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OwnedByCats

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29. I read a book a long time ago

Reply to MichaelSoE (Original post)

Mon Jan 27, 2014, 07:13 PM

Jan 2014

about how to take over a free country. I wish I could remember what it was called. Change must be slow, you can't bring about massive change overnight or else you risk the citizens starting a revolution. You must mess up their economy (for the 99% of course) you must mess up their health care, you must unarm it's citizens, distract them with frivolity, slowly strip their rights away - in aid of protection against a foreign enemy. This wouldn't be about Obama or Bush and Clinton before him. It would be a shadow government who operates under the radar.

I'm not a big conspiracy believer generally, but I'd be lying if I said I'm not a little nervous about our country after having read what I did.

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