Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950


	Hoover Planned Mass Jailing in 1950

ZachReynolds

12-22-2007 5:23 PM

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ZachReynolds says:

They planned this 57 years ago, and people think it couldn't happen today in the name of stopping "terrorism." Wake up people, we need to restrain the power and authority of OUR government. Government gets its power from us, not the other way around.

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