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Abbie Hoffman — Part 7

102 pages · May 12, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 102 pages OCR'd
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NY 100-161445 "where'd I learn how to talk this way, huh, from my mother? I got a Master's Degree. From Berkeley. I didn't learn to talk that way there. I learned to talk that way in police stations. I thought I was goin' hysterical in Chicago, and they say, you're using obscenities. They swore - I thought that was hysterical - at my trial I was arrested for havin' a dirty four-letter word called hate on my forehead in Chicago. It was part of my security system. I didn't want my picture in the mass media, see, you..you had to swear at f..., right, or they won't take your picture. So I had that and I had a cross to keep away the vampires. Good for a kike to wear a cross, good disguise. So, the cop testified at my trial; the judge says, well, what did he have under his hat? Cop says, an obscenity, ~~ -yoa honor. ~An obscenity. “wietiwas 406? Well, I don't wanna say it. Hah. You should have heard him back in the station house. Well, I got cleared for that finally because they didn't have a, they said there were all these eyewitnesses, but they couldn't produce ‘em, see, so it only offended the cop's morals and if you only offend a cop's morals, it ain't good enough. It's, Jike a loophole in the law, so they threw the case out. But nonetheless, I got charged for resisting arrest, see, and I got fifteen days and a year probation stilicomin' up to serve in Chicago. But it's goin' to Supreme Court because it sounds sorta strange, you know, if you're not arrested for anything, how can you resist arrest to it? But,well, you know, Earl Warren and ali his friends, they work for us, right? Tell 'em yea, they work for us. They'll figure it out. We got more important things to do. Any others? "Now you say good luck. Why they all got me into that. And I'll walk out of here, and you'll say good luck, take it easy, dress warmly in Chicago, it's a windy city. All that mother talk. I got a mother. We don't need mothers. We need mother f...... What's this school like? What do you guys get to be? Second Lieutenants? What do they teach here? They gotta teach somethin' besides ovals here. That's OK. I dig that flag. Pretty colors. Make a good shirt. Keeps - you nice andwarm. Wanna hear a good one? Volume eighteen, U.S. Code, Statute 711 - hello, I'm Smokey the Bear. That's * six months in jail. Check it out §ix-months for that. Hello, - I'm Smokey the Bear. It's hard to keep your cool out there,"
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