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* { 1 ~ ° —_ - Abbott H. Hoffman “reprint part -or all of STEAL which they indicted me. | said “THIS BOOK and give it away or } we are going to Washington to sell it and put the money into | stop the government and the ee ee Si ae Ree ee pe cate, some RIGHT Of: CAUSE. \ The phone _rings every . so * ‘often, Anita is sheiling green peas, they share the housework - though and Abbie is obviously ‘very conscious of past male-chauvinist sins and very active overcoming them in his own life. But in a nice real way, ‘no big fanaticat preaching way like some pecple I could mention. But won't, followed by a big sigh of collective relief . from anybody reading this guff. The phones ring, Abbie stretches on the couch, his back is in constant pain, he has slipped a disk as well as the broken nose t ‘gs soveniers of 2 recent visit to the Nation‘sCapital, but ‘although he groans once in a* while he isn’t letting it all get ‘ him down, not even the pain of being interviewed again, he is warm, very often funny, full of a high level of the kind of magnetic aliveness that Chico . Marx shines with in nearly ali the brothers’ glorious movies. Maybe that’s why he was offered -the role of Lenny Bruce in the Broadway Play. “I didn’t take it because |! couldn'T see myself saying the same lines night after “night for ninety days,” says ’ Abbie, “but !'H be happy to do a, film on Lenny. | hope they offer: me the part.” i Ask him about hixy . Indictment, yelled = Allen Katzman, as | left the EVO. . offices to interview Abbie, so | asked him about the indictment. "4Y was indicted under section 2101 of the US."code Vol. 18 . under a civil rights law authored by that great fighter for individual . rights Strom Thurmond,” says Abbie. "! gave this speech in Okalshoma in war, 1 plugged Jerry Rubin's — book “DO IT,” and | said we are going to make Chicago look tike * a Y¥AF convention in. comparison with what we are going to do in Washington. So anyway they indicted me under _ Thurmond's law, which is a very metaphysical law. It’s the only law ever passed which makes it a crime to cross state lines with the intention to incite a riot. In_ other words with a state of mind. So | don't even KNOW whether I‘m guilty or not.” He is beginning to get up, but not ina viscious way, he just is facing an - unpleasant fact which he doesn't like. “The government wants to put us away, We speak on campuses, we are doing everything we can to weaken thw power of the Phillistines in Washington. i guess I am guiity } of everything, the D.C.' demonstrations, the bombing of — the Capitol, the Los Angeles earthquake... actually, | break the law every time | speak. Everyone who believes in civil liberties should expand the frontiers of frea speech every time they speak, everything else is just masturbation. | have got a list of twenty laws I’m working on. Every time | speak | break about five and tickle another ten." What about the indictment? But Abbie wants to talk about his arrests and the FBI first. . “I’ve been arrested four or: five times, and let me tefl you, the FBI used to be really nice to be. arrested by, they were genie, they would give you your rights. . .but here there has been a big change in the FBI recently, the jast few months, they are pissed ‘cause they can't get the which | said three things fore-——.—..(Continued on Page 16) ~ 4. hesihindlied pai ee ee a SOR ewe ne ree eer