◆ SpookStack

a ee sos : , - > tA et a : L x. ‘ A Some A ER te Beet ay Te A re heal ek ad ee Et a SGA, ogee ec C Q NY 100-161445 "In Abbie Hoffman's book and in Dr. Boorstin's, style obscures content. The danger is that Dr. Boorstin's appears reasonable and Abbie Hoffman's mad, that the one will be taken too seriously and the other too lightly, for Dr. Boorstin is a director of a Smithsonian Institution museum and Abbie is on trial for conspiracy in Chicago”. The December, 1969 issue of "UR" (University Review) published weekly by Entelechy Press,on page 25 contained an article by the subject entitled "The Hard Rain's Already Falling" in which the subject stated in part as follows: "Someday real soon we're going to see posters in the post office that say 'WANTED FOR CONSPIRACY TO INCITE RIOT' and there smiling out at us will be pictures of our favorite rock groups. Unreal? Well maybe you're not hip to what's been going down lately. The Law and Order apes and this senile dinosaur we call a government have flipped out. Preventive detention, the no-knock clause in the new drug laws, and the extensive use of wire-tapping by the Justice Department are all part of a wave of repression. Over 300 Black Panthers are now in jail in a national plot to destroy their organization. White radicals are being arrested. Underground newspapers are being harassed. G.I.'s who speak out are receiving harsh sentences. The police have been unleashed. A year ago in Chicago it was clubs and tear. gas, last spring in Berkeley it was shotguns, and last | month in Washington, more tear gas. "....If the government wanted to it could bust rock groups on charges of conspiracy to incite riot. Last year Congress passed an anti-riot act which made it illegal to urge people to go to an event at which a riot later occurs. The law makes it illegal to travel from state to state, write letters or telegrams, speak on the radio or television, make a telephone call with the intention of encouraging people to participate in a riot. A riot meaning an act of violence ocairring in an assemblage of three or more persons. The people doing the urging never have to commit an act of ~58-