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Hydra

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2. Something is very wrong

Reply to chimpymustgo (Original post)

Tue Jul 30, 2013, 04:37 PM

Jul 2013

When speech, especially speech highlighting gov't crimes, is criminalized.

This is the kind of crap we were told the USSR did to their people, and why we needed to fight them. Were we, all along, the same kind of country...but flew a different flag?

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In honor of Bradley Manning: "Revealers of government secrets share how their lives have changed" [View all] chimpymustgo Jul 2013 OP

K&R think Jul 2013 #1

Something is very wrong Hydra Jul 2013 #2

Speech and journalism are being criminalized. chimpymustgo Jul 2013 #3

If this plan of theirs works, a nation of pure silence Hydra Jul 2013 #4