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Abbie Hoffman — Part 27

107 pages · May 12, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 106 pages OCR'd
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SE 176-21. 3 are bad. Not just you, I mean you ain't bad, at least you ain't bad as your neighbor's kids. They're the really bad‘ ‘ ones. So we got to censor stuff. And we got to lock things 4 away. And we got to keep them away from smoking flowers. “ Put tuem in school. ‘Cause they're bad. Man is basically z= evil. Church says that. Well, see, man's nothing. You know he's basically the evil, good, or somewhere in between. Right? So, it's like a : test, Tells you more about person who's saying it. Does about mankind. Mankind's made up. People are with us. Hmmm. Yeah, I know, Gallup. (illigible) 98,9% of the people not with us. Well, when we were in Chicago we taok two barber shop poles, one telephone pole, took ther. back to New York, asked them all these questions. They said, People are with you. We're artists. We're going to have society of artists in the future. No work, all art. No property. Property. (illigible) Property is theft, Property must be destroyed. Art must be preserved. You work at art, you're worth defending. You piece of property, you should be destroyed. It’s all the question of how you look at yourself. Future society of artists. Unlimited potential. Believe in man, it's a very revolutionary attitude. People are good. Wow! Yea, they don't have to work, they'll 3 be creative, productive because that's their natural drive, q That's their tendance - be nice. Ain't that simple. Make love not war, you know. Go up, kiss a cop. Christ. Tried that. Brought the flowers, and they brought out the clubs. Tear gas. Dogs. Armed helicopters, Three weeks ago 20,000 young people had a little concert down at Palm Springs. They ame with helicopters, tear ges, drove them right out. Drove _them into town, Three got shot. Boston Common last summer. 200 kids arrested for idleness. 65 injured. Dogs they used. Fighting kids. I saw one teacher up at Dartmouth who -was in on that demonstration show where a cop bit him. Hey, he still had the mark after six months. Cops bit him. He sdid it, I didn't believe it. J thought they were vegetarians. But the flower children have grown thorns. Last: week 16 year old kid Pleasantville, New York, . home of Readers Digest, Readers Digest. All over the world. 16 different flavors, all vanilla. Publisher Readers Digest, see, get an anti-hippie speech, now (illigible) came home his kid said "Dad (thump) stabbed him. Hmm, Revolutionary act. Only they call it aggravated assault. Chuck them away. 16 year old kid. Sons rising up against fathers. ‘Cause they want to kill us. Flower children growing thorns. They're fighting back. ‘Cause we ain't going to see that old beauti- ful world unless we fight back. Unless we wreck the system. Capitalism. Just don't seem right. People ought to live in a state of competition. Seems they ought to cooperate a little more, Seems like people ought to be let in on decisioas
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