"We are quite obviously faced with a need to organize some small defenses to the more flagrant abuses of the system now. ... While we await the precise moment when all of capitalism's victims will indignantly rise to destroy the system, we are being devoured. ... Some of us are going to have to take our courage in hand and build a hard revolutionary cadre for selective retaliatory violence."
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Jonathan P. Jackson
Jonathan Peter Jackson (June 23, 1953 – August 7, 1970) while aged 17, initiated the armed kidnapping of Superior Court judge Harold Haley, prosecutor Gary Thomas, and three jurors from a courtroom in Marin County, California, in August 1970. Johnathan was the brother of prisoner and civil rights activist George Jackson.
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