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~ oe a ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN “I'll have to apologize for not being stoned or having acold.” (here Hoffman pulls out replica of American flag which is made like a handkerchief and blows his nose on it.) “It's just old glory blowing in the wind. "So getting out of Cook County Jail into the lower middle security penitentiary we call the United States of America is not such a good deal. They let us cut on one condition--we're / , not allowed to give any seditious speeches. I hope everything I say is seditious. I hope everything we do, live, breathe and eat! (obscene) and shoot is seditious because we find ourselves in a state of war. "If a lion and a sheep walk down to a water hole and start drinking all of a sudden the lion turns on the sheep and gobbles him ail up, well there is a kind of peace but it's an unsettled peace because that sheep is going to kick his (obscene) right inside his belly. "Now the American pig empire wants to devour our new youth nation. "Up in Minnesota the local sheriff and his posse, they go into communes, they have what they call head hunts. They take some hippies, they put their hands on a table and they smash them with a rifle butt. The hippie says, ‘what'll we do about it, man, they're doing their thing.' What? you fight, you learn how to survive and survival means fighting. “Do they teach you about making bombs? Nope, boom. Well, you're going to ask about the bombings. What's this sound going around. New York blew up an IBM office. You've seen one vou've seen them all. Bombings, pea shooters, plastic bombs. Better living through chemistry. The Yippies believe in a viola- -ion of every law including the law of gravity. What goes up cont necessarily have to come down. “We believe in banks. We invested in the Bank of America, Santa Barbara. That paid off heavy.