The Chicago the antics of the Judge Hoffman enabled the defendana, to demyraf the entire Audicial process and use the trial as a proplatfort. The defendant theor not agree politically with cach tre unted in action against rgeon fidge In printing Jerry before being sentenced by Hoffinan The Red Mole declares itself in solidarity with the Chicago 7.J The jury this morning was given its instructions, sent to deliberate, and two seconds didn't pass before Judge Julius Jennings Bryan, oh, Hoffman. named after William Jennings Bryan, by the way.
Fading us to jail, one by one. barbarous. It was criminal. It sick. It was incredible. Nobody could believe it.
Here we had had a trial for five months trial that had captivated the • trial that involved millions of and a jury has been sitting and deliberating, and the moment the jury goes out to question the evidence, Julius Hoffman sentences us to jail.
Well, the first penion he sentenced to jail was Dave Dellinger. And he went on and ou about different things Dave and then he finally sentenced Dave to jail for twenty nine and one half months. just couldn't keep the tears back. And 1 say that because you have to understand what it feels like to be in a courtroom in which a sadist is wearing black robes and has the power to send you to jail. And in Island around, gun at their ready to take people and just behind bars. Our crime, our crime being human beings, being a human being in that courtroom.
Dave Dellinger is the most beautiful human being I know. Julius Hoffman is. well, the worst human being Iknow, And Julius Hoffman, the worst human being senlenced the best l've ever seen to jail.
Dave stood up to speak. The judge said, Mr. Dellinger, you have the final words." stood up and just the moment he began speaking about the war in Vietnam, and racism, Judge Hoffman interrupted him, marshal ran at him, pushed him in his scat, Tasha Dellinger was drigged out, and there was swinging. everywhere, and William Kunstler broke down crying and said, "Judge, my whole life is ruined. I've never seen anything like this in a courtroom. You've destroyed everything I've ever believed in."
Dave Dellinger said, "I'm an old man Judes Hotiman, but my spicit is young. and I'm fighting for the future. And Dave Dellinger went away. The doom shur behind him. 294 months in jail.
They've got the seven of us behind bars the way thoy jailed Bobby Scale for four years. So they're gonna do it one by one.
Then came Rennie Davis. Now Renni Davis was sentenced to 25 months and 19 days in the federal penitentiary by Judg Hoffman. Six months bocause he didn't answer questions property when he was a witness on the stand.
Then came Tom Hayden, who was senteoced to 14 months and 14 days.
And Abbie Hoffman was scatenced to right months.
And then it came my tum. And Judar Hoffman did aboul the cruelest thing he could ever do. He said the court was over for the day and that l'd be sentenced Tomorrow along with the other defendants, John Froines and Loo Weiner. and the two lawyers William Kunstler and Len Weinglass.
And I screamed out "No Judge, don't separate me from my brothen. Sentence me now."
And Judge Hoffman said, "Do you ask favors of Adolph Hitler?" referring to the fact that I had referred to him constandy throughout the trial as Adolph Hitler, which I think is a very accurate and fair comparison.
So here 1 am, going to sleep, with my girlfriend, my wife, for the last time, chowing that tomorrow morning I'm gonna wake up at 9:30 and at 10:00 o'clock Julias Hoffman is gonna sentence me to jail for, what I guess 1l probably be about two yeans.
And then hell sentence Lee Weiner and John Froines. And then hell sentence Bill Kunstica The incredible thing is, you're gonna William Kunstler, one of the finest lawyers in this country, the beautiful man who's been with us through this whole ching, who just gave his life to us, you're gonna see Bill Kunstler sentenced to jail because he dared to represent the scum. And we are the scum as far as that courtroom is concernod.
The courtroom has just become a military camp. Marshalls and Chicago police all over the place. FBI agents, Boating. wailing all over the place. It's become a war, a battleground. The youth of America versus che people who have power. And Julius Hoffman, who eats at an invitation only club, un all men's club, who gets his money from ore stocks, who senilenced Bobby Scale to four yeurs in jail, represents everything that we oppose. And people, you can't just focus on the Judgo, cause he's every judge.
He's every judge, and he's sentencing us to jail because of how long our hair is, because we laugh, because we smile become we're human and because we act.
