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Fumesucker

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31. Infiltrated?

Reply to gregcrawford (Reply #28)

Wed Nov 25, 2015, 02:31 PM

Nov 2015

More like recruited I would guess.

Also, if you come into that sort of organization fairly normal it's not hard to get corrupted and it happens faster than most people would believe. Peer pressure is really strong and as Mark Twain pointed out physical courage is much more common than moral courage.

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