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Abbie Hoffman — Part 10
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CONFIENTIAL
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‘Chicago, since that time and because of five or
ten thousand brave young people were ready to risk a
threat of death to get their politics up into the street
where the decisions are made in this country. ‘ell,
Chicago, is an event in time and space and not a place and
(uh), you think about that, you po around the country and
people say were you in Chicago, they don't mean were you
swimming in Lake Michipan. You know what I mean. They
mean a certain event and it's because of that event and what
happened that there's no political party that's going to
hold a convention in a major city in a pig empire for the
rest of the future, I mean (uh) you just think about it
for a while. The Republican Party is never going to have
a convention in Pittsburreh. Thev're never going to have
a conventionin Washington, Atlantic City, or New York. The
only place they are going to be allowed to have a convention
is in Hawaii, which is the center of the military empire.
You think about it. Because of how this country has moved
eastward into Asia, into Southeast Asia, Hawaii is where
all political conventions are going to be, they'll be
broadcast via remote control television to the rest of the
people. That's kind of a very subtle fascism, where you
can't go and exert what you want to say at the point at
which decisions are being made. You see, everybody goes
down my street at the commuter protest down near the phallic
on the Potomac there - that gigantic monument. There's
a law in Washington by the way, that you can’t build any
structure higher than that monument. You come up all kinds
of Freudian symbolism...
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"VYe've learned that if you ever get involved, the
courts analyze their role in America and the fact that they
keep the people in power, in power, and we people
they don't want and this is a political conference
on repression, T don’t know » SO we want to de-
legitimize the authority cause there’s always a
of our power, the wwer of the people and the Powers of the
1970s and the future. Forget the power of the 1950s and
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