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ABBOTT HOWARD HOFFMAN a / 7 HOFFMAN continued and stated a couple of years ago, he was invited to the “House Un-American Activities Committee” and wore a flag shirt that he had bought in a fashionable New York boutique. The police said he was under arrest for desecrating the American flag. This was inter expe, because that night on the Ed Sullivan Show, PHYLLIS DILLER came on with a flag miniskirt and prandéed around, HOFFMAN also said that he was "blacked out” on’the Merv Griffin Show, even though two weeks before, ROY_ ERS and DALE EVANS, on Hollywood Playhouse, wore the exact same shirts. HOFFMAN said he wore the shirt only as a symbol of our attitude toward all the 2,750,000 laws on the books in this country. It's not the act, but who's doing the act. “It's not what you do, but who's doing the what.” The laws are there to pryyect the power and the property of the people. : ~ Yikw Jia t HOFFMAN mentioned the time he returned to Canada with two immigration lawyers, because of the case against him up there. Ali of a sudden, it was "Yes, sir," and "Welcome back,” the royal carpet treatment. When the lawyers came through the door, the whole scene changed. HOFFMAN remarked, "So you see what's going on." HOFFMAN continued by saying that last year at this time, he was on trial in Chicago, He stated “they were actually sentenced and had the distinction of being sentenced before a verdict was returned," The trial was go weird and metaphysical, according to HOFFMAN, that not even the defendants knew whether they were innocent or guilty, HOFFMAN said it was the usual jury of our peers, If you looked at the jurors, you cold in no way conclude they were from the same planet, let alone from the same peers. ; HOFFMAN remarked that he did not know why any~ body went to Chicago during the convention. He vaguely recalled it had something to do with criticism of the