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Crowd rallies in support of troops where soldiers shot (After Action Review of AR FREEP)
Arkansas News Bureau ^ | 04 JUN 09 1700hrs | By Rob Moritz

Posted on 06/04/2009 7:25:39 PM PDT by DCBryan1

Crowd rallies in support of troops where soldiers shot

Posted on 04 June 2009
By Rob Moritz
Arkansas News Bureau

LITTLE ROCK — Dozens of people rallied in support of U.S. military personnel Thursday outside a recruiting center where two soldiers were gunned down this week.

Pvt. William Long died and another soldier, Pvt. Quinton I. Ezeagwula, was wounded in the attack Monday at the Army-Navy Career Center in west Little Rock. Police arrested Abdulhakim Muhammad, 23, who has pleaded innocent in the shooting.

Muhammad, born Carlos Bledsoe, converted to Islam as a teen-ager and legally changed his name in 2006.

“This soldier has given his life in battle. He was ambushed in a cowardly act by a terrorist,” state Rep. Ed Garner, R-Maumelle, told a crowd of about 50 people. “We need to let soldiers know that when they put on the uniform for our country and our freedom, we support them.”

Ed Hairston of Benton said he attended the rally in support of America.

“These soldiers were for America,” Hairston said. “The life was taken so tragically. It’s a senseless crime.”

A makeshift memorial of several bouquets of flowers was erected in front the recruiting center. A half-dozen or so uniformed servicemen at the facility Thursday stood at attention as the crowd sang the national anthem and recited the Pledge of Allegiance.

Some attending the rally stood near Rodney Parham Road and held signs — “Does the Jihad love us yet Obama?” among them — critical of President Obama’s overtures to Muslims worldwide.

Passersby honked in support of the rally.

Jim Porter, former commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10483 in Hot Springs Village, said he was disappointed that just 50 people attended.

“This was a disasterous, disgraceful act,” he said about the shooting. “This parking lot should be packed.”

Though none of the speakers made inflammatory remarks about Islam, a Muslim woman who was driving by and noticed the signs stopped during the rally.

Faten Abdeljaber confronted those holding signs near the roadway and said she was upset because she felt Islam was being slandered and labeled a terrorist religion.

“Islam is peace,” said Abdeljaber, dressed in a black berka, traditional public attire for Muslim females. “Do you see me holding a sign saying Christianity is terrorism?”

The woman and several of the people attending the rally argued over her presence there and whether her religion should be equated with terrorism.

Eric Hairston of Benton, who saw the woman from a distance, said he didn’t think she should be there and that she needed to show respect to the soldiers.

Hairston’s father, Ed, told his son the woman had a right to voice her opinion.

“If she doesn’t have the right to speak, we’ve gone too far,” he said.


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Freep was great! Thanks to all the Freepers that showed up....

Signed....the master instigator....dcbryan1...

PS: I'll be posting more photos when I get them from Kenny (pulaskibush)

1 posted on 06/04/2009 7:25:39 PM PDT by DCBryan1
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To: Jim Robinson; Admin Moderator; pulaskibush; HotLead61; MrB; Scythian; Centurion2000; bang_list
Well guys, even though I was packing, my sign got alot of attention, and if you read the article an IRATE MUSLIM woman!

Pulaskibush has good Freep photos and a GREAT video of the INSANE MOOSELIMB woman pulling in after seeing my sign.

Anyways, heading to bed and will post pictures tommorrow!

DCBRYAN1....your www.freerepublic.com instigator of Mooselimbs since 11 SEP 01.

2 posted on 06/04/2009 7:29:44 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute child molesters RFN!)
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To: DCBryan1

Thanks for being there Bryan! Also thanks for posting the address of that Recruiting Office the other day at my request. I am going to find an appropriate condolence card and send it there. I am outraged that our fake president has yet to utter a word about this act of domestic terrorism. He is a disgrace. I thought when my husband served under Clinton as Commander in Chief it was bad, but this clown Obama is way worse. I feel for all the service members who must serve under such an unworthy man.

God Bless all members of our armed services and see them through this dark time and keep them safe. Amen.


3 posted on 06/04/2009 7:39:27 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty ("Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force." George Washington)
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To: DCBryan1

If Islam is a religion of peace, then beheading is a simly a switcheroo....


4 posted on 06/04/2009 7:42:05 PM PDT by xzins (Chaplain Says: Jesus befriends those who seek His help.)
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To: TheConservativeParty
I am outraged that our fake president has yet to utter a word about this act of domestic terrorism.

