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Ward Churchill (5th Columnist) Busted for Copyright Infringement, Plagiarism, assaults cameraman
CBS4, Denver Post, and Rocky Mountain News ^ | 2-24-2005 | CBS4 and Rocky Mountain News

Posted on 02/25/2005 7:52:29 AM PST by Thanatos

Evidence has been found that 5th Columinst Ward Churchill copied a painting by reknown artist Thomas E. Mails

Churchill's Serigraph is a mirror image of the Miles painting.



Churchill made the serigraph in question in 1981 and called it "Winter Attack." He printed 150 copies and sold one of them to Duke Prentup for about $100.

On Video, confronting Churchill about the obvious copyright violation by CBS4 Reporter Raj Chohan, Churchill then attacked the cameraman filming the incident.

Read the whole Story here and watch the video:

CBS4, Denver Colorado: 'Original' Churchill Art Piece Creates Controversy

Rocky Mountain News: Churchill artwork mirrors artist's

Also, Churchill claims he earned a Bachelors Degree and a Master Degree at the Sangamon State University in Illinois (where 5th Columinst were created) but school officials cannot locate his Master's Thesis. Colorado University regents expressed concerns that a person be appointed professor without a doctorate.

Read the story in the Rocky Mountain News:

Rocky Mountain News: School can't locate Churchill's thesis


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: art; busted; copyrightviolation; fakeindian; hateamericafilth; hatingamerica; ohhhsobusted; plagiarism; sunshinedisinfectant; wardchurchill
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Article at Indian Country Today by Suzan Shown Harjo (Columnist and President of The Morning Star Institute in Washington DC) where she talks about where she met Churchill 15 years ago and again several years later at the Sante Fe Indian Market. Very good article with lots of Information and collaborating evidence: Harjo: Why Native identity matters: A cautionary tale

Research by Associate Professor of Law John P. LaVelle of the University of New Mexico where in 1999, he wrote two essay's blasting Ward Churchill and shows proof of Plagiarism. This is a guy you will want to interview:

Essay by Prof LaVelle of Churchill's stance on "Indian Eligibility" and Proves Churchill Plagiarized his book.. (Pay attention to Footnote 8) PDF FIle of Plagerism of Ward Churchill

Essay Review by Prof LaVelle of Churchill's book "Indians Are Us?" that was published in 1996: PDF File of LaVelle Article

Article by "Teachers for a Democratic Culture", a group who's goals are "A coalition of academics committed to preserving education as a force for social change and as a site of cultural pluralism". Basically indoctrinating students into the beliefs of Marxism, Communism, and Progressive Thought. This is the 5th columnist stuff.

This article talks about the Sangamon State University where Churchill received his BA and MA in communications and gives history about how this "School" whole purpose was to create 5th Columnist. From "Radical University" to Handmaiden of the Corporate State

If you want to see Ward Churchill's "Indian Art", it is Cataloged in the Arlene Hirschfelder Collection at the Sequoyah Research Center, Churchill's stuff is located in Catalog #37: page down to Catalog #37

Ward Churchill "Art" on E-bay

Radio Interviews with Churchill on Native America Calling website (Do a search down the page for Churchill and/or Russell Means) from 1999: Native Calling Article

Article Written in the 80's by Ward Churchill about "Indian Art" and where he tries to pass his stuff off as Indian art. He mentions the same Sante Fe Show that Suzan Harjo talks about in her article. This is where Churchill pissed off the whole Chippewa Nation: American Indian Art and Artists:In Search of a Definition

University of Illinois archives (used to be the Sangamon State University), here you can get copies of Churchill's Thesis and papers while attending in the 1970's: University of Illinois Archives

Ward Churchill article on the Pine Ridge incident defending Leonard Peltier: Free Peltier Article

Ward Churchill's Homepage on the Znet website

Interview of Ward Churchill by Sawn Setaro where Churchill talks about how he hates Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell and about how He has not done art since 1982, and that his associate card with the Keetoowah Cherokee and he say's "Not that it means much other then not being prosecuted under the basis of the Arts and Crafts act". (Look around page 10 of the interview) He goes on to talk about how he wants to be hired by Colorado University as an Indian so he could do his "5th Column" stuff to indoctrinate students in Marxism, Communism, and Progressive thought.

