◆ 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
“Tt was busted for wearing the shirt Betsy Ross made for me. I went down to..there bave been like thirty people busted for wearing that shirt or a vest or something like that, but they're all people that the power structure doesn’t like. See like, there're two million, seven hundred thousand laws in this country, but like, really there's only one. It's catch 22, It says they can do whatever hie @unbk ¢hiaw want ¢4 ¢4 thaneen neannita ¢thaw Anant? 1iba Bo £ULM SHO We FY UY BVO EVES Ty Vie YR g providing those people don't stop them, vice versa. It's how the whole thing works. So like, that's a mod fashion, that shirt, and appears in ads in New York Times, San Francisco Examiner, Los Angeles Times. Phyllis Diller goes on TV in a mini-skirt, wears a flag, and gets twenty thousand ' dollars or something, you know. I get thirty days in jail. And I'm prettier than she is, Well, so here it is, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, United States of Auerica, versus me, Jobnny Cash. Melvin Hamburg, attorney for thS Department of Justice. This is the government - you know they have to file this brief to show why they need that law. The importance of a flag in developing a sense of loyalty to a national entity has been subject of numerous essays. First essay, see Hitler, Mien Kampf. Dig that, whose straight? Hey you, come here for a second. We don't need any enemies. Choice of insanities. Government quoting Hitler. I know what we got that can match that, Attilla the Hun, Sitting Bull. You know there was this thing called hippies. Hippies was a kind of a nice thing. That was about the summer of 1967; no, it started a little bit before then, huh, about January, 1966, I thing was the first move, more of less, about a year. Peace signs and love and kiss cops, smile, all gonna happen. They're beautiful. Beautiful people started out in San Francisco, one of the most beautiful cities in the country, and they had flowers, flowers, as a symbol. They went up to Golden Gate Park and you picked then and brought them around and gave them to cops and said we Jove you. Make love not war, yea. Then deciced they didn't like that. They didn't want kids doing it. "You know alot of Mids came from the lower east side in Rew York, that‘s where I'm from ~- the Shangri La of the east. Ten thousand tons of garbage right now in ny area. You could work for years out here and you'd never get ten thousand tons of garbace. High aa you could see, and 211 the hippies came down there looking for flowers. Shangri La. Runaways, run away from America. Thirteen, fourteen-year-old -1D <-
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 94
Jump straight to page 94 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