Abbie Hoffman: A Present Day Monologue :: essays research papers fc

My name is Abbie Hoffman. Steal this speech while comforting dancing in the Ice ages, its soon to be a major motion pictureYippie Do you pick out what that delegacy? That way of life that theres a revolution on, that we can change an H to a Y., that we can bring more than 10,000 muckle to Lincoln greenness in clams on a myth, a rumor, a story. Yippie It basals the home of the FREE and the land of the BRAVE. Chicago was a place for the insolent to fight for their freedom. When we came to simoleons, we thought, hey, theyll put up some resistance, but theyll give us a stand to have our little Yippie get-together in the park. I mean knave, its our right. Mayor Daley, he didnt give a shit about our rights he didnt want one goddamn flower child in his city, let alone 10,000. He didnt want chicago to have that reputation, HE didnt want to have that reputation. Do you know what happened in Chicago? According to Mayor Daley, only a hardly a(prenominal) minor injuries due to res isting arrest and rioting according to some out of doors sources, and my own count, a couple people died and a lot of people were wounded because the pigs were beating on us for practicing our right to assemble peacefully. Hell, we were peaceful, a damn sight more peaceful than the cops. We were assembled to protest war, all we wanted to do was get together and smoke a little weed. The cops, they came at us with arms swinging. But I get ahead of myself. Youre all so young, you dont know about Chicagos other, meaner side. In Chicago, we Yippies wanted to have a rally, and Chicago was really central to the movement, so we petitioned the Chicago Parks Department for a permit to have bands come play during the week of the Democratic Convention in 1968. They stalled, and pretended to have little problems with the permit. No one was fooled. We sued them for denying us our built-in rights but we withdrew our suit when we saw who our judge was. His name was Judge Lynch, and he was mayor Daleys friend or cousin or something. rattling ironic...the next judge that we went before because the city was stalling was Judge Stahl. S-T-A-H-L. So in a nutshell, we said can we have a get-together in the park?