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Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left. The skeptical reporter interview's Anita, Hoffman's wife, a single mom on welfare in New York City; Hoffman's attorney, Gerry Lefcourt; and others. As they talk, we see Hoffman's career in flashbacks, from early civil rights organizing through the trial of the Chicago Eight. While underground, as mental illness takes its toll, he meets Johanna Lawrenson, and an odd family develops: Abbie, Anita, their son, and Johanna. Will vindication ever arrive?

[video=google;-5858962939917432628]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5858962939917432628[/video]

Chico ... thanks for reminding me about this ONE.
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The Chicago 7 trial was one of the biggest abuses of power in our age...7 people set up by their government...tisk tisk.

MR. WEINGLASS: Will you please identify yourself for the record?
THE WITNESS: My name is Abbie. I am an orphan of America.
MR. SCHULTZ: Your Honor, may the record show it is the defendant Hoffman who has taken the stand?
THE COURT: Oh, yes. It may so indicate. . . .
MR. WEINGLASS: Where do you reside?
THE WITNESS: I live in Woodstock Nation.
MR. WEINGLASS: Will you tell the Court and jury where it is?
THE WITNESS: Yes. It is a nation of alienated young people. We carry it around with us as a state of mind in the same way as the Sioux Indians carried the Sioux nation around with them. It is a nation dedicated to cooperation versus competition, to the idea that people should have better means of exchange than property or money, that there should be some other basis for human interaction. It is a nation dedicated to--
THE COURT: Just where it is, that is all.
THE WITNESS: It is in my mind and in the minds of my brothers and sisters. It does not consist of property or material but, rather, of ideas and certain values. We believe in a society--
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/chicago7/chicago7.html
Yippies will never die!!!!

I've got to see that movie when I get the chance. It's on google video last I checked.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5858962939917432628

a dog named chico said:

The Chicago 7 trial was one of the biggest abuses of power in our age...7 people set up by their government...tisk tisk.

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What happened in Chicago was fucked up but if we are talking abuses of power then the bombing of the MOVE Organization needs to be mentioned. The cops bombed their commune with c4 and as a result started a fire that destroyed over 60 houses and killed 11 people. 5 of the people killed were children.

They got screwed in Chicago but the cops never dropped c4 on them. The cops shouldn't even be bombing people! God help us when unmanned drones become standard equipment for police departments.

Also I watched a really good documentary on the Chicago 7 trial called Chicago 10. It made the rounds on PBS and has a similar look to A Scanner Darkly. It was really good and the visuals are kinda trippy.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905979/

good posts ppl

Thanks, this is something new to me.