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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 SniggleryNovember 22, 2007: Members of the Australian Liberal Party are caught distributing leaflets from an invented “Islamic Australia Federation” claiming that the Labour Party was on their side supporting terrorism. (See Election Hacks for more political shenanigans)