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Abbie Hoffman — Part 9

109 pages · May 12, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 109 pages OCR'd
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PG 100-16555 (2) “know that if you are a civil rights worler or a political activist or cultural revolutionary or involved in the black liberation struggle, you get to go to prison under the Civil Rights Act, All of a sudden, one day, April 12, 1963, everything that people have been doing for four months tclling people to come to Chicago, all of a suddon on that des, it became illegal and pcople sometimes think th.t wo're on trial for kicking. pigs or _ spitting on the sidevalk or threatening to kilt (uh). I don't know how many of them were there, Daloy, all those other poople, We ain't cherged with any of that stuff, We're charged with crossing state lincs with the intention to ~~ incite a riot and a riot is defincdly an act ... _. - ~ or threat of violence by one or more people in. . a crowd of three or mere, Probably it’s og already happened here about sixtcon times nnd . you wouldn't know it cause it's very (uh), it's a conspiracy after all, You know ~ secret. 7™ Secondly, socondly (uh), conspiracy, you have a it in your heads watch all those World War II movies. Conspsracy's something you an sit in a dark closet with a candle and you go _ psst, psst, pest. You know, and you look at _ all those blucprints and then you figure it out. Tho (vuh) night before we were arraigned last “-> April, a year after, almost a year after 9 ~ = = 7 Chicago happened, we were introduced to each other for the first time, Many of us hadn‘t met each other, but that's (uh), that's the mo nature of conspiracy, But we had Dave Dellinger, a pacifist, 4f you're an antiwar movement, - it's good to have at least one of then, Ve got ms Doctor John Froines, fron Eugene, Oregon, a chemist. You enn bet your ass you gotta have a fuckin . chemist, Rennie Davis, we got hin in a trade with Banoi Rose. He's a Rennic’s the closest thing we got to an American, It was at a 4-]] club, fom Hayden, Berkeley, Jerry Rubin, I met hin, Lee Weiner, he happened to stroll din the park, got thrown in, they had to have a local guy from Chicago, and then, course, there was Bobby Seale. That was the most surprised of any TAS HL AY ta rrr abdeice . Bre eat SIEVE RP RRS Tg BAH RN 7 1 eNKS, wear oe yee wees . . Pye " ,
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