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Lionessa

(3,894 posts)
11. There are an awful lot of good people that tried to do something and were
Tue Jan 10, 2012, 02:41 AM
Jan 2012

seriously harmed, imprisoned, and worse. Unless there is an uprising and we accept that some will be peppersprayed, some tased perhaps to death, and all the likely and possible outcomes of group uprising, the individual just doesn't have much of a chance to do anything but getting harmed, with so few exceptions and those exceptions after a number of other individuals tried to but whose alerts were silenced.

It's such a cute saying, but it's a really deep topic; when, where, and how to do something. how much should one be willing to pay for doing something?



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