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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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TP ,100-17576 "on that police force responsible for what happened. In fact, they gave me this shirt. Honorary member. Chicago Police Department. I'm with the Mod Squad. But they're not responsible because those decisions were made on a very high level. In fact, the decision to indict us rested with Nixon himself. That's good. That's good. But welfre gotng to win that trial, see. We're going to win that trial before a jury that is selected by those very same people because in a Federal court our lawyers are not allowed to cross~- examine the jury and ask them questions like, hey you ever been on an acid trip, you mow. Things like that. We'd be tried by .. . How can they find a jury of our peers. Right. Under that system. Impossible. But even before that kind of jury, before a judge, {llegitimate father, Julius Hoffman, that judge, ) 7”, years old gremlin. He gonna die in trial. He is just gonna have a heart attack, keel over and die when he hears all this stuff. We're gonna be found innocent, see. And we aren't even gonna mess around with, lil, .. uh. . denying all these little facts. Like, we had 9,000 cattle ready to drive through the streets of Chicago, you lmow, and. . uh. . . 10,000 of us were going to walk naked on Lake Michigan. I mean that is . . uh. . you know. . LSD in the water supply. JI mean call up .. I call a Deputy . « « Deputy Mayor David Stahls (ph) the guy who like stalls for like five months on our permit, see. You get . . . a very liberal guy, more like Daley, who is really got some class like. This guy is a sweatin’ what you're fighting for but we don't believe in the methods used. Let's open the dialogue. Let's have a dialogue. Yeahl "Well, I called him up one night, like hey Dave, how's it going? You lmow. How's your team doing? Said ...tiIZ.. tell you a secret about that LSD story in the... in the papers like . . we didn't even start that rumor. You mist have seen "Wild in the Streets" or somethin'. You know. But like ..uh... Why don't you check with some of your scientists, seeing how you own them all. I mean that ~23-
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