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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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~ 7 Ss Dee PT tt ont at f,: 4 Dae ‘ t \. a te, mate bt wre wee ver ere . . iad! * Ae CONFIDENTIAL WY 100-161445 During this portion of his talk, HOFFMAN mentioned that the straight people continually confront him with the e. le of World War II as a just war, however, these same people fail to mention the American Revolution. He indicated that the straight people do not want to use the American Revolution as an example, since, to his way of thinking, it is a perfect parallel to what is occurring in the country today; that is, the oppressed people of the United States today want to revolt and throw off the enforced and unreasonable shackels of modern society. He stated he was a revolutionary, a facist, a longhair, @ creep, or whatever anyone wanted to call him. He stated, "You can call me any (obscene) name you want to, it doesn't make any difference because names are labels and labels are rtant. We want change now, not tomorrow or five years or ten years from now. Now is the time for people to get out on the streets and change the society of the pigs. We are not afraid of the pigs or the Government or of any (obscene) thing." HOFFMAN then started to discuss some of the failings of modern-day society and subsequently jibed today's religious leaders. He stated that religion had failed the ple and during a rather lengthy, rambling discussion indicated t a religion at one time confronted social ills by having its followers refrain from eating meat on Friday. He also indicated that another religion, Calvinism by name, preached that the answer to social ilis was by hard work and success by monetary and social advances. He indicated that this was quite prominent today in that people are primarily concerned with a home in the suburbs and " let the niggers fight it out in the streets of the cities, " He then indicated that a good example of Christian charity was the recent appearance of PAT NIXON before various news media, at which time she presented a bag of rice which was to be furnished to the starving Biafrans., He chided this gesture and stated that during the Detroit riots he and some friends drought canned goods into the riot area for the rioters, He jokingly stated, "They don't have to eat the food if they don't want to, they can alwayé throw the cans.“ a - 2GL _ CONFINGNT, “ee raat ee ee oe
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