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Warren DeMontague

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54. Right, because every time they need more power to "fight terror", what do they do with it?

Sat Feb 20, 2016, 07:56 AM

Feb 2016

Do they fight terror?

No, they comb through your shit because they spend fifty thousand times more energy trying to put people in jail for smoking pot than they do fighting "terror".

http://www.salon.com/2013/08/10/the_nsa_dea_police_state_tango/

Surprise! Controversial Patriot Act power now overwhelmingly used in drug investigations

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Right, because every time they need more power to "fight terror", what do they do with it? Warren DeMontague Feb 2016 #54

They: the ones who can call up a "friend" and have them check on their competitor. LiberalArkie Feb 2016 #12

With sharing, what the FBI gets,NSA gets. Downwinder Feb 2016 #13

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