QUOTE:" WC: In the way that I was talking about, and by trying to get other people who approach things in the same way in. It's an infiltration of the system or of the structure. But that's kind of a hard fight. They've been owing me a position for years, and I haven't been able to fill it, because they always need another British historian or whatever, and I'm going to have to have a major cataclysm, I think, in order to get it. That's not really how I want to spend my time and energy, but at a certain point, I'm going to have to, and they're imposing that.

Instant: Really?

WC: Sure. You've got to set priorities. You get resistance at every level, and from every direction, and it's a question of where you're going to put your time and energy in order to get the most bang for your buck. In a way that becomes an individual choice when there's relatively few of us. It's not like there's this big collective process here. There's three Indians in the entire faculty of the University of Colorado, one of whom is continuously gone, writing her novels, the other of whom is retiring at the end of this semester, and me. So it's not exactly like we sit down and come up with this collective strategy of what we need to do (laughs)." UNQUOTE.

Interview with Ward Churchill

Here are the search results of Znet of all Churchill, lots of interviews and audio ZNet Articles

What the White Earth Chippewa think of Ward Churchill: Do a search down the page for "Churchill" and David Bradley the Chippewa Artist slammed by Churchill which lead to the Arts and Crafts Act that prevented Non-Indians from posing as Indians to peddle fake art. White Earth Website

Article at Indian Country Today by Mary Jo King:

King: Ward Churchill -- Questionable identity and questionable scholarship

Rick Sallinger of CBS4 first asked me what I thought of Churchill before asking me to do the research for him, I told him that I thought Churchill was a jerk. After doing the research, I told Rick "Now I know why he's a Jerk"..

In the 1930's there was a man named Archie Belaney who was an Environmentalist. He decided the only way he could get his activist notions made serious was to become a fake Indian named "Grey Owl".. Grey Owl became a great sensation in the 30's. What the world did not know was that "Grey Owl" was a 5th Columnist trying to pass himself off as an Indian so he could indoctrinate upon a platform so that people would listen to him. Once he was found out, his whole platform collapsed. The story of Ward Churchill reminds me of the story of Grey Owl. The only difference between the two is that Archie Belaney actually had some Indian blood, whereas Churchill has zero, zilch. At least Churchill is not shaming my people, the Chippewa (Ojibwa) as Grey Owl did, but nonetheless, he is shaming all Native Americans with his Marxist views. *(you can watch the movie of Grey Owl, starring Pierce Brosnan)*

1 posted on 02/25/2005 7:52:30 AM PST by Thanatos
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To: Thanatos

What a putz.


2 posted on 02/25/2005 7:54:16 AM PST by Huck (I only type LOL when I'm really LOL.)
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To: Huck

OH HOwlin.....Looks like they received the e-mails.


3 posted on 02/25/2005 7:55:34 AM PST by hoosiermama (It's more than an election...It's a change of heart....an enlightenment....life is important)
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To: Thanatos
You can also get alot of Information uncovered by KHOW Radio 630am(denver) anchors Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman

Caplis/Silverman webpage at KHOW Radio
4 posted on 02/25/2005 7:55:42 AM PST by Thanatos
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To: Thanatos

Where is Mikey Moore to save this speaker of truth from those who are lashing out and trying to silence this great American?!?!?!?!?! And Noam Chomsky, and Bill Maher???? Not to mention Bill Clinton, who said post-9-11 we were paying for the terrorism WE caused in our own past?? Stand up, you proud patriots, and defend your newest hero!


