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Abbie Hoffman — Part 27
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we Russia or China? I can't even leave the country, What d'ya
bo mean. J can't get out. (comment from audience) Oh, well,
A first of all Russian, I don't dig that, that's state °
ry capitalism, So we check them off. My sympathies lie with
"es Czechoslovakian people. They're fightin’ in the streets. Ok.
q Anyway, I just found out Rissia's a member of NATO. Now,
i China, I don't know a lot about China, it's way out. Rah rah
aA rah. S'‘talot of ‘em. Yeah, I get orders from China, My
instructions are to prepare the beachhead, May 9, 1970.
Cape Cod. They're comin' in. Free chop suey. They don't
know if I like it. May be I wouldn't. Who picks up the
garbage? Rubin's the other one, he's got a better answer
for that. Umm, the future, the futures undetermined, like,
uh, there could be garbage disposals give everybody.
Disposal self-destructive food, Maybe we won't eat. I
don’t know. I mean, if it's of your concern you pick it up.
We pick up garbage in the free store. We give out things
free in Lower East Side (illigible) go pick up the garbage.
Pick up the garbage. In our communes. No, they don't.
Some people leave garbage. It‘s a constant battle between
artists and garbage collectors, Kture's out there. Immense
possibilities. You'll learn somethin’. Learn how it can
be done. Self-destructive garbage. Garbage! Garbage!
Pshew! You should've seen the garbage strike in New York.
Hundred thousand tons of garbage in the Lower East Side.
Piles and piles of garbage. Higher than hell. You had
this like vision of history, see, 50 years. New York's
destroyed. Historian's right. (illigible) went by nuclear
¥ attack. People just didn't wanta pick up their garbage.
Down it went. Garbage, waste product of capitalism. No
_garbage in Cuba. I said it. CUBA, right. Fidel. You
know what he talks about? He said go Cuba Revolution (illigible)
‘abolition of money by 1975. Free phones in Cuba now. Isle
-of Pine called Isle of Youth. 20,000 young people with the
Government support. Livin' free. No money. Pick up bike,
drive it down to end of the street, somebody wants it, drive
it back. They work like hell, fuck like hell, they love it.
90 miles. I know theyre Commies, sure they're commies, They
can call tem anythin’ they want. They're doin' it. Tryin‘.
. Mend swords. Economic boycott fh everything. Russia don't like
‘em much either, I ain't afraid of Russians, rah I don't know
what they want this country for. I mean, the Chinese, what'd
they want it for. What're they gonna do with us - 10,000
mental institutions in this country. Pshew. Lot of people,
(Question unheard from audience) No, I didn't
Say you were gonna stop me, I said that if you were going
to try to do my thing (pause, more comment from person).
Well, he presented the alternative, he said there's like
your sanity, and there's Government insanity, and , uh,
what's choice, and I say well, you can't have mine ‘cause
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