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Abbie Hoffman — Part 7
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“You meet alot of groovy people in a conspiracy.
-You oughta start one. Take power into your own hands.
Decide what you want and go do it. Just back from Berkeley.
University leveled e while buildng - gonna make a parking lot.
Like they're gonna do in Vietnam. Kids ran in and put sod and
made a park, People's Park; put up swings and everything, right
on the University's property. They look at that. Whoo, they're
spooked. How they gonna move against those little kiddies in the
wading pool? Sneaky commies. You know the commies, they aren't
hiding under the bed anymore. They came right up on top of the bec
and we're s....... them like crazy. We're gonna dance on the
grave of this system. You try it.” You wanna get an education?
Try doing what you wanna do. And then you'll see that cops
Loe .come in... See who. calls them. Check out the guys who own this
school. Check ‘em out. What else they own. Coca Cola? vUnited
Fruit, Canada? What do they own up there? They own you. Try
taking it. You know people don't believe that cops are good
guys. Mayor Daley's a good guy, yea, how come their eight cops
put up to balance us eight in Chicago - they put up eight cops -
that's why I wear the shirt. That's why I wear it in Chicago.
See, we're in eupathy Wivn those working men con the force. They're
being put up as scapegoats. We offered them our legal aid.
People saw that coming in; the whole world was watching in
Chicago. They saw it on air, it was coming over the boob tube.
Smash smash smash. Beatin' up the kids. We don't believe it.
It's not true. And they're right, where they live, it's not
true. Cop's a guy that comes by to help them with a fiat tire,
you know? Guy come by, Officer, will you keep an eye on the
house? We're going to Miami Beach, and we'll be away for a
while and there's alot of violence in the streets. Will you
keep an eye on our house? Oh yes. Thanks, Officer. And
they see him on FBI, Mod Squad, and all the other shows. They're
good guys. Well, they ain't good guys where I live. In my
blocks there're twenty cops that patrol it. And you're a
suspicious looking character, which is like most of us, suspicious
lookin', they grab you and throw you up against the building
and they search ya and they find some flowers in you pocket,
you could do one to five years. You ain't got an ID you get
thrown in jail. Thrown in jail for not having an ID? It's
ridiculous. They blow the whistle, half the hippies turn to -
cops. It's a different world; it's a long way from here. Tf
. know it's flat up here, but you got along way to go to see what's
goin' on in the lowereast side. War goin' on down there.
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