radicalized and he became part of this group that spent its time going to vacaville prison, and he became friends with donald defreeze. joe remiro, and russ little. defreeze had a plan. back then all the jobs in the prison were done by a convict. defreeze knew enough from talking to other prisoners that manning the boilers was a job outside the fence. the first time they sent him to his job, he stayed there for a couple hours and he was gone. i m not certain who picked him up. i always thought it was willie. when defreeze escaped, that was the beginning of the sla. donald defreeze goes to the only place he knows that he s likely to get a warm welcome, and that s berkeley. he hooks up on the outside with some of the students who had
the stockholm syndrome is here, you got me. i m a captive. i ve got to make the best of this. but that s fundamentally different than saying, you know what, i really dig what you re doing. by the way, it would have been a real achievement. it would be the first time ever to succeed and the sla had no training in this. never pretended to have any training in this. some have said that the sla had no expertise in brainwashing and particularly donald defreeze, the leader. that is nonsense. he had studied the north korean methodology. he knew enough to abuse her to the point where she would do most anything she was told to do. we weren t brainwashers. we weren t trained in the techniques similar to the ones used on me and my fellow marines in boot camp. that was brainwashing. that was breaking you down to nothing and building you back up again. that never happened.
too hard. i close it slightly and i start looking for her. she s like not there. so i look around, sure enough, she s hobbled into the [ bleep ] garage. go and grab her and throw her in the trunk. i must have made too much racket. neighbors who were situated across from her and next door to her came out of their apartment. defreeze turned around, blasted four or five rounds to get them to back off. that woke up nancy, who s sitting shotgun in emily s car. and so she got off a few rounds too. we re ready to boogie. willie can see that we re ready to go. he pulls out of his spot. we pull out of the driveway. come up behind him. emily comes up behind us. we make it around the corner. all of a sudden, out of nowhere, here comes a berkeley cop. who stops the vw with willie and mizmoon in it.
parking lot, they shot marcus foster dead at point-blank range. the theory was that defreeze, nancy ling perry and moon soltysik were the shooters and joe remiro and russ little were the lookouts. remiro and little had guns with them but they were not involved in the shooting. in a communique to newspapers, the sla took credit for foster s murder. it was the first time anyone had ever heard of the group. they were proud of what they had done and they put out a press release or a statement saying they had done this. the sla was not indiscriminately issuing death warrants for foster, blackburn or anyone else. such an attack was the only means left open to us to demand that the people s wishes be met and all such dangerous genocidal programs be stopped. i was surprised by it. i didn t know they even existed. so i was thinking, oh, my
marcus foster. it was all in the news. we heard about it. but we didn t know anything about the people that were in the sla. donald defreeze did have a dramatic sense about him. he was the one who came up with the name of the symbionese liberation army. symbionese, which was based on symbiosis between students and prisoners. defreeze too came up with the logo of the seven-headed cobra, and the seven values of each head of the cobra were the same values that underline the african holiday of kwanzaa. it would certainly be a mistake to think that the symbionese liberation army had some sort of clear agenda for change.