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No Room for Police State in America!
Loaded on July 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1992, page 4
America is again being set adrift upon shifting sand, just when our economy is so fragile. And so the Police State enters its battle cry, "Let's get tough on crime!" Then we watch the prime time results. Anarchy momentarily explodes, then the police move in to "control the situation and …
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