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damnedifIknow

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1. It's very sad

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 08:51 PM

Jun 2014

"In America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them. " Gerry Spence, From Freedom to Slavery.

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Hell Of A Quote Here... And A Couple Of Articles About The Militarization Of Police... [View all] WillyT Jun 2014 OP

It's very sad damnedifIknow Jun 2014 #1

Militarization of the police is a necessary component Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #2

Right you are. And we all know whom the prisons are built to hold, truedelphi Jun 2014 #3

Wow. Great quote! People are so easily convince to believe in the illogical. Dark n Stormy Knight Jun 2014 #8

K&R pscot Jun 2014 #4

Better one bl968 Jun 2014 #5

p olice kardonb Jun 2014 #6

milk statementofgoods Jun 2014 #7

We need a national commission on law enforcement standards and practices. Comrade Grumpy Jun 2014 #9

Yes We Do... WillyT Jun 2014 #10