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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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"leader. Last hippie President. Gone to the golf
course in the sky. He was great. Did you see his
funeral? He was hard working .. . hard working! He
was on the golf course. What are .. what're they
talking about? I lived through those years. He was
playing golf. He was a hippie.
"So they are paper tigers. But they can't
figure out what we are. When we get through with this
trial, we gonna turn all this into confetti. Whoosh!
Confetti all over the place! Miles and miles of it.
Fnough for everyone. Because these acts were like
some of the liberals call repression. A aign that the
system is dying. The empror's clothes are falling off.
And we are gonna dance and f-~-- on the graves of this
empire. And we are gonna get together because like
we don't have that many differences, see. It's a
whole media, see. It is like screwing us up. Right.
They're going to say. This is it. This is it.
This is it. You're over there. You're the jocks and
you're the hippies and you're supposed to do this and
you're supposed to do that. Well, it ain't that way.
"Cause we're one. We are the people. And Abraham
Lincoln, like. Andher hippie. ‘When the Government's
« « « When you cannot change the Government by electoral
means, the people have a revolutionary right and duty
to dismember and overthrow that Government. That was
Lincoln. Another hippie. Beard and'long hair. You
start thinking and everybody in history that ever did
anything had long hair. We come out of that tradition.
But we are not unAmerican. We are the only Americans
left. That's right.
"So we ate all the same. Right. French.
No. Wo. No. You aren't. No. You're a sheep.
‘ ou sor Wu TRAM ‘CWS All that stuff. You believe
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Like, that was
the ery of the French rebellion. 0 son tu desirea.
That means we all going to take a bath. Right. We
all smell.
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