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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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UNKNOWN: "Okay. What are your feelings towards
Edward Kennedy and do you classify all
political figures in this country as political pigs?
HOFFMAN 3 "As. . huh?
UNKNOWNs "Do you classify all political people in
this country as political pigs?
os, HOFFMAN: ‘Yes. But pigs ia just . . uh. . .well
it's just a symbolic word. Right. Pigs.
Like XY don't think that's a good word for cops. Well.
It is porta natural. Because we like .. love pigs.
Right. We entered one as a candidate. He won too.
Right. So we love pigs as well as we hate them.
It's all ambivalent. But I'm not . .. what I'm
calling cops,‘ not these storm troopers, you know,
killers. Because they're like that. They good.
Yeah! I call ‘em commie fags, Jew ba------, 866.
When I get in the jail. And then I'd kind of like
to say, oh puke. But that's an insult. I learned
that from cops. You think I learned this way of
talking, you know, up there in the suburbs? Wo. I
learned it from cops. That's right cops that used
obscenities. Out of sight!
"I didn't Imow what they were talking about.
Obsentalies (ph). That's what the cop said. I was
arrested for having this dirty word kill on my fore-
head. In Chicago at the trial, the police officer
he said . . uh well he had obsentalie (ph) on his
forehead. So like. . uh. . the D. A. 871d well what
! was it. You can say it. WellIcan't ay he said.
He says. I said it was f - = + , Fewer, . . he said
f-~-, He said you kmow you can say it. The cop
says f---, You know. Very timid. But he wasn't
so timid in the station house. He kmew that ania
whole lot of other swears like .. .» ;
UNKNOWN: ‘You talked atout revolution. . . It's
hard.for me to gather a summary from what
you've said. And I would like you just to outline.
Do you feel that the revolution you're locking for
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