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Abbie Hoffman — Part 27
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3 are bad. Not just you, I mean you ain't bad, at least you
ain't bad as your neighbor's kids. They're the really bad‘
‘ ones. So we got to censor stuff. And we got to lock things
4 away. And we got to keep them away from smoking flowers.
“ Put tuem in school. ‘Cause they're bad. Man is basically
z= evil. Church says that. Well, see, man's nothing. You know
he's basically the evil, good, or somewhere in between. Right?
So, it's like a : test, Tells you more about person
who's saying it. Does about mankind. Mankind's made up.
People are with us. Hmmm. Yeah, I know, Gallup. (illigible)
98,9% of the people not with us. Well, when we were in
Chicago we taok two barber shop poles, one telephone pole,
took ther. back to New York, asked them all these questions.
They said, People are with you. We're artists. We're going
to have society of artists in the future. No work, all art.
No property. Property. (illigible) Property is theft,
Property must be destroyed. Art must be preserved. You
work at art, you're worth defending. You piece of property,
you should be destroyed. It’s all the question of how you
look at yourself. Future society of artists. Unlimited
potential. Believe in man, it's a very revolutionary attitude.
People are good. Wow! Yea, they don't have to work, they'll
3 be creative, productive because that's their natural drive,
q That's their tendance - be nice. Ain't that simple. Make love
not war, you know. Go up, kiss a cop. Christ. Tried that.
Brought the flowers, and they brought out the clubs. Tear
gas. Dogs. Armed helicopters, Three weeks ago 20,000
young people had a little concert down at Palm Springs. They
ame with helicopters, tear ges, drove them right out. Drove
_them into town, Three got shot. Boston Common last summer.
200 kids arrested for idleness. 65 injured. Dogs they
used. Fighting kids. I saw one teacher up at Dartmouth who
-was in on that demonstration show where a cop bit him. Hey,
he still had the mark after six months. Cops bit him. He
sdid it, I didn't believe it. J thought they were vegetarians.
But the flower children have grown thorns.
Last: week 16 year old kid Pleasantville, New York,
. home of Readers Digest, Readers Digest. All over the world.
16 different flavors, all vanilla. Publisher Readers Digest,
see, get an anti-hippie speech, now (illigible) came home his
kid said "Dad (thump) stabbed him. Hmm, Revolutionary act.
Only they call it aggravated assault. Chuck them away. 16
year old kid. Sons rising up against fathers. ‘Cause they
want to kill us. Flower children growing thorns. They're
fighting back. ‘Cause we ain't going to see that old beauti-
ful world unless we fight back. Unless we wreck the system.
Capitalism. Just don't seem right. People ought to
live in a state of competition. Seems they ought to cooperate
a little more, Seems like people ought to be let in on decisioas
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