit equally from our labor.

NIA- PROPOSITO-PURPOSE—To make as our collective vocation the

deveopment and liberation of our nation, and all oppressed people, in order

to restore our people and all oppressed people to their traditional greatnessand humanity.

KUUMBA-CREATIVO-CREATIVITY-To do all we can,as best we can, n order

to free our nation and defend the federation and constantly make it and the

earth that we all share more beautiful and beneficial.

IMANI-Fe-FAITH—To beieve in our unity, our leaders, our teachers, our

people, and in the righteousness and victory of our struggleand the struggle-of

all oppressed and exploited people.

it if everyone would just calmd o w n and not t ry to f i n d m ean d not be making identif ica-t ions , because they ' re noton l y e n d a n g e r i n g m e b u tth ey ' r e en d a n g er in g th em -selves. I'm w ith a c o m b a tunit that 's armed with auto-matic weapons an d ther e ' salso a medical team her e .

. . . And here is no waythat I will be released untilthey let me go. So it wouldn ' tdo any good for somebody tocome in here and try to get

me out by force. These peoplearen ' t just a b u n c h of nuts —they 've been really honestwith me. They' re perfectlywill ing to die for w h a t th ey ' r edoing and I w a n t to get out ofhere, but the only w a y I a mgoing to is if we do it theirw a y , and I just hope thatyou ' ll do what they say, dad,an d just do it quickly.

I 've been stopping an dstar ting this tape myself so

th a t I can collect m ythoughts. Thats why there areso many stops in it . I 'm notbeing forced to say any ofthis. I think it ' s really impor-tant that you take their re-quest very ser iously about nota r r es t in g , an y o th e r SLAmembers an d a b o u t f o l l o w i n gtheir good fai th request to theletter . I just want to get outof here and see everyoneagain and be back with Steve.The SLA is very interes ted inseeing how you are ta k in g

this. Dad, and they want tom a ke su r e that you are reallyser ious an d l is tening to w h a tth ey ' r e s a y in g . An d th eythink that you 've been takingthis whole thing a lot m o r eser iously than the police andthe FBI and other federalpeople have bee taking it .

A n d , it seems to be gettingto the point where they ' re notworr ied about you so much asthey ' re worrying about other

people, or at least I am. I t ' sreal ly up to you to m a ke s u r et h a t these people don ' t eopar-dize m y l i f e b y c h a r g in g inan d d o i n g s tu p id th in g s . And Ih o p e t h a t you'l l m a ke s u r ethat t h e y d o n ' t do a n y t h i n gelse l i k e t h a t O a k l a n d h o u s eb u s in es s . The SLA p eo p lereally have been honest w i t hm e and .. I really . .. Ime an I f e e l pretty sure thatI' m going g e t o u t o f h er e ifeverything goes the way t h e yw a n t it to.

A n d I t h i n k t h a t y o u s h o u l df e e l th a t w a y , to o , a n d t r y n o tt o w o r r y so m u c h . I m ea n Ik n o w it's h a r d , b u t . . . Iheard t h a t M om was reallyupset and th a t ev e r y b o d y w asat h o m e — a n d I m ea n I hopethat th i s p u t s you a l ittle b itat ease an d th a t yo u k n o w th a tI r ea l ly , I really a m a l l r ig h t .I just hope I can get back to

Continned Page 7 , Col. 7

Symbionese Liberation Army General's Words ReportedHere is the text of a

statement from a personidentifying himself as"Cinque," a spokesman forthe Symbionese LiberationArmy, as t r a n s c r i b e d from a

t a p e r e c o r d i n g b r o a d c a s t b y

K P F A Radio, w h i c h r e c e i v e dthe t a p e T u e s d a y:

Greetings to the people anafellow comrades brothers andsisters. My name is Cinque.To my comrades I am knownas Cin. I am a black m a n a n da representative of b la c k peo-ple. I hold the rank of GeneralField Marshal in the UnitedFederated forces of the Sym-bionese Liberation Army.

Today I have received an

and to aid other oppressedpeople around the world withtheir struggle against fascistimperialism and the robberyof their freedom an d home-land.

Since this is the purposeand goal of the SLA it is

therefore clear to us, as it willoe to all the oppressed'people,m a i . cur i n t e re s t is to serveand defend the people and notourselves. Since the peopleshall a lways come first in ourhear ts and souls.

The SLA has arrested th esubject for the cr im es th a ther mother and father haveby their actions committedagainst w e th e American peo-ple and oppressed people ofthe world . In understandingthis charge w e must f irst, un-derstand who the Hearst 's ar e

w ar council. The Court of thePeople, to the e f f e c t that I a mordered to convey the f o l l o w -ing message on behalf of theSLA and a taped word ofrornfor t an d v er i f i c a t io n th a tPatricia Campbell Hearst isalive an d safe.

