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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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ment and make protest. Number two is to steal kids. We are
confirmed child molesters. We have to get the kids turned on
to a new way of life. As Castro said 'We are grateful that the
revolution does not reach maturity.’ That is certainly truer
for this country than Cuba. It has to be immature because tmaturity *
and ‘seriousness' are defined by the establishment. Take work, ;
W-O-R-K. When we say that nobody 1s going to work in the new
world, it really spooks them. Notideology nor druga. W-O-R-E.
When you tell the straight world you are never going to work
again they go into fits of ulcers.
"We live in the last days of the Roman Empire. What
happened to the Roman Empire was Christianity, which was a slave
revolt caught up with a new morality, a new sense of values, a
new lifestyle, long hair and what not. When people wer to hide
out in the Catacombs they were dropping out. Same as now. We
are living under a system that is falling apart under its own
weight, it's own bureacratic excesses and it's own immorality.
Just like the Roman Empire. Our revolution is like the slave
revolt in Rome. It is as much a revolution in consciousness
as a revolution in politics, and it is carried out in the bowels
of a dying world Dinosaur.
"I am worst when it comes to that. I still can't
believe that they didn't give us the permit for Lincoln Park.
I am still waiting for that permit. I still can't believe Nixon
and not Johnson is president. I am quite naive. And the indict-
ments. I really can't believe THAT. We knew that we were on.
their list with the FBI following us every where like sone
“People who support the establishment simply can't
<. acknowledge that they and the system are wrong. If. they did
5 they would either have to kill themselves or join us. Since
- they can't do either, they have to acknowledge us as their
= enemy, or really not us but secret powers behind us. It is
€ therefore no surprise to me that Attorney General Mitchell sees
£ a conspiracy wherever he goes. If you are in the movement you
Fs can't help but get hysterical at such a notion. The people that
bad have been in it for a long time can really dig the humor of it all.
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wf a dual problem here. Number one we have to confront the establish-
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