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Modern Political Prisoners in America

Saturday, 17 July 2010 12:36
Szandor Blestman

When I was growing up, I learned in school that one of the reasons the United
States of America was better than the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was
because we didn't hold political prisoners in our jails. That was something the
bad, bad communists did. That was something that was done in communist countries
to keep dissidents in line and to silence them. Such a thing could never be done
in America. I don't know if this is still taught in the schools, but if it is
then I believe our children are being grossly misinformed. The United States of
America has become the leading nation when it comes to jailing its citizens, and
the vast majority of them have been jailed for non violent crimes. We are, in
effect, being jailed by the political class for disobeying rules they have
deigned necessary, not for actions that have harmed another human being or his
property. Most of those jailed are, in effect, political prisoners.

The federal government of the United States of America has declared war on
its own civilians and the majority of those spending time in jail are prisoners
of that war. They call this war many things, the war on drugs and the war on
terror being the most prevalent, but it is really a war fought against people in
order to try to keep a concept hidden from the public consciousness. That
concept is the concept of freedom, the concept that individuals own their own
bodies, their own labor, their own property and best know how to run their own
lives.

The power elite and their political puppets use such emotionally
charged terms as "war" to elicit specific responses from the populace. They want
people to believe that anyone with a differing or divergent point of view from
that of the establishment is a bad person. They want people to believe that
anyone with a difference of opinion is a menace to society and a threat to all
that is good and just. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most of the
people who are spending time in prison are not only ordinary non violent folk
who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, they are likely
kind, loving individuals with family and friends who care for them and miss them
dearly. Many of them were likely hard working, productive members of society
until they were caught or reported breaking one of the multitude of "laws"
created by control freaks who seem to see us common folk as cash cows meant to
be milked for their benefit.

This war has spilled across the borders of
the United States and is affecting the population worldwide. The DEA seems to
think it has the right to enforce the laws of the United States in whatever
country it deems necessary. I don't know that the DEA has the right to do this,
but it certainly has the power thanks to your tax dollars. A good example of
this is the case of Marc Emery. Mr. Emery is a Canadian. He was simply selling
marijuana seeds. This is a practice that is not illegal in Canada. Yet it is
illegal in the US, though hardly ever enforced. Mr. Emery was set up by the DEA
in a sting operation in which he sold seed across the border. The DEA then used
its power as a federal agency of the United States to coerce the federal
Canadian government into extraditing Mr. Emery to the United States.

Mr.
Emery's business harmed no one. It only maybe hurt the feelings of a few
bureaucrats who felt perhaps Mr. Emery's opinions were becoming too popular. You
see, Marc Emery not only sold marijuana seeds, he ran a magazine named Cannabis
Culture and used the money to fund marijuana legalization activism worldwide. He
believes, as I do, that everyone owns their own bodies and can determine for
themselves which substances to use and which to avoid. He would likely still be
free if he had just pocketed his profits rather than using them to promote his
marijuana legalization efforts. It appears as if Marc Emery was targeted not for
his illegal activity, but for his political activism. And they had to use an
unethical sting setup to make it look legitimate.

The same is true of tax
protestors. People fighting the unethical, unconstitutional income tax have been
forced into prison despite the obvious unpopularity of this theft. Even though
the vast majority of the populace seems to be brainwashed into thinking the
federal income tax is legitimate, the arguments against it are intriguing and
compelling on both legal and moral grounds. Ed and Elaine Brown were two such
protestors who wished to make such arguments during their trail. The federal
judge presiding over their trail denied them the opportunity to make over thirty
such arguments in their defense. As a result, they realized the court system was
rigged in favor of the state and refused to take part in it any longer.

Ed, a contractor, and Elaine, a dentist, gathered together such a
following that the Feds determined that the only way to get to them would be to
unethically infiltrate their supporters. It appears as if the Feds are worried
about their image and don't want to be thought of by the general public as the
violent agency they are. They want people to forget such incidents as Waco and
Ruby Ridge, but a leopard cannot change its spots. Ed and Elaine Brown were
productive members of society until the Feds put them in unproductive prison
cells.

