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Aerows

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3. This is different

Reply to malthaussen (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 21, 2016, 01:45 PM

Jan 2016

because it is happening right here in the US, and Federal authorities could put a stop to it if they weren't handling these yokels with kid gloves. In Syria, not so much.

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