It's become a battle ground on which The Justice Department is reudy wipe us all out. It's genocide on the young people of this country, The goul in passing this law, and trying to find us guntry ender this law is to wipe out rational demonstrations. And theo when they get us in court, indicied, all you sotta do is stand up and say "this is an unfair court," and Boom!, its three months in jail.
Respect for the court. Judge Hoffman sys, "respect this court of clse." Like a father sys to his son, "respect me or che." But we're a generation of people that aren't gonna respect the people in this power, or else. We respoor ourselves, and we respoct our morality, we respect our sense of what humanity is all about.
Our respect is for the millions of people around the world. We respect what Dare Dellinger says. because identifies with the Vietnamese and the Latin Americans and the Chinese. Judge Hoffman is an oppressor. And if were given choice between being an appressor and part of the oppressed, we're becoming part of the oppressed.
This trial & just the beginning. What's beginning now is an incredibly Jong battle. Were all in jail already, and 1 think at this point there's gotta be such demonstrations on the campuses, and the strects -everybody's gotta act. Ministers, dactens, dentists. everybody. Everybody sitting there has got to realize that were ALL in jail, we're AlL in jail What's going on in Chicago is such an atrocity, that this man Julius Hoffmn, and the FBI and the Justice Dept. and the John Mitchells and Spiro Agnews aso ready to wipe out our genération.
We face an incredible question: Can we survive?
Can we organize ourelves and get together to survive as a generation? That's what's involved in this trial. Because they'te not jailing the eight of os because of who we are. It's because of whut we represent. Every single person in thi country is on trial. Every young person is on trial. The purpose of this trial is to wipe out the movement, to wipe out activity in streets.
Il's tyrariny. Abbie Hoffman said i when he was sentenced. He said, "the law has become tyranny. The revolution therefore is the only order."
Were going to go to jail smiling and laughing becuuse that's our Because we have a good time. Were on this carth to enjoy ounelves and to build a word on people's cooperation and love, He have faith in ourselves as human beings.
We're going to jail because we keaw that they're taking eight of us away, but in putting the eight of us away they're million Yippies, righty million demonstrators. And we've got to show them in the next weck and two and three weeks, that we're gonna continue. We've got to show them that if they put us. put any of our brothers in jail, there's gonna be so muny people and so much reaction that it's just not worth the price. We can't let them separate us. We can't.
People have been walching us for, how many months? On television, seeing the But it's also life, lotsa real life. And it also shows what they'se willing and ready to do to us. And it's real.
Dave Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Reenie Davis, Abbie Hoffran, Bobby Scale, are right now behind bars, facing years in the fedond penitentiary. And tomorrow Jerry Rubin, John Froines, Lee Weiner, Bill Kunstler and Lenny Weinglass are goans be behind bars, for yeans, in she federal penitentiary. That is a symbolic attack om generation. And it's Just the beginning.
They're gonnu uso this law, they're gonna use these courts, they're gonna use judges like Hoffman to put us all away, unless we teact. We've got to go into the streets, wove got to do whatever were capable of We are a generation diat intends not only to survive, bat intends to build a word in which there are no jaks, no judges like Judge Hortman, and no pig courts like that cow.
I'm very emotional. Fil say, 1 jas couldn't believe it. I moat. I couldalt believe the shame of the trial. To bave a tral for fre months, then the moment the jury goes out for the judge to all or a sudden sentence everybody in jail, Everybody to jail for smiling. laughing, for speaking out, for takiag aboul the war. The judge says, "the war is not an issue in your trial, race is gol an Isme in your trial." But we say the wat and racism are issues.
Every single one of you is now in jail, a wete Dow in jail. And were in jail knowing that you're goingt do something to change this country, to get us out of jail and to get everyome else out of jail, because everyone in jail today is a political prisoner, becouse they've been put there by illegitimate courts and illegitimate law and a system founded on private property and selfishness and racism.
This is sort of like my Inst rap. In tea bours I'll be in jail. I wish I could be with you to his and embrace everybody. And we're gonna win. You'se all
Red Mole POLITICAL POEM
----- pull-quotes -----
trial as a sideshow, an entertainment. Well, it is high comedy, and high tragedy