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5. Thank you. However,
Sat May 19, 2012, 05:28 AM
May 2012

to hold American citizens like this is abhorrent. The NDAA, Patriot Act or whatever they call it now is the anti-Bill of Rights.
If they have been up to no good, then they deserve the appropriate punishment. However, that may be drawing and quartering for all we know.
This is nothing less than the return of the Star Chamber.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
-Thomas Jefferson

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
-Thomas Jefferson

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_jefferson_4.html#j042ptPlx2RL8K1t.99

Where are the brave people of conscience?




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