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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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"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!
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@ 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.,
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The subject stated in part as follows in this article:
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"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
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