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Assassination. emily and i and angela were taken to a location. hoods were put over our head. and we were led into a van and we were transported to a place where we didn t know where we are. we had no idea. emily and angela and i were just trying to understand what was going on and listen to what they had to say. because of the nature of the foster assassination, i was prepared to possibly not be impressed. joe and russ were not happy with that particular operation. i think they were troubled by it enough to talk to emily and me and angela about hooking up with them and separating off into a separate cell. that was my intention always. combination of impatience, despair, the real malaise of my own existence, you know. and the ineffectualness of the left was what caused me to make this decision. ....
The decision to kidnap patricia hearst was the direct result of joe and russ arrest. we had to do it as a matter of principle. possibly worked toward an exchange. it also was the result of our general politics and who we targeted in our minds as being enemies of the people. we had already determined that hearst was a particular easy target and that the propaganda that could be generated from it was perfect. bill and emily and angela came out of the theater program at indiana university. and this was a time when theater had a very political component. it was known as guerrilla theater. and they believed in using theater, in using propaganda as as a way of exposing the contradictions in modern society and recruiting people to their ....
About the beginning of january, okay, of 1974, when we finally come to that decision. january 10th, 1974, literally changed my whole life. and all of my plans. joe and russ were driving in their van back to the safe house. they were running errands, picking up guns that had been altered. they went to a printing unit and picked up a stack of drawings of the seven-headed cobra. the leaflets were propaganda telling the program of the sla, including recruiting comrades. i don t think they noticed the cop. all of a sudden he pulls them over out of the blue. check the car for remiro, ....
Trying to explain is the symbolic connection to joe and russ. she s innocent, they re innocent. we re going to treat her like you re supposed to treat them. it didn t take us long to do the surveillance. she was in an ideal location. there was no security. her front door was right there. handy dandy. and her apartment was blocked from the street, so there wasn t going to be a lot of easy sidelines for people to see what was going on or even hear. i think it was a weeknight that we chose. everybody in the group was involved in the operation. willie s driving. mizmoon is the passenger in the vw. emily s car is parked three spaces down the street. camilla was driving the getaway car and defreeze, me and angela had to handle everything that went on inside the house. ....
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 been visiting him on the inside, and that includes joe remiro, willie wolfe, russ little, and in their social circle are nancy ling perry and ms. moon soltysik. ms. moon and nancy wind up moving in with donald defreeze and start coming up with these ideas about revolutionary change. the three of them become the nucleus of the symbionese liberation army. the symbionese liberation army committed a horrendous crime before kidnapping patty hearst. ....