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(: ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN "problem is, we're behind you! People say, oh fuck. I'm glad you got more radical views." ("No" from the audience). “No. Well, it was a long question but basically the point was if we have political repression as I'm describing, what the fuck am I doing standing here on this stage, right?" (Laughte and clapping) "Well, he says that's not a literal translation. I got thrown out of high school, you know. Fortunate, but... I think we're here on borrowed time, frankly. And I think because at that particular point one month ago because there was the first genuine interstate riot in this country carried on by young white that the Government found it inconvenient at that particule time to have us in jail at that moment. And so they let us out. You know? But, uh, the fact remains that there is polt‘ical re- pression. Five years in prison for having eae state of mind. That's \ political repression. Bobby Seale is on trial, going to the =. electric chair because he's chairman of the Black Panther Party. Fas - Black Panther Party now has over 300 people in prison, you see? a It's not because they're vicious, mad dogs that General Mitchell ae paints them out to be. It’s because they're about political power in the ghetto and community control over their community, controlling the police. That's why they're in jail. And I think $2