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6. 4 years in the slammer, huh?

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Apr 27, 2016, 09:49 PM

Apr 2016

Am I the only one that's noticing a trend? The light sentences one gets if you're associated somehow with the "right wing " side of our government? McDonnell in VA, this cop in Tulsa, Denny Hastertt? And that's just today.

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