People such as Ed and Elaine Brown and Wesley Snipes aren't in
jail because they didn't pay their taxes, they're in jail because they refused
to obey. They refused to knuckle under to the coercion and threats of the
federal government and decided to exercise their rights. They refused to cower
in fear before the political gang that runs this nation and decided to show them
for what they are, a violent gang of thugs who believe they own us and a portion
of our labor. These are arguments the authoritarian power mongers don't want to
hear because they're true, and the truth is sometimes hard to face. They would
rather do harm to those who have never harmed another than face the reality that
they are greedy failures in a coercive monopoly funded by theft and unable to
compete in a legitimate marketplace.

What happens when the practices used
by the policing agencies are used against them? Barry Cooper is a good example
to look at. A former narcotics officer, he created a sting operation to catch
the police breaking the law and disobeying the constitution. His police training
served him well as he had learned to setup drug dealers. He filmed the police
breaking their own laws and streamed it to the web in such a way so that their
guilt could not be denied. This angered the cops. As a result, Barry Cooper and
his family have been harassed by authorities ever since. Candi, his wife, lost
custody of her eight year old son. They have both been arrested and charged with
filing a false police report. They await trial on said charges. It seems what's
good for the goose is not good for the gander. It seems that the police can
setup and harass ordinary folk to catch them breaking laws, but when ordinary
folk do the same to the police, the ordinary folk better watch out.

The
system is plagued with unfairness. It is set up so that those with authority
aren't burdened with any personal responsibility for their decisions. They are
not held accountable for their actions even when such actions harm others or are
financially unsound. It takes those who rail against it and make honest,
sensible arguments and silences them by removing them to cold prison cells. We
might not have the cruel and unforgiving gulags the Russians had under communist
rule in the last century, but we have prisons populated with political prisoners
who don't even know they are political prisoners. Our government has interrupted
and ruined the lives of millions for its political power, expediency and agenda.

The war against the people needs to end. The federal government needs to
step aside. The common folk need to reestablish their lust for freedom. The
bureaucrats need to start respecting the rights of the individual once again.
The federal government needs to be recognized for the monstrous mechanism of
tyranny it has become. Hopefully, the cogs inside that mechanism will start
refusing to allow it to run smoothly. We should be allowed to spend our money as
we see fit, to smoke what we want to smoke, to say what we wish to say, and to
live our lives as we wish to live them without fear of government intrusion and
imprisonment. The disobedience of a few have shown us the ugly truth. The
disobedience of many will help set us free.

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2010-07-19
21:26:26 | Scott
Hamilton  - We need to dis-obey en
masse

If We the People would refuse to obey en masse, they can't put us all in
jail. We need Citizen's Grand JHury's to indicte corrupt Judges and Law
Enforcemnt to trun the tables on them. Until we have the courage to stand up
and say NO, nothing will change. Now run along and be good little
sheep.

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2010-07-20
15:39:24 | | Doc  - Re: They can't
put us all in jail!

When I was a young'un we kids used to smoke weeds and quip, "Ha! They can't
pit us ALL in jail!"
Well, we were wrong. They've been doing a
bang-up job of it!

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2010-07-20
09:18:05 | HH

Right now, judges across America, are erasing the concept of "true threat"
and ruling that internet speech is not protected by the First Amendment. Men
are sitting in prison for internet posts that somebody didn't like. The entire
Department of Justice is behind this end to free speech.

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2010-07-20
15:40:41 | | Doc  - re: Men are
sitting in prison for internet posts t

cite?

