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Abbie Hoffman — Part 27
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country trainin' dogs sniff out flowers, ya know? ‘Dey don't
: know *bout 17,000 pound chick ridin' airplanes. Logic.
4 What a trek. Uh, fighting back. We use our insanity versus
x theirs. That's the choice. Alvernative fantasies. Is it
> ‘legal? I don‘t know. 2,700,000 laws in this country.
2,700,000 laws. Pshew. How're ya gonna know what to do.
We go down to Pentagon, we say uh, "We'd like permit raise
the Pentagon 300 feet in the air." Can’t do that - its
Y illegal. What'ya mean it’s illegal. All right, get us
8 law. No, can't find it. Well, we're comin' anyway. They're
liberal in Washington, though, they say we'll give ya ten
feet. Say, ok. Well, we tricked ‘om, went up 300 feet.
September 21st, 1967. You weren't there, We saw it. Come
to Chicago. They say you can't have permit sleep in the
park. You're gonna have 10,000 people walking naked on
Lake Michigan. That's illegal. Show us the law. I know it's
back there somewhere rah rah rah 2,700,000 laws in this
country, can't look them all up. That's illegal. We say,
oh, we're gonna do it anyway. We like to break the laws. 2
Insanity. Choice of insanity and there's a choice of
death, You wanta get a degree, learn how to make ovals,
you wanta go sit in a office. I was out ‘der. When I was
older I was a salesman for drug company. Pshew. Heavy job.
$15,000 a year. Had down a science, But only I worked four
hours a week, spent the rest of the time workin' for SNCC.
But that was play, that wasn't work, the udder four hours were
the work. Ya go up to a doctoy, see, a detail man, ‘ats a
heavy job and uh say "Hey doc, uh we need a little report,
ya know, like uh this drug ain't doin’ too good, How ‘bout
writin’ a little report, I give ya $500 bucks. Said ok,
slip it under ‘de door and ya give ‘im $500 bucks, see, then
he writes this report an' send it back to the home office,
-they zip it out to all these intellectual journals that doctors
read, and they read great. BRILLO. Yeah, it's good for
diarrhea. And the whole thing was like run that way and
it was spooky. Like ya didn't know, it ain't good ta shit
or what, what'm I don' here? Peddlin' this an' who can I
ask? What is truth, who am I, what's my identity and all
_that. Where's my soul? Like, I shod the church, Let me in,
see, covldn't answer that. Where's my soul, priest, where's
my soul, rabbi. Ah, wedn't know, ya know, uh we don't know
"bout life. Go ask Dali Llama. Uh, I coukh‘t find him so I
asked by boss. We came around, say “Hey, boss, this shit
any good?""= He say, "Well, won't kill ya. House in the
suburbs, it was great. Mowed the lawn. Yeah, mowed the lawn.
Four hours a day, $15,000. Yeoh. But, it was burnin‘ my
soul. So I pick (illigible) head for Lower East Side with
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