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Abbie Hoffman — Part 10

159 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: May 7, 1969 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 159 pages OCR'd
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CONFIENTIAL NY 100-161445 ne tee ee ‘Chicago, since that time and because of five or ten thousand brave young people were ready to risk a threat of death to get their politics up into the street where the decisions are made in this country. ‘ell, Chicago, is an event in time and space and not a place and (uh), you think about that, you po around the country and people say were you in Chicago, they don't mean were you swimming in Lake Michipan. You know what I mean. They mean a certain event and it's because of that event and what happened that there's no political party that's going to hold a convention in a major city in a pig empire for the rest of the future, I mean (uh) you just think about it for a while. The Republican Party is never going to have a convention in Pittsburreh. Thev're never going to have a conventionin Washington, Atlantic City, or New York. The only place they are going to be allowed to have a convention is in Hawaii, which is the center of the military empire. You think about it. Because of how this country has moved eastward into Asia, into Southeast Asia, Hawaii is where all political conventions are going to be, they'll be broadcast via remote control television to the rest of the people. That's kind of a very subtle fascism, where you can't go and exert what you want to say at the point at which decisions are being made. You see, everybody goes down my street at the commuter protest down near the phallic on the Potomac there - that gigantic monument. There's a law in Washington by the way, that you can’t build any structure higher than that monument. You come up all kinds of Freudian symbolism... : sy y, Sant "VYe've learned that if you ever get involved, the courts analyze their role in America and the fact that they keep the people in power, in power, and we people they don't want and this is a political conference on repression, T don’t know » SO we want to de- legitimize the authority cause there’s always a of our power, the wwer of the people and the Powers of the 1970s and the future. Forget the power of the 1950s and ~38— CONFIDENTIAL a .-
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