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Abbie Hoffman — Part 9
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"complacent and apathetic to those peoples’
strugge over tice. Those people are being
bombed by millions of tons of bombs everyday
under the guise of preventing communism from
taking this county, You know it. You know
4t's 2 Afe. You people should be out there
tearing this country apart, You should be
taking that Pentnron down brick by brick and
just like Eldvicge said, ‘If the folks living
at Song Hy hed been arned, they wouldn't have
been massacred like they were’ and this is
the same thing that we advocate in the black
communities for 211 oppressed pemle in this
country. We sexy, ‘Arm yourself or harm yourself,'
We're not advocating that you pick up a gun and
run into the streot like a mad manine or a kill
crazy maniac, but have a gun, know what that
weapon can do, and he prepared to use it in
your defense in the defense of your ccmmunity and
in the defense of the poople that come from your
neighborhood, That's 212, You sce, the pigs in
this country are armed to tin gills :
or you can calT yoursel? passive
Or you Gn call yourself a liberal and you sey that
you can't become involved in this struggle because
you «n't be violent with your Government, What you
should be doing is going down to Narrisburg or
goinz to Yshington, D. C,, and just like whoever
was it who rede the statement telling the United
States to have all the marines sing, ‘We Shall.
Overcome’ in Vietnam instead of walking around
with l-1l6s, poisonous ms, and those napalm bombs
and flasie throwers over there, Those pacifists ‘
will tell you that you should follow this line all
the ways dezn the line, Don't come tell Panthers,
don't cone tell black people in the black ccmmunity
and don't tell anybody not to carry guns as long
as you've got those fat funky pigs out there
murdering and terrorizing the ‘people, Repression
can only cone about when the people in the country
or in the comaunity are apathetic in that connunity
or country, are complacent about the things that
they have such as white so-called middle-class
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