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Fire Walk With Me

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4. We've seen plenty of "tip of the iceberg" issues but yes, this is a beginning view of its entirety
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 10:23 AM
Aug 2013

and that it's directly in the path of our country. The problem is, the surveillance state can flip into being a police state in an instant. This is how it begins. And it'd all be for our "protection".

When has an amassing of this amount of power -not- been eventually been terribly abused?


(Occupy) "You can see where the real center of power is in this country."

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/01/occupy_congress.php

"You can see where the real center of power is in this country," he said. "There are several thousand people here right outside the Capitol, and only like 50 cops. But when we get a few people down on Wall Street, the police response is crazy."









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