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oe a “ bet pul a. oo RE: ABBOTT {1 JAN, RENKARD ROGER PAL. 'sT ““RDON DAVIS, * 4,000 at armory _hear 3 defendants By SUSAN GAINEN news editor awhy don’t we begin the toceting with one dig bullshit for Judge Hoffman? Oa three. One- . two-three: bullshit!" And 4,000 hippies, yippies and others screamed bullshit with Rennie Davis in support of David Dellinger in Reckord armory last night, Davis and Abbie Hoffman, dir- ect from thelr four-and-a-half Month engagement si the Con- Spiracy 8 trial in Chicago, and Roger Priest, about to be court tmartialcd by the Navy for sed. iticn held thelr own court inwhat Davis called ‘the real court. room.” Defendant Hoffman entered the armory doing carhyheels, He hassled with the microphone and t quipped ‘the medium is the mess,’" But, last night wes their last stend and Hoffman and Davis lived up to a premise to “make big Clowntike, Hoffman appealed for funds in his typical style, “tt costs a lot of fucking money to go te prison these days. This trial has set Hanof back 2 pretty penny.'* Afier apologizing for being drunk, “They don't serve Aca- pulco goid on United Airlines,” he welcomed himself to Mary- Jand, Recalting a speech given at UMBC the day before the trial began, he explained i{s relevance to the conspiracy charge:'‘Some- ~ how the government has some kind of screwy computer lhat can figure all that shit out.’ Remarks he made that night “were introduced as evidence against him shortly after the trial had gotten underway despite de- fense objects that they were b- relevant, : Earlier, Davis glecfully ad- mitted that he and Hoffman had conspired on the plane and noted that last night's speech was pro- bably their last chance to incite anything, _ intent to disrupt the Republican - Regardless of the verdict, be sald, they and two of their at- torneys will probably be failed. for contempt of court, «This is the last chance to urge the people in this room to cross state Hines with inciteful national convention in 1972,’* he told the cheering and stamping crowd, He said thelr efforts at the Chicago convention were to dis- rupt the sham and the mockery that the politicians were putting over as democracy and ‘to say no to four more yoars of Lyne don Johnson's war.’ Devis suggested that Conspir- acy supporters look ahead to 1976 saying, ‘The tyo-hundreth anni- versary of our American rev- olution is not a time to recount history but to repeat it," Hoffman, who expects to go to Leavenworth ‘Where the straight eriminals kor-with the big boys, said; Maybe we ‘belong theré, No~ pody’s put up a fight Hke this in ihe history of the world, The history of political trials is that they’re all losers," he added, Given the “law that legisiates against the state of mind," he reminded the crowd, ‘only in 1984 fascism can you go to pris- on under the civil richts act. - Beck een Seat ae 8 apt He also admitted to a conspl-_ racy. “We ere a conspiracy against imperjalism, racism, harrassment of the youth cul- ture and the boredom and sen- ility of the American plg cul. ture, Hoffman said, “We defy every law in the world-- including the law of gravity, What goes up doesn't necessarily have tocome down,’?? A sharp contrast from the volatile Hoffman, the first speaker, Roger Priest seemed calm and vaguely out of place, He ts being court martialed on a collection of charges that may net him 39 claims in prison, Be wrote a newspaper offbase, en his own time, and with his own moncy that, he cliams an-~ gered Mende} Rivers, head of the armed services committee, among ollers, ee er -