5 posted on 02/25/2005 7:55:53 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Individuality)
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To: Howlin

In my excitement forgot to ping you!


6 posted on 02/25/2005 7:56:15 AM PST by hoosiermama (It's more than an election...It's a change of heart....an enlightenment....life is important)
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To: Thanatos
You can also get alot of Information uncovered by KHOW Radio 630am(denver) anchors Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman

Caplis/Silverman webpage at KHOW Radio
7 posted on 02/25/2005 7:56:18 AM PST by Thanatos
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To: Thanatos

Ward Churchill has lived his life as one gigantic fraud, multiplied over and over, in every endeavor of his sad existence. I actually pity this lunatic.


8 posted on 02/25/2005 7:56:41 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Honoring Saint Jude's assistance every day.)
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To: Thanatos

Michael Mooreon will be joining him soon. Two idiots in a cell together.


9 posted on 02/25/2005 7:57:10 AM PST by HMFIC (Fourth Generation American INFIDEL and PROUD OF IT!)
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To: Thanatos

There is a Ward Churchill in every University..... I urge everyone to uncover theirs.


10 posted on 02/25/2005 7:57:28 AM PST by RushCrush (History will be VERY kind to GWB. WJC? Not so much.......)
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To: Fedora

More about your favorite guy!


11 posted on 02/25/2005 7:57:35 AM PST by tiamat (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
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To: Darkwolf377

Chruchill is a communist who justifies his lies in the interest of the "greater purpose."

He is a complete phony.


12 posted on 02/25/2005 7:58:03 AM PST by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton Jr.)
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To: nw_arizona_granny; Snapple

ping


13 posted on 02/25/2005 7:58:06 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Thanatos
His only purpose in all this is to create a cult of haters, in hopes of conquering the world. Of course this guy is a boob. He is self destructing. Couldn't happen to anyone more deserving. He is a self centered petty tyrant...
14 posted on 02/25/2005 7:58:16 AM PST by Edgerunner (Proud to be an infidel.)
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If he attacked the reporter or cameraman, why isn't he in jail on charges of assault?


15 posted on 02/25/2005 7:58:41 AM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Thanatos

L.O.L...sounds like Custers Last Stand...in reverse.


16 posted on 02/25/2005 7:58:46 AM PST by Route101
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To: hoosiermama

Well good golly miss molly. I just finished the thread from last night. Are we allowed to have this much fun I wonder.


17 posted on 02/25/2005 8:00:14 AM PST by Bahbah
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To: Thanatos

I knew Grey Owl was a fake, but I did not realize he was a Fifth Columnist......hmmmmm


18 posted on 02/25/2005 8:00:31 AM PST by goodnesswins (Tax cuts, Tax reform, social security reform, Supreme Court, etc.....the next 4 years.....)
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To: Thanatos
White man's copyright laws no affect this wanna be indian...
19 posted on 02/25/2005 8:00:40 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: Darkwolf377

The Ward Churchill/Whoopie Goldberg wing of the Donk Party...


20 posted on 02/25/2005 8:00:40 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: chris1
"Chruchill is a communist who justifies his lies in the interest of the "greater purpose."

Which is why I can't figure out why the dems aren't embracing him publicly--he's their Howard Dean in the halls of higher learning.

21 posted on 02/25/2005 8:01:40 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Condi Rice: Yeaaahhh, baybee!)
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To: Thanatos

no wonder he is such a hero to the leftist liberals


22 posted on 02/25/2005 8:02:08 AM PST by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: RushCrush

AGREED. My alma mater got Howard Zinn to appear and speak at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom. You should have seen how the history/govt profs fawned over the guy. It was sickening. I have told the University that I'll withhold all alumni donations until they get someone from the opposite end of the spectrum (hannity, elder, medved, ingraham, et al) as a counterpoint.


