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Abbie Hoffman — Part 24

127 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Sep 11, 1968 · Broad topic: Terrorism · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 124 pages OCR'd
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ata _* et +h documentary as 2 member of the Los Angeles Police Dent, doliz in the film, telkinz as ifhe were on duty in Chiceso with the Chi- caso Police Department? Will the REAL R, F, Rock please stand up, If he $s still on the LAPD payroil, tell us who assigned him to duty in Chicazo and what he was doing in this documentary on behalf of Mayor Daley? Comes now Ojficer Robert Pierson of the Chicago Police Department, whom readers ofthe Freep wit] remember as the spy who played yippie and tried to embroll Jerry Rubin(as his body- guard’) in all kinds of rash acts which would have led the yipples into a police trap if they hadn't Spotted him #5 2 police agent, Head him divulge his sersational Bpy Scerets on Dale;’s Big Lie documentary: *They want to take over the country, They want tacompietely Scrap our democratic system of government, They are not for any Bpeelfie member ofour damocra- tle soclety, and they definitely are scains€ any candisute (hatwe cure rently have for the preside:cy of the United Slates, The minlead- ers @nd organizers of the inci+ denis we've hed in Chicato have taken part in ottiers In the past, David Delinzer, whois the chair- man of the Natlon2! Mctilization ee ed aad Committec, was instrumental in much of the plenning for the march ¢n the Penlsgen lest Octo- bar, which resulted in disorders,” and this barely literate rum- dum is going to be the chief, if not the only, sftness cgainst Jerry Rubin when his trial for inciting to mob violence (or something to that effect} comes up In Chicago —incitements of which HE, Rob- ert Pierson WAS GUILTY and, for which, if such a crime HAD becn committed, which it wasn’t, HE would have to be indicted end sentenced to jafll for, Such is the insanity, the black humor, ef the Chicago police’s role in what Jer- ry Rubin calied strect theater, Just to be fair and make this Big Lie believable, the yipples and Mobilization were allowed to speak their piece from time to time, all carefully edited, of course, to make a case, not for themselves, but for the theme of the docutnentary: that there was a nationwide left wing and yipple plot to ‘take over™ Chicazo by devilish forims of underground sebotece and unprovetied arined attacks oa police, The "survival schcol” lessons in karate and Janinese student street demonstration techniques, wileln the yinrles earefotly ex- plained to the press were de- signed for self-defense, not Goa aminst the police, ‘bit X ainst Right Wing hocdlums like those who allacked Dr, Kint and his marchers inCicero, were twisted by these Rig Lie docum: into “Kilt Kill! KH preparations, xennte Davis 2ud T: were piclured ts tr “who have been engaged’ orders In some of the ma‘or unl- versity t2keovers Visich have tck- en place,” Note the sly use ofthe word “takeovers,” to fit In with the thesis that they were bent Gn “taking over the cily* of Chieaso —lenguote that is normally used in deserlbing ermed forces of enemy troops invading t stranze country, They didn’t miss 2 trick in thls one, They even had thelr own house nigger, # reporter of the Uncle Tom Chiesgo Defender newspaper, who said the rezson the newsmen got clubbed cuwn was because they kod only about an inch oftheir ereczutials shov- ing out of their lapel! pockets, He went on losay that erywhere from one to six cases of Chiczsopslice brutality Is reported to his paper every diy, but thot was his re- ward for playing Judas to the press, , Ancther exhibit was a Chicago University history professor who got up on his hind legs for Master Deley end barked out some double-talk to the effect, that, while some indivicusl officers may have overacted (the Chicoro word for breaking heads) the pol- lee showed remark25le restraint in view of such Intolerable pro- vocations. And a Sun-Times editorial wri- ter whoseems tohave bcenavoted from a radio or TV show in Chi- cago, mace appropriate noises that the documontarists thought might be mistaken bs the viewer as justification for the 1,000 wounded and the hundreds of ar- Tests wiiose only crime was tal. - ing the Bill of Rights seriously and whose only error was that - they assumed the U.S, Censtitu- tion was oneretive in Chleago when as a matter of fact, theelly wag under martial law and the Consiltution had been suspended —a state of affairs that hasbeen chronic In Chtcago for d-cades. Those who didnot seathe Paley Big Lie dscumentzry Sunday right will got belisve me, I'm aivald, when fo tell them tat one of the @eadiicst pleces of incriminsting evidante presented against the yippies was some maps of Chi- co et co “q eS -
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