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Cross-Burner Headed Back To Prison

Redding Record Searchlight

June 7, 2008

Christopher Dale Easley, 26, who served 41 months in federal prison for burning a cross in a black family’s lawn in 2004, was sentenced to another year after he tested positive for methamphetamine and admitted recently distributing white supremacist literature.

 

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Can the man sink any lower?

After all, we’re talking about a fellow who pickets the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq, shouting that they are being punished by God for somehow helping America in its “fag-enabling” ways. A man whose own children have accused him of beating them viciously with a mattock handle. A “pastor” who has celebrated the deaths of coal miners trapped beneath the earth, children killed in school bus accidents, even the thousands murdered on Sept. 11, 2001. The language he employs in his sermons attacking homosexuality — versions of which have been hissed at passing children by his followers — is so disgusting that it is unprintable in the major media.

But now Fred W. Phelps, who runs the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) of Topeka, Kansas, and the infamous GodHatesFags website, has taken another step down into the slime. His latest, posted last week on Friday the 13th, is “Thank God for Dead Boy Scouts.” The WBC Video News production opens to the strains of a hymn. ( continue to full post… )

 

Even while they spread vicious rumors and lies about Obama, some White Supremacists are hoping that Obama will win the election, as they hope to use this as a trigger to a race war.

With the nomination of Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential candidate clinched, large sections of the white supremacist movement are adopting a surprising attitude: Electing America’s first black president would be a very good thing.

It’s not that the assortment of neo-Nazis, Klansmen, anti-Semites and others who make up this country’s radical right have suddenly discovered that a man should be judged based on the content of his character, not his skin. On the contrary. A growing number of white supremacists, and even some of those who pass for intellectual leaders of their movement, think that a black man in the Oval Office would shock white America, possibly drive millions to their cause, and perhaps even set off a race war that, they hope, would ultimately end in Aryan victory.

 

Media Matters Report Further Debunks Dobbsian Myths

Posted by David Holthouse on May 30, 2008

Undocumented immigrants:

·                                 Commit a disproportionate number of crimes throughout the country.

·                                 Rely heavily on taxpayer-funded services while paying no taxes themselves.

·                                 Bring to America rare and nasty diseases, such as leprosy.

Sound familiar?

That could be because you’ve heard it all before on cable news, where derogatory myths about immigrants are regularly presented as fact.

Last summer the Intelligence Report revealed that several major cable news hosts, most notably CNN’s Lou Dobbs, were broadcasting discredited information as part of their ratings-grabbing anti-immigration polemics, in some cases relaying falsehoods that originated with white supremacists.

Now, a new report from the Media Matters Action Network further debunks the most pernicious of these rumors with statistics from respected sources, and offers a blistering criticism of three cable programs whose hosts — Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs — never seem to tire of blaming illegal immigrants for various societal ills or demonstrating a reckless disregard for the truth.

“When it comes to this issue [of anti-immigrant rhetoric], cable news overflows not just with vitriol, but also with a series of myths that feed viewers’ resentment and fears, seemingly geared toward creating anti-immigrant hysteria,” states the introduction to Fear & Loathing in Prime Time. ( continue to full post… )

[CO] White Supremacist Threatens To Kill Judge
Pueblo Chieftain / May 17, 2008
Aryan Brotherhood member Jay Gregory threatened at a sentencing hearing to have a federal judge murdered and referenced the 1984 assassination of a Jewish radio show host by the white nationalist group The Order.

[OK] Man Arrested For Trying To Sell Cyanide To Aryan Brotherhood
The Oklahoman / May 15, 2008
Texas resident Jeffrey Don Detrixhe allegedly agreed to sell 100 pounds of cyanide for $10,000, a thermal imager and a fully automatic AK-47 to a federal informant that Detrixhe believed was
representing the Aryan Brotherhood.

[PN] ACLU: York Public Assembly Law Still Unconstitutional
The York Daily Record / May 17, 2008
Proposed changes to a York, Penn. law governing protest rallies, several provisions of which were struck down in court after a white supremacist group sued the city, are not enough to make it constitutional, according to the ACLU.

[CA] Sacramento Men Arrested For Gay Bashing
Orange County Register / May 16, 2008
Micah Jontomo Tasaki, 21, Gregory Lee Winfield, 20, and Robert Lee Denor, 19, allegedly uttered anti-gay slurs then beat and kicked a gay man just hours after the California Supreme Court issued a ruling overturning a state ban on same-sex marriages.

