"I send you out like little lambs into a wolves den. Remain as harmless as doves and cunning as snakes."
If the doves had consulted Webster's, they first would have had a laugh at the two words cunning is sandwiched between.
Then they would have learned that cunning means one must be skillful, clever, sly, crafty, and do things with skill and ingenuity.
The doves lacked cunning and thus got their heads clobbered in and many hippies were baptized by Billy-clubs and became yippies.
In 1989, just prior to expiring from a fatal alcohol and Phenobarbital combo, Abbie Hoffman told his sister he had a plan to solve the Israeli Palestinian conflict, but he never got around to filling her in.
Abbie did say, "We want everyone to control their own life and to care for one another...We cannot tolerate attitudes, institutions, and machines whose purpose is the destruction of life, the accumulation of profit." [1]
In November of 1986 Hoffman was arrested along with fourteen others, for trespassing at the University of Massachusetts.
The charges stemmed from a protest against the Central Intelligence Agency's recruitment on the campus.
As University policy limited campus recruitment to law-abiding organizations, Hoffman, acting as his own attorney brought up the issue of the CIA's lawbreaking activities.
The federal district court judge permitted expert witnesses, including a former Attorney General and a former CIA agent who testified about the CIA's illegal Contra war against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua in violation of the Boland Amendment.
"In three days of testimony, more than a dozen defense witnesses, including Daniel Ellsberg, Ramsey Clark, and former Contra leader Edgar Chamorro, described the CIA's role in more than two decades of covert, illegal and often violent activities. In his closing argument, Hoffman, placed his actions within the best tradition of American civil disobedience. He quoted from Thomas Paine, "the most outspoken and farsighted of the leaders of the American Revolution": "Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow."
What America needs to rally for is to regain Common Sense, as Tom Paine knew it:
"Soon after I had published the pamphlet "Common Sense" [on Feb. 14, 1776] in America, I saw the exceeding probability that a revolution in the system of government would be followed by a revolution in the system of religion... The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."
1. The New Yippie Book Collective (eds.), Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago to 1984, page 514. Bleecker Publishing.
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