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Abbie Hoffman — Part 12
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Opportunity, and one of the things we did with the money was to
print this book we called (Obscene) the. System, which shows
how to live totally free in America and one of the things we
had in was you can get a free buffalo if you want it by writing +r
to the Department of Wildlife and they got something like
3,000 requests within two months. whey said that they didn't
have any buffaloes and, furthermore, they didn't have any
yippies either. They said though that they were placing the
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are sorta hunting yippies. Well, I was up, I; was on trial in
Chicago. Did you hear about it? It was actually, we were, we
were pretty downright upset that John Wayne, Old Duke, stole
the Academy Award from us -- I'l] tell you (if) there weren't
whiskey~drinking old lush heads making those kinds of decisions
in the country we would have swept it sure as (obscene). Well,
strange trial, we were tried under a law called Anti-Riot Act.
It was Strom Thurmond's civil rights contribution passed in
April of 1968 in a record ten hours and signed the next day and the
duy right after they,they began the investigation of us. We
had been organizing about three months before that to come to
Chicago, so everything we were doing was automatically on that
day illegal. Besides tapping our phones, following us around the
country was in violation of Supreme Court decision of the
Fourth Amendment but, Julie, when it got time for us to make that
motion said, ‘oh, well,we'll decide that later'. Everything
is gonna get decided later in this trial. Well, Strom Thurmond
passed, got through his statute says 'People cannot cross state
lines with the intention to incite a riot'. A riot is defined
by an act or a threat of violence by one or more people in a
crowd of three or more, _ Probably happened six or seven
(sixty seven) times in the assembly and about ten or twenty
times out at park, that great festival this afternoon,
“(Unintelligible) to teach us dumb Yankees a thing or
two. Texas, I hear Chicago's the capital of this town. Well,
so there we were, faced with this kind of law. In April. a year
and a half later after that little football game we had up
there with the Democratic Party and the Blue Boys, Mayor
Daley's team, up in Lincoln Park, they indicted us, eight
people; that is, Rennie Davis, Tom Hayden, they thought they were
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