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Sunlei

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4. police will turn on 'their own' minority, they do it all the time over humanities entire history

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 2, 2016, 12:42 PM

Dec 2016

general public stands around and watches, even participates, turn in their neighbors, loots stuff like a home empty because the occupant is gone. Others snap up the home when it forecloses because the mortgage won't be paid. The world has a grim history when locals authorities are unfettered.

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