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: - ; . . . . ( o Abbott Howard Hoffman renee fifty marshals in the room, there were ww all the press and there was the judge we and the prosecutor. And I remember that Tom Hanney remarked this was the ultimate in freedom of speech in America, we're allowed to say a few words to a press : which is going to distort it and to the - judge who couldn't care jess, all he did Oo, ° while we were making the speeches was mt thumbing through his citations getting t- - ready to sentence us and the prosecutors were sneering. And that was the ultimate in freedom of speech, but at that moment I personally feit proud to be a part of ” ° the conspiracy and: proud to be a part be of another peopie. I kind of lost ny a individual ego which is pretty dig. ane David Frost: Would you resist the authority of any court? Would you resist the authority of any court in fact? ~ “ Abbie Hoffman: What? It's sort of a MeMvariable communication. How's it going? David Frost: Would you feel contempt to any judge in any court, or would you agree to any court in America? Abbie Hoffman: There are distinct problems in the court system but the number of arrests and the number of court experiences that I heve experienced, is that fundamentally that.... I think that fundamentally the idea of a trial by the jury of your peera is an accurate and good idea, I mean the problem is how do you determine the trial by the jury of your peers. For example, when we ' were in county jail a grand jury came in and the grand jury in America that's responsible for people going on trial most of the time; the grand jury came in, we questioned them, they were all white they were all over forty, they all had . incomes of $20,000 and up, they all came i from the suburbs and yet they were in a ~ 6 -