He finally did today:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264865/posts

Of course, he was "outraged" about Tiller's killing but merely "saddened" by the attack on the soldiers.

5 posted on 06/04/2009 7:42:44 PM PDT by Sloth (The Second Amendment is the ultimate "term limit.")
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To: sweet_diane; Cindy; JoyjoyfromNJ; swarthyguy; 09Patriot; fatrat; AuntB; VicVega; Alamo-Girl; ...
OK....Kenny editing video now....will post pictures from the FREEP in the morning.......he's busy.

I'll post links from Arkansas websites as soon as they appear.

The media really dropped the ball with "Faten" Muslim woman.

She was screaming, "EVIL JOOOOOOZ" and "9/11 was an inside job", and "Islam is a peaceful religion".

When someone asked her about the Muslim who killed Private Long, her response was, "A JEW DID IT, prove to me that it was a Muslim".

Jeeez.......that is what we are fighting.

6 posted on 06/04/2009 7:42:44 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute child molesters RFN!)
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To: DCBryan1

Thanks for the ping and update DCBryan1.


7 posted on 06/04/2009 7:43:52 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: DCBryan1
“Islam is peace,” said Abdeljaber, dressed in a black berka

Someone should have asked her why she wasn't there supporting the men who were gunned down by one of her muslim of peace then.

8 posted on 06/04/2009 7:44:05 PM PDT by YellowRoseofTx (Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
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To: YellowRoseofTx
She was really, really pissed about my sign, but I said something really, really derogotory to her in arabic, and that set her off.

I actually thought that my buddy had paid someone to dress as a muslim and do this because of her total meltdown, but low and behold...she was a genuine Mooselimb!

She was a disgrace to Islam and to the human race....totally brainwashed and hated the Country that gave her the freedom to do so. I told her that in every Islamic country, she would have already been stoned to death for interuppting a memorial.

9 posted on 06/04/2009 7:47:05 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute child molesters RFN!)
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To: DCBryan1

Can’t wait to see more pictures! Great job, FRiends!


10 posted on 06/04/2009 7:52:04 PM PDT by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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To: SandRat
She was really, really pissed about my sign, but I said something really, really derogotory to her in arabic, and that set her off

When she was in her car, before she pulled in, I told her, in arabic, "Allah is the false moon god, and Mohammad is a pedophile, pork eating, donkey f**ker".

Her response was unintelligible and led to her pulling in and confronting the sign-holders ;)

11 posted on 06/04/2009 7:55:18 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute child molesters RFN!)
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To: DCBryan1

Good job today, DC!

In case it hasn’t been mentioned before, there will be a funeral service for Pvt. Long on Monday morning.

Services will be public, and will be held at Harland Park Baptist Church in Conway, Arkansas.

Don’t have the address at hand, but a web search should be fruitful, in case someone wants to send flowers for the memorial.


12 posted on 06/04/2009 8:06:02 PM PDT by HotLead61 (Death as a Free Man is much preferred to "life" as a slave)
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To: HotLead61

You were the closest to “Fatem”...what did you think of her moonbattery and screaming at the soldiers memorial?


13 posted on 06/04/2009 8:10:02 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute child molesters RFN!)
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BUmp for pictures tomorrow.


14 posted on 06/04/2009 8:11:50 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
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To: DCBryan1

Did Katie Courva report this tonight?


15 posted on 06/04/2009 8:15:30 PM PDT by Bobkk47
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To: DCBryan1

I must say that she showed very poor taste, especially considering the solemn circumstances.

She really believes what she was screaming. Poor, deceived soul. Good thing for her that she was among Patriots (Conservatives)...because if she had done that with some other folks, they would have beaten her to a pulp (or worse).

After you guys left, she actually softened toward me a bit, especially after I stated that I believed that “not all Muslims were jihadists [terrorists]. As I was leaving, she actually told me that she agreed with my sign that said...

“WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER TO TERROR”

She actually said that she agreed with that statement. Go figure. There’s hope for her.


16 posted on 06/04/2009 8:16:32 PM PDT by HotLead61 (Death as a Free Man is much preferred to "life" as a slave)
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To: DCBryan1

Thanks for the ping!


17 posted on 06/04/2009 8:18:39 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: DCBryan1

Way to go!!

Please ping me when you get the pics up if you get a chance.


18 posted on 06/04/2009 8:23:24 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: HotLead61

You should have asked her if Islam approves of late term abortions.


