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Abbie Hoffman — Part 27
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*Gordon:
“Hoffman:
Re: Lou Gordon Television Show of
July 13, 1969, Detroit, Michigan, —
Featuring Abbott Howard Hoffman,
James Freed and Gordon Hall
"I mean it seems to me that one can make studies
about all kinds of things, one would not expect
somebédy who deals in heart disease to necessarily
know all about cancer, micro-organisms, etc.
“I think when you asked him about what kind of a
danger do we represent the word danger you know
has a certain kind of connotation. And we have
to say danger to what? And Ithink, I think we all
three of us in a sense represent a danger but that
danger has to be defined. Now, I would say that
these two gentlemen, and you in fact represent a
danger. You represent you symbolize the people in
authority and you act as their tool, and I don't
represent a danger to black people in this country,
I don't represent a danger to long haired young
people in this country, I represent a danger to the
government and the people that I am with represent a
danger to this government, that is why yesterday
at this radical underground media conference it was
necessary for those cops to come in and surround us
with shotguns even though we were just there talking
about putting out our newspaper. Something about
free speech. Now also there is a newspaper here in
Detroit, an underground newspaper, the South End,
that got closed down. That the administration at
Wayne State said the other day they are not going to
put out this paper. We don't like it and the kids
like want it, and like it,. and they are taking it and
making it a real underground newspaper, they are
hiding the machines and they are putting them out and
to those people and to the people that read that
newspaper I am no danger, but these people are.
Because these people have the power and I don't, and
I don't
But I mean you represent a danger
"Maybe Mr. De Pugh got locked up for a charge of
conspiracy to rob banks, you know, or something like
that and there are a couple of right wingers that
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