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grasswire

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55. I'm remembering what citizens did in the former Soviet Union...

Fri Nov 7, 2014, 01:41 PM

Nov 2014

.....when they were sorely oppressed and information/truth was scarce. They shared among themselves. And when the police state forbid them to use methods of making mass communications, they got the typewriters and the carbon paper and tapped out the truth peck by peck, line by line. And they handed them round and round and round.

If TPTB won't tell the people the truth, then the people must GO AROUND the MSM and the pols and the naysayers. The truth is available for us to spread freely, like a grass fire spreads close to the soil. Every one of us has a circle of influence, a circle of contact where we individually can proffer truth.

We simply have to go around.

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