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Abbie Hoffman — Part 29
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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN
"know, and that's just about dying too. Pretty soon they're
going to have a fuck-in on CBS. But we have to redefine the
danguage and one of the words we got to re-orient ourselves to is
the word violence. We have to talk about institutional violence,
We have to talk about a system you see where rats, where I live
on the lowe. East Side rats eat kids--that's violent! And the
Slum landlords that own those fuckin buildings are violent,
violent people. But you don't see that. I mean you look on
TV, I was watching it last week. General Custer from West
Point, you know, a guy like covering up the Song Mai (phonetic)
thing. Can't help relating to it like that. JI saw that Captain
Medina the next night. You know, he got on and said, 'Well I
know that a hundred and eighty people were getting massacred
down the road, it wasn't my fault and everything.’ And now they
switched back and it's ABC TV and they switched back to Roger
Munday and he said ‘Well, that about wraps it up at Song Mai.'
And he smiles. Said, what is he talking about? And then comes
General Custer. General Custer covered up for a year and a half.
Covered up the massacre, and you look at him--gray hair, dis-
tinguished, horn-rimmed glasses--he didn't even look like a
right-winger. He looked like the Dean of this university. You
know, you met him--Chuck. Chuck, he puts his arm around you,
Dean...'I don't agree with all your goals, I mean I do agree with
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