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2010-07-22
04:45:04 | tergium
hulotov

all of europe has holocaust belief laws if you publicly say you no believe
it it is 7 years prison, zundell comes to mind.hate speech is bogus and a way
to limit free speech,free speech can not be limited at all. it is free speech
ya see.they are crucify mel gibson in teh public arena forgeting that
recording private conversations and airing them is not i think legalk and it
cwertainly is a ldepraved manuever indicitave of a person worse than an
enraged man hurling invective in private.or so he thought.

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2010-07-20
13:16:04 | | [email-masked]  - On Target Reality!

Szandor:

An article such as this "Modern Political Prisoners in America" is a
disservice to the target reality. It has the effect of bringing out in the
reader: "Oh, in a country this big thing must be OK with so few incidents"

Well, the facts that hit the spinal cord are:

1. If it is claimed you owe $5,000 to any government agency (may be $3,000
now) they flag your passport and you are not allowed to leave the country. If
you attempt to do so they confiscate your passport. This could be a claim from
IRS; Child Support; Traffic Court; Property Tax Judgment; etc. As of 2007 this
circumstance had 16.5 million Americans flagged to be stopped from leaving the
country (captives). Legislation was introduced (but did not pass) to lower the
amount to $500. If that had been done close to forty-million Americans would
have been captive.

2. The prisons and court system generates for all of its players as of 2007
a conservative 1.8 trillion dollars a year. It is clearly an industry that
perpetuates itself for any reason due to the money involved. There is no
accident the USA has the highest jail and prison population per-populace of no
equal in the world. It is VERY profitable to do so. Local governments tax the
people to pay for it and then the same local governments invest in the same
industry whereby they have a massive guaranteed profit.

3. The court system is not there to levy justice, it is there to extort
money and property from all caught in that snare. Done so at threat of arrest
warrant issued if you do not participate. As of 2007 the court system issued
for the year 4.6 arrest warrants to those that for whatever reason refused to
participate with having money or property stolen from them.

4. If you resit in force, they will kill you. If you resist with no
participation in the fraud they will come to where you are or attempt to track
you down and if you are located throw you in jail. If you confront in reply
with law; statute; or ordnance clearly on your side it is arbitrarily ignored
and you are stripped of whatever you have that they can get their hands
on.(two wolves and a sheep deciding on what to have for diner)

Reality is: They are operating an industry that generates 1.6 trillion
dollars a year. They have set up a structure that enforces massive theft from
anyone targeted; the victims; and at the expense of all to the tune of the
largest industry in the USA. The whole show is run by attorneys chuckling
behind closed doors as they destroy lives; steal wealth; and stuff their back
pockets with the booty taken. Each patting each other on the back as they
cover for each other to make sure their is no consequences for their own
criminal behavior. The few honest and ethical that may be left within this
structure are isolated and left in their own as oddities to be ignored with
the least amount of cooperation given to by the self-enriched predominate
players running the show as of today.

Every hear the expression: "Don't take a knife to a gun fight"? Well here
they have created the circumstances for all of bringing paper to a gun fight,
paper that is arbitrarily ignored by them as they use the threat of the gun
against you if you do not participate.

The Beat Goes On, and the truck loads of cash keep a rolling through the
doors as the masses are masterfully entertained with the fiction of a totally
different reality making them easy marks for the taking...

Walter Burien - CAFR1
P. O. Box 2112
Saint Johns, AZ 85936

Tel. (928) 445-3532

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2010-07-21
16:49:02 | sblestman

Is this true? Did you really think that? I would have thought that my
article would have elicited the response of "This is terrible, such a thing
should not be happening in a fair and just society." I would have thought men
of conscious would have felt that such injustice against one is an injustice
against everyone. Wrong is wrong and injustice is injustice whether it is done
against one of my fellow human beings or against many. Perhaps that is a
problem we as humans have, we do not try hard enough to protect the
individual, the criminals have to be screwing with many before we take action
against them.

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2010-07-22
04:47:36 | tergium
hulotov

much of that is prison labor contracted out to private companies, they can
get a highly skilled man for 85 cents a hour tops.no worry about medical and
unions they got a thing and it is called prison industries.

