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Abbie Hoffman — Part 7
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“but we're on strike. We partly went on strike because we
envision a free society. Free society like the fathers laid
it out, you know, America, land of the free. Oh, my old man
said at an early age, said free means you don't pay. When
can I go to the supermarket and buy what I want with my good
looks? That's what Ginsberg said. Beautiful cat. That's
the program for the future, everything free. Well, how we
gonna do it. Well, you like, I don't know how it is with wheat
out here, but like with corn, aboutten years ago it took 480 man
hours to process an acre of corn. Today it takes 48; in five
years it'll take four, and in ten years it will take four
minutes. We'll have corn, we'll have popcorn, we'll have
‘everything; caramel corn, any kind you want, free. Why not?
“We put out a booklet called, F... the System, in
New York. Fifteen thousand free copies. Thirty-two pages,
right there, everything, how to get it free. Free credit
cards, calls, how to do it, free laundromats, how to work that
thing on the vending machines, how to get on the subway free,
where to get free fish, free food, free drugs, free abortions,
everything, right there. Free. We have a free store down ’
there. We give out things free. You just keep bringing it
down. We just keep passing it out, free. Who's in charge?
You're in charge. Nobody's gotta be in charge. It's all free.
I know, but work's a heavy trip cause, well, I guess it started
with like way back. The time of the Roman Empire. There was
this guy, Christ, this groovy hippie, long hair, beatnik, out
there doing his thing, driving money changers from the temple.
Wow, that's terrible. -That's heavy stuff. Slave rebellion.
We'll call it religion, OK. That's sneaky. That's really «+
good. Never tell them what you're doing. Religion, yea,
OK, so he gothis thing, pigs nailed him up. They were
poured out in the catacomos, just like the hippies going out
in the communes. [Later I'll tell you how to fly in an
airplane free. Now to dig on. So then came the disciples, see,
and they're feeling kinda guilty, they said, hey, he was really
serious, man, did you see what he did; did you see the way he
spent his Easter vacation? He was very serious. If we gotta
be that serious, what are we gonna do? They were all sitting
around there, Mark and John and all these guys, and John says,
I got an idea, why don't we dress in black - that's serious,
They say, OK, sounds good. And Paul, Paul is a real clever
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