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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26
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“Tt was busted for wearing the shirt Betsy Ross
made for me. I went down to..there bave been like thirty
people busted for wearing that shirt or a vest or something
like that, but they're all people that the power structure
doesn’t like. See like, there're two million, seven hundred
thousand laws in this country, but like, really there's
only one. It's catch 22, It says they can do whatever
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providing those people don't stop them, vice versa. It's
how the whole thing works. So like, that's a mod fashion,
that shirt, and appears in ads in New York Times, San
Francisco Examiner, Los Angeles Times. Phyllis Diller goes
on TV in a mini-skirt, wears a flag, and gets twenty thousand
' dollars or something, you know. I get thirty days in jail.
And I'm prettier than she is, Well, so here it is, District
of Columbia Court of Appeals, United States of Auerica,
versus me, Jobnny Cash. Melvin Hamburg, attorney for
thS Department of Justice. This is the government - you
know they have to file this brief to show why they need that
law. The importance of a flag in developing a sense of
loyalty to a national entity has been subject of numerous
essays. First essay, see Hitler, Mien Kampf. Dig that,
whose straight? Hey you, come here for a second. We don't
need any enemies. Choice of insanities. Government quoting
Hitler. I know what we got that can match that, Attilla
the Hun, Sitting Bull. You know there was this thing called
hippies. Hippies was a kind of a nice thing. That was
about the summer of 1967; no, it started a little bit before
then, huh, about January, 1966, I thing was the first move,
more of less, about a year. Peace signs and love and kiss
cops, smile, all gonna happen. They're beautiful. Beautiful
people started out in San Francisco, one of the most beautiful
cities in the country, and they had flowers, flowers, as a
symbol. They went up to Golden Gate Park and you picked then
and brought them around and gave them to cops and said we
Jove you. Make love not war, yea. Then deciced they didn't
like that. They didn't want kids doing it.
"You know alot of Mids came from the lower east side
in Rew York, that‘s where I'm from ~- the Shangri La of the
east. Ten thousand tons of garbage right now in ny area. You
could work for years out here and you'd never get ten
thousand tons of garbace. High aa you could see, and 211
the hippies came down there looking for flowers. Shangri La.
Runaways, run away from America. Thirteen, fourteen-year-old
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