The Symbioese LiberationAr m y is a federated u n i o n of

m a n y types of political ele-m e n t s an d m a n y d i f f e r e n t l i b -eration struggles a n d o f m a n ydifferent races . Our u n i f i e dpurpose is to liberate th e op-pressed peoples of this nation

Aim AM U tuCy St-TYC aim TCprC-

sent. Rando lph A. Hearst isthe corporate c h a i r m a n o f afascist leaning empire of theultra-r ight Hearst Corp. whichis one of the largest propagan-da in s t i tu t io n s of this presentmi l i t a ry dictatorship of them i l i t a r i l y a r m ed c o r p o r a testate th a t w e n o w l iv e u n d er

•i n this nation.

The p r im a r y g o a l of thisempire is to serve an d f o r mthe necessary propaganda ass m o kes c r een to s h ie ld th eAmerican people f r o m seeingthe realities of th e corporate

d i c t a t o r s h i p w h ic h Ric h a r dN i x o n and Gerald Ford repre-sent.

This network of p r o p a g a n d aand confusion has succeededin hiding the truth f r o m th epeople. That truth being thatthis nation ha s suffered itsf irs t military corporate coupan d th a t th e Co n s t i tu t io nwhich som e of us stil l believein ha s been over thrown.

The fascist Hearst corpora-tion is composed of mostly anational newspaper syndicatewhich includes the San Fran-cisco Examiner and Chroni-cle, and others which jumpf r o m California to as far a w a yas New York and Philadel-ph i a .

Secondly, a magazine mo -nopoly composed of over 13publications which include forex a m p le H o u s e Bea u t i f u l ,Harpers Bazaar , T o w n an dCountry and Cosmopolitan.

Thirdly , a TV and r a d ios tat ion em p i r e across the n a -t i o n with production o f propa-ganda f i l m s fo r both n a t i o n a lan d in ternational use.

Fourth, ownership of v a s tareas of real estate in the U.S. and Mexico, including f o r -e s t s , g r a s s la n d s a n d c a t t l e

farms. All of this is directlyconnected to W a s h in g t o n an dthe corporate dictatorship ofR i c h a r d N i x o n an d G er a ldFcrd.

That is to say th a t th e

Hearst empire is one of t h e .empires of the ruling class indirect competition with theinterest of the people. There-fore they are enemies of thepeople.

M r s . Randolnh A. Hearst isa m em b er of the University ofCalifornia Board of Regentsand is responsible along withothers appointed bv Gov. Ron-ald Reagan for the l o a n in g off u n d s and the in v es tm en t ofou r C a l i f o r n i a ta x m o n ies incorporations w hich have inter-ests and do gain profits f r o mthe robbery, oppression an dgenocide c a r r ied out by f a s -cist and racist g o v er n m en tsa r o u n d the world an d w ith inthe U.S. itself.

The Regents, with the sup-port of Mrs. Hearst, havet i me and time again been(as k e d) by we t h e people ton o t i n v e s t o u r mone y in suchfascist corporations as Gener-a l M o t o r s , W e s t i n g h o u s e ,Bell, Standard Oil, Bank ofAmerica and o th e r s .

( Th o s e c o m p a n ies ) h a v eand do serve an d g a in p r o f i t sf r o m the oppression, robberya n d m u r d e r t h a t is c o m m i t t e dagains t black people o f S o u t hA f r i c a w h er e th e r e ar e 7 0 , 0 0 0

black children a year wh o d i ef r o m m a l n u t r i t i o n ; a g a i n s tw h i t e people in I re l and , w h e r eU.S.-trained British soldiersshoot d o w n in the street I r ishf a t h e r s a n d m o th e r s a s

U . S . m a n u f a c t u r e d t e a r ga ssuffocates Ir ish children, astheir older sis ters and broth-ers rot in British conce n t ra-tion camps; against the f r e e -dom of the Philippine peoplewhere U.S. and Marcos pup-pet soldiers use U.S.-manufac-lured napalm to attempt to(ins ti l l ) a spir it of fear in thehear ts and souls of the pooran d starving.

The Board of Regents, on eof California ' s la r ges t foreignin v es to r s , s u p p o r t s th r o u g hits investments, the m u r d er ofthousands of b la c k m en , wom-e n a n d children o f Mozam-bique, A n g o l a an d Rhodesia— murder designed to destroythe spir it that a ll humanitylongs for .

