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Abbie Hoffman — Part 31
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(Unidentified voice from audience: "I'm
not cynical. I just want to know what youre doing
that needs to be done. You're sitting here talking
to a bunch of people who agree with you.")
"I'll tell you something. Someone called me
up at two a.m. in the morning last night and he
didn't agree at all. In fact, we had to move
pretty quick. I'll tell you, that would be weird
cause people in Oklahoma agreed. |
6 possible, I mean, there are
things that I don't understand. Seventy-five per
cent of the people now favor immediate withdrawal
from Vietnam in the country, according to the
polls, and yet the Government doesn't move. Well,
you know, I'm saying that, you know, it has to
go beyond this, you know, petty little dialogue
here, the people have to begin to move, That
they can't learn any of the things that I wrote
about in that book, about swiping, about living
as an outlaw, about creating radical change in
this country unless they do it. The only way you
know what a pear tastes like is take a bite, that
MAO's famous rock group from the East. And
revolution fs the same way. If you want to know
about it, you have to get in and work with the
struggle, to work with the contradictions, you
know, and fight and you can do it right, you can
do it here in Oklahoma. JULIUS HOFFMAN is the
judge down the street. Every political trial
at Chicago takes place every day here. Because
all trials are political. It just takes a lawyer
with certain kind of vision, you know, to see it
as a political trial and it takes certain kinds of
people who identify and recognize that all trials
are political, you know, and that the institutions
of the courts are not there for justice, but are
there to protect the power and property of people
who already have it, and you start looking around
like that and (illegible) all the early misfits,
you know, we were taught in schools, we can start to
struggle, you know, we got to do it. (Illegible ques-
tion asked in audience.) Huh? I've got the flu, so,
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