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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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ato: HOFFMAN: “I mean. I heard the Sermon on the Mount.
4 He didn't say that. He said, well, I mean,
the people will Imow, we're serious we do that . Two
thousand years passed. The Catholics are, like, very
) screwed up. The people aren't allowed to s----.
(Andher interruption
from audience)
HOFFMAN: "What did you say brother? Cousin, rather.
What did you say Delilah?
"So, . uh. . we get now. . we're getting
our things together real well. I mean people are
getting gassed and stomped and jeiied, arrested.
Facing 20 years forall kinds of different laws.
Two million seven hundred thousand laws in this
country. Whole lot of laws out there. You think that
law was something about the flag, huh? Trre's a law
that says .. uh. . you cannot impersonate Smokey the
Bear or you get six months in prison.
"That's right! If you got a law library
here. That's U. S. Code 18, Section 711, Smokey the
Bear statute. Hal Hal I'm Smokey the Bear. Six months.
So like. . uh. the legal system in this country,
you see, is not. . -has got nothing to do with justice.
In the halls of justices, the justices in the halls.
Right. Lennie Bruce said that, a commie. Right.
Commie Bruce. Justice who. It's catch 22, catch 22
says that they can do whatever they want to us pro-
viding we can't stop them from doing it and vice versa.
And that's the way the whole thing works. And like
cops. Well you dig copa. Yeah!
Well, see, you know why I wear thia
shirt because those, like ape, cops that are being
put up as scapegoats there in Chicago, see, like
we offered them our legal aid, see, and we didn't
want them responsible for what happened on the atreets
of Chicagd. Because a cop, like any other guy in the
—- system, is working for bread and he's doing his job
— and that's all. And he wasn't responsible. It was
Daley and Humphrey and all of those other king pigs
in this country. And we do not hold those working men
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