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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26
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kids, one still in the hospital. All across the country.
You are brothers and sisters. ‘You're smoking pot, huh;
that's the revolution, big deal. Busted for pot, that's
a political arrest. You have to respond accordingly. Get
that brother out any way. Scrub their minds. New York, a
group on Valentine's Day sent thirty thousand joints
marijuana out in the mail. All kinds of people, judges, nuns,
priests. Said, hey, you heard heard alot about it — here
it is. Three thousand complaints. They can't figure ovt
who did it because by their prices, it cost about $35,000.
Let them keep hunting. I didn't get any. I'm waiting for
Mother's Day. Flower children growing thorns.
“Wanna have a festival of life in Lincoln Park.
Can we have this festival? Well, you guys can't have it;
ten thousand people gone out on a march on Lake Michigan,
naked = that's fillegai. There it is, show us the law. Well,
it's back there....we got the law. Can't do it. Excuse me,
sir, we'd like a permit to raise the Pentagon three hundred
feet in the air. It's illegal. What do you mean it's illegal,
sir; a pentagon is a five-sided figure, it's the synbo] of evil
in all religions. We're gonna circle it with twelve hundred
holy men and raise it in the air. It's illegal. They arrested
two of us, measuring the Pentagon. But they, they're liberal
down there so they give us a permit for ten feet. We didn't
get it up, you see, we had a big failure. It's one of ovr
many failures.
“So we decided to nominate a pig for president in
Chicago and lo and behold, he won. Right? He's up there.
And now they want to do us in for it. They said you guys,
you're too spread out; you gotta get together. You gotta
form a conspiracy. Conspiracy. Conspire to breed together.
You meet some nice people in a conspiracy. You oughta join
up. It's really a good thing. Eight of us, total of eighty
years, one hundred sixty thousand dollars, plus one hundred
sixty, nothing. Pick that up jist panhandling around this
country. Pick up eighty years, too. You ain't got your
Yippie helmet. Conspiracy. We got a motion going in a
couple days. We're gonna ask them to move the trial from
the Federal Building to the coliseum. We're gonna be tried
by the lions, just like the old days. And a week after
that; we got a great legal team, eight great lawyers, all
around this country, best legal team ever assembled, and the .
ninth lawyer, Doctor Fidel Castro, from Havana, Cuba. He's
a lawyer, defend us in the style to which we are eccustoned;
we oughta make a motion before the bar, have him admitted,
practice law up there. It's illegal, they'll say. That's
~lS «
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