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Abbie Hoffman — Part 27
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This country. Mini Brute said in the halls of justice in
America the only justice is in the halls. I know that's’
true. I have forty arrests. I'm doin’ all right. Two
convictions. Forty arrests. They're both going to Supreme
Court. Somebody can't wear a shirt. (illigible) Thirty
days for that. Now I got another charge for resisting arrest
to a crime, like, that didn't happen. The crime was thrown
out. Resisting arrest was thrown in. About a week ago I
was arrested while I was in a phone booth. In court waiting
to go on trial upstairs. Black Panthers outside having a
demonstration so the cops came in and like did this whole thing
provin' that-there ain't even justice in the halls of justice.
Yeah, he yanked me out of a phone booth and hit me right
on the head, Like that. I bounced off the wall. I said,
"Excuse me officer, what seems to be on your mind, you know?"
He said get the fuck out of the building. I said that's what's
called an obscenery cause I had this word, dirty four ietter
word, you know, Ite, printed on ny forehead in Chicago and
was arrested for that and the cop at the trial said, “Judge,
he had an obscenery written on his forehead." If that! Ss an
obscenery - I learned to talk that way in back of police
stations. So I was out of sight when the cop said "Oh he
used obsceneries." That's where we learn them, I didn't
learn them from my mother, Or the Jesuits. So, where was I.
Yeah, I was getting wacked again and he said “get out of the
building." I said, “Well, I'm not with the demonstration,
see. I'm on trial here for like Columbia, something that
happened a year ago and the judge is waitin’ to see me,"
BOOM. So I did this whole karate demonstration for the judges
- and lawyers who were assembled in the court room. Sent
- three to the hospital. They put land chains, leg irons ~- I've
“never had leg irons on. It's really hard to kick with them
- things on. They brought me in the press room and held a
--police press conference. See, they just pounded away zd I
yelled "14179." You know, stuff like that. Badge numbers.
Right. They were taking the pictures like that guy's doin’.
But that ain't news, Along with assault are five other
charges. For what? It doesn't matter.
You know, I was arrested the next day for not
showing up at the trial. A week before that I was arrested
for not fastening my seathelt oan an airplane. It's all
the same. Catch 22, Catch 22 says they can do whatever fuck
they want to as providing we can't stop them vice versa.
That's the attitude we bring to Chicago and face ten years -
$20,000 fine. We are calling ourselves the conspiracy. Yeah,
right. That's what they call us. The conspiracy. That's
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