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Abbie Hoffman — Part 16
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“he silentiy dismisses my suggestion that he call it SON OF
STEAL THIS BOOK, Instead, taking a long and healthy pull
on the beer he tells how he destroyed the copyright by writing
all the 'underground' papers in the country and telling them
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"Ask him about his indictment, yelled Allen Katzman,
as IJ left the EVO offices to interview Abbie, so I asked him
about the indictment,
"tl was indicted under section 2101 of the U.S.
code Vol. 18 under a civil rights law authored by that
great fighter for individual rights Strom Thurmond,' says
Abbie. ‘I gave this speech in Oklahoma in which I said
three things for which they indicted me, I said we are
going to Washington to stop the government and the war, I plugged
Jerry Rubin's book "DO IT," and I said we are going to
make Chicago look like a YAF convention in comparison
with what we are going to do in Washington, So anyway
they indicted me under Thurmond's law, which is a very
metaphysical law. It's the only law ever passed which
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vm makes it a crime to cross state lines with the intention
gk to incite a riot. In other words with a state of mind,
amy So I don't even KNOW whether I'm guilty or not.' He is
beginning to get up, but not in a vigcious way, he just
wee is facing an unpleasant fact which he doesn't like, 'The
"4 government wants to put us away. We speak on campuses,
we are doing everything we can to weaken thw power of the
Phillistines in Washington, I guess I am guilty of every-
thing, the D, C. demonstrations, the bombing of the Capitol,
the Los Angeles earthquake...actually, I break the law every
time I speak. Everyone who believes in civil liberties should
expand the frontiers of free speech every time they speak,
everything else is just masturbation. TIhave got a list of
twenty laws I'm working on, Every time I speak I break about
five and tickle another ten.' What about the indictment? .
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