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Abbie Hoffman — Part 27
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that affect their lives. They all live ina state of
: community. They shouldn't be struck away in institutions.
A That's what you are. Stuck here. This is an institution.
. You don't make the decisions. (illigible) bankers and they
* had Coca Colas. Is that right? Yeah, get coke free. (illigible)
It's a business. Schools a business. Do ya think they're
gonna let ya in on it? General Motors say the cars they all
Chevys there. You want all that chrome? Chevy. NO. They
dn't ask you what d'ya want. We want ta learn. I didn’t
go to school, I wanta learn guerilla warfare. Right. I
wanta learn about our relation ship of unversities, and courts,
the power structure. When we gonna study that. Undergraduate
- and graduate level too. They teach nothin’ in school.
People on the Lower East Side. Where's the survival. People
best equipped to live down there come out of the Army or
prison, They hang around streets and learn it. Like you
walk down the street, see, and a cop throws ya up against
the wall and says, "You got any identification? You're a
suspicious looking character." Yeah? But like down there I —
mean if you got a nice suit and tie, short hair, horn rimmed
glasses and attache case you're a suspicious looking
character, That's the way we view ya. Oh no but cops,
they're cops. Protect property and wople who own property.
Kick the shit out of the people who don't have any. They
grab some kid they throw him against the wall, they blow a
whistle. Pft. Twenty cops on my block. And they're all in
uniforu, They blow that whistle half the hippies turn on
the cops. It's outa sight. Undercover cops. All over
the place. I just read an article by a guy from Denver said
that everybody was actors in Chicago on both sides. Nobody
there. It was kinda almost true. ‘Cause I was arrested in
‘a police station on Wednesday for the obscenary. . There was
-this big box and these guys (illigible) hippies coming in
and pickin’ up tamborines, you know, and beads and peace
buttons and all those kind of stuff. And I didn't know whether
it was lost or found, you know, uh these guys were uh like
you read about, you know. So 1 go up and I say, “Hey, man,
you with us, you with them." And they do dis and I do
.dis - pft. Dog. Start a battle of Algiers. S'right.
Scene 2, (illigible) part of ‘em it's just like pickin’ up
their beads, goin’ out there. Hippies, yeah rah rah they're
revolutionists. Sure. They don't have to be undercover cops.
They're up her’ already. Rah revolution, I saw Canned Heat
last week. I gotta psychedelic poster on my wall, Yeah, I
dig the Beatles. That's cool. I turn on. Wow, you do, huh.
The more I turn on the more { wanta make revolution. See,
we're gonna win an‘ the Central Committe, they operate right
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