◆ SpookStack

Declassified Document Archive & Reader
Log In Register
Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

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
← Back to feed
f NY 100-161445 “he silentiy dismisses my suggestion that he call it SON OF STEAL THIS BOOK, Instead, taking a long and healthy pull on the beer he tells how he destroyed the copyright by writing all the 'underground' papers in the country and telling them to renrint nert ar 411 af CTRAT THT RNOK and cive it away Ve See we oe Ow a de ‘ital ale a ale Hef ale dee Bee elt OP | OL + tw & ww COT Cay or sell it and put the money into some RIGHT ON CAUSE. "Ask him about his indictment, yelled Allen Katzman, as IJ left the EVO offices to interview Abbie, so I asked him about the indictment, "tl was indicted under section 2101 of the U.S. code Vol. 18 under a civil rights law authored by that great fighter for individual rights Strom Thurmond,' says Abbie. ‘I gave this speech in Oklahoma in which I said three things for which they indicted me, I said we are going to Washington to stop the government and the war, I plugged Jerry Rubin's book "DO IT," and I said we are going to make Chicago look like a YAF convention in comparison with what we are going to do in Washington, So anyway they indicted me under Thurmond's law, which is a very metaphysical law. It's the only law ever passed which 7. “ei Tat A ey moe . ‘ Sa a ‘fe : 4 1 vm makes it a crime to cross state lines with the intention gk to incite a riot. In other words with a state of mind, amy So I don't even KNOW whether I'm guilty or not.' He is beginning to get up, but not in a vigcious way, he just wee is facing an unpleasant fact which he doesn't like, 'The "4 government wants to put us away. We speak on campuses, we are doing everything we can to weaken thw power of the Phillistines in Washington, I guess I am guilty of every- thing, the D, C. demonstrations, the bombing of the Capitol, the Los Angeles earthquake...actually, I break the law every time I speak. Everyone who believes in civil liberties should expand the frontiers of free speech every time they speak, everything else is just masturbation. TIhave got a list of twenty laws I'm working on, Every time I speak I break about five and tickle another ten.' What about the indictment? . ys a cd 3 -56< Tr
OCR quality for this page
Community corrections
First editor: none yet Last editor: none yet
No user corrections yet.
Comments
Document-wide discussion. Follow the Community Standards.
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Continue Exploring

Use the strongest next step for this document: continue reading, jump to the topic hub, or move into the matching agency collection.
Continue Reading at Page 67
Jump straight to page 67 of 106.
Reader
Abbie Hoffman — Part 39
Stay inside Abbie Hoffman with another closely related document.
Topic
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the FBI agency landing page for stronger archive context.
FBI
Abbie Hoffman Topic Hub
See the topic overview, related documents, and linked subtopics.
Hub

Agency Collection

This document also belongs in the FBI Documents & FOIA Archive landing page, which is the stronger starting point for agency-level browsing and for searches focused on FBI records.
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the agency landing page for introduction text, topic links, and more FBI documents.
FBI

Explore This Archive Cluster

This document belongs to the Civil Rights archive hub and the more specific Abbie Hoffman topic page. Use these hub pages when you want the broader collection context, linked subtopics, and more documents around the same archive thread.
bureau
Related subtopics
Eleanor Roosevelt
43 documents · 3113 known pages
Subtopic
Highlander Folk School
20 documents · 1327 known pages
Subtopic
Cesar Chavez
17 documents · 2085 known pages
Subtopic
Claudia Jones
12 documents · 846 known pages
Subtopic
Thurgood Marshall
12 documents · 1663 known pages
Subtopic
NAACP
9 documents · 758 known pages
Subtopic