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Abbie Hoffman — Part 7
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ress conference and he said you turn this pig loose in three
ours, we run a lion for president. So the cops, I don't know
them, they must have gotsome of that acid, so they run up ‘to
the zoo and they got the lion's den. Four cops did it. Crazy
mother f...+6. Choice of insanities.
"I was busted for wearing the shirt Betsy Ross
made for me. I went down to..there have been like thirty
people busted for wearing that shirt or a vest or something
like that, but they're all people that the power structure
doesn't like. See like, there're two million, seven hundred
thousand laws in this country, but like, really there's
only one. It's catch 22. It says they can do whatever the
f... they want to to those people they don't like, providing
those people don't stop them, vice versa. It's how the
whole things works. So like, that's a mod fashion, that shirt,
and appears in ads in New York Times, San Francisco Examiner,
Los Angeles Times. Phyllis Diller goes on TV in a mini-skirt,
wears a flag, and gets twenty thousand dollars or someting,
you know. I get thirty days in_jail. And I'm prettier than
éhe 35. Well, so herc iv is, Dastvict of Coluibia Court of
Appeals, United States of America, versus me, Johnny
Cash. Melvin Hambure, attorney for the Department of Justice.
This is the government - you know they have to file this brief
to show why they need that law. The importance of a flag in
developing a sense of loyalty to a national entity has been
subject of numerous essays. First essay, see Hitler, Mien
Kampf. Dig that, whose straight? Hey you, come here for a
second. We don't need any enemies. Choice of insanities. «
Government quoting Hitler. I know what we got that can match
that, Attilla the Hun, Sitting Bull. You know there was this
thing called hippies. Hippies was a kind of a nice thing.
That was about the summer of 1967; no, it started a little bit
before then, huh, about January, 1966, I think was the first
move, more of less, about a year. Peace signs and love and
kiss cops, smile, all gonna happen. They're beautiful.
Beautiful people started out in San Francisco, one of the
most beautiful cities in the country, and they had flowers
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