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Defense Attorney Weinglass: Will you please identify yourself for the record.

Defendant Abbie Hoffman: My name is Abbie, I am an orphan of America…

Defense: Where do you reside?

Abbie: I live in Woodstock Nation.

Defense: WIll you tell the Court and jury where it is?

Abbie: Yes. It is a nation of alienated young people. We carry it around with us as as state of mind in the same way the Sioux Indians carried the Sioux nation around with them. It’s a nation dedicated to cooperation versus competition, to the idea that people should have better means of exchange than property and money, that there should be some other basis for human interaction, it is a nation dedicated–

Judge Hoffman: Just where is it, that is all.

Abbie: It is in my mind and in the minds of my brothers and sisters. It does not consist of property or material but, rather, of ideas and values…

Judge Hoffman: No we want the place of residence, if he has one, place of doing business, if you have a business. Nothing about philosophy or India, sir. Just where you life, if you have a place to live. Now, you said Woodstock. In what state is Woodstock?

Abbie: It is a state of mind, in the mind of myself and my brothers and sisters…

Defense: Can you tell the court and jury your present age?

Abbie: My age is 33. I am a child of the 60’s.

Defense: When were you born?

Abbie: Psychologically, 1960…

Defense: Can you tell the Court and jury what is your present occupation?

Abbie: I am a cultural revolutionary. Well, I am really a defendant- full time.