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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5

234 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Mar 23, 1969 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 234 pages OCR'd
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( . © CONFIDENTIAL © NY 100-161445 “This is it. This is it. You're over there. You'fre the jocks and you're the hippies and you're supposed to do this and you're supposed to do that. Well, it ain't that way. 'Cause we're one. We are the people. And Abraham Lincoln, like. Another hippie. When the Government's .. . When you cannot change the Government by electoral means, the people have @ revolutionary right and duty to dismember and overthrow that Government. That was Lincoln. Another hippie. Beard and long hair, You start thinking and everybody in history that ever did anything had long hair. We come out of that tradition. But we are not unAmerican. We are the only Americans left. That's right. "We went to Chicago to show the reality that we face living in this country and that's the reality that we see every single day of our lives. See. 20,000 young people lead hippies. "Wo. You know. I don't care. I get busted. I sell more books. I mean they can't nail us that way. They can't nail us any way, regards ... . but someddy. . someday. . uh. e e alan satire oy "Oh be--- g---, Now I gotta do it. I gotta call your bluff and do it. I didn't wanta do it. Tell them all the secrets. You see, that’s not what law is about. Look. Ten days ago, I was busted, Busted by, I don't know, 36 or so. "A We have this office right by the police station. Right. An _ 8 by 10 office that overlooks . . that looks out in ti» street. kl The windows don't work. They're always open. Right next to the re police station. Ninth precinct. Captain Fink, my buddy, runs jos the Ninth precinct, arrested me twice personally. All right. m3 They went in and they grabbed .. uh... three ..wuh... E- undercover cops came in and left a bag with three automatics, > loaded, two black jacks, packets of heroin. Okay. They came be back an hour later and busted everybody. Three guys there. yy So I came in to pay the bail, they bust me. They say, well, it's your office. I say, well, the lease isn't in my name. I don't pay the rent and I waan't there at the time of arrest. That don't matter. D.A. said arrest you. Dig it." \R a CONFIDGNTIAL i tt teeta] 1 NE nr eT - * Nn I ae Bye ye
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