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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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"on that police force responsible for what happened.
In fact, they gave me this shirt. Honorary member.
Chicago Police Department. I'm with the Mod Squad.
But they're not responsible because those decisions
were made on a very high level. In fact, the decision
to indict us rested with Nixon himself. That's good.
That's good. But welfre gotng 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 cross~-
examine the jury and ask them questions like, hey you
ever been on an acid trip, you mow. 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,
{llegitimate father, Julius Hoffman, that judge,
) 7”, 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 stuff. We're gonna be found
innocent, see. And we aren't even gonna mess around
with, lil, .. uh. . denying all these little facts.
Like, we had 9,000 cattle ready to drive through the
streets of Chicago, you lmow, and. . uh. . . 10,000
of us were going to walk naked on Lake Michigan. I
mean that is . . uh. . you know. . LSD in the
water supply. JI mean call up .. I call a Deputy
. « « Deputy Mayor David Stahls (ph) the guy who like
stalls for like five months on our permit, see. You
get . . . a very liberal guy, more like Daley, who is
really got some class like. This guy is a sweatin’
what you're fighting for but we don't believe in
the methods used. Let's open the dialogue. Let's
have a dialogue. Yeahl
"Well, I called him up one night, like
hey Dave, how's it going? You lmow. How's your
team doing? Said ...tiIZ.. tell you a secret about
that LSD story in the... in the papers like . .
we didn't even start that rumor. You mist have seen
"Wild in the Streets" or somethin'. You know. But
like ..uh... Why don't you check with some of your
scientists, seeing how you own them all. I mean that
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