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Abbie Hoffman — Part 29
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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN
“ard we're going to have an appeal based on the judge and one
on the law, one on the contempt--I mean it's one that's going
to affect every political trial in the future. And there are
going to be plenty. You cannot go to a city or town or hamlet
in this country and not find political trials. And it's a
question of defining what it is. Now I frankly believe that
that's a misuse of, uh, I believe every prisoner is a political
prisoner. I mean, you can't, you go into jail and you see that
ninety percent of the people in the jail are black, or up here
probably Chicanos and Indians, you know, you see that ninety
percent of the people are under thirty, you know, you say well
there's some politics involved in a situation like that. So
attack on the court system, attack on the prison system has gotta
be launched, That's why this national conspiracy is going to be
a fight against political repression. It'll all go on locally,
as well as nationally. Bobby Seale will go on trial sometime in
the early fall.
"Uh, some other questions? I didn't mean to put down
Roy and Dale so heavy, I mean. They have the best recordings.
"The FBI came up on a plane. I don't know if I can see
them here. They always travel in two, like nuns. You ever want
to freak out an FBI Agent, when you shake hands with him or some-
thing say ‘Hey, your palm's wet,' because J. Edgar Hoover thinks
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