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Abbie Hoffman — Part 12

96 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Mar 18, 1970 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 96 pages OCR'd
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af Bg oe ee r [ dh ee Vo, 7 eda NY 100-161445 . "Now the seorscfONEIDRNTIAL. to devour our new youth nation. “Do they teach you about making bombs? Nope, boom Well, you're going to ask about the bombings. What's this ¥ sound going around. New York blew up the IBM office. You've seen one you've seen them all. Bombings, pea shooters, plastic bombs. Better living through chemistry. The Yippies . believein a violation of every law including the law of gravity. What goes up don't necessarily have to come down. “We believe in banks. We invested in the Bank of America, Santa Barbara. That paid off heavy. "We have to redefine the language and one of the words we got to reorient ourselves to is the word violence. We have to talk about institutional. violence. "We're just going to pull off and do our thing and the card table, card house is going to come crumbling down. Well, I'll tell you it's falling on our (obscene) heads. We're like two trains running and they were going full speed right in that court- house; just like that on the same track. And I'll tell you if we don't figure out how to derail that other (obscene) train before it's too late, it's going to take us with it. And I'll tell you revolution is about life, it's not about dying. You don't: die for the revolution, you live for it. po "IT said I want to confess because I felt the Government was calling me an enemy of the state and I am an enemy of. the state. “Everybody in the whole (obscene) world saw what happened in the streets of Chicago. Everybody knows what happened there. Everybody knows Mayor Daley and his cohorts were responsible for that. There isn't a court in America where you could put that pig on trial and you believe it. The only court in America that you can put that pig on trial is in the streets and that's where we're going to have our jury of the peers in the streets of this country. It's going to be a long, hot summer if Bobby doesn't get out; it's going to be a burning, - 30 - pou the. - CONFINENTIAL —
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