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Abbie Hoffman — Part 16

106 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Oct 21, 1971 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 105 pages OCR'd
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| | NY 100-163 as Approximately half of the show consisted of questions being called in by individuals identified by first name only; and, during this portion of the program, a "JOHN" (last name unknown) called in a question concerning whether or not subject believed" it has to be an armed revolution,” and this portion of the program concerning this question and answer is set forth hereafter verbatin: JOHN: ABBIE HOFFMAN : JOHN: ABBIE HOFFMAN : "Do you really believe it has to be an armed revolution?" i "Well um, ah't "I mean, like, wouldn't we be just as bad as Nixon and the rest of em if we started picking up guns, ee lms at Do meee Sh tn OF ana ana Ya KNOW, Giq our tning: "Well I ah, ah, I can never equate the two because you're always talking about relatively minimal amount of violence and a very personal kind of violence, You know, if you shoot another person, or something, ah, it's a very existential kind of thing. You've got to become concerned with it hut @f eweatwa anwananA tr ian trnatitudianal winlanrsa ee be We 2 We £66 A web Geld 241480) VE Vi EO Woke a ok Wd ds 3 like in Vietnam, for example, I mean Rand Corp., ah, that Daniel Elisberg, who 1s a personal hero of mine, and I think a lot of people, I think he brought out I mean the technology in this country is used on such a massive scale to commit violence in such an impersonal way. Say in Vietnam where the planting of radio detectors that sends any kind of life for a two-mile radius and then radios that information to a B-52 that's 50,000 feet above, ya know, the land and that information gets radioed we ae a en ge pens bee a mete ae is
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