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Abbie Hoffman — Part 9
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“nest frightening thing about the trial , my
He hits on three out of four witnesses
whether they’re factory workcrs or chairmen
of a law school in Los Angeles, whether it's
a rock Ginmer. No matter who it is, he hits
ou three out of four witnesses and they got
folders on everybody. So, also I forgot about
tha other thing our aim is and this is heavy
beenuse political trials ~ this is vcry difficult
to undorstand, J mean, we'll coma in and there
will be logal exports who 111 cone in
_. » this is the greatest trial
Binoo Sosrntcs,. It's the most inporteant
since Jesus « =I'irsey,
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bey man, do you icv ey winners in, BOY
vin, Vin the fuckin czse and to win and to win
Lt this fuckin jury and this jury cones
froa BUbarsan Illincis, the evori.ge age is 54 on
tio jury and first off, we crime because ve didn't
consider a political convention through the
eInctozcl process as democratic or seeing it
needs nll the people, Now the first thing to
sk the jury is whether they voted or not
and we weren't allowed to ask why they didn’t
vote and right avay we're cut off fron forty~
two percent of the people in the country who wuld
tend to ugree with us simply because they don't =
recognizes the system, either in an active way
or a passive viny, they don't vote, £o we're
already cut off from then, Then there are other
actions by which the judge got rid of sone
people, Wo weren't wha this jury
was picked, For exanplo, most political trials
take tvo veeks to pick a jury. Sonsetinmes three,
gonotines four weeks. They pied this jury in
tve hours, And the judge read the inéictitits. |
You wouldn't be able to understand it. I don't -
wnderstant it now to this day but 42 you had
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heard the judge read it in that halftour that
he had in this room full of potential jurors Lt
‘Jake this, you would bave said ho's putting
the hood right over their head, I moan this is
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