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2010-07-20
13:17:08 | | Mike  - re: modern
political prisoners

What a cute story. So, you FINALLY figured it out, did ya? Serves ya right.
Voluntary and wilful ignorance always exacts a price, often far beyond the
efforts to keep the truth at bay. By the way, you are aware that the usa
government propped up, financed and actively supported the Bolshevik
revolution in Russia, which of course makes them ACCOMPLICES to
communism....so why would anyone think that "it cant happen here" Stupid
fools, if you play with pigs, you automatically forfeit the right to complain
about getting smelly and muddy. And no, you aren't allowed to wash off the
mud, the water rights were given to the authorities, remember, you paid for it
with YOUR TAXES. Its all for the good of society.

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2010-07-20
15:49:16 | | Doc  - Re: if you play
with pigs...

Which is why good American patriots must stop voting!
The feds exist by
"the consent of the governed." Why do you continue to give your consent? You
prove you agree with them by participating in the voting thing. Yet every
time, no matter who is elected, the unelected and therefore
impossible-to-unelected bureaucrats keep doing what they do to us without so
much as a reach-around. The ONLY solution is the end of the failed experiment,
and the ONLY way to accomplish that is to simply allow it. Turn your guns into
plowshares we'll not need them. The federal gov't is insolvent and will
collapse under its own weight eventually. But don't fear anarchy! We have 50
state government's that aren't going anywhere, and untold numbers of city,
county and municipal governments operating fine right now. The only things
that will change is our taxes will go way down and our money will be worth
much more.

http://halebobb.com/Patriot/vote.htm

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2010-07-21
00:24:28 | | Mike  - re if u play w/
pigs

Anarchy sounds good on paper, but in real, day 2 day living, you must not
discount or ignore human nature, didn't you read about the French Revolution?
True, although I agree with you concerning the meaninglessness of the vote,
the free for all that anarchy devolves into, no matter what the original goal
might have been, cancels out any so called benefits that anarchy might
initially bring.

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2010-07-20
13:18:14 | | [email-masked]

It is clearly an industry that perpetuates itself for any reason due to the
money involved. There is no accident the USA has the highest jail and prison
population per-populace of no equal in the world. It is VERY profitable to do
so. Local governments tax the people to pay for it and then the same local
governments invest in the same industry whereby they have a massive guaranteed
profit.

3. The court system is not there to levy justice, it is there to extort
money and property from all caught in that snare. Done so at threat of arrest
warrant issued if you do not participate. As of 2007 the court system issued
for the year 4.6 arrest warrants to those that for whatever reason refused to
participate with having money or property stolen from them.

4. If you resit in force, they will kill you. If you resist with no
participation in the fraud they will come to where you are or attempt to track
you down and if you are located throw you in jail. If you confront in reply
with law; statute; or ordnance clearly on your side it is arbitrarily ignored
and you are stripped of whatever you have that they can get their hands
on.(two wolves and a sheep deciding on what to have for diner)

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2010-07-21
04:51:43 |
Dr. Brooks (ret.)  - Burien's CAFR work needs wide publicity

Thanks, Walter.

The sheeple need to listen to people like Mr. Burien. CORP GOVT propaganda
wants him and others ignored, which indicates how important their work
is.
Ignore the govt thugs and work to restore truth and freedom to our
nation, else they will accomplish political imprisonment or death to all of us
who refuse to knuckle under to tyrannical Marxism.
Our numbers are
diminishing while the thugs are increasing exponentially, so we don't have
very much time to attempt the restoration of our Republic.
Please wake up
Amerika. Time for action is now. Tomorrow may be too late.

