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Abbie Hoffman — Part 12
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it's all ‘catch 22' which means that they can do whatever they
want until we get our (obscene) together and organize and be
able to take them on. ‘Les we build us a new nation with a new
Army! Although we like to have fun and everything, there's ’
people out there that don't want to see that we live that.
kind of life, and we have to learn to defend ourselves against
those people and those forces." /
On April 11, 1970, SAS of the FBI heard the subject
address approximately 8,000 individuals at Grégory Gymnasium
on the University of Texas campus at Austin, 'Texas,at the
invitation of the University of Texas Union Speaker's
Committee. The following are excerpts from the subjects
speech: .
" ..the law hasn't got a (obscene) think to do with
justice. The law is about keeping the people in power right
where the (obscene) they are. And that is why, and that is why,
when those jucges say we went mn there, that we went in there,
into that courtroom in Chicago, that neon oven, to deliberately
be in contempt of that court system, they are ‘right on,' cause
that is what we did; because we are in contempt of that law,
and we are in contempt of the people in Washington that passed
that law and every other (obscene) law in the books. The yippies,
there are two million seven hundred fifty thousand laws in this
country. The yippies are for the violation of every one of
those (obscene) laws including the law of gravity.
"We are going to smash a society that robs.women
of their dignity. That's what we're going to do. And it ain't
about Virginia Slims, sticking cancer ip her mouth. That ain't
what the (obscene) its about. It's about women have a right to
do the decision-making that effects their lives and their
bodies.
“We an do it. We can whip those (obscene) pigs
We can dance on the grave of the pig enpire.
"We are also a people, an emerging nation, proud, and
beautiful, and right. We are the alternative. We are what
we are going to put in the (obscene) place.
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