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23. The question is that if someone out there has been monitoring our transmissions....

Thu May 22, 2014, 01:16 PM

May 2014

for the last 120 years...
Would they want to have anything to do with us.

They would know we were reasonably well armed.
They would know about 'Lucie Ricardo'.
They would know about 'Dingbats'.
They would also know that the nation having the most armament almost put a Dingbat with less common sense than Lucie Ricardo one heartbeat away from controlling that armament.

By the time transmissions from Operation American Spring reached them I suspect they would already have put up warning signs.

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