With all of these cr imesplaced before the Board ofReg en ts a n d M r s . H ea r s t ,w i t h al l the pleas f r o m th ep eo p le to s to p s u p p o r t in gth es e c o r p o r a t io n s a n d th em u r d e r of thousands of m en ,w o m e n an d c h i l d r e n , th eboard and Mrs. Hearst d id notraise on e voice in protest andr e f u s e to be a par ty to thesecr imes against these peoplean d those committed againstthe American people.

Through these acts an d oth-ers the Court of the Peopleholds the Hearst family ac «countable for their cr imes andholds that they are enemies ofthe people. We of the Sym-

bionese Liberation Army holdthat the Hearst Corporationan d the Hearst f a m i l y and theBoard of Regents as well asthe corporate state w h i c h theysupport and aid are enem iesof the people.

A n d , as such, that th e peo-ple have the legal and huma nright and duty to attack saidenemy according to t h e ( i nau-dible) of war of the oppressedpeople against an y en em y orm u r d e r e r or oppressor to re-gain their freedom and liber tyan d give l i f e to their childrenan d people. . .

It is therefore the directiveof this cour t that before an yf o rmal negotiation for the re -lease of the subject prisonerbe in itia ted, that an action ofgood f a i t h be s h o w n on thepar t of the Hearst f a m i l y toallow the cour t and the op-pressed people of this w o r ldan d this nation to ascer tain asto the real in terest and coop-erative attitude of the Hear s tf a m i l y and in so doing showsome form of repentance forthe m u r d er an d s u f f e r i n g theyhave aided an d profited f rom.

This good f a i t h gesture is tobe in the f o r m of a tokengesture to the oppressed peo-

p l e ( i n a u d i b l e ) c o r p o r a t estate in r o b b in g an d removingtheir r ights to freedom andliber ty . This gesture is to bein th e form of f o o d to theneedy, and the une mpl e ye d

an d ( inaudible) l is t of f o l l o w -ing instructions are to be fol-lowed to the letter.In closingan d speaking personally fo rmyself and as a father of twochildren, I wish to say to Mr.Hearst an d Mrs. Hear s t , tha t ' Ias well as the forces under

m y command through the au -thor ity of the Court of ThePeople, are no t savage killers ,an d m a d m en a n d w e d o h o ld ahigh moral value to l i f e ! Wevalue l i f e very deeply an dwi t h all the spir it that we ash u m a n beings ca n b r in g f o r t hin ou r hearts , and I am speak-in g a s a f a th e r , I a m q u i tewill ing to lose both of mychildren, if by that action Icould save thousands of w h i te ,black, yellow and red childrenf r o m a l ife of suffering exploi-ta tion and murder .

A n d I am therefore q u i t ewill ing to car r y out the execu-tion of your daughter to savethe life of starving m en , w o m -en and children of every ra c ean d I am also along with the( inaudible) of men and wom-en of many ra c e s who love thepeople quite willing to giveour lives to free the people atany cost.

A n d i f as you and others,

sir , might easily believe thatwe wil l lose, let it be knownthat even in death w e w i l l w info r the very ashes of th i sfascist nation w i l l m a r k ou rvery graves.

(A t this point Miss Hearst ' smessage began. I t was inter-rupted by a male voice ad-dressing R a n d o l p h A. Hears t .The cover page of the SLAletter containing the group'sde mands referred to a tape"recorded by myself and Pat

Hearst.". The f o l l w i n g is atranscr ipt o f t h e conclusion o fth e t a p e . )

"Mr. He a rs t , as y o u rd a u g h te r s a id , s h e ' s b e in gh e l d under in ternational codesof w a r regarding pr isoners o fw ar and that is she is notgoing to be h a r m ed in anym a n n e r unless an y a t tem p t ismade t o release her by f o r c e .

"She is b e in g p r o p e r lytreated, proper ly fed and shehas an exercise ar ea , f r e s hair , and so for th, and she'snet being harmed in any f a s h -i o n . And th i s is a l s o re lated toou r captured soldiers that arebeing held at San Q u e n t i n andw e hope that they w i l l receivethe same treatment accordingto the in ternational codes ofw a r .

"We understand f r o m then a t i o n a l repor ts a n d s o f o r t ht h a t t h e police a u t h o r i t i e s a n dothers a r e a t tem p t in g to p la c rthe r e s p o n s ib i l i ty u p o n us c o n -

ce rn i ng th e l i f e o f y o u r d a u g h -ter and to d is to r t and mis leadth e realities o f t h e f a c t s o f t h em a t te r .

"However, we wish to ex -

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