Abbie Hoffman: A Present Day Monologue

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At this point we, the Yippies, said "hell with that, we're having it anyway!" and we did. When we had the rally, five thousand people showed up, not nearly what I'd expected, but the city had really cast us in a negative light. We had our permit to have bands in the park, so we went ahead with that, but while the groups were performing, the pigs came storming in with their batons and teargas and started beating on people...
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We had our permit to have bands in the park, so we went ahead with that, but while the groups were performing, the pigs came storming in with their batons and teargas and started beating on people. We hadn't even done anything illegal. Yet. So, I told my police tails (yes, I was being tailed constantly by the Fucking Bureau of Ignorance), I told them to call off the pigs, because we hadn't broken the law...
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