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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 oe ; ; reg C conFiDiria 0 meee > te WY 100-261445 wit "I know you will say, ‘We know all that, but what do you offer-only more killing, only a subtle change in things? What is so revolutionary about your revolution?’ But of course you are cynical. Your univeréities teach you to be eternal ; cynics, a cynicism that can only be drowned in alcohol and diet pills and psychoanalysis and golf. . , "Forget your cynicism! : “"here is no one who has more respect for liffe than @ revolutionist." . The "Berkeley Barb", a California newspaper,in its April 11 - 17, 1969 issue on pege nine contains an article by the subject entitled, "F**k the F##G" wherein the subject wrote about his arrest for wearing a flag shirt at the House Comittee on Un-American Activities hearings in Washington, D.C., PA oe ny ty pe | The subject stated in part as follows in this article: . ‘ 7 . 3 . . tm Ne toad i ee ke "Last summer, just a few days before Congress ripped through the law making it illegal to conspire to run a Pig for president in the streets of Chicago, they passed a federal law protecting the flag from ‘defacement and defiling.* The maximum penalty is one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. (The only other country to have just passed = similar lew is Russis.} i "My arrest (for weering a flag shirt) at the HUAC hearings last October was the first arrest under the federal law. At the trial I was found guilty and given a 30 day sentence which is just coming up for appeal. A transcript of the trial can be found in the November, 1968 issue of the Realist. "Of course, not everyone who wears a flag shirt or dress gets arrested, just as not everyone who snckes pot go to jail. The flag design is a current mod-feshion among the are 1: Ja ccidaennmrarne "9 teen han ct ormps , ae rich. Ads for dresses and vests appeared recently in the New . - . York Times, Los Angeles Tine and the San Francisco Exaniner, — to name a few.... . 69 ) eine dria cece wumteunee ee ii
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