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Abbie Hoffman — Part 14

182 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Dec 17, 1970 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 182 pages OCR'd
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NY 109-161445 ‘shaved by the Nazi Storm Troopers. That's why. Because it is @ symbol, it is a symbol of the free life that we want in the future,free life, free as hair. Oh yes, Free. Let it grow. All this, all this has grown in three weeks. And it ain't from Geritol. So. Well. So that's what courts are about. 47 busts and loads of trials « Every (obscene) one. It's always been the same, . "TY was busted for wearing a shirt that looked like a fleg, right? That (obscene) shirt is sold to the rich, 15, 20 dollars a shirt. Phyllis Dill wears it. I was on TV with - Did you see that? Merve, Uncle Merve Show. Well, Roy Rogers was on two weeks before with Dale Evans, see? They wore the same exact (obscene) shirt, -see? -Two weeks leter,—— - on the same (obscene) show, network, CBS, you know with Ricky Nelson, you know, Pat Boone's mistress, Ricky Nelson, was, he was on with the same exact’ (obscene) shirt, you see? So, once again, you know,it isn't the what that's beingdone, it's who's doing that what. "And we got that power. Power to the people means power. It means the power to resist and to defend our way of life. See. I'm sitting here talking, not because some liberal senator, you know, came out and opposed our trial while it was going on. Not one (obscene) senator did. Yon know, not Clean for Gene, George Mc Government, none of those creeps, you know George Murphy, or none of those liberal senators, opposed the trial, you see. We're here because a half a million brothers and sisters, see, said that they were on trial too in Chicago, and they took to the streets which are the only courtrooms . we have left in America. They constituted themselves a jury of our peers, you see, and they burned down the Bank of America, and other assorted Yippie sports, and that's how the (obscene) we got out. Well, that's how it's always going to be. Thats the only power that's understood in America, the power to destroy. "Well, we hope that what we did in Chicago, you know, got the people around the country, young people in particular, got them a look at the legal system in America. And then they begin to recognize what we did. That every judge is Julius Hoffman, and you've seen one courtroom, you've seen them all. ~28- a
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