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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5

234 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Mar 23, 1969 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 234 pages OCR'd
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IP 100-2 7576 a ato: HOFFMAN: “I mean. I heard the Sermon on the Mount. 4 He didn't say that. He said, well, I mean, the people will Imow, we're serious we do that . Two thousand years passed. The Catholics are, like, very ) screwed up. The people aren't allowed to s----. (Andher interruption from audience) HOFFMAN: "What did you say brother? Cousin, rather. What did you say Delilah? "So, . uh. . we get now. . we're getting our things together real well. I mean people are getting gassed and stomped and jeiied, arrested. Facing 20 years forall kinds of different laws. Two million seven hundred thousand laws in this country. Whole lot of laws out there. You think that law was something about the flag, huh? Trre's a law that says .. uh. . you cannot impersonate Smokey the Bear or you get six months in prison. "That's right! If you got a law library here. That's U. S. Code 18, Section 711, Smokey the Bear statute. Hal Hal I'm Smokey the Bear. Six months. So like. . uh. the legal system in this country, you see, is not. . -has got nothing to do with justice. In the halls of justices, the justices in the halls. Right. Lennie Bruce said that, a commie. Right. Commie Bruce. Justice who. It's catch 22, catch 22 says that they can do whatever they want to us pro- viding we can't stop them from doing it and vice versa. And that's the way the whole thing works. And like cops. Well you dig copa. Yeah! Well, see, you know why I wear thia 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 didn't want them responsible for what happened on the atreets of Chicagd. 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 all of those other king pigs in this country. And we do not hold those working men -22< a ee ne te
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