19 posted on 06/04/2009 8:27:38 PM PDT by bergmeid
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To: OB1kNOb

inspiration ping


20 posted on 06/04/2009 8:44:37 PM PDT by DrewsDad (Did he say hope and change or rope and chains?)
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To: DCBryan1

Thank you very much, DCBryan1!


21 posted on 06/04/2009 8:51:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is Brewing!! Tea Party Express/Taxpayer March on DC 09.12.09!!)
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Thank you very much, DCBryan1!

I'll second that! Highest regards to you and everyone who showed up.

Condolences to William Long's family and friends.

22 posted on 06/04/2009 9:21:33 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: DCBryan1
Faten Abdeljaber confronted those holding signs near the roadway and said she was upset because she felt Islam was being slandered and labeled a terrorist religion. “Islam is peace,” said Abdeljaber, dressed in a black berka, traditional public attire for Muslim females. “Do you see me holding a sign saying Christianity is terrorism?”

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23 posted on 06/04/2009 9:29:18 PM PDT by dragonblustar ("... and if you disagree with me, then you sir, are worse than Hitler!" - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: DCBryan1

Big BUMP....wish I could have been there.


24 posted on 06/04/2009 9:58:55 PM PDT by Budge (CJ in TX & pillut48 - God help us all, and God help America. My new mantra for the next 4 years.)
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To: DCBryan1
"When someone asked her about the Muslim who killed Private Long, her response was, "A JEW DID IT, prove to me that it was a Muslim".

How do you reason with that insanity? Where's the starting off point to find "common ground", as Obama like to say? What possibly could be the common ground?

I don't think that people who haven't spent time in that part of the world can appreciate how anti-Semtic they really are. I know that I couldn't. Everything that is wrong in their lives is blamed on "The Jews". It's really something to see to and hear.

25 posted on 06/04/2009 10:31:37 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: DCBryan1

Please tell me somebody’s got a vid of that.


26 posted on 06/04/2009 10:46:03 PM PDT by SeminoleSoldier
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To: Big_Monkey
don't think that people who haven't spent time in that part of the world can appreciate how anti-Semtic they really are

They are not anti Semitic, except maybe the non Arab ones. They are anti Jew. Arabs are Semites too.

27 posted on 06/04/2009 11:25:00 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: DCBryan1

Has anyone seen a picture of Pvt. Quinton I. Ezeagwula? The only person by that last name I could find was Ike Ezeagula, who lives in Little Rock, not too far from that recruiting station, just a bit farther out from “downtown”. Ike, seems to be an immigrant from Nigeria, as his names and city of residence show up on a petition for a new airport in an under served part of Nigeria.


28 posted on 06/04/2009 11:29:44 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato
"They are not anti Semitic, except maybe the non Arab ones

While "Semite" might refer to all ancient people's of what's now considered the "middle-east". "Anti-Semitic" has been used exclusively to describe bigotry, hatred or racial prejudice against the Jewish people.

Iraqi's as an example, who are clearly "of the middle-east", also have prevailing, although not universal, anti-Semitic sentiments.

29 posted on 06/04/2009 11:35:07 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: DCBryan1

I’ve been reluctant to say this, but it’s time, since this is about a recruiting center: anybody who joins the service under zero’s reign is a fool - an honorable fool, a patriotic fool, but no less a fool.


30 posted on 06/05/2009 1:54:22 AM PDT by bustinchops
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To: DCBryan1

Sounds like one of michelle zero’s friends.


31 posted on 06/05/2009 1:56:38 AM PDT by bustinchops
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To: DCBryan1

Bump!


32 posted on 06/05/2009 2:36:20 AM PDT by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: DCBryan1

Thank You for being there yesterday. I know the recruiters appreciated your presence.

Any media report on you or just crickets?

[Mr] T


33 posted on 06/05/2009 3:49:35 AM PDT by trooprally (Never Give Up - Never Give In - Remember Our Troops)
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To: DCBryan1

Good work. Thanks for taking the time to support our military.


34 posted on 06/05/2009 4:00:57 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
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To: bustinchops

We need honorable men and women in the service when there is an America hating CinC.

If we allow our military to be populated with only those who would join him in his hatred we are doomed.


35 posted on 06/05/2009 4:39:51 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: DCBryan1
When she was in her car, before she pulled in, I told her, in arabic, "Allah is the false moon god, and Mohammad is a pedophile, pork eating, donkey f**ker".

You are awesome.

We don't have many (if any) of them on this side of the state, but I'd love for the opportunity to tell them what I think of their cult.
36 posted on 06/05/2009 4:43:21 AM PDT by Uncle Ivan (Thompson Conservative)
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To: DCBryan1

In all fairness I’m sure Obama is in an awkward spot. Afterall, the Muslim killer, according to Obama was provoked by a “war of choice” which is codeword for “war of agression”. And who doesn’t have the right to respond to Agression with force.


