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3. thank you I was a part of the protest in 2014

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 11, 2020, 01:17 PM

Dec 2020

it was because of the 6 Jesuit priests who were murdered by SOA assassins that I ran for US Congress from the left against our DINO rep. I got about 38% of the total vote to his 52% and we forced him to change his vote on funding the SOA in late 1990

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With U.S. weapons, Salvadoran military massacred a village. The trial continues. [View all] Judi Lynn Dec 2020 OP

those soldiers were trained gopiscrap Dec 2020 #1

They were, and are monsters. Ft. Benning's SOA has also been called "School of Assassins." Fits. Judi Lynn Dec 2020 #2

thank you I was a part of the protest in 2014 gopiscrap Dec 2020 #3

Protesting these covert, expensively funded operations against leftists in LatAm is courageous. Judi Lynn Dec 2020 #4

yup I remember all of this well gopiscrap Dec 2020 #5