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Abbie Hoffman — Part 14

182 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Dec 17, 1970 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 182 pages OCR'd
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a coe teem in one — Deen gee oe pod oh geet re een pan NY 100-161455 Low an _- a ; a -.- recording of the speech made by the subject, excerpts of which are set out as follows: "Well, thanks for bringing me out here. Tcan see this ain't the Lower East Side. Quite different. Beautiful. We came toSan Francisco. We had a police station blow up in New York. It was, it was two days late, but, that's the way it goes, you know, long fuse. But, we're learning better living from chemistry, you see. It's a slogan. And, what goes up doesn't necessarily have to come down, the way Isaac Newton taught us in the fourth grade. And the Weathermen in New York definitely proved that fact that police station ain't never coming down again. "Well, we came into San Francisco, and we drove Gown the coastline on a tourist trip visiting a11 the oil Slicks along the way. Seven (obscene) oil slicks we saw ail the way down here, I mean, the pigs really ought to take care of the Pacific Ocean a little better, cause actually there are only two others like it in the whole world... "J was on trial in Chicago, did you hear about it, huh? Oh, you did? Yeah. We sort of felt we should have got the Academy Award for that trial, I mean, not John Wayne and those (obscene). JI mean, if they were, if they were pot- heads making decisions in Hollywood, as well as Washi..gton, you know, instead of lush whiskey drinkers, we would've won the Academy Award for sure. “Well, it was a strange trial. We were on trial , under Anti-Riot Act, twenty-one-,one-, twenty-one,ten I think 4t's called. Strom Thurmond passed it as a memorial tribute to Martin Luther King. It was attached on to Open Housing Act, and it's, it's only fitting in 1984 that we be tried under a civil rights act. And, it's called the anti-riot clause of the civil rights act, and a niot is defined as an act or threat of violence by one or more people in a crowd of three or more. Probably happened here about seven or eight times, but you have to be smoking what General Mitchell ' - 26 -
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