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Abbie Hoffman — Part 16

106 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Oct 21, 1971 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 105 pages OCR'd
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5 1 iT kt woe . oo tae ties. mr, thee Tr 34 * fo ta ty igh ee are Seren NY 100-161445 ** prison and not one (obscene), five years. There's an inter- esting law, Section 2101, Volume 18, U. S. Penal Code; it's ah part of a civil rights law passed in April of 1968 by one of the all~time great civil rights champions, Senator STROM THURMOND. I had another experience, because being in a group of people up in Chicago in a trial a couple of years ago, did you hear about it nere? You did. We got five years for violating that law. It's a very metaphysical law. It says that it's illegal to cross a state line to organize, promote, narticinatea ar incrita not with tha intantinan minA vou with rn WS in es ae BS Oe nat ie aie Be le We 3 oats wy Tt ake WEE ry hs eT eh de el A oe A a ie | Tia WS the intentions, to organize, incite, participate, or promote @ riot and a riot is defined under THURMOND's civil rights law as an act or threat of violence by one or more people in a crowd of three or more, It's a very metaphysical law and that is why up there in Chicago we were quite dazzied because not even the defendants knew whether we were innocent or guilty or not. You can see why the jury and the judge had some problems with it so it's an interesting law and no other person in history has been tried under it twice. "If the government doesn't end the war in Vietnam we're going to end the government and there is 47 hours left. There's about three lines in a 15-minute speech so I'm a ; bit nervous in schools like this because right after the speech the recordings of the speech are handed over to the President of the University and he says we got it, we got the tape... "Well, there's a very important election as y u know. We did go to Washington. Did anybody go? It was a very tactical achievement, We had about 75,000 people in the park, By the way, I come up in a plane here and something smeéelied very appealing, This whole state seems to smell like marijuana. What's the state flower, a marigold or some wierd little thing. It would be just my luck if they arrested me here, Well anyway, we were up in Washington, you know, we had all those people like. President NIXON goes on the boob tube ~36~ oo eee nee i Pre ES re ee Me Sen rem ey mm res ee a
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