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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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6 | OO SE 176-21 of my people. Do that. Now they give me thirty days for that. Desecratin' the flag or somethin’, They got a lot of rules like that like we talking about before. Hello, I'm smokey the bear, see. That's good for six months, That's, you got a law library here, you look it up. That's Volume 18, U. S. Code 711 Smokey the Bear Statute. It's illegal to impersonate Smokey the Bear. Me's a queer. Well, he's the Government. (illigible) The importance of a flag is developing a sense of loyalty to a national (illigible) has been the subject of numerous essays. First essay, C. Hitler (illigible). Hitler. He's back. Who's straight? I got to do that. I don’t even believe him myself (illigible) I said yes. But Hitler and Melvin Hamberg (illigible) Depart- ment of Justice are goin' in to argue that case before they appear in court. In Washington on May 19th. You can get one year wearin’ a shirt. Course Phyllis Diller, see, go on TV in a flag mini skirt, like, that don't matter, You know, drum majorettes walk around all the time. Uncle Sam's a fucking criminal, But it don't work like that. Catch 22, Catch 22, ‘Course. Well, so what's it about, huh? You watch the program. Revolution this thing called . Revolution, yeah, (illigible) Revolution. Dash is a revolution in soap detergent. Join the Dodge Rebellion. See add two weeks ago in New York Times, $6,000 ad, What are the revolutionaries at United Artists planning for ‘69? Plan it, they ought to be doing it. Revolutionaries. I know what it means. But to a lot of people it might upset. There used to be a hippie flower child, Smiling. And we had like this dream, Actually, it started before then. I'm over 30. Not to be trusted, I got educated in Mississippi. Be in Mississippi. See,-and uh local sheriff come by and arrest you. I always got arrested in Mississippi goin' through town -— going through ‘a red light in a town that didn't have one. And they put you in a cell and (illigible) civil rights worker, give ‘em a bottle of liquor, and they Kick the shit outa you. Then they throw you out. Saves you the trouble of going to court, Y guess. But you'd be getting beat up, you see, and the FBI would come’ by and they take these notes. And they say, oe oe te ee = oe -“We're wth ya man. We're with ya." Justice Department officials. JOHN DOE and those kind of people, liberals, we're with ya. It's terrible what's goin’ on around here (illigible) as Mississippi. Call us in Washington when you need help. Call us collect. WOW! You say, "Ok, man, I'll like do that. What're you going to do now?" ‘Well, I'm sorry, Son. In this case my hands are tied, states rights, and all’ that shit.” Oh, my hands are tied. Always hear that from lihersale Whan T want tn echonal my firet demonstration moO oe ed ER Dg Sees he ke ro wuresa “ww ow oer ws Lot ames wy we ee We ee with CAROL CHESMAN, they killed him on Death Row for 12 years.
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