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erenees ovr ENTIAL SF f "tWe're going to march up to Queens,’ Hoffman said. 'That's Babylon. We're going to have a Bastille Day.'" i H. Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado ” ___ April 7, 1970 __ On March 30, 1970, an announcement appeared in the "Collegian, "a Colorado State University (CSU) campus newspaper at Fort Collins, Colorado, indicating that HOFFMAN was scheduled to appear for a speech at 8: 00 PM, April 7, 1970, m the student center ballroom at CSU. On April 7, 1970, an SA of the FBI attended the above-~ mentioned speech which was held as scheduled. Thisspeech was a series of disjointed statements by HOFFMAN, obviously not well prepared and liherally sprinkled with barnyard ti obscenities. A major part of his diatribe dealt with critical a comments concerning the recent Chicago Antiriot Laws trial Ea . where he was a defendant. . Of this speech made by HOFFMAN before «zn audience of approximately 1,500 individuals at the student center on the campus of CSU, Fort Collins, Colorado, excerpts from which are set forth as follows; } 4 ( "I'll have to apologize for not being stoned or ‘having aN & cald, (here Hoffman pulls out replica of American f° ee Me ae aa WG Saye ne eth had which is made like a handkerchief and blows his nose’‘on ‘ ) It's just old glory blowing in the wind. j "So getting out of Cook County Jail into the lower middle security penitentiary we call the United States of America is not such a good deal. They let us out on one condition--we're not allowed to give any seditious speeches. I hope everything I say is seditious. I hope everything we do, live, breathe and eat (obscene) and shoot is seditious because we find ) ourselves in a state of war. 7 29 - CONFIDANTIAL