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Abbie Hoffman — Part 29
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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN
“prison--it's sorta weird, you know, like standing in the
middle of this fuckin country and the CIA is on one side and
MGM is on the other and everybody is bidding for your fuckin
scalp--sometimes you get the feeling that the revolution will
come not so much by popular will as by popular demand." (Laughter:
"Well, Bobby Seale--we get kind of uptight when people
Bay it's Chicago Seven because even though Julius axed Bebby in
the middle of the trial for what the press commonly terms antics,
it's the first time demanding the right to have a lawyer of your
choice and then when that's denied demanding the right to defend
yourself has ever been termed an antic in this country--an antic
punishable by four years in prison. We're still the Chicago
he we're the Chicago Ten Million because a lot of people consider
; 3 themselves part of the conspiracy." (Light clapping)
no “Well, they're trying to send Bobby Seale into the
— electric chair in a place called New Haven, Connecticut--one of
~ the enlightened intellectual centers of the liberal East. They
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Eight, in fact we're the Chicago Ten ‘cause the two lawyers;
have a4 university up there, just like this. It's not an irrational
unreasonable antic-type place. It's run by reasonable men,
rational men, nonviolent men--call themselves the Board of Trustees.
I think it's about the twelfth largest corporation in America, Yale
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is. In fact, New Haven is nothing but a ghetto and Yale
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