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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26
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HOFFMAN; Mayor DALY would have me shot for that. He
recommends that arson is the most devious/
hideous crime and should be shot. This is
arson according to Mayor DALY to light a
cigarette is an over-reaction,
DOUGLAS: Who was the enemy in Chicago?
HOFFMAN: Well, I think Mayor DALY runs a very tight
chin You know it's a verv awkward kind of
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- city, when we could, for example, they wouldn't
rg give us a permit; and, uh, we went into court
a to sue him. The judge we went before, a
, Federal Judge, his name was Judge LYNCH, which
is kind of interesting, all judges have
interesting names like that; but he turns out
to be Mayor DALY's ex-law partner, who Mayor
DALY appointed or certainly played a great
role in influencing the Federal Government to
appoint him. How are you going to get him to
act against DALY? And it works that way for
the whole court system. I men, uh, there were
oy like about 400 people arrested for resisting
arrest in Chicago, uh 399 of whom they let
go; one they have given a jail sentence, me.
That's called equal harrassment under the law
or something, I don't know. But that’s under
appeal. It's kind of hard to figure out how
you resisted arrest for a crime that you
didn't commit.
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DOUGLAS: What do you expect is going to happen to the
village of Chicago? Do you expect
HOFFMAN: Well, I think that, that they played right
into our hands. It's almost as if we were
running the government because they've taken
eight of us who have very different styles
and have a lot of disagreements about how we
Shanta nrarasA inta the future. anda they nut
us all together and said you're the conspiracy.
And, uh, we said, right, of course, They're
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