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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26
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twenty-fourth. Ah, I hear rumors there'll be three thousand
Black Panthers in the streets, and ah, some other people;
alot of people plan to come. [I ain't plannin‘’ on going.
That's a bad town. No, it's not. I dig it. We're goin'
to Chicago right after here. I love it. See, we walk
around. You like read the Gallop Polls and your mind
gets all screwed up, cause you like watch that meter and
you say, ah, ninety-eight percent of the people are
against ya; put you know you walk around in Chicago, and
they really _ diggin’ aye: Hey man, you're back in town.
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It 5 gonna be Sut of sight, Fou kaow? Even cops aig ya.
One cop Rave me this shirt, I'm not kiddin.’ They like it.
¥ give them the book, you know, pass out the book at the
police academy there. Say, hey, your name's in it.
They're all lookin', egotrippers. So I don't know what'll
happen there. Perfect mess. The medium is the mess.
Marshal McClue. More answers? Oh, I can't do a thing with
wy nbair. ATot of Delilahs in this country. I don't know
where they got against long hair. I think back in history,
all the groovy cats had long hair. THey, when you think
about it....
“(Question, ‘were any of you guys interested in
McCarthy at all, I mean, was he ah...'}) Go clean for Gene?
What are you, kiddin'? We were givin' that, see, many of
us had been to the Democratic Convention in 1964 with the
Mississippi Free and Democratic Party challenge, you see,
and we met liberals there. McCarthy-type people. When
they come out they sing, we shali overcome, you know, and
all this and give us money and say, we're with you. We
don't agrec with your methods, but we dig your goais; all
that kinda talk, see? Well sure, there're racists in
Mississippi, yea, right. Yea, sure, these white racists
oughta be kicked ovt. But we got inside the hall and we
could see ali the liberals took their buttons off and they
weren't singin’, we shall overcome. They were listenin'
to LBJ when the calls were around from the ranch. Said,
Hubie, settie it, or you ain't gonna be vice president.
And then we learned that it just ain't gonna be that way.
Terus like rational discussions and opening dialogues about
the issues. That's baloney. Doesn't work that way, anyway.
People don't get moved that way. You know that if you
watch TV.
"(Question, ‘where are you going when you leave
here'?) Well, I was gonna go to Montraal and all of a
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