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...assassination of President Kennedy, which point to conspiracy. But before any conclusions are drawn, the questions must be answered. But when Mark Lane participates in a panel discussion with someone like Boston radio personality Mae Brussel, giving the weight of his presence to her completely unsupported allegation that the SLA kidnapping of Patty Hearst, the death of J. Edgar Hoover--which she terms murder--and the events of November 22, 1963, are all linked, he minimizes the credibility of his own work...
California: home of Richard Nixon, Charlie Manson, Patty Hearst and the SLA. California: the only state where Hollywood stars can tap dance their way into the political arena. California: land of sunshine, palm trees, and earthquakes...
THERE IS ALSO no justification for the press's coverage of the SLA--biased, sexist, sensationalist, and superficial. The Boston Globe has devoted three days of features this week to a popular psychology-type diagnosis of Patricia Hearst's emotional development. In The Globe, she is described as dependent and weak-willed. The Los Angeles Times last February called her self-reliant and "a classic beauty." References to the sexual mores of the SLA women abound. Even Vin McLellan, a Boston Phoenix writer who has thoroughly reported the background of Donald DeFreeze, belittles the SLA for misspellings in their documents...
...large has not done its job--because there has been a disturbing tendency to reduce issues of terror and morality, politics and justice, and life and death to popular psychologizing and knee-jerk sermonizing--it is crucial for political activists, particularly on the Left, to take the SLA's example seriously. It is imperative that activists examine the SLA's experience in order to arrive at a better understanding of the moral, as well as the tactical ramifications of violent political programs whether at home or in Uruguay, Israel, or Ireland. The Left needs to formulate a coherent moral vision...
...there is a lesson to be learned from the SLA, it is that in a society as violently racist, exploitative and aggressively heartless as America's, we cannot afford to be without an organized mass movement of the Left. For what the Left means in human terms is a moral community of hope--the revolutionary possibility of a better...