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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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4 es - on ry Nee! nF Yo0-161445. - CONFIDENTIAL oe, r it's all ‘catch 22' which means that they can do whatever they want until we get our (obscene) together and organize and be able to take them on. ‘Les we build us a new nation with a new Army! Although we like to have fun and everything, there's ’ people out there that don't want to see that we live that. kind of life, and we have to learn to defend ourselves against those people and those forces." / On April 11, 1970, SAS of the FBI heard the subject address approximately 8,000 individuals at Grégory Gymnasium on the University of Texas campus at Austin, 'Texas,at the invitation of the University of Texas Union Speaker's Committee. The following are excerpts from the subjects speech: . " ..the law hasn't got a (obscene) think to do with justice. The law is about keeping the people in power right where the (obscene) they are. And that is why, and that is why, when those jucges say we went mn there, that we went in there, into that courtroom in Chicago, that neon oven, to deliberately be in contempt of that court system, they are ‘right on,' cause that is what we did; because we are in contempt of that law, and we are in contempt of the people in Washington that passed that law and every other (obscene) law in the books. The yippies, there are two million seven hundred fifty thousand laws in this country. The yippies are for the violation of every one of those (obscene) laws including the law of gravity. "We are going to smash a society that robs.women of their dignity. That's what we're going to do. And it ain't about Virginia Slims, sticking cancer ip her mouth. That ain't what the (obscene) its about. It's about women have a right to do the decision-making that effects their lives and their bodies. “We an do it. We can whip those (obscene) pigs We can dance on the grave of the pig enpire. "We are also a people, an emerging nation, proud, and beautiful, and right. We are the alternative. We are what we are going to put in the (obscene) place. < ’ - 37 - CONFIDEBTIAL
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