The Symbionese Liberation Army

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🗓️ 10 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The United Federated Forces of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was an American far-left organization active between 1973 and 1975 that considered itself a vanguard army. The SLA was considered by the FBI and American law enforcement as the first terrorist organization to rise from the American left. Most fugitives of the group were apprehended in 1975 and prosecuted.

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0:00.0	What did you go see this last weekend?
0:02.6	Nope.
0:03.6	You don't want to tell me then?
0:06.3	I'm not doing this with you.
0:07.5	No, we're not doing the bit.
0:09.3	Well, what's this?
0:10.8	What is this thing?
0:11.8	Oh, it looks like a ransom letter made out of cut up magazine letters that somebody
0:17.6	slid under the door.
0:19.3	Huh.
0:20.3	Does no one figured out ransom messaging technology yet to come up with a better solution
0:25.1	than that?
0:26.1	Yeah, this is actually the worst way to do it.
0:28.2	You have a ton of glue to catch fibers and traceable scissor marks on the paper.
0:32.5	This is just trivia.
0:33.5	You happen to know, right?
0:34.7	Yeah.
0:35.7	I mean, I have no real experience with it.
0:38.7	Anyway, let's see what it says.
0:41.1	Okay.
0:42.1	We have Eli, the heir to the Bosnian Empire.
0:46.6	Oh, okay.
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