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Abbie Hoffman — Part 7
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"where'd I learn how to talk this way, huh, from my
mother? I got a Master's Degree. From Berkeley. I didn't
learn to talk that way there. I learned to talk that way in
police stations. I thought I was goin' hysterical in Chicago,
and they say, you're using obscenities. They swore - I thought
that was hysterical - at my trial I was arrested for havin' a dirty
four-letter word called hate on my forehead in Chicago. It was
part of my security system. I didn't want my picture in the
mass media, see, you..you had to swear at f..., right, or they
won't take your picture. So I had that and I had a cross to
keep away the vampires. Good for a kike to wear a cross, good
disguise. So, the cop testified at my trial; the judge says,
well, what did he have under his hat? Cop says, an obscenity,
~~ -yoa honor. ~An obscenity. “wietiwas 406? Well, I don't wanna say
it. Hah. You should have heard him back in the station house.
Well, I got cleared for that finally because they didn't have
a, they said there were all these eyewitnesses, but they couldn't
produce ‘em, see, so it only offended the cop's morals and if
you only offend a cop's morals, it ain't good enough. It's,
Jike a loophole in the law, so they threw the case out. But
nonetheless, I got charged for resisting arrest, see, and I
got fifteen days and a year probation stilicomin' up to serve
in Chicago. But it's goin' to Supreme Court because it sounds
sorta strange, you know, if you're not arrested for anything,
how can you resist arrest to it? But,well, you know, Earl
Warren and ali his friends, they work for us, right? Tell 'em
yea, they work for us. They'll figure it out. We got more
important things to do. Any others?
"Now you say good luck. Why they all got me into
that. And I'll walk out of here, and you'll say good luck,
take it easy, dress warmly in Chicago, it's a windy city. All
that mother talk. I got a mother. We don't need mothers.
We need mother f...... What's this school like? What do you
guys get to be? Second Lieutenants? What do they teach here?
They gotta teach somethin' besides ovals here. That's OK.
I dig that flag. Pretty colors. Make a good shirt. Keeps -
you nice andwarm. Wanna hear a good one? Volume eighteen,
U.S. Code, Statute 711 - hello, I'm Smokey the Bear. That's *
six months in jail. Check it out §ix-months for that. Hello, -
I'm Smokey the Bear. It's hard to keep your cool out there,"
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