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“ft my ee pee oo. hg yo en Sere ae i ie ad ssa ieee hank a q “+ Pap td oe ‘ ’ r L win Abbott Howard Hoffman Abbie Hoffman: Unknown female: Abbie Hoffman: David Frost: Abbie Hoffman: fal If you mean by your concept physical prison, probably quite a bit. I just view most of America as a prison. Why don't you get out? I am trying to do that and I encourage ail young people to engage in jail breaks especially those who are in high schools because they are the ultimate prison in America. What about that light phrase.... or what does the phrase law and order mean to you? Its synonymous because law as I see it means tyranny, and it means...like you have law to maintain order and the order 46 defined by the people in charge. I've been arrested in the last... since the Democratic Convention I've had eleven arrests. I've been arrested for not fasten- ing my seat belt on a plane, for possession of a huge gun collection right next door to a police station, in a room tnat I don't even know and was never in, uh for wearing a shirt that looked like the American flag although my partner Jerry Rubin has a shirt made out of the Viet Cong flag and he wasn't arrested. What 4s this....& Commie country arresting a guy with the American flag and you don't take me! That's when we went up (unintelligib I've been put on trial for the books that I have written, speeches that I have given. I was once arrested in Mississippi for going through a red light in a town where there wasn't a red light in the whole town. And J was beaten for seven hours in Mississippi. The Sheriff said "Well boy, you'll have to get your vision checked if you don't think we have red lights in this town". And I soon came to learn that Mississippi was all of America and law is used that way. - 20 -