{"id":3771,"date":"2006-04-15T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-15T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2006-04-15T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-15T09:16:00","slug":"steal-this-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3771","title":{"rendered":"Steal this movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More years ago than I care to remember I was staying with some academic friends at Columbia Uni in NY. They were the two of most left-wing people I’ve ever met – they had been friends with Abbie Hoffman in the 60’s, who if memory serves died whilst I was there, and they put across what seemed an incredibly plausible case that the FBI had poisoned him for his anti-social activities.<\/p>\n

I didn’t take them 100% seriously at the time – didn’t really have any context from which to judge – but I take it more seriously these days.<\/p>\n

An OK film, but very sad. I’ll have to get my ‘best of Abbie Hoffmann’ off the bookshelf again. He’s really quite an inspiring figure, although the drugs destroyed his mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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