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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 "There was no method to it. There's a book out called ‘Contempt.' You read it? Look it up. See if you can figure it out. You gotta be Julius to figure it out, the method. We do have contempt for that system, Laws that put us on trial. Laws that instrument whereby people in power maintain their power. That's what the fuck law is. Whether it's a law by wearing a flag shirt or blowing your nose in the flag. Hey dig it, I wore that flag shirt because two weeks before two of my culture heroes, Roy Rogers and Miss Dale Evans, wore the same fuckin shirt on ABC Playhouse Theater and I wore the same shirt. I got blacked out and they didn't. And the head of CBS said we know about that. It's not what they wear, it's who's doing the wearing. If Mayor Daley wore the shirt it would have been perfectly all right. So says the Public Relations Director of CBS Television. Fifty people have been arrested under that law. They're all hippies. But whether you wear a flag shirt, whethe~ you smoke pot, whether you cross state lines to incite riot--it doesn't matter. It's people in power protecting their power. "Everybody in the whole fuckin world saw what happened in the streets of Chicago. Everybody knows what happened there. nd hig cohorts were resp that. There isn't a court in America where you could put that pig on trial, and you believe it. The only court in America, the only court in America that you can put that pig on trial is in the 33
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