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Abbie Hoffman — Part 27
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of my people. Do that. Now they give me thirty days for
that. Desecratin' the flag or somethin’, They got a lot
of rules like that like we talking about before. Hello,
I'm smokey the bear, see. That's good for six months, That's,
you got a law library here, you look it up. That's Volume
18, U. S. Code 711 Smokey the Bear Statute. It's illegal
to impersonate Smokey the Bear. Me's a queer. Well, he's
the Government. (illigible) The importance of a flag is
developing a sense of loyalty to a national (illigible) has
been the subject of numerous essays. First essay, C.
Hitler (illigible). Hitler. He's back. Who's straight?
I got to do that. I don’t even believe him myself (illigible)
I said yes. But Hitler and Melvin Hamberg (illigible) Depart-
ment of Justice are goin' in to argue that case before they
appear in court. In Washington on May 19th. You can get one
year wearin’ a shirt. Course Phyllis Diller, see, go on TV
in a flag mini skirt, like, that don't matter, You know,
drum majorettes walk around all the time. Uncle Sam's a
fucking criminal, But it don't work like that. Catch 22,
Catch 22, ‘Course.
Well, so what's it about, huh? You watch the
program. Revolution this thing called . Revolution, yeah,
(illigible) Revolution. Dash is a revolution in soap
detergent. Join the Dodge Rebellion. See add two weeks
ago in New York Times, $6,000 ad, What are the revolutionaries
at United Artists planning for ‘69? Plan it, they ought to
be doing it. Revolutionaries. I know what it means. But
to a lot of people it might upset. There used to be a
hippie flower child, Smiling. And we had like this dream,
Actually, it started before then. I'm over 30. Not to be
trusted, I got educated in Mississippi. Be in Mississippi.
See,-and uh local sheriff come by and arrest you. I always
got arrested in Mississippi goin' through town -— going through
‘a red light in a town that didn't have one. And they put
you in a cell and (illigible) civil rights worker, give ‘em
a bottle of liquor, and they Kick the shit outa you. Then
they throw you out. Saves you the trouble of going to court,
Y guess. But you'd be getting beat up, you see, and the
FBI would come’ by and they take these notes. And they say,
oe oe te ee = oe
-“We're wth ya man. We're with ya." Justice Department
officials. JOHN DOE and those kind of people, liberals, we're
with ya. It's terrible what's goin’ on around here (illigible)
as Mississippi. Call us in Washington when you need help.
Call us collect. WOW! You say, "Ok, man, I'll like do
that. What're you going to do now?" ‘Well, I'm sorry, Son.
In this case my hands are tied, states rights, and all’
that shit.” Oh, my hands are tied. Always hear that from
lihersale Whan T want tn echonal my firet demonstration
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with CAROL CHESMAN, they killed him on Death Row for 12 years.
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