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    "relId": "2013/01/13/it-cant-happen-here-its-happened-its-happening",
    "title": "\"It can't happen here?\" It's happened; it's happening.",
    "author": "pmjones",
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            "title": "Civil Rights",
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            "title": "Gun Control",
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    "created": "2013-01-13 20:27:56 UTC",
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        "2013-01-13 20:27:56 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>The Second Amendment is Obsolete, some say.\u00c2\u00a0 The idea that the United States could ever turn tyrannical is pure paranoia, some say.</p>\n<p>Well, let's look at that.</p>\n<p>Rounding up people and sending them to concentration camps (whether called \"reservations\" or \"relocation centers\"). Check. (Treatment of Native Americans.\u00c2\u00a0 Japanese-American \"Relocation Centers\" during World War II).</p>\n<p>Illegal medical experiments involving infecting people with diseases, not treating them, and observing the effects done on people without their knowledge or consent. Check. (Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment--and particularly interesting how that was \"explained\" to the victims as they were getting free health care from the US Government.)</p>\n<p>Arbitrary searches of American citizens' households aimed at the seizure of property without either probable cause or any kind of warrant. Check. (post-Katrina gun Confiscation)</p>\n<p>Laws passed allowing the indefinite detention of American Citizens without due process of law. Check. (NDAA 2012)</p>\n<p>American citizens going about their daily business being stopped and searched again without probable cause or any kind of warrant (or even the \"reasonably articulable suspicion\" for a \"Terry Stop\"). Check. (TSA, not just at Airports, but at bus terminals, rail and subway terminals, highways, even High School Proms.)</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>\"Can't happen here?\" It has and is happening here.</p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http://coldservings.livejournal.com/50207.html\">coldservings - \"It can't happen here.\"</a>.</p>\n"
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