Thought For The Day

Dear Abbie

November 30, 2019

Abbie caught much flak for his flag shirt

Mick Mulvaney is catching flak for aiding and abetting
a criminal who hates democracy, but it’s fine
for him to wear a flag shirt apparently

Abbie Hoffman would have been 83 years old today.  He was only 52 when he decided he had had enough in 1989.

Hoffman, whatever else he may have been, or been seen as, was a patriotic American.  And a trouble maker.  He had his faults.  They were not few and were not small, but Hoffman never left the land of his birth, and always tried to make it a better place.  He joined the Civil Rights Movement in the early ‘60s, threw money onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and threatened to use psychic energy to levitate the Pentagon and cause it to “turn orange and vibrate until all evil emissions had fled,” which would immediate end the war in Vietnam.

Hoffman co-founded the Youth International Party – the Yippies, who ran a pig – Pigasus, for president, and perhaps most famously was part of the Chicago 7 (originally eight, until Bobby Seale demanded a separate trial).

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