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Abbie Hoffman — Part 29

130 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Apr 13, 1970 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 128 pages OCR'd
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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN "tWell, I don't want my daughter to grow up and be like them!' Convincing argument. So eight wanted our heads off and four wanted us set free. So what they do, they had little separate P wu airhanrd fwone hark and Ps ot mh Wet IGS WS & wae af Ae sb forth with messages all over the place. This is illegal, right. You just ask any lawyer, this is illegal form of jury deliberation. It's not getting twelve people to agree beyond reasonable doubt. Kay Richards worked out an agreement, as in the words of Mrs. Ruth Peterson, 'Well, it wac better to get half a chicken than no chicken at all. And besides, everybody had spent a lot of money so you hadda get some verdict.' What an anal compulsive nature." (Mockingly) "You gotta get something. You just can't : leave it up in the air! And the liberale fired four fuckin bullets : in that room. I would have shot those fuckin liberals on the jury ‘cause they're the judge, the prosecutor, the press, the people F —_—. that sat and watched, pig agents. The people who were responsible for sending us to jail were the liberals on the jury and the ‘liberals in the country. ‘Cause that's how fascism comes to 4 country. And so like they said, well...you begin on one of these ; interviews and the moderator says,'well, uh, because of your tactics P= and your antics don't you think you actually are contributing to — the police state that you're actually fighting against?’ You ever hear that? That ain't the way it happens. It's 'cause liberals
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