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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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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
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