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Trailrider1951

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4. Willy, I think it really took hold with two things.

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Mon Jan 13, 2014, 09:54 PM

Jan 2014

First, the signing of the National Security documents by Harry Truman in 1947 that created the CIA. That was the beginning of the takeover. The end of the takeover was cinched by the events of November 22, 1963. It's been a gradual dismantling of our rights as citizens ever since. I was born in 1951. I have seen the changes unfold. It's going to take a hell of a fight to dislodge the octopus.

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