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05-12-2006, 08:02 AM #1Registered User
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Abbie Hoffman
Abbie Hoffman
Abbie Hoffman was a leader of the Youth International Party. At trial, Hoffman described himself as "an orphan of America" and "a child of Woodstock Nation." He was, perhaps, the most intriguing figure in Judge Hoffman's courtroom. Hoffman believed that identity is defined by myth propagated through the media.
Hoffman was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on November 30, 1936. He graduated from Brandeis in 1959, then picked up a master's degree at Berkeley. In the early 1960's, he returned to Worcester to work as a psychologist in a state hospital. His career in political activism began with his work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the South. Hoffman was still relatively straight until 1966 when he turned onto drugs and began the loosely organized Yippie movement.
Hoffman went underwent plastic surgery and assumed the underground alias of "Barry Freed" in 1974 to avoid trial on charges of possessing cocaine. He stayed underground in upper New York state until 1980, when he surrendered to authorities. He was sentenced to a work-release program in 1981-82, then resumed his life of political activism. In 1987, Hoffman was arrested for the forty-second time while protesting CIA recruitment at the University of Massachusetts with Amy Carter and thirteen others.
At a 1988 reunion of the Chicago Seven, Hoffman described himself as "an American dissident. I don't think my goals have changed since I was four and I fought schoolyard bullies."
On April 12, 1989, Hoffman was found dead at his home in New Hope, Pennsylvania. The death was later ruled a suicide.
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05-12-2006, 09:21 AM #2Senior Member ELITE MEMBER
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"A child does not learn to squat from the top down -- in other words, he does not suddenly make a conscious decision one day to squat. Actually, he is squatting one day and makes the conscious decision to stand." - Gray Cook
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Anyone that writes a book entitled, Steal This Book is alright with me.
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05-12-2006, 09:28 AM #4Elite Kiki ELITE MEMBER
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Originally Posted by Decker
What about someone who made the album "Steal this Album."Total ownage. Originally Posted by kbm8795
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05-12-2006, 10:09 AM #5Anti-mediocrity ELITE MEMBER
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Anybody who read the book and ahhh...tried some of the recipes described therein would be open-minded about Hoffman, eh?
*Zipping mouth shut*
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Joe Oteri
He also became a popular lecturer at legal seminars across the country and frequently appeared on "The Advocates," a television show on PBS about legal issues. For a time he hosted "The Joe Oteri Show" and interviewed counterculture icon Abbie Hoffman while he was a fugitive.
i know someone who knew Hoffman.
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Good thread Foreman.
He was before my time, but he believe in what he believed in and had the right to exercise this freedom.
And to the post who say's he's a criminal to posses cocaine:
Who are YOU to decide?Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
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05-13-2006, 08:15 AM #8Senior Member ELITE MEMBER
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doesn't the law decide that? Originally Posted by Mr_Snafu
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haha.One afternoon during the trial, while the Mayor of Chicago Richard J.Daley was waiting in the courtroom for the judge to return and court to reconvene, he was approached by Abbie Hoffman. Hoffman held out his clenched fist and say, "why don't you and I settle this whole business right now, just the two of us." The mayor just laughed.
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05-13-2006, 12:14 PM #10Bohemian Extraordinaire ELITE MEMBER
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One of Hoffman's protests was on August 24, 1967; when he led a group opposed to capitalism (and other things, including the Vietnam War) in the gallery of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The protestors threw fistfuls of (mostly fake) dollar bills down to the traders below, who began to scramble frantically to grab the money, as fast as they could. Hoffman claimed to be pointing out that, metaphorically, that's what NYSE traders "were already doing". The NYSE then installed barriers in the gallery, to prevent this kind of protest from interfering with trading again.
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but oh they have yet to be experienced and that makes aging so very worth it...ML circa2012
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05-13-2006, 09:20 PM #11Windy City ELITE MEMBER
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That's the problem. Originally Posted by busyLivin
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
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I want to see who voted hero.
"A child does not learn to squat from the top down -- in other words, he does not suddenly make a conscious decision one day to squat. Actually, he is squatting one day and makes the conscious decision to stand." - Gray Cook
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05-14-2006, 03:47 PM #13Bohemian Extraordinaire ELITE MEMBER
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I did motherfucker what you going to do about it report me to the new COINTELPRO. Originally Posted by Doublebase
Coarse edged youth, the irish pendants string from their smiles
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and drag down the features of age,
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eyes of tranquilty, crystalline-beads
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but oh they have yet to be experienced and that makes aging so very worth it...ML circa2012
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That wasn't very nice. Originally Posted by maniclion
"A child does not learn to squat from the top down -- in other words, he does not suddenly make a conscious decision one day to squat. Actually, he is squatting one day and makes the conscious decision to stand." - Gray Cook
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05-14-2006, 04:55 PM #15Esprit de Corps ELITE MEMBER
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Yep. Law is always a bad idea in any civilized society Originally Posted by Mr_Snafu
NEVER write a check with your mouth that you can't cash with your ASS!! 
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And I did too ... in 1974 for a book report. Someone snitched me out so the teach made me produce a cash register receipt before she'd gimmie a grade Originally Posted by Decker
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05-14-2006, 05:07 PM #17Lift or Die ELITE MEMBER
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When ever the law is counter productive ... absolutely. Originally Posted by Witmaster
Yep. Law is always a bad idea in any civilized society
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He used drugs, so that makes him a hero.
So many cries of inequality stem from one of group
of people doing little or nothing and then bitching
about another group that actually does something
to improve their lives.
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I came in at the last moment, are we talking about Bush or Clinton? Originally Posted by DOMS
He used drugs, so that makes him a hero.
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I just watched that movie today about him. Wasn't too bad, the guys seemed a bit looney
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Hoffman was arrested for the forty-second time.
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05-15-2006, 12:35 PM #22Esprit de Corps ELITE MEMBER
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True.... but then that is completely subjective to the interpreture is it not? Originally Posted by BoneCrusher
NEVER write a check with your mouth that you can't cash with your ASS!!
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I did Originally Posted by Doublebase
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05-15-2006, 01:54 PM #24Metrosexual ELITE MEMBER
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For as ghey as this thread is, it should be entitled "Brokeback Criminal."
So many cries of inequality stem from one of group
of people doing little or nothing and then bitching
about another group that actually does something
to improve their lives.
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Did Abbie like the cock??? Originally Posted by DOMS
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05-15-2006, 02:31 PM #26Metrosexual ELITE MEMBER
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It looks like it.
So many cries of inequality stem from one of group
of people doing little or nothing and then bitching
about another group that actually does something
to improve their lives.
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