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pistle on July 5, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)

This period was a text-book case of the use of fear as a tool to unwind the spirit of American freedoms.

Literally, from peoples' mouths, "Better to lose some freedoms than to be scared."

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