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2010-07-20
13:19:37 | Anonymous

If you confront in reply with law; statute; or ordnance clearly on your
side it is arbitrarily ignored and you are stripped of whatever you have that
they can get their hands on.(two wolves and a sheep deciding on what to have
for diner)

Reality is: They are operating an industry that generates 1.6 trillion
dollars a year. They have set up a structure that enforces massive theft from
anyone targeted; the victims; and at the expense of all to the tune of the
largest industry in the USA. The whole show is run by attorneys chuckling
behind closed doors as they destroy lives; steal wealth; and stuff their back
pockets with the booty taken. Each patting each other on the back as they
cover for each other to make sure their is no consequences for their own
criminal behavior. The few honest and ethical that may be left within this
structure are isolated and left in their own as oddities to be ignored with
the least amount of cooperation given to by the self-enriched predominate
players running the show as of today.

Every hear the expression: "Don't take a knife to a gun fight"? Well here
they have created the circumstances for all of bringing paper to a gun fight,
paper that is arbitrarily ignored by them as they use the threat of the gun
against you if you do not participate.

The Beat Goes On, and the truck loads of cash keep a rolling through the
doors as the masses are masterfully entertained with the fiction of a totally
different reality making them easy marks for the taking...

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2010-07-20
13:20:58 | Anonymous

The few honest and ethical that may be left within this structure are
isolated and left in their own as oddities to be ignored with the least amount
of cooperation given to by the self-enriched predominate players running the
show as of today.

Every hear the expression: "Don't take a knife to a gun fight"? Well here
they have created the circumstances for all of bringing paper to a gun fight,
paper that is arbitrarily ignored by them as they use the threat of the gun
against you if you do not participate.

The Beat Goes On, and the truck loads of cash keep a rolling through the
doors as the masses are masterfully entertained with the fiction of a totally
different reality making them easy marks for the taking...

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2010-07-20
16:05:59 | POW

RESIST!!!

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2010-07-20
22:47:10 | Anonymous

If I may suggest an excellent read: The CONstitution That Never Was, by
Ralph Boryszewski. How is it that a local library would not accept this book?

1. It is "old" as they said. Published in 1995 does not fit to their policy
of "oldest publishing date five years back"

2. It does not have an official book review done either by Book Review
Magazine or any other "reputable" entity. It didn't matter that I showed them
the credentials of the man being on " "The Global Directory of Who's Who"
(2005-06 Edition and 2009 Outstanding Intellectuals Of The 21st Century, 5th
edition (Great Britain).

However, I was able to track it down via "Interlibrary Loan" and found that
there is one copy at Beeghly Library Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio donated
by Carl Klopfstein Professor Emeritus of History 1998.

Mr. Boryszewski is completing his second book and he says he would like to
self publish it (as he has done with the first one, because there was no
publisher willing to publish it being afraid from a lawsuit), the second book
should be completed by the end of summer 2010. Keep in mind that this
gentleman is around 92 years old! His knowledge and life experience is
priceless.

You can order books directly from him: Ralph Boryszewski, Founder
Foundation For Rights, P.O. Box 17699. Rochester, NY, 14617

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2011-03-29
09:14:03 | SOL  - Pubic
Libraries

Don't you know the so-called public libraries were taken over by the left,
years ago. Even with most, they have blocked sending emails over the 'public'
internet. And so it goes, the insanity of the left.

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2010-07-20
23:54:24 | | Joe
L'Amarca

Tyrany or public servants is like a bad weed in a garden does anyone out
there know how to get rid of bad weed ? .
Pull it out and make sure that
you get the microscopic roots also then place it in a black plastic barrel out
in the in the sun with a air tight lid then next year you have solved two
problems one is that you've got rid of Public servants and two you put
monsanto out of buiseness and you turned the bastards into compost natural
nutrients , for your garden.

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2010-07-21
06:13:53 | cold
wind  - Prison Planet

I doubt if you've seen anything yet. Once Martial Law is in effect, there
will be a Wackenhut FEMA camp in every neighborhood. The state of mind in
America is almost universally pathological and predatory so there will always
be enough of the weak minded and compromised to imprison the few who have the
temerity to resist. There are too many historical examples where the 'people'
simply collapse into slavery. No fight left in them.

