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bobhuntsman

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14. Why hasn't anyone proposed

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:51 PM

Feb 2013

A GENERAL STRIKE in Benton Harbor, Detroit, and the other cities that have had their democracy stripped away?

Make Snyder call out the fucking National Guard to collect the trash, etc.

Police Chiefs of these cities should arrest and jail the Emergency Managers.

Force the issue!!

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