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marble falls

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8. "Today, we imprison a larger population than existed in the United States when the Constitution ...
Mon Aug 27, 2018, 06:08 PM
Aug 2018

was created." A fact of absolutely no significance what so fucking ever. People are going to pay for to listen to that crap????

I can do it, too. There are more guns on the street today than there were in 1776. More planes crashed last year than there flights in the entire 19th century. More books were published last year than were published in the entire 1860's.

There was more freedom in 1860 than today? Ask the 3,950,343 slaves the first US Census counted in 1860 how much freedom they had. Ask poor whites how lack of property and how poll taxes kept them from voting. Ask so called free women how it felt not having the vote or access to income or the right to own property.

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