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Abbie Hoffman — Part 29
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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN
"Kunstler, if Mies van der Rohe, the world's foremost architect,
wanted that lectern to be a leaning post, he would have designed
it that way.' Mies van der Rohe, pig eye, a Kraut, designed a
stainless steel cuckoo nest in downtown Chicago for President
Johnson's big art program--kill them. He died anyway, right
after the fuckin building. They were supposed to build two,
first one killed them and now they just got an_empty sand lot.
across the street in downtown Chicago.
"But anyway, young people representing forces of life
would stand in line twelve - fourteen hours next to that stainless
steel cuckoo nest and line up. And the Chicago Police Department
would come by, Neanderthals would stomp out of their automobiles
and they'd ask all the kids for ID's, because in Chicago if you're
under eighteen, you're on the streets, you are an outlaw--you're
automatically an outlaw. You watch the boob tube there and every
night on the television screen in Chicago you see right down on
the bottom where they announce heavy shit like ‘Tidal wave rips
Chicago, California,’ and shit like that--'President Assassinated,’
you know, like heavy stuff. It says, It's now 10:30 p.m. Curfew
is in effect. If you are 18 or younger you must be off the streets.
"And that’s what's going on. Rock music is already
like banned in four states. Two hundred fifty thousand narcotics
arrests last year! Marijuana! Operation Intercept. You see that
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