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Abbie Hoffman — Part 30

131 pages · May 12, 2026 · Broad topic: Cold War & Communism · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 131 pages OCR'd
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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN “that that's political repression, you know? What else is going on here? It's all a question of definition. Is a marijuana bust political repression? Is it?" ("Yeah” from some in audience) "See. In New York you can get, for selling to a minor marijuana you can get up to twenty years in prison. For now people, people run around and they say well we can change it. We can change it through the normal means, you know? But the normal means are not there. That's an illusion. This country isn't going to legalize marijuana in five years or fifty years. The penalties are getting stiffer... The repression is getting stiffer. And that's a fuckin illusion, saying that it's gonna change, that there's hope. That's a belief that there's still Such a thing as political liberalism in this country. There isn't. There is no political liberalism. That's why Agnow has to attack NBC and CBS and ABC, 'cause there ain't no fuckin liberal political force that he can attack. There ain't none. That was all cleaned out in 1968,in August, in Chicago. That was ended. So there is no way of changing it that way. There's only changing it through our action in the streets. And when you have that situation the Government's going to move against you, and it is moving; it's moving culturally and it's moving politically 53
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