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hello friends around the world and
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welcome to caravan to midnight defcon
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2.0 you know it’s very easy to define
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communism which is that it’s not easy to
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see it
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all the time as a guy who’s highly
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trained and experienced in the trade
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craft of being a shepherd
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in wolf’s clothing
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just what is the best and most expedient
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way to call out and expose
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these wolves in sheep’s clothing
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well i’ll tell you what’ll constitute a
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really good start is a conversation
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we’re going to have with brad johnson
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cia station chief retired
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he writes prolifically at one of my
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favorite websites
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ever and that would be the epoch times
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let me just run one of his stories past
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you
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and i think you’ll enjoy it this is from
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march 27th earlier in the year
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if you uh if you go to the search engine
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of your choice and type in
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brad johnson epoch times epoch
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it’ll take you right to the page where a
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big stack of his articles
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are listed for your enjoyment goes like
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this
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hard to believe but we have come to the
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point where parents have to question if
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our schools and medical systems are a
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net positive
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in our children’s lives or perhaps even
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worse a danger to our children
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in canada one father has been put
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through
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a living hell by the school and court
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systems
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and his daughter is paying a serious
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price
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the canadian father is clearly a decent
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man non-political and genuinely
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concerned with the well-being of his
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daughter with no preconceived notions
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the problem began when his daughter was
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only 12 years old and having some
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problems in school based on some mental
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health issues
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they turn to the school counselor for
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help as many of us would naturally be
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inclined to do
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the school counselor immediately
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identified the daughter as
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transgender while still only 12 years
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old
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the school helped her pick out a male
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name and began treating her as a boy
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without
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informing her father according to the
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father when he found out he wasn’t sure
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what to think or do
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as would be natural for most any parent
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but he was
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accepting of her exploration of her
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gender
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the school recommended that his daughter
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see psychologist and lgbt author
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dr wallace wong very quickly dr
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wong concluded the child had gender
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dysphoria
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and recommended she began taking
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cross-sex hormones
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while she was still only 13 years old to
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his credit
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doctor wong works with his local orphan
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and foster care system although
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according to press reporting he’s come
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under criticism
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for potentially diagnosing as high as 20
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percent of those children
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with some form of gender dysphoria
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the family was referred to hospital and
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supplied with disclosures by medical
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personnel which explained
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that if his daughter received the
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injections her bones would stop
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growing which would create serious
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long-term health problems
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her brain would stop developing and she
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will be permanently
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sterilized among other issues both real
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and potential
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specifically the disclosure added that
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no one knows all of the long-term health
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implications because the procedures are
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so new
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the father thought his daughter’s
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history of mental health issues was
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a more likely cause of any problems than
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gender dysphoria
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and refuse to grant permission for
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hormone treatments
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he concluded it was more responsible for
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his daughter to be older
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before making health decisions that are
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irreversible such as being sterilized
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shortly after the daughter’s fourteenth
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birthday her father was informed by a
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doctor at the british columbia
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children’s hospital in canada
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that his consent was no longer required
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because the daughter was capable of
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deciding the question on her own
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the father believes that his daughter
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was misled and brainwashed by school
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administrators and leftist activists
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who began to treat his daughter as a
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transgender boy at school
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when she was 12 years old without
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informing her parents
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the father immediately took the matter
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to the courts trying to stop the
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procedures from going forward against
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his wishes
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in february 2019 justice gregory bowden
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of the bc supreme court found for the
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government
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and ordered that the 14 year old girl
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began taking cross-sex hormones on her
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own prerogative the court went far
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beyond this finding and stipulated that
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if either parental referral to her using
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female pronouns
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or being addressed by her birth name
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they would be considered
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guilty of family violence
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the same evening the father gave an
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interview to the federalist and referred
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to his daughter as a girl this was later
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cited by the court and the father was
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convicted of family violence in
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april of twenty nineteen once again the
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judge
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francesca marzari m-a-r-z-a-r-i
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francesca marzari
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went way beyond and issued an order
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authorizing the father’s arrest
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without a warrant by any police officer
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who has reasonable grounds to believe
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he has referred to his daughter as a
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girl or with female
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pronouns the court also imposed a gag
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order so he can speak publicly about
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anything related to his daughter or the
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case keep in mind
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there are no laws in canada that permit
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the courts to issue
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gag orders that stop parents from
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talking to their children
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or removing the parents from the
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decision-making process
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for medical treatment of their child the
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appeal process did slightly relax
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these findings and remove the part about
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the father being arrested for family
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violence based only on his comments
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the gag order in other aspects remain in
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force
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and his daughter started the hormone
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injections as of march 2019
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at 15 years old she is sterilized
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and must take the treatments for the
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rest of her life
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who knows what health problems she will
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suffer as a result
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the medical world admits they just don’t
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know
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how do we end up in this dark and
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dangerous place
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how would any child at such a young age
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know for sure if they want to be
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sterilized or not
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it is stunning that somehow this has
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become a partisan political issue
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and that the left is supportive
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famously the left calls conservatives
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deplorables
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but it’s the left which has lost its way
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and they are in fact degenerates
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and amoral the age of majority has long
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been agreed upon as 18 years
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for most things and even that might be
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too young for these sorts of decisions
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should we not at the very least explore
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all avenues of mental health treatments
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first and make sure there aren’t any
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other separate issues
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a 13 or 14 year old girl cannot consent
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to have sex with an adult male because
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she’s too young to be allowed to make
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those decisions
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she’s also too young to decide if she
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should be sterilized
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this child some argued was targeted by
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the school and court
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systems to make a political point
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terrorists kill and hurt people to make
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a political point too
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at least they’re honest about it and
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don’t try to impose gag orders and hide
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from their own actions brad johnson
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retired
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c i a senior operations officer and
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former chief of station
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he is president of americans for
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intelligence reform
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his website is intel reform.org
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if you’re going to love this man his
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name is brad johnson
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c i a retired standby
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