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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
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kids, one still in the hospital. All across the country. You are brothers and sisters. ‘You're smoking pot, huh; that's the revolution, big deal. Busted for pot, that's a political arrest. You have to respond accordingly. Get that brother out any way. Scrub their minds. New York, a group on Valentine's Day sent thirty thousand joints marijuana out in the mail. All kinds of people, judges, nuns, priests. Said, hey, you heard heard alot about it — here it is. Three thousand complaints. They can't figure ovt who did it because by their prices, it cost about $35,000. Let them keep hunting. I didn't get any. I'm waiting for Mother's Day. Flower children growing thorns. “Wanna have a festival of life in Lincoln Park. Can we have this festival? Well, you guys can't have it; ten thousand people gone out on a march on Lake Michigan, naked = that's fillegai. There it is, show us the law. Well, it's back there....we got the law. Can't do it. Excuse me, sir, we'd like a permit to raise the Pentagon three hundred feet in the air. It's illegal. What do you mean it's illegal, sir; a pentagon is a five-sided figure, it's the synbo] of evil in all religions. We're gonna circle it with twelve hundred holy men and raise it in the air. It's illegal. They arrested two of us, measuring the Pentagon. But they, they're liberal down there so they give us a permit for ten feet. We didn't get it up, you see, we had a big failure. It's one of ovr many failures. “So we decided to nominate a pig for president in Chicago and lo and behold, he won. Right? He's up there. And now they want to do us in for it. They said you guys, you're too spread out; you gotta get together. You gotta form a conspiracy. Conspiracy. Conspire to breed together. You meet some nice people in a conspiracy. You oughta join up. It's really a good thing. Eight of us, total of eighty years, one hundred sixty thousand dollars, plus one hundred sixty, nothing. Pick that up jist panhandling around this country. Pick up eighty years, too. You ain't got your Yippie helmet. Conspiracy. We got a motion going in a couple days. We're gonna ask them to move the trial from the Federal Building to the coliseum. We're gonna be tried by the lions, just like the old days. And a week after that; we got a great legal team, eight great lawyers, all around this country, best legal team ever assembled, and the . ninth lawyer, Doctor Fidel Castro, from Havana, Cuba. He's a lawyer, defend us in the style to which we are eccustoned; we oughta make a motion before the bar, have him admitted, practice law up there. It's illegal, they'll say. That's ~lS «
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