37 posted on 06/05/2009 5:06:43 AM PDT by NavVet ( If you don't defend Conservatism in the Primaries, you won't have it to defend in November)
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To: DCBryan1

“Islam is peace,”

Peace through submission....


38 posted on 06/05/2009 5:14:12 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: DCBryan1

“...When she was in her car, before she pulled in, I told her, in arabic, “Allah is the false moon god, and Mohammad is a pedophile, pork eating, donkey f**ker”...”

Gee, I wish I had said that.

I guess Arabic is worth studying after all.


39 posted on 06/05/2009 5:15:58 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: DCBryan1

Thank you and all the rest for showing your support of our troops


40 posted on 06/05/2009 5:22:15 AM PDT by boxerblues
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To: DCBryan1

let me guess, I bet she was a white liberal convert, probably from the hieghts


41 posted on 06/05/2009 5:27:27 AM PDT by 09Patriot (I am a MILITANT Conservative, compassionate conservatism got us NOWHERE)
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To: DCBryan1

sir, it was a good thing I back out of going, I would’ve said something much worse to that fat kalb than you did. She would’ve gotten right up my bad side.


42 posted on 06/05/2009 5:37:59 AM PDT by 09Patriot (I am a MILITANT Conservative, compassionate conservatism got us NOWHERE)
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To: DCBryan1

Ah... some good tactics there

provocation to rage, eliciting a response that reveals the truth.

There is a Latin phrase, and I’ll butcher it, but “in vino, veritas” - the truth comes out under the influence of alcohol.

Have to change that to “in furorem, veritas”.
(And if I used the wrong version, I’m not a Latin expert...)


43 posted on 06/05/2009 5:38:56 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: Big_Monkey

Why is it that people think that the phrase “anti-semite” ceases to mean what it actually means when they point out that Arabs are “semitic” as well?

Pedantry.


44 posted on 06/05/2009 5:40:26 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

“submission” is too mild of a term.

The better term is

subjugation.

sub·ju·gate (sbj-gt)
tr.v. sub·ju·gat·ed, sub·ju·gat·ing, sub·ju·gates
1. To bring under control; conquer. See Synonyms at defeat.
2. To make subservient; enslave.

In other words, those who are conquered, defeated, and violently brought into enslavement, are “at peace”.


45 posted on 06/05/2009 5:46:40 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: DCBryan1
“Islam is peace,” said Abdeljaber, dressed in a black berka, traditional public attire for Muslim females. “Do you see me holding a sign saying Christianity is terrorism?”

Not yet. But then again, I don't see Christians gunning down soldiers yelling "God is great" while they do it.

46 posted on 06/05/2009 5:50:12 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: DCBryan1
“Islam is peace,” said Abdeljaber



tell us another.
47 posted on 06/05/2009 6:23:58 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out (click my name)
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To: El Gato
Has anyone seen a picture of Pvt. Quinton I. Ezeagwula?

Yeah...son of African Immigrant (non-muslim)....good kid, great athlete, and
HE WENT HOME LAST NIGHT!

YEAH! Get well private, and may you receive the Purple Heart!

48 posted on 06/05/2009 6:46:26 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute child molesters RFN!)
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To: trooprally

Any media report on you or just crickets?

__________________________________________________________

I was interviewed after the rally participants had disbanded to go downtown to the “traveling Liberty Bell” at American Legion Post #1.

However, I have not yet seen a writeup in this morning’s paper, only a picture of myself waving my 3’ x 5’ American flag.

Others were taking pictures and may have reports, but nonetheless, it was an honor and an inspiration to be there with other patriotic Americans...especially the older vets from WW2 forward.


49 posted on 06/05/2009 6:47:58 AM PDT by HotLead61 (Death as a Free Man is much preferred to "life" as a slave)
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To: SeminoleSoldier; pulaskibush
Please tell me somebody’s got a vid of that.

YES! KENNY (Pulaskibush) said he was going to be editing the video all night and will post video and picture links soon. YOU UP YET KENNY!?The moonbat mooselimb "Faten" gave some great quotes and Kenny took alot of pictures.

My job was to help organize and to antagonize Obama supporters ;)

50 posted on 06/05/2009 6:48:55 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Arm Pilots&Teachers. Build the Wall. Export Illegals. Profile Muslims. Execute child molesters RFN!)
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