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Abbie Hoffman — Part 29
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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
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