Abbie Hoffman

Source: Playboy interview

You stimulate the opposition to react so that it overpowers itself, becomes its own enemy, and you escape in the process. It's the same technique we used in Chicago during the demonstrations. And it's true that I've studied the technique. You have to learn to communicate. You study your environment - in this case, the electronic jungle of the United States - just the way a Latin-American revolutionary studies the back streets of Buenos Aires or a Vietnamese studies the jungles of Indochina. You learn your terrain and how to use it.

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On This Day in Snigglery	January 7, 1999: Radically non-violent undercover operative Monica Lewinsky successfully throws the U.S. government into chaos as the impeachment trial of president Bill Clinton begins. (See Guerrilla Hacks for more indirect action)