23 posted on 02/25/2005 8:02:37 AM PST by timtoews5292004
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To: Thanatos

Churchill was born to Jack LeRoy Churchill and Maralyn Lucretia Allen in Urbana, Ill., in 1947 and named after his grandfather. His mother and father were divorced when he was 1 1/2, at a time when divorce was highly stigmatized.

He felt that stigma, according to one of his high school friends, buddying up with someone who also came from a split home. He was raised by his mother and stepfather along with a number of stepbrothers and stepsisters.

He was known as "Wardo" in high school, where he struck a clean-cut pose as a student-athlete and letterman at Elmwood Community High School in Elmwood, Ill., a town of 2,100 people 25 miles west of Peoria, where he had lived since he was a small boy. He also was known as Ward Debo for a time in high school, taking his stepfather's name. He graduated in 1965 in a class of 55 students.

Some high school classmates recall that Churchill had mentioned having Indian heritage in the 1960s. U.S. census records from 1950 document no Indians in Elmwood. In 1960, two people in the town identified themselves as "other," but no one claimed to be Indian. Surrounding Peoria County listed 21 people that year as Indian.

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E23827%257E2709008,00.html


24 posted on 02/25/2005 8:03:29 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( The Year of Freeping Dangerously)
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To: Darkwolf377

because they know that a public embrace of the guy would mean the end of their political careers.


25 posted on 02/25/2005 8:03:31 AM PST by timtoews5292004
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To: timtoews5292004

Interesting- wonder how long it will take for them to invite one of them. Don't hold your breath.


26 posted on 02/25/2005 8:03:39 AM PST by RushCrush (History will be VERY kind to GWB. WJC? Not so much.......)
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To: Thanatos

Watch the video at the link. He clearly assaults the camera man, goes into his office (likely to call his lawyer) then comes out with his canned respopnse. I hope he gets his ass sued off. And then gets fired from CU for plagiarism.


27 posted on 02/25/2005 8:04:00 AM PST by finnman69 (POSTS)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Jack LeRoy Churchill nickname Wardo
28 posted on 02/25/2005 8:04:25 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( The Year of Freeping Dangerously)
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To: Thanatos
I wonder how the liberal academics will try and sweep plagiarism, and fake credentials under the carpet. I am sure they will give it the old college try.
29 posted on 02/25/2005 8:04:44 AM PST by Sthitch
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To: timtoews5292004

I know; it's a rhetorical question.


30 posted on 02/25/2005 8:04:52 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Condi Rice: Yeaaahhh, baybee! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350654/posts)
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To: Thanatos

31 posted on 02/25/2005 8:06:57 AM PST by finnman69 (POSTS)
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To: AmericanMade1776

He also was known as Ward Debo for a time in high school, taking his stepfather's name.


32 posted on 02/25/2005 8:07:21 AM PST by AmericanMade1776 ( The Year of Freeping Dangerously)
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To: Thanatos

Bwahahahahaaa!! This loser just keeps steppin' in it!!


33 posted on 02/25/2005 8:07:34 AM PST by lilmsdangrus (hard work musta hurt somebody, somewhere....)
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To: Thanatos

Bu Bye Ward.


34 posted on 02/25/2005 8:07:47 AM PST by KansasConservative1
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To: Thanatos
In addition to be rabidly anti-America, a fraud, a liar, a plagerizer, and an enemy sympathizer...it is clear from that video that he is also violent and mentally unbalanced IMHO.
35 posted on 02/25/2005 8:07:49 AM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Thanatos

This guy is the classic "cultural and linguistic entrepreneur", unburdened by even rudimentary honesty and fueled by the most perverted ambitions. He certainly has found a home in the margins of academia. He's what real Native Americans call a "wannabe", a lower form of life which they occasionally tolerate but secretly (or not) despise; a "Cherohonkie", as a Native American author wrote "one of the 10 million assholes who claim their great grandmother was half Cherokee." Quite frankly, the guy is a "schmuck" of biblical proportions. What a disgrace to a great name (if that really turns out to be his name).


