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a Oe ee Oe ae Re: Lou Gordon Television Show Of July 13, 1969, Detroit, Michigan, Featuring Abbott Howard Hoffman, James Freed and Gordon Hall "Hoffman: "Gordon: “Freed: “Gordon: "Freed: “Gordon: But, well I'm sorry but, I haven't heard of it. The ruling in the case comes up Tuesday, July 15, In the Federal District Court in Chicago. Let me ask you a direct and simple question. In all of these arrests you have, vou have never done anything to to to warrant being arrested, you've never violated any of the laws, whether you agree or disagree with them is beside the point, but you are absolutely an innocent babe in the woods and you've been picked up and manhandled and beaten. r don’ te I don't consider it, I don't consider that to your standards. But you see, for example, you mentioned my appearance there wearing an American flag shirt. Now I was arrested for that and it is a charge of defacing and defiling the flag for which I was given 30-day sentence. Now there've been thirty people arrested under that law, they've all been hippies. Yet that shirt was bought commercially it is a mod fashion, it is in a number of mod maga~ eaeteanan Hharn fd = mind ebiest Deter Deere Flam + hin Zines, VTL ££ O Ge MLL Oontii & euUeoy Aavop £20 CNing, I've seen Phyllis Diller on TV you know with that kind of thing, but those people aren't arrested for that. Its people that the government wants to get rid of. The same as like pot «rrests. There are 250,000 narcotics arrests:: who gets busted for pot. We'll be right back. “ Mr. Freed complained during the break that he wasn't getting enough time and I think he is right. I registered a protest. Registered a protest accepted, granted. Mr. Freed, we'll devote a few minutes to you, ah . Thank you.- _ “7. Are you, are you affiliated with the Minutemen or not? - 14°-