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Abbie Hoffman — Part 9
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* gonna ah sit back and let the Government go on the offensive.
We were gonna maintain offensive militant defense in the court-
room just as we haddone in the streets of Chicago when they
refused to give us a permit which we had negotiated five or six
months in order to stay in Lincoin Park ten miles away from
the convention, The conspiracy--conspiracy means to breathe
together. That's it--(breathes heavily)--penalty is five
years for doing it and $20,000 fine. Twenty grand ain't
(obscene). JI mean where I live on the lower East Side standing
in front of Jim's Bar, you can panhandle twenty grand in about
an hour (laughter). Pick it up easy. You can pick up to
ten years too come to, come to think about it, yeah. You get
ten years sure as hel] down there. You know what you get
for ah--down the lower East Side, they nave a bust called ah
Say So Bust--you ever get that? You know, walking down the
street and a cop'll grab you by the back of your long hair,
throw you up against the building, smack you on the head, you
know, you pick up and he says, you're under arrest. You say
why? He says 'cause I say so. That's called a Say So Bust.
You probably got a few of them around here, As soon as you
get a Buffalo Nine of some other kird of baseball team together,
you know, (laughter) the Buffalo clubs come in, wanna play ya.
Conspiracy with intent to cross state lines. You know how you
cross state lines? Yeah, a recording's being made of this, you
know, maybe going to New Jersey, I'll say ah come on November 15th
down in Washington. Now somebody over in New Jersey hears that,
they go down to Washington see and then ycu have a riot.), Now
a riot's really an interesting word. According ‘to Strom Thurmond,
@ riot occurs in a group of ah three or more people in which one
or more people commit an act of violence or threat of violence.
Now he doesn't, the law doesn't say who's gotta do it. Like
ah the official Government report, the Waiker Report, said that
Chicago was a police riot but that doesn't matter either. Ycu
know it doesn't matter whether police rioted or the demonstrators
---sort of like getting blamed for being lynched (laughter).
You have to like put it in its perspective. So that's the law
that we go into the court with--pretty hard to prove you're
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