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Abbie Hoffman — Part 10
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"each other. ‘We ought to have a system that's based on
human values, one where people can touch each other, you
know, and hug and kiss and in order to have that kind of
a nation or that kind of a world, um, wee learned
a couple things in the last few years. We've learned
that we have to kind of figure out a way how to survive
and survival means that we have to learn how to fight
and that's what young people, hippies, yippies, whatever,
you want to call them, have been learning, and then that
we're being treated the way black people have been treated
in this. country. Anyone that challenges the authority
or the cultural morass of people in power, meets the force
of that power.
"Well I'm, it's kind of a long thing. I'm not
sure that a government is really even needed. It would
be kind of a decentralized kind of a societv, a world
in which people had more control over their lives. I mean
U.S, government is, this country makes up one sixteenth
of the world population, which controls 55% of the world's
wealth. You don't have to be an ardent SDS member to figure
out that somehow that's unfair and that's a raw deal and
that's not wht the goals of the founding fathers who had
a revolution, a war which is probably more unpopular than
the Vietnam war is today and I don't think that was their
goal. I think their goal was a free society. A free
society means that things are free, You get, it’s like
‘Alice's Restaurant', you get anything you want. We, I
think we stand on the brink of...
"It would fix up the highways and make sure
that people got from one place to another the way they
wanted to and take care of transportation, keep the
garbage out of the rivers. It would do a hell of a
lot better than this government, but it would be essentially
a government that would represent and reflect the needs of
the people and I don't think that's what we have today.
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