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Abbie Hoffman — Part 9
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35 was amazing because it was everything _ P
the vhole trint stands for.
everybody wes smiling and the spoctators -
were jumping up end yelling, ‘Fight on,
fight on, Bobby’ and they had to yank him
up and erag hin din front of the judse, Cool
it, cool, cool, take him out and deal with
him again. Tiey had to deal with hin three
tines that afternoon and
si ll vhen 25 8 _
eane Dll rase and the court
will Clo to order and they had to stop the
trial, Thoy had to take Bobby back to Cook .
County Jail and try to give hin tracuilizers
to shut bin up and they bad to take him up to
University 7
- fo prevent hin troa taikingjihe next morning
they Cane in with a specially designed chair.
Four with a white apprratus and still
witht es half-hour ell the plg technology didn't
pwount to shit, Thcy covldu't stop one cat from - -
talizing,. Finally they hud cut him Loose and
that was that, You try ite You go home, you
got soncthing really hcavy to say, you try
_. gagging yourself, put in alkinds of cotton, tie _
your up in a whole bunch of ways and you'll
pry you goe someting to say ~ there's no way
you can be shut up - they can cut your fuckin
tongue out or bite your head off, That’s what =< ~~
this trial’s about ~ it’s a freo smcch trial, ©
but you sec psople who mver used free speech
aro all on trial or in prison or on their way
up dead, Paople who believe in free speech
are all over the fuckin place but believing it
ond daing it - that’s quite two different things.
Wo always see people, yeh, yeb, good luck, good ~~
luck, and gee, it's a rough deal and take care
in Chicago, it's a really rough town, and good =~ ~~
luck and ail that and I really believe in
what you're doing, They boliove in
Y don't even know what I'm doing. Vell, we
believe in (uh), your goals, but not your
mothods, I'm just looking for a whole band of
people that dig our mothods and not cur goals,
those are the people that are
: tony 293 ™
aeerils WEEN
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