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    "title": "Arming the Small Business Administration and Railroad Retirement Board",
    "author": "pmjones",
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            "title": "Police State",
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    "created": "2011-06-10 13:51:42 UTC",
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        "2011-06-10 13:51:42 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Most people expect agencies like the FBI to be well armed for law enforcement purposes.\u00c2\u00a0 But the Railroad Retirement Board?\u00c2\u00a0 He reports that federal agencies far and wide now have armed agents, including the Small Business Administration.\u00c2\u00a0 For what?\u00c2\u00a0 To scare away phony 8(a) applications??\u00c2\u00a0 The United States Department of Education bought 27 Remington Model 870 12-gauge shotguns last year.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is the request for proposals to sell the weapons.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps the contracting officer, Holly Lee, knows why on earth the Department of Education needs a weapons arsenal.\u00c2\u00a0Maybe for the Department of Education SWAT team.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/06/09/weaponizing-the-small-business-administration-and-railroad-retirement-board/\">The PJ Tatler \u00c2\u00bb Weaponizing the Small Business Administration and Railroad Retirement Board</a></em>.</p>\n"
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