Wonderful, wonderful man..always makes me smile:d
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Abbie Hoffman.. a beautiful man. RIP..
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Wonderful, wonderful man..always makes me smile:d
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thanks man! believe it or not but i didn't now the guy before 
he deserves respect, for changing many people's consciousness...too bad the rulers of this world have NO consciousness!
he deserves respect, for changing many people's consciousness...too bad the rulers of this world have NO consciousness!
I just watched "Steal this Movie", the film about his life. What a guy. He is now my hero. Here it is:
hey thanks ohayoco! I was looking around for that movie a while back..dont know why I never saw it there..
No worries Fractal, google video search is our friend
Shoe & Coatl- watch the film, and there's a Wikipedia page on him too. He was a founder of The Yippies, who were New Left hippy activists. He fought for freedom in America- freedom for black people, freedom for women, freedom to take drugs, freedom from the draft to Vietnam. He used wonderful theatrical stunts like surrounding the pentagon and trying to levitate it through psychic power so it would turn orange and be exorcised of the demons inside! And throwing money into the Wall Street trading pit to disrupt the stock exchange as the greedy traders stopped work to scramble for the dollar bills instead. Amazing stunts. The FBI under orders of the president broke the law trying to destroy him, so he went into hiding for 6 years, until turning himself in once he had evidence of their illegal activities to protect himself and strike a deal with his hunters. He quoted The Founding Fathers in court, amazing. He helped change the world for the better, that's for sure.
BUT, the film inspired me to read "Steal this Book", and I am no longer such a fan. Being a 'revolutionary' is not an excuse to steal off everyone you do not consider a 'revolutionary'. That's parisitic. What's the point in fighting for values, if you abandon those values in the fighting for? Hmm maybe his point was that we should all be sharing anyway, but I dunno, surely then it would be ok to steal off 'revolutionaries' too? There's a link to his book on the Wiki page.
It reminds me of that film (can't remember which) when the revolutionaries pass through a village, stealing the peasant's chickens as they go and justifying that it's "for the revolution". A poor old man cries, "The government steals my cickens. The revolutionaries steal my chickens. What does it matter who is in power, they all steal my chickens!"
Shoe & Coatl- watch the film, and there's a Wikipedia page on him too. He was a founder of The Yippies, who were New Left hippy activists. He fought for freedom in America- freedom for black people, freedom for women, freedom to take drugs, freedom from the draft to Vietnam. He used wonderful theatrical stunts like surrounding the pentagon and trying to levitate it through psychic power so it would turn orange and be exorcised of the demons inside! And throwing money into the Wall Street trading pit to disrupt the stock exchange as the greedy traders stopped work to scramble for the dollar bills instead. Amazing stunts. The FBI under orders of the president broke the law trying to destroy him, so he went into hiding for 6 years, until turning himself in once he had evidence of their illegal activities to protect himself and strike a deal with his hunters. He quoted The Founding Fathers in court, amazing. He helped change the world for the better, that's for sure.
BUT, the film inspired me to read "Steal this Book", and I am no longer such a fan. Being a 'revolutionary' is not an excuse to steal off everyone you do not consider a 'revolutionary'. That's parisitic. What's the point in fighting for values, if you abandon those values in the fighting for? Hmm maybe his point was that we should all be sharing anyway, but I dunno, surely then it would be ok to steal off 'revolutionaries' too? There's a link to his book on the Wiki page.
It reminds me of that film (can't remember which) when the revolutionaries pass through a village, stealing the peasant's chickens as they go and justifying that it's "for the revolution". A poor old man cries, "The government steals my cickens. The revolutionaries steal my chickens. What does it matter who is in power, they all steal my chickens!"
Ah man, I'm reading Steal This Book of the Wiki page... is this for real? Vintage Vinyl:Steal This Book Or a ruse to destroy his reputation? Anyone read a paper copy?
I am currently reading him telling people that the best way to travel is to hijack a place with a knife or gun and get them to take you where you want to go, aka 'skyjacking', and explaining how they should do it... man if he really did write this, then that film was more than a little rose tinted.
Hijacking planes is NOT COOL!
I am currently reading him telling people that the best way to travel is to hijack a place with a knife or gun and get them to take you where you want to go, aka 'skyjacking', and explaining how they should do it... man if he really did write this, then that film was more than a little rose tinted.
Hijacking planes is NOT COOL!