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FBI & DHS Under Obama Declared Occupy Wall Street Protesters TERRORIST To Protect Big Business (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Feb 2013 OP
Protect them from what? Demeter Feb 2013 #1
Ending. Fire Walk With Me Feb 2013 #2
In a right-wing-soused society, domestic right-wing extremist groups are largely free to spew their indepat Feb 2013 #3

indepat

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3. In a right-wing-soused society, domestic right-wing extremist groups are largely free to spew their
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 06:36 PM
Feb 2013

hatred and anti-government invective and brandish their weapons of mass carnage while members of a left-wing group protesting rampant Wall Street fraud and other abuses are deemed suspected domestic terrorists to be surveilled, intimidated, harassed, pepper-sprayed/otherwise assaulted, and often arrested. The FBI is again on the wrong side of history as it historically had been under J. Edgar's stewardship and tutelage.

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