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Fire Walk With Me

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7. We'll need those kinds of numbers. They will first respond with riot police as they've already

Reply to madokie (Reply #3)

Fri Jun 21, 2013, 07:37 AM

Jun 2013

been proven to do; if people refuse to go home and shut up, they'll use tear gas or similar; mass arrests as done to Occupy Oakland and NYC. If that doesn't work, they'd send in the army/national guard and you've got Kent State all over again.

It's all they know how to do. It shall be their undoing.

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