Leary on the Lam

Leary on the Lam

Timothy Leary, righteous holy man and spreader of the LSD conspiracy across the face of crazed Amerika, has escaped from prison. Leary has been held in a minimum security prison in California at San Luis Obispo for the last seven months. Increasingly disillusioned with any hope of obtaining his rights from Amerikan justice, Leary finally became fed up and, on Saturday evening September 12th, he climbed a twelve foot chain link and barbed wire fence (just like the one at Gooselake) and made good his escape.

On Wednesday, September 16th two documents were received in the offices of the Los Angeles Free Press (Freep editor Art Kunkin was to have been Tim’s campaign manager in his abortive attempt to challenge Ronald Reagan for the governorship of California in this year’s election).

Both documents are reprinted below . . . the Free Press stated that, as far as it could tell, the signatures on both were those of Leary and Bernadine Dohrn, Weatherman leader presently living underground. The Leary letter reveals an amazing about face from his previous mystical, non-violent philosophy. (Not any less mystical, however, we might add.) It may further prove to be a considerable turning point in the second Amerikan revolution.

WEATHERMAN COMMUNIQUE

September 15, 1970, This is the fourth communication from the Weatherman Underground.

The Weatherman Underground has had the honor and pleasure of helping Dr. Timothy Leary escape from the POW camp at San Luis, Obispo, California.

Dr. Leary was being held against his will and against the will of millions of kids in this country. He was a political prisoner, captured for his work he did in helping all of us begin the task of creating the new culture on the barren wasteland that has been imposed on us by Democrats, Republicans, Capitalists and Creeps.

LSD and grass, like the herbs and cactus and mushrooms of the Amerikan Indians

and countless civilizations that have existed oh this planet, will help us make a future world where it will be possible to live in peace.

Now we are at war.

With the NFL and the North Viet Namese, with the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and A1 Fatah, with Rap Brown and Angela Davis, with all black and brown revolutionaries, the Soledad brothers and all prisoners of war in Amerikan concentration camps,we know that peace is only possible with the destruction of U.S. imperialism.

Our organization commits itself to the task of freeing these prisoners of war.

We are outlaws; We are free.

(signed) Bernadine Dohrn.

The following statement was written in the POW camp and carried over the wall (in full sight of two gun trucks). I offer loving gratitude to my Brothers and Sisters in the WE A THERMAN UNDERGROUND who designed and executed my liberation.

Rosemary and I are now with the Underground and we’ll continue to stay high and wage the revolutionary war.

There is the time for peace and the time for war.

There is the day of laughing Krishna and the day of Grin Shiva.

Brothers and Sisters, at this time let us have no more talk of peace.

The conflict which we have sought to avoid is upon us. A worldwide ecological religious warfare. Life vs. death.

Listen. It is a comfortable, self-indulgent, cop-out to look for conventional economic-political solutions.

Brothers and Sisters, this is a war for survival. Ask Huey and Angela. They dig it.

Ask the wild, free animals. They know it.

Ask the turned-on ecologists. They sadly admit it.

I declare that World War III is now being waged by short-haired robots whose deliberate aim is to destroy the complex web of free wild life by the imposition of mechanical order.

Listen. There are no neutrals in genetic warfare. There are no non-combatants at Buchenwald, My Lai, or Soledad.

You are part of the death apparatus or you belong to the network of free life.

Do not be deceived. It is a classic stratagem of genocide to camouflage their wars as law and order police actions.

Remember the Sioux and the German Jews and the Black slaves and the marijuana pogroms and the pious TWA indignation over airline hijackings, hijackings.

If you fail to see that we are the victims-defendants of genocidal war, you will not understand the rage of the blacks, the fierceness of the browsn, the holy fanaticism of the Palestininans, the righteous mania of the Weathermen, and the pervasive resentment of the young.

Listen Americans. Your government is an instrument of total lethal evil.

Remember the buffalo and the Iriquois!

Remember Kennedy, King, Malcolm, Lenny!

Listen. There is no compromise with a machine. You cannot talk peace and love to a humanoid robot whose every Federal Bureaucratic impulse is soulless, heartless, humorless, lifeless, loveless.

In this life struggle, we use the ancient holy strategies of organic life:

1) Resist lovingly in the loyalty of underground sisterhoods and brotherhoods.

2) Resist passively, break lock-step . . . drop out.

3) Resist actively, sabotage, jam the computer . . . hijack planes . . . trash every lethal machine in the land.

4) Resist publicly; announce life . . . denounce death.

5) Resist privately; guerrilla invisibility.

6) Resist beautifully; create organic art, music.

7) Resist biologically; be healthy . . . erotic . . . conspire with seed ... breed.

8) Resist spiritually; stay high . . . praise God . . . love life .. . blow the mechanical mind with Holy Acid . •.. dose them, dose them, dose them.

9) Resist physically; robot agents who threaten life must be disarmed, disabled, disconnected by force . . . Arm yourselves and shoot to live . . . Life is never violent. To shoot a genocidal robot policeman in the defense of life is a sacred act.

Listen, Nixon. We were never that naive. We knew that flowers in your gun-barrels were risky. We too remembered Munich and Auschwitz all too well as we chanted love and raised our Woodstock fingers in the gentle sign of peace.

We begged you to live and let live, to love and let love, but you have chosen to kill and get killed. May God have mercy on your lost soul.

For the last seven months, I, a free, wild man, have been locked in POW camps. No living creature can survive in a cage. In my flight to freedom, I leave behind a million brothers and sisters in the POW prisons of San Quentin, Soledid, Con Thien ....

Listen, comrades. The liberation war has just begun. Resist; endure; do not collaborate. Strike. You will be free.

Listen, you brothers of the imprisoned. Break them out. If David Harris has ten friends in the world. I say to you, get off your pious, non-violent asses and break him out.

There is no excuse for one brother or sister to remain a prisoner of war.

Right on, Leila Khaled!

Listen, the hour is late. Total war is upon us. Fight to live or you’ll die. Freedom is life. Freedom will live.

TIMOTHY LEARY WARNING: I am armed and should be considered dangerous to anyone who threatens my life or freedom.