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leveymg

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5. The PTB run both parties, and are afraid of rebellion.

Reply to CommonSensePLZ (Reply #4)

Thu Apr 19, 2012, 07:37 AM

Apr 2012

That is the reason there is no objection to be heard from anyone (except for a few isolated, vilified dissenters, e.g., Kucinich) to the modern American police state.

Mass surveillance also a huge economic elite in and for itself, that's really accountable to no one but itself, like the Global banks or Big Oil.

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