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Abbie Hoffman — Part 27

107 pages · May 12, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 106 pages OCR'd
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SE 176-21 This country. Mini Brute said in the halls of justice in America the only justice is in the halls. I know that's’ true. I have forty arrests. I'm doin’ all right. Two convictions. Forty arrests. They're both going to Supreme Court. Somebody can't wear a shirt. (illigible) Thirty days for that. Now I got another charge for resisting arrest to a crime, like, that didn't happen. The crime was thrown out. Resisting arrest was thrown in. About a week ago I was arrested while I was in a phone booth. In court waiting to go on trial upstairs. Black Panthers outside having a demonstration so the cops came in and like did this whole thing provin' that-there ain't even justice in the halls of justice. Yeah, he yanked me out of a phone booth and hit me right on the head, Like that. I bounced off the wall. I said, "Excuse me officer, what seems to be on your mind, you know?" He said get the fuck out of the building. I said that's what's called an obscenery cause I had this word, dirty four ietter word, you know, Ite, printed on ny forehead in Chicago and was arrested for that and the cop at the trial said, “Judge, he had an obscenery written on his forehead." If that! Ss an obscenery - I learned to talk that way in back of police stations. So I was out of sight when the cop said "Oh he used obsceneries." That's where we learn them, I didn't learn them from my mother, Or the Jesuits. So, where was I. Yeah, I was getting wacked again and he said “get out of the building." I said, “Well, I'm not with the demonstration, see. I'm on trial here for like Columbia, something that happened a year ago and the judge is waitin’ to see me," BOOM. So I did this whole karate demonstration for the judges - and lawyers who were assembled in the court room. Sent - three to the hospital. They put land chains, leg irons ~- I've “never had leg irons on. It's really hard to kick with them - things on. They brought me in the press room and held a --police press conference. See, they just pounded away zd I yelled "14179." You know, stuff like that. Badge numbers. Right. They were taking the pictures like that guy's doin’. But that ain't news, Along with assault are five other charges. For what? It doesn't matter. You know, I was arrested the next day for not showing up at the trial. A week before that I was arrested for not fastening my seathelt oan an airplane. It's all the same. Catch 22, Catch 22 says they can do whatever fuck they want to as providing we can't stop them vice versa. That's the attitude we bring to Chicago and face ten years - $20,000 fine. We are calling ourselves the conspiracy. Yeah, right. That's what they call us. The conspiracy. That's + el ee 7 -—_—
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