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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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wed I i ae py ual wi lays! bade uM wonea dy ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN “ard we're going to have an appeal based on the judge and one on the law, one on the contempt--I mean it's one that's going to affect every political trial in the future. And there are going to be plenty. You cannot go to a city or town or hamlet in this country and not find political trials. And it's a question of defining what it is. Now I frankly believe that that's a misuse of, uh, I believe every prisoner is a political prisoner. I mean, you can't, you go into jail and you see that ninety percent of the people in the jail are black, or up here probably Chicanos and Indians, you know, you see that ninety percent of the people are under thirty, you know, you say well there's some politics involved in a situation like that. So attack on the court system, attack on the prison system has gotta be launched, That's why this national conspiracy is going to be a fight against political repression. It'll all go on locally, as well as nationally. Bobby Seale will go on trial sometime in the early fall. "Uh, some other questions? I didn't mean to put down Roy and Dale so heavy, I mean. They have the best recordings. "The FBI came up on a plane. I don't know if I can see them here. They always travel in two, like nuns. You ever want to freak out an FBI Agent, when you shake hands with him or some- thing say ‘Hey, your palm's wet,' because J. Edgar Hoover thinks 41
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