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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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~7 "Now...I like to really dig you when everybody gets
| the juice flowing, you know, and yells and «11 that sh--and
pulls out words and burns down a building and all that. But
there are a couple of ground rules. Things I oughta let you
know about. Yeah! see this morning I had my 39th arrest in
New York. I almost didn't make it here.
(Booing and yelling from audience)
"That's good. That's good. I dug it too. 39 arrests.
No convictions, see. Dig it! They arrested me for . . Un. « .
not showing up in court Friday. Now the reason why I wasn't
in court was because in the recess I went down in the phone
booth and when I came out of the phone Dooth, see, they were
clearing the Black Panther Party out of the lobby or someplace.
They were in there having their demonstration, and I got ten
feet out of the phone booth, see, and this pig jumped me from
the back. Caught me real good. Yeah! That's good! That's
right. He sold 10,000 copies of my book. I love him! But
see, I hit the pillow. See? I hit this pillow and I came
bouncing off the pillow and I said, ‘Get the f---out of the
building.‘ That's a direct quote. For the ladies that are
here whore interested in history.
\ "Now I proceeded to give a karate demonstration and
74 sent three cops to the hospital. I got .. uh. . felonious...
Pe they call this... they call it felonious assault. See?
. Felonious assault, see. Dig it! No Jello sh--like some chicken
sh--ba-----threw at me an hour ago. See!
"So like. .wuh.. . like this is a little . uh. .
this is a liberated zone here.
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| "Okay. I'11 show you the flick. ... Flower power.
A Only some of us got thornes.
(More booing from audience)
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