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niyad

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3. Thank you, my friend, for this important remembrance.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2026, 12:33 PM

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The murderers, blanck and harris, never spent a minute in jail, and were actually the first to essentially get what would later be called "dead peasant" insurance. The viictims and their families never received a penny.

THIS is what the thugs of the current regime are salivating to get us back to. No regulations, no rules, no protections. THIS is their sick and twisted wet dream.

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