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Cerridwen

(13,262 posts)
5. Just think if someone had stopped it before it started.
Tue Aug 20, 2013, 07:57 PM
Aug 2013

But, you're right, of course. You've been through it and we shouldn't repeat it.

Where is that stop point so we don't repeat it?

Which group should we wait to suffer or be detained before we realize it could be any of us; even a young girl labelled as a potential "enemy of the state" or the modern version "terrorist."



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