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Abbie Hoffman — Part 27
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their insanity. That's all. You don't have to buy mine.
I'm just, uh, I and I do my thing. You try to do my thing,’
well, I have to kill ya. Cause I'm it. Stall I've got.
I. Yeah, that's ego. Ego trippin’. Talk about I, what'm
I gonna do? I, I, I dig ego. S'tall ya got. It's beautiful.
if ya got it, falunt it, that's what they Bay. Mark Twain
sayd, “The only people that should use the word We are kings,
editors, and persons with tape worm." You're a long~haired
freek, So we (illigible) unpopular war here, a second American
revolution, You shoulda seen the first one, you shoulda been
there. Ours. Most unpopular war in our country's history.
Crazy, long-haired, anarchists, minutemen. Up in Lexington,
Concord, where I come from. They got British pigs, see, down
the road, ya know. Thousand British pigs fully armed, Tear
fas, mace, the whole bit. They got (illigible) nine hours
Jate. Paul Revere comes ridin’ in on motorcylce, ya know, an‘
PIGS ARE COMIN', THE PIGS ARE COMIN'. Ya know, “Everybody
out." They Say, Ah go away man, I gotta plow the fields.
No, no kiddin’, They're comin', They'll be here two hours,
So they all like get their muskets, go down to Lexington
Green, hang around there, Buckins Tavern right across the
street, say "I wanta get smashed." They come back, they say,
“Rey Revere, you're fulla shit. It's 4 o'clock. They aren't
here yet. British are nine hours late.“ They had this
Lieutenant Colonel, SMITH, see, weighed 275 pounds and he
wanted to ride in front. They were nine hours late, see, so
like half the minutemen took off. They had 38 drunken guys
standin’ around the green there and, uh, see they like very
freaked out cause of the, uh, yippie stuff they were
.pumpin' in the media. An* they expected 2,000 armed minute-
men on the greens so they were like all doin’ this, ya know.
Somebody trips a horse, a gun gets fired, boom, who knows
-that. History. Shot heard round the worid...Samuel Adams
sittin' theré like Jerry Rubin winkin'. Ah, that's cool.
That's cool - they gonna get ther's. They got Washington -
helluva general. They made him commander in chief ‘cause he
hadn't won a battle. Up ‘til then, The perfect guy, Failure.
That's what Daley said. The (illigible) came here to wreck the
.Democratic Party and rip up Chicago and they failed. That's
great. This's the first movement that's gonna be built on
-failvre. You'd call it anything. We love him, he‘s our founder.
I mean, where'd we be without him. What would we have done
if we were let stay in the park? That's e good question.
That's a very good question. What would we have done in the
park. We promised a lot of stuff. Wow} Beatles and the
v, ‘ . ; 5
Yollow Submarine an' they gonna pull up in Lake Mighigan.
An‘ Bob Dylan be ‘der. Ooooh. All this stuff flyin’ around.
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