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Abbie Hoffman — Part 12
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sound going around. New York blew up the IBM office. You've
seen one you've seen them all. Bombings, pea shooters,
plastic bombs. Better living through chemistry. The Yippies .
believein a violation of every law including the law of
gravity. What goes up don't necessarily have to come down.
“We believe in banks. We invested in the Bank of
America, Santa Barbara. That paid off heavy.
"We have to redefine the language and one of the words
we got to reorient ourselves to is the word violence. We have to
talk about institutional. violence.
"We're just going to pull off and do our thing and
the card table, card house is going to come crumbling down. Well,
I'll tell you it's falling on our (obscene) heads. We're like two
trains running and they were going full speed right in that court-
house; just like that on the same track. And I'll tell you if we
don't figure out how to derail that other (obscene) train before
it's too late, it's going to take us with it. And I'll tell you
revolution is about life, it's not about dying. You don't: die
for the revolution, you live for it. po
"IT said I want to confess because I felt the Government
was calling me an enemy of the state and I am an enemy of. the
state.
“Everybody in the whole (obscene) world saw what
happened in the streets of Chicago. Everybody knows what
happened there. Everybody knows Mayor Daley and his cohorts were
responsible for that. There isn't a court in America where
you could put that pig on trial and you believe it. The only
court in America that you can put that pig on trial is in the
streets and that's where we're going to have our jury of the
peers in the streets of this country. It's going to be a long,
hot summer if Bobby doesn't get out; it's going to be a burning,
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