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Old 06-19-2015, 09:24 PM   #142
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Originally Posted by BillJasper View Post
There seems to be a Red Dawn-esque mind set among Americans that if the government decides to go "bad", that they will somehow be able to unite and fight off the new tyranny. Never mind that fear of walking down the street or sending your kids to school is its own kind of tyranny.

Yeah, this is the line of thinking that makes most folks outside of the US back out of the conversation with an "ooooo-k there.....".
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