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Abbie Hoffman — Part 24
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documentary as 2 member of the
Los Angeles Police Dent, doliz
in the film, telkinz as ifhe were
on duty in Chiceso with the Chi-
caso Police Department? Will
the REAL R, F, Rock please stand
up, If he $s still on the LAPD
payroil, tell us who assigned him
to duty in Chicazo and what he
was doing in this documentary on
behalf of Mayor Daley?
Comes now Ojficer Robert
Pierson of the Chicago Police
Department, whom readers ofthe
Freep wit] remember as the spy
who played yippie and tried to
embroll Jerry Rubin(as his body-
guard’) in all kinds of rash acts
which would have led the yipples
into a police trap if they hadn't
Spotted him #5 2 police agent,
Head him divulge his sersational
Bpy Scerets on Dale;’s Big Lie
documentary:
*They want to take over the
country, They want tacompietely
Scrap our democratic system of
government, They are not for any
Bpeelfie member ofour damocra-
tle soclety, and they definitely are
scains€ any candisute (hatwe cure
rently have for the preside:cy of
the United Slates, The minlead-
ers @nd organizers of the inci+
denis we've hed in Chicato have
taken part in ottiers In the past,
David Delinzer, whois the chair-
man of the Natlon2! Mctilization
ee ed
aad
Committec, was instrumental in
much of the plenning for the
march ¢n the Penlsgen lest Octo-
bar, which resulted in disorders,”
and this barely literate rum-
dum is going to be the chief, if
not the only, sftness cgainst Jerry
Rubin when his trial for inciting
to mob violence (or something to
that effect} comes up In Chicago
—incitements of which HE, Rob-
ert Pierson WAS GUILTY and,
for which, if such a crime HAD
becn committed, which it wasn’t,
HE would have to be indicted end
sentenced to jafll for, Such is the
insanity, the black humor, ef the
Chicago police’s role in what Jer-
ry Rubin calied strect theater,
Just to be fair and make this
Big Lie believable, the yipples
and Mobilization were allowed to
speak their piece from time to
time, all carefully edited, of
course, to make a case, not for
themselves, but for the theme of
the docutnentary: that there was
a nationwide left wing and yipple
plot to ‘take over™ Chicazo by
devilish forims of underground
sebotece and unprovetied arined
attacks oa police,
The "survival schcol” lessons
in karate and Janinese student
street demonstration techniques,
wileln the yinrles earefotly ex-
plained to the press were de-
signed for self-defense, not
Goa
aminst the police, ‘bit X ainst
Right Wing hocdlums like those
who allacked Dr, Kint and his
marchers inCicero, were twisted
by these Rig Lie docum:
into “Kilt Kill! KH
preparations,
xennte Davis 2ud T:
were piclured ts tr
“who have been engaged’
orders In some of the ma‘or unl-
versity t2keovers Visich have tck-
en place,” Note the sly use ofthe
word “takeovers,” to fit In with
the thesis that they were bent Gn
“taking over the cily* of Chieaso
—lenguote that is normally used
in deserlbing ermed forces of
enemy troops invading t stranze
country,
They didn’t miss 2 trick in thls
one, They even had thelr own
house nigger, # reporter of the
Uncle Tom Chiesgo Defender
newspaper, who said the rezson
the newsmen got clubbed cuwn
was because they kod only about
an inch oftheir ereczutials shov-
ing out of their lapel! pockets, He
went on losay that erywhere from
one to six cases of Chiczsopslice
brutality Is reported to his paper
every diy, but thot was his re-
ward for playing Judas to the
press, ,
Ancther exhibit was a Chicago
University history professor who
got up on his hind legs for Master
Deley end barked out some
double-talk to the effect, that,
while some indivicusl officers
may have overacted (the Chicoro
word for breaking heads) the pol-
lee showed remark25le restraint
in view of such Intolerable pro-
vocations.
And a Sun-Times editorial wri-
ter whoseems tohave bcenavoted
from a radio or TV show in Chi-
cago, mace appropriate noises
that the documontarists thought
might be mistaken bs the viewer
as justification for the 1,000
wounded and the hundreds of ar-
Tests wiiose only crime was tal. -
ing the Bill of Rights seriously
and whose only error was that -
they assumed the U.S, Censtitu-
tion was oneretive in Chleago
when as a matter of fact, theelly
wag under martial law and the
Consiltution had been suspended
—a state of affairs that hasbeen
chronic In Chtcago for d-cades.
Those who didnot seathe Paley
Big Lie dscumentzry Sunday right
will got belisve me, I'm aivald,
when fo tell them tat one of the
@eadiicst pleces of incriminsting
evidante presented against the
yippies was some maps of Chi-
co et co “q eS -
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