*Ø* Blogmanac August 26, 1968 | Pigasus for President!
We want to give you a chance to talk to our candidate and to restate our demand that Pigasus be given Secret Service protection and be brought to the White House for his foreign policy briefing.
Jerry Rubin at the nomination of Pigasus for president of the USA
They nominate a president and he eats the people. We nominate a president and the people eat him.
Pigasus nominators’ slogan
The nomination of the boar hog Pigasus for President of the United States by the Yippies had been the most "transcendentally lucid" political act of the twentieth century …
Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy
At the Democratic Presidential Convention in Chicago, USA, yippie leaders Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and other protesters nominated a pig, named Pigasus, for president. (Sources differ as to date. Porkopolis says August 23, Daily Bleed says August 26.)
“Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, along with David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, Tom Hayden, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale were arrested for conspiring to incite violence and crossing state lines with the intent to riot. The group became known as the Chicago Eight until Seale was removed from the proceedings and sentenced to four years in prison for contempt, the group was then known as the Chicago Seven. After a protracted trial and appeals, all charges were dismissed.” Source
We want to give you a chance to talk to our candidate and to restate our demand that Pigasus be given Secret Service protection and be brought to the White House for his foreign policy briefing.
Jerry Rubin at the nomination of Pigasus for president of the USA
They nominate a president and he eats the people. We nominate a president and the people eat him.
Pigasus nominators’ slogan
The nomination of the boar hog Pigasus for President of the United States by the Yippies had been the most "transcendentally lucid" political act of the twentieth century …
Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy
At the Democratic Presidential Convention in Chicago, USA, yippie leaders Jerry Rubin, Abbie Hoffman and other protesters nominated a pig, named Pigasus, for president. (Sources differ as to date. Porkopolis says August 23, Daily Bleed says August 26.)
“Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, along with David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, Tom Hayden, John Froines, Lee Weiner, and Bobby Seale were arrested for conspiring to incite violence and crossing state lines with the intent to riot. The group became known as the Chicago Eight until Seale was removed from the proceedings and sentenced to four years in prison for contempt, the group was then known as the Chicago Seven. After a protracted trial and appeals, all charges were dismissed.” Source
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