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Abbie Hoffman — Part 14
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made by the subject, excerpts of which are set out as follows:
"Well, thanks for bringing me out here. Tcan
see this ain't the Lower East Side. Quite different. Beautiful.
We came toSan Francisco. We had a police station blow up
in New York. It was, it was two days late, but, that's the
way it goes, you know, long fuse. But, we're learning better
living from chemistry, you see. It's a slogan. And, what
goes up doesn't necessarily have to come down, the way Isaac
Newton taught us in the fourth grade. And the Weathermen in
New York definitely proved that fact that police station ain't
never coming down again.
"Well, we came into San Francisco, and we drove
Gown the coastline on a tourist trip visiting a11 the oil
Slicks along the way. Seven (obscene) oil slicks we saw ail
the way down here, I mean, the pigs really ought to take care
of the Pacific Ocean a little better, cause actually there
are only two others like it in the whole world...
"J was on trial in Chicago, did you hear about it,
huh? Oh, you did? Yeah. We sort of felt we should have got
the Academy Award for that trial, I mean, not John Wayne
and those (obscene). JI mean, if they were, if they were pot-
heads making decisions in Hollywood, as well as Washi..gton,
you know, instead of lush whiskey drinkers, we would've won
the Academy Award for sure.
“Well, it was a strange trial. We were on trial ,
under Anti-Riot Act, twenty-one-,one-, twenty-one,ten I think
4t's called. Strom Thurmond passed it as a memorial tribute
to Martin Luther King. It was attached on to Open Housing
Act, and it's, it's only fitting in 1984 that we be tried
under a civil rights act. And, it's called the anti-riot
clause of the civil rights act, and a niot is defined as
an act or threat of violence by one or more people in a crowd
of three or more. Probably happened here about seven or
eight times, but you have to be smoking what General Mitchell
'
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