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. . . . . . . ... .... .. ,, : . 'I .t..;-..* . . -0 ,-. 1'. .* .- . ' 4' . . ..... .,.? . . -*. . - .I . . ? . Square (NGW York City), he claimed, was actually an "cnerpy cpntcr" whcre a "tribe" or "family" operated. Yippic activities arcceeding the convention were, as Hoffman put it, "a trio to Aoplcton, Wisconsin, to summon the rpir€t of the late Joseph McCarthy to join the Dcmocratic Partyet and a "mock raid qn the carnous of Stony Brook." 0 Prosecutor Schultr objected that any "mack raid" was i r r e l c - vant to charges against the defendant. defendants were bcing tried fer thcir '9shtc of mind" when thcy came to Chicago and that to defend themselves thcy had tr, txDlain how that state of mind dcvelopcd. Judge Hoffman surtained the objection. The witness said, "You mirsed a good story." Wcinglasr cotintc? red that . ' .. Hoffman claimed Yippic leaders nlanncd no violence during their "Fcetival of Lifc" in Lincoln Park during convcntian w e e . Thcy came to Chicago, hc raid,' to "put on a littlc circus" and *'bring a kind of Iifc-strylct' to the Convention. Ile claimed an exhortation "to fight and die here" in a pamphlet he wrote in advance of thc convcn- tion, was only metaphorical, and that pre-convention week training for anti-wat protcstors i n karatc, snake-dancing and how to fall down were "just silliness. 'I Yippics saw politics as "what paoplc did with their lives, what they did with thcir rnnnry, how thcy r ~ l a t ~ d to each other, I f Hoffman said. radicals, hc claimed, who took their nolitics seriously. Hoffman callrd for would be abolished, '' other radicals didn't like it, be said. This vi&w didn't sit rnc.11 with nthct When totally free sacicty, in which "cvcn oay toilets The witness dcnied he fought with Dolicc, thrcw rocks or built barricades in Chicago. He said he cvcn urged others to obcy police o r d e r s to leave at curfew time. came in swinging and shooting gal, It he told the jury, "I took'off. " "When thcy (the oolice) . Under cross-examination Hoffrnin aprccd that Dart of the Yippia myth involved thc concept of "libctatcd areas; wlwrc? pcaplc cnrild da whatever thcy wanted to. Hc? alan cnncedcd that Yippics had cxpc*rirnc?ntcd with that concept t w i v in NCW York during the aprinE o f 1068, at a "Yip-In" in Grand Central Station and at a "Yip-Oat" in Ccnlral Park. Alter first answering 'ovc), M,r. Iloffiwin then aprccd that Yippips 11ad triwl tn crcntc anntlwt siirh m n c in Lincoln ParW hut he wranglcd with prosrt-utor S r l p l t x ovcr dcfinitionr of "liberation, !I "control" and "freedom. 'I When Schultz suggestcd Yippies wanted tones without l a m where -young people could commit all sorts of crimes against mblic kafety and nlaccs ..