◆ SpookStack

Declassified Document Archive & Reader
Log In Register
Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Abbie Hoffman — Part 26

163 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Apr 30, 1969 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 160 pages OCR'd
← Back to feed
cen ‘ Se eae + eT ria a ee Me “ON eed. , collect. You know we'll take care of it. We can't do anything right now cause see, there's states rights and in this case our hands are tied. Phew. Eight years of that. Liberals. Hands are tied. They're gonna have a hell of a trip with this tria] in Chicago. They're gonna write out a check The Conspiracy, it's really a trip going up to -, saying, rigbt, of course, I'm constitutional law, yea, right, it's ridiculous. Law is a police state facism coming in. Well, give us a check. Well, who do f make it out to? The Chicago Iegal Defense Committee or the Chicago Eight? No, we're the conspiracy. Oh, my pen's stuck. That's OK. I got a felt one right here. Technology. Give him the felt pen, he writes it out. Send it in. He's a member. "People think there's alot of political repression going on in this country. They grabbed 2] Black Panthers in New York. Planning to blow the Botanical Gardens and Macy's and alot of other national security interests. Same as if Chicago won. You see, they think that’s gonna stop us. They get all these people together. Like all these different forces are gonna come into Chicago, comin' to New York to defend the Black Panthers, cause we don't view these acts as acts of repression. We view them as signs of a dying sympton...system. The emperor's clothes are coming off, And we're gonna rejoice, When this trial's over, we'll dance on the graves of the systen. "You meet alot of groovy people in a conspiracy. You oughta start one. Take power into your own hands. Decide what you want and go do it. Just wack from Berkeley. University leveled a while building - gonna make a parking lot. Like they're gonna do in Vietnam. Kids ran in and put sod and made a park, People's Park; put up swings and everything, right on the University's property. They look at that. Whoo, they’re spooked. How they gonna move against those little kiddies in the wading pool? Sneaky. Sneaky commies. You know the commies, they aren't hiding under the bed anymore. They came right up on top of the bed and we're screwing them like crazy. We're gonna dance on the grave of this system. You try it. You wanna get an education? Try doing what you wanna do. And then you'll see that cops come in. See who calls them. Check out the guys who own this school. Check ‘em out. What else they own. Coca Cola? United Fruit, Canada? What do they own up here? They own you. Try taking it. You know people don't believe that
OCR quality for this page
Community corrections
First editor: none yet Last editor: none yet
No user corrections yet.
Comments
Document-wide discussion. Follow the Community Standards.
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Continue Exploring

Use the strongest next step for this document: continue reading, jump to the topic hub, or move into the matching agency collection.
Continue Reading at Page 103
Jump straight to page 103 of 163.
Reader
Abbie Hoffman — Part 39
Stay inside Abbie Hoffman with another closely related document.
Topic
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the FBI agency landing page for stronger archive context.
FBI
Abbie Hoffman Topic Hub
See the topic overview, related documents, and linked subtopics.
Hub

Agency Collection

This document also belongs in the FBI Documents & FOIA Archive landing page, which is the stronger starting point for agency-level browsing and for searches focused on FBI records.
FBI Documents & FOIA Archive
Open the agency landing page for introduction text, topic links, and more FBI documents.
FBI

Explore This Archive Cluster

This document belongs to the Civil Rights archive hub and the more specific Abbie Hoffman topic page. Use these hub pages when you want the broader collection context, linked subtopics, and more documents around the same archive thread.
bureau
Related subtopics
Eleanor Roosevelt
43 documents · 3113 known pages
Subtopic
Highlander Folk School
20 documents · 1327 known pages
Subtopic
Cesar Chavez
17 documents · 2085 known pages
Subtopic
Claudia Jones
12 documents · 846 known pages
Subtopic
Thurgood Marshall
12 documents · 1663 known pages
Subtopic
NAACP
9 documents · 758 known pages
Subtopic