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Fil1957

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14. That may be part of it. Another part of it is to desensitize and normalize the idea of our government randomly killing

Reply to choie (Original post)

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 05:41 PM

Dec 5

anyone at any time without judicial review.

Their long range goal is to be able do this to anyone in the United States regardless of citizenship, who protests, disagrees with them, or whom they just don't like.

"First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out..."

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