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DonCoquixote

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8. there is a deep flaw within this idea

Reply to F4lconF16 (Reply #7)

Sat May 16, 2015, 12:41 AM

May 2015

It may sound nice to have the "people" replace police, but laws are also what keeps issues from beign serttled by mob justice. Simply put, abolish the police, and what stops outfits like the Klan from forming their own "courts' as they indeed did?

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