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nt ee Cees ces wee oe 018: OR see wee BO a vl hoagt NY 100-161445 HOFFMAN stated ne mentioned this because he has just written a book that had been rejected by thirty publishers on moral grounds. (,,) HOFFMAN stated a couple of years Ago, he was invited to the "House Un-American Activities Committee" and wore a flag shirt that he had bought in a fashionable New York boutique. The police said he was under arrest for desecrating the American flag. This was interesting, because that nignt on tne Ed Sullivan Show, PHYLLIS DILLER came on with a flag miniskirt and pranced around. HOFFMAN also said that he was "blacked out" on the Merv Griffin Show, even though two weeks before, ROY ROGERS and DALE EVANS, on Hollywood PiaynouSe, wore the exact same shirts. HOsFMAN said he wore the shirt only as a symbol of our attitude toward all the 2,750,000 laws on the books in this country. It's now the act, but who's doing the act.. "It's not what you do, but who's doing the wnat." The laws are-there to protect the power and the property of the people. (.) HOFFMAN mentioned the time he returned to Canada with two immigration lawyers, because of tne case sgainst him uptnere. All of a sudden, it was "Yes, sir," and "Welcome back, the royal carpet treatment. When the lawyers came through the door, the whole scene changed. HOFMAN remarked, "So you see what's going on."(x) HOFFMAN continued by saying that last year at this time, he was on trial in Chicago. He stated "they were actually sentenced and had the distinction of being sentenced before a verdict was returned." The trial was so weird and metaphysical, according to HOFFMAN, that not even the defendants knew whether they were innocent or guilty. HOFFMAN said it was the usual jury of our peers. If you looked at the jurors, you could in no way conclude they,were from the same planet, let alone from the same peers. (.) HOFFMAN remarked that he did not know why anybody went to Chicago during the convention. He vaguely recalled as it had something to do with criticism of the political system. (/¢