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Abbie Hoffman — Part 16
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** prison and not one (obscene), five years. There's an inter-
esting law, Section 2101, Volume 18, U. S. Penal Code; it's
ah part of a civil rights law passed in April of 1968 by one
of the all~time great civil rights champions, Senator STROM
THURMOND. I had another experience, because being in a group
of people up in Chicago in a trial a couple of years ago,
did you hear about it nere? You did. We got five years for
violating that law. It's a very metaphysical law. It says
that it's illegal to cross a state line to organize, promote,
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the intentions, to organize, incite, participate, or promote
@ riot and a riot is defined under THURMOND's civil rights
law as an act or threat of violence by one or more people in
a crowd of three or more, It's a very metaphysical law and
that is why up there in Chicago we were quite dazzied because
not even the defendants knew whether we were innocent or
guilty or not. You can see why the jury and the judge had some
problems with it so it's an interesting law and no other
person in history has been tried under it twice.
"If the government doesn't end the war in Vietnam
we're going to end the government and there is 47 hours left.
There's about three lines in a 15-minute speech so I'm a ;
bit nervous in schools like this because right after the speech
the recordings of the speech are handed over to the President
of the University and he says we got it, we got the tape...
"Well, there's a very important election as y u
know. We did go to Washington. Did anybody go? It was a
very tactical achievement, We had about 75,000 people in
the park, By the way, I come up in a plane here and something
smeéelied very appealing, This whole state seems to smell like
marijuana. What's the state flower, a marigold or some wierd
little thing. It would be just my luck if they arrested me
here, Well anyway, we were up in Washington, you know, we had
all those people like. President NIXON goes on the boob tube
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