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2010-07-21
10:58:04 | Patrick

Are we on the verge of a large number of new technologies that will turn
labor loose and allow for the creation of an excess abundance of wealth?

If so, how shall the state be transformed then?

Lenin and H.G. Wells discussed that issue nearly a century ago and they
agreed that the state would not need the force factor in a condition of
abundance.

Will welding nailing painting and grease guns employed to create and
maintain the world of the goods finally replace the need for ordinary shooting
guns?

Hope springs eternal.

Does the future Sound like "Its funner than you think"

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2010-07-21
12:45:05 | ducq

I quote:

"I would have thought that my article would have elicited the response of
"This is terrible, such a thing should not be happening in a fair in just
society." I would have thought men of conscious would have felt that such
injustice against one is an injustice against everyone. Wrong is wrong and
injustice is injustice whether it is done against one of my fellow human
beings or against many."

...And another comment above started his emotive reply with "We The
People"...

um... we aren't the "People". I get tearful when hearing a good version of
the National Anthem. We all long to identify with something. What's the
difference between that and a sad movie?

If you're going to stand up for some element of "society", it behooves you
to know the composition of society. How can we, who were wrong since our
inception, stand up against wrong?

The mirror is usually located in the bathroom. Check it out.

Find right, not wrong. It's a wee bit more difficult, but worth the
search.

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2010-07-21
18:34:14 | Idaho

Apathy is suicide. Passion is life. Most old people are cowards. They
survived by selling themselves and suppressing their inner hero. They are
champions of Peace at the cost of Justice and Freedom. Oddly, the young with
long potential lives to live are brave and willing to die rather than break
under the totalitarian boot. No one will remember the loyal voters. There
children despise them and they can never be satisfied. And in the distant time
when sentient life rises again and their time capsule pyramid is discovered
all THIS will recur. There are Beasts and Devils and there are Angels and God.
Be glad to know the difference.

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2010-07-22
04:39:54 | tergium
hulotov  - dissidents political/

Did the German population know back
during WW2 the extent of how many Jews and dissidents were being grabbed and
put in the concentration camps? No they did not. They were to busy being
entertained and spending their money. Most of the German population thought
they were just being moved some where else to all live together happpy ever
after.
I am allways suspect when offered at best dubious information such
as this and at worse total falsity which it is.I shall enlighten you,There
were 55thousand jews living in germany at the end of the war NOT in camps in
population,most campps were not in germanyNow the german people/country at
that time before the war were just beginning to get back on their feet and
were making economic improvements across the board making roosenvelt insanely
jealous.jews were free to leave at a value added head tax lol. but most
countries wanted nothing to do with them including america,the weimar republic
was a disaster for gernany and its people and it was mainly jewish.the german
people after ww were at no time seeking entertainmwent and spending money
becuase they had none and provided their own entertainment for free when
needed.amelika has more people in prison than russia china and all of europe
put together, why is that?these laws will get worse and are a way around the
bill of ruights and taking freedoms away and the freedom takers are jews and
the stooges they put in congress seante and govinmint
positions.

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2010-07-22
04:50:23 | tergium
hulotov

well it wasnt a revolution by the people never has been one of that type.
it was a power grab and a monarchy murdering organization dreamed up by jews
as all revolutions are and were.

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2010-07-23
08:41:29 | :Bob-Lehman:

Didn't Yahweh our Elohim tells us to" COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE" ? ! so why
do you want to stay in this evil/corrupt system? GET RID OF THE NEXUSES YOU
HAVE WITH THEM! LEARN HOW TO CONTROL THAT ALTER EGO THEY CREATED BY PERVERTING
YOUR NAME,and turning into a citizen -"slave "...with nostanding or position!

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