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Abbie Hoffman — Part 7
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"Mississippi; arrested once in a town in Mississippi
for going through a red light. They didn't have a red light
in the whole town. Threw me in a cell. See, whatthe other
prisoners said, he's a civil rights worker. Beat the s...
out of him, he'll let you go and give you a pint of liquor.
And he did. They beat you up outside, see, and then the
Justice Department come down, John Doe and all his fiunkies;
liberals say this is terrible, what's haprening to you, you
know, you'll be lying on the ground there, yea, right, it's
terrible. They'd say call us up in Washington. Call us
collect. You know we'll take care of it. We can't do anything
right now cause see, there's states rights and in this case
our hands are tied. Phew. Eight years of that. Liberals.
Hands are tied. They're gonna have a hell of a trip with this
trial in Chicago. They're gonna write out a check The Conspiracy,
it's really a trip going up to «> Saying, right, of course,
I'm constitutional law, yea, right, it's: ridiculous. Law is
@ police state facism coming in. Well, give us a check. Well,
who do I make it out to? The Chicago Legal Defense Committee
or the Chicago Eight? No, we're the conspiracy. Oh, my pen's
stuck. That's OK. JI got a felt one right here. Technology.
Give him the felt pen, he writes it out. Send it in. He's
& member.
"People think there's alot of political repression
going on in this country. They grabbed 21 Black Panthers
in New York. Planning to blow the Botanical Gardens and
Macy's and alot of other national security interests. Same
‘as if Chicago won. You see, they think that's gonna stop
us. They get all these people together. Like all these ‘
Gifferent forces are gonna come into Chicago, comin' to New
York to defend the Black Panthers, cause we don't view these
acts as acts of repression. We view them as signs of a dying
sympton...system. The emperor's clothes are coming off. And
we're gonna rejoice. When this trial's over, we'll dance on
the graves of the systen. , .
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