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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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"The system works on, like, dividing people. Like. .
uh, . . radicals and jocks and hippies and yippies and Maoists
and Wallacites and that works for a very particular reason.
Because while they got that working they can keep you here and
fill you with all that heroin they call education, see, and
then you can slip into IBM and get that plastic. . uh. . . wall
to wall mine and die a very slow death instead of dying on the
street for what you believe in. See? And you, like, to neve
get that opportunity in. ..
"Because schools in this country. . . schools in this
country are the first cause of chromosome damage. Dig it!
"Well, see, you know why I wear this shirt because
those, like ape, cops that are being put up as scapegoats there
in Chicago, see, like we offered them our legal aid, see, and we
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of Chicago. Because a cop, like any other guy in the system,
is working for bread and he's doing his job and that's all. And
he wasn't responsible. It was Daley and Humphrey and ell of
those other king pigs in this country. And we do not hold those
working men on that police force responsible for what happened.
In fact, they gave me this shirt. Konorary member. Chicago
Police Department. I'm with the Mod Squed. But they're not
responsible because those decisions were made on a very high
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himself, That's good, That's good. But we're going to win
that trial, see. We're going to win that trial before a jury
that is selected by those very same people because in a Federal
court our lawyers are not allowed to crossexamine the jury and
ask them questions like, hey you ever been on an acid trip, you
know. Things like that. We'd be tried by .. . How can they
find a jury of our peers. Right. Under that system, Impossible.
But even before that kind of jury, before a judge, my illegitimate
father, Julius Hoffman, that judge, 74 years old gremlin. He
gonna die in trial. He is just gonna have a heart attack, keel
over and die when he hears all this muff. We're gonna be found
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