36 posted on 02/25/2005 8:07:52 AM PST by NaughtiusMaximus (Progressives are just liberals with an Earl Scheib paintjob.)
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To: 2banana

That's hilarious, 2bananner! This Ward is a caricature of himself.


37 posted on 02/25/2005 8:08:55 AM PST by HowDareYouQuestionMy (Now I need a new login name!)
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To: Thanatos

What's next--pictures of Ward and his 'ceremonial chicken' in a compromising position?


38 posted on 02/25/2005 8:09:16 AM PST by randog (What the....?!)
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To: Thanatos
As someone posted on one of the other threads about these prints, WC made all the Indian (sorry, Native American) riders left-handed.

What a silly thing to do. Did he really think nobody would ever catch him in this obvious infringement?

39 posted on 02/25/2005 8:09:27 AM PST by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has never led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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To: FormerACLUmember
I actually pity this lunatic.

Save your pity for the hundreds (thousands?) of young minds the creep has polluted over the years.

40 posted on 02/25/2005 8:09:51 AM PST by grobdriver (Let the embeds check the bodies!)
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To: Bahbah

He certainly has provided a lot of fodder for the "laugh" stock!


41 posted on 02/25/2005 8:10:04 AM PST by hoosiermama (It's more than an election...It's a change of heart....an enlightenment....life is important)
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To: Darkwolf377

I love it..he isn't the only one at CU....98% of the Professors are just like him...lying to them is okay..the ends "justify the Means"...no pun intended...Russell Means...I think it is great out of state students ($30,000 year tuition)are not signing up....a 20% drop.....and yes Alumni..withold your monies until there is a 50% increase in Consertative Professors....This is great advertising for the Democratic Party....


42 posted on 02/25/2005 8:10:50 AM PST by Youngman442002
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To: savedbygrace

They only rode right handed?


43 posted on 02/25/2005 8:10:51 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Youngman442002

Wow, I didn't know this was affecting enrollment. Good for them. If he were teaching (?) here in Boston he'd have classes booked up until his scheduled retirement date.


44 posted on 02/25/2005 8:12:48 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Condi Rice: Yeaaahhh, baybee! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350654/posts)
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To: Spktyr

I hope they charge the scum and put his pompous ass in jail.


45 posted on 02/25/2005 8:12:51 AM PST by DEM-SPOILER
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To: Thanatos

Send this info to Fox News attn. Brit or the crew on the Fox & Friends morning show. Doubt the national MSM will pick it up, even though local CBS produced a story.


46 posted on 02/25/2005 8:13:54 AM PST by CedarDave (Democrats don't speak -- they rant!)
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To: FormerACLUmember

I don't, when I think of the amounts of money this poseur has been paid, to make America-haters out of impressionable young college students. (admittedly already brainwashed most likely, in the publik schools)


47 posted on 02/25/2005 8:14:06 AM PST by lilmsdangrus (hard work musta hurt somebody, somewhere....)
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To: AmericanMade1776
Jack LeRoy Churchill nickname Wardo

Jack LeRoy is his father's name. Ward was named after his grandfather.

48 posted on 02/25/2005 8:14:07 AM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs (I don't support gay male prostitutes, beating up people in strip bars or poor grammar.)
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To: HowDareYouQuestionMy

Watching this clown self-detonate is better than curling up at night in front of the fireplace with a bucket of hot-buttered popcorn and a good movie on the tube!


49 posted on 02/25/2005 8:15:38 AM PST by reagan_fanatic ("Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence" - R. Kirk)
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To: Thanatos

Thanks for this thread and all of the links. Kudos to reporter Raj Chohan at CBS News 4 Colorado for that great video report. What a Clymer Churchill is...


50 posted on 02/25/2005 8:16:04 AM PST by nutmeg (democRATs = The Party of NO)
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