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oe ey V Hoffmantongye | shit in a dozen places from talking through the week end at Antioch with the faihtful, is ai Wright State. Hoffman, the anarchists’ messenger, talk- ing Monday over the sky- stoned clamor of Wright-Pat- terson planes. First, he showed the under- ground answer to Mayor Daley's sareastically titled televised film, ‘‘What Trees Do They Plant?” a defense of the Chicago police. It was a short film with background by Ed Sanders of The Fugs, a montage of scenes from the Chicago riots interspersed with old footage from the Keystone Kops, WWI doughboy films and Dionysian dabblings from Cecil B. DeMille epics (since, some hippies were arrested in Chi- cago for planting trees with- out a permit). Then out on the grass, sur- rounded by the steriJe splen- | dor of Wright State brick. “CHICAGO,” says Hoffman, “was to show what happens when you deal with the power structure. Cops wipe out kids. Revolution founded this coun- try — look at the Minutemen. But a government has no sense of morality. “On the East side in New. York, we try to live the revo- lution. Politics is how you live your life. We share what- ever we've got because our conception is that property is theft, property is robbery and the jJandlord ig a violent person. “Tl had a friend who pulled a fire alarm and sat down on the curb. The fire department came and he said ‘The coun try's on fire.’ Bellevue. Who's insane? “YOU BAVE A right to die in Vietnam. You alto have a Tight to participate in what courses you are taking. You want to help us? Take over a ®Ouding some a s Have a cenn “Yor are a ~— oy this business. What happens when the product doesn’t work? It's obsolete. Wow. “T'm just going down the road, fermenting riot. I know it sounds like anarchy, but it’s Not. It’s experimentation. We try a lot of different things. We aren't satisfied with what we've got. The left gives you the whole route. We say “Whaddaya want?’ You make the decisions that affect our life. We're lousy poli- ticians. That’s what this coun- try needs, lousy politicians. “We go around, speak to thousands of kids. They really get excited. This is the thing, they say.” “But what happens, Abbie, when you fly out of here to morrow or the next aay" “] DON'T know d take SPIFE fubtly Ar cago, io ——_ mae, —_—_, of no plans in the park end results. ‘‘We kept Humphrey from getting elected,’ he says. “Yeah, but look who’s there now." “We wait awhile,” says Hoffman. ‘Nixon is cool. He's too thin to call a pig. He’s a smooth corporation kind of guy. Didn't he write that book, ‘‘My Six Crises’’? He'll have more...” “But what then,” somebody asks. ‘Where does it go?” “T don’t know, man. I don't know. I was up all last _Thghtimiking aboyt it se”