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Abbie Hoffman — Part 7

102 pages · May 12, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 102 pages OCR'd
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— owe Mer ey . ry a NY 100-161445 at "So we decided to nominate a pig for president in Chicago and lo and behold, he won. Right? He's up there. _And now they want to do us in for it. They said you guys, you're too spread out; you gotta get together. You gotta form a conspiracy. Conspiracy. Conspire to breed together. You meet some nice people in a conspiracy. You oughta join up. It's really a good thing. Eight of us, total of eighty years, one hundred sixty thousand dollars, plus one hundred sixty, nothing. Pick that up just panhandling around this country. Pick up eighty years, too. You ain't got your Yippie helmet. Conspiracy. We got a motion going ina couple days. We're gonna ask them to move the trial from the Federal Building to the coliseum. We're gonna be tried by the lions, just like the old days. And a week after that; we got &@ great legal team, eight great lawyers, all around this country, best legal team ever assembled, and the ninth, lawyer, Doctor Fidel Castro, from Havana, Cuba. He's a lawyer, defend us in the style to which we are accustomed; we oughta make a motion before the bar, have him admitted, practice law up there. It's illegal, they'll say. That's the way it goes. You can't do your thing. Flower children get some thorns. Revolution. "I saw an ad a couple days ago, did you see it? What are the revolutionaries that United Artists planning for 169. Jesus. They oughta be doing it. United Artists. Dodge rebellion. It's tough to figure out what those words mean, so we got a whole newset. We ain't serious. Businessmen are serious, movie producers are serious. Everybody's serious but: us. We ain't serious and never gonna be serious again. You're not serious man. You won't work. Work work work work work. That's a four-letter word. A dirty four-letter word. No, we never work. We play all day. We f... and smoke pot and play all day and love it. They hate that. That's worse that not even taking a bath and doing all the other things and guerilla fighting. But you're gonna not work? And see, like, ah, Yippies are students; they're members of the working class,
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