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Abbie Hoffman — Part 10
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" And I don't even know if we can talk about it in terms
of a one government because you can't have a revolution
in this country without having a world revolution, which
is presently going on. I mean, people in Vietnam are not
going to sit back and let this country come in and turn
into a parking lot. The same way we're not.
"We engage in the repelling of aggression. I
think that's what, the phrase that I'd like to use.
We engage in the repelling of all aggression. There is
aggression. Police that we refer to as pigs. In this
city they have like the biggest and the best. Chicago,
it's always been known for its architecture. They have
a relative police state here. I know, ten thirty tonight,
ARLO was just telling me that there weren’t very many young
people at his concert last night and I was saying that's
Cause at ten thirty every night in Chicago, a thing comes
on the t.v. set which says it's now ten thirty p.m., curfew
‘is in effect, If you’re 17 or under, you must be off the
streets. Curfews exist in most of the major cities in this
‘country and about 40% of the high schools here in Chicago
_there are cops already in the high schools and people are
worried about detention camps being set up. we already
have them. They're called high schools. So I think that,
I think that America is now embarked on a program of
devouring its youth.
oo Well, it's a question of how you define revolution.
I mean the Russian revolution, all revolutions have (inaudible)
a little better system then they had from the beginning.
Cetainly Russia now is better off than it was under the
zar, But the kind of reviution I'm talking about is one
in which high degree of technology is involved in which
you're living in a post-scarcity economy in which you don't
have the batile between the have and have nots because the
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