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oS 1 "4 han bey bd je Le , i! toa ae ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN "I'm up from Concord, Massachusetts. Up there about 200 years ago they had a battle. Standing on the bridge, and Paul Revere's long hair flying in the breeze came riding up in his motorcycle and said ‘The pigs are coming, the pigs are coming! Get your gun.' Everybody said OK. They ran home and got their gun. Sure enough there they came with their pepper gas tanks and bouncing Betsies and stainless steel helmets--gold, just like the ones they used around here. I saw a picture of like one of the local pigs. You wanna hear something about..." (Whistling and clapping from crowd) “You think you ain't at war? You think you ain't at war, dig this. The following notes were taken at a meeting of the Larimer County Sheriff's Department Riot Control Squad during the week of March 30th to April 30th." (Pause) "OK." (Reading rapidly) "Forty-man riot control organization, city cops not included, they have own riot control squad. Forty men included mounted patrol, sheriff's officers and students. The basic unit of four ten-man squads, each with a squad leader, two arresting officers and eight linemen. There's a special...* (Laughter) "That's a, see they, ah, they didn't do too well at their recent basketball game here so they had to go-and-pull(?).. some linemen." (Clapping) "There's a special fifth unit that is responsible for gas, etcetera. Fuck their gas--it gets you high." (Laughter) "You tell them that! Fuckin tear gas a new drug.” 11