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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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CONFIDENTIAL ©
NY 100-161445
"Well, we're corrupt. We're offered to call the whole
thing off for $200,000 bucks. But like they don't want to do it..
So Humphrey went down the drain. He's out in some university. .
uh. . . being some professor.
"But Nixon. Nixon. We're going to send him right
back to the pig farm. ‘My Six Crises’. That was his last
book, huh Well. We, eight of us, are going to add up to 14
crises and .. uh. . someday when it's all over, we'll see
what's the top. What's it going to look like after the revolution,
pun? What's it going to look like? Business as usual, maybe,
?
"It's going to look like the people struggling to make
that revolution. It's going to look like they want it. And
if you're in it, you don't even get to see the program. The
program comes out of the struggle. Comes out of the action.
“America, land of the free. Well, my old man told me
that at an early age, that free menas you don't pay. The communists
said that. Free, you don't pay. What does free mean, dad?
Free means you don't pay. Oh ho! I understand what you mean.
Right. The goods and the technology produced by a society shall
be made available to whoever wants them, come who may. Free,
see, We can do it. I mean, like ten years ago. Right in this
area, you know, Like corn, 480 man hours to produce an acre of
corn. Today, 48 hours. In five years, four hours. In ten
years, four minutes. Dig it! Four minutes!
"Then the Government says well, start a work progran.
Work project. Welfare. We'll call it . . you call it OEO or
some d--- thing. Creating jobs that like don't exist. Can't
work that way. We're aiming for full unemployment. Right.
"What's work. Dirty four-letter word called work, huh.
I never worked a day in my life. Not going to work any more.
Because like work . . work and being serious . . that's establishme
things. I mean movie producers are serious. They were serious
in the Academy Awards, buh. Wasn't that a serious show. Special
ares: '
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