Far Right Wins in Florida, Loses in Indiana

Posted by David Holthouse on May 21, 2008

Every election season brings a new crop of political hopefuls from the radical right. So far this year, their win-loss record is a respectable 1-1.

Black voters in Lake Wales, Fla., are claiming they were “snookered” into voting for John Paul Rogers, the former Florida grand dragon, or state leader, of the United Klans of America (UKA), who was sworn in as Lake Wales city commissioner May 6. “We were caught asleep at the switch on this thing,” black civic leader Clinton Horne told The Ledger, a regional daily paper.

Though he refused to answer any questions from The Ledger concerning his past Klan activities, Rogers pledged to treat blacks fairly. “I don’t let my personal views interfere with the basics,” he said.

Rogers, 66, told Florida law enforcement investigators in 2005 that he joined the Klan in 1963 or 1964, rising to become the Florida state leader of the UKA, a post he occupied until 1988. That year, the Southern Poverty Law Center bankrupted the group by winning a $7 million judgment for the family of Michael Donald, a 19-year-old black man who was murdered by Klansmen in 1981. The UKA disbanded as a result.

It’s not clear what Rogers’ current racial attitudes are. A few years ago, the former Klan chieftain served as the campaign manager for Booker Young — a black civic activist — in Young’s unsuccessful bid for city commissioner. This year, Young returned the favor by campaigning door-to-door with Rogers in northwest Lake Wales, which is predominantly black.

Less surprising were the results of the May 6 Republican primary in Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District, in which Crown Point, Ind., lawyer Tony Zirkle finished a distant third with 16% of the vote after openly pandering to uniformed neo-Nazis. ( continue to full post… )

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Anti-Gay ‘Christian’ Activist Cites Radical Anti-Semite

Posted by Casey Sanchez on May 20, 2008

Peter LaBarbera has spent more than 20 years on the hard edge of the religious right, ranging from a stint as a reporter for The Washington Times to a whole career as what he calls a “conservative critic of the homosexual activist movement.” He has been an official of far-right groups like Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, the Illinois Family Institute, and Accuracy in Media. The founder of the gay-bashing Lambda Report, LaBarbera is now president of Naperville, Ill.-based Americans for Truth About Homosexuality.

LaBarbera is no friend of gay people, whose lifestyles he characterizes as “aberrant” and whom he accuses of working diligently to “penetrate” the schools. But up until now, he hasn’t relied on the help of radical anti-Semites.

That ended the other day when LaBarbera — who claims to operate “in a spirit of love and truth” — posted portions of an article by one Ted Pike (right), the Oregon-based reverend who heads the National Prayer Network and who was described by LaBarbera as simply a “pro-family advocate.” (Pike’s article described an April 12 encounter in Champaign, Ill., which ended with one college student charged with an anti-gay hate crime for attacking another.) Pike may or may not be pro-family — but he is most definitely anti-Jew, as reflected in his endless rants about the “Jewish origins of bolshevism, Jewish dominance of Hollywood and the media, [and] Jewish control of Congress.” Last year, Pike said that the Jewish holy book, the Talmud, “is full of moral filth” and attacked mainstream Christian evangelical leaders for “carefully concealing the Jewish identity of those who corrupt Christian culture.” ( continue to full post… )

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Nativism in the News

Posted in NN headline by Hatewatch Staff on May 20, 2008

[IL] Simcox To Speak At DePaul University
The Chicago Sun-Times / May 18, 2008
DePaul University is asking a student group to put up $2,500 to cover the cost of private security officers at a lecture by Minuteman vigilante leader Chris Simcox.

[AZ] Arizona Governor Terminates Controversial Sheriff’s Immigration Contract
The Arizona Daily Star / May 14, 2008
Gov. Janet Napolitano ordered the state to cancels its $1.6 million a year immigration enforcement contact with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who’s facing widespread accusations of racial profiling.

[CA] Minuteman Project Mobile Consulate Protests Criticized
The Press-Enterprise / May 11, 2008
Recent Minuteman Project demonstrations targeting the Mexican consulate’s mobile services program seem designed more to intimidate immigrants than to reform immigration policy.

[USA] Anti-Immigrant Hate Speech Thrives On Right-Wing Radio Shows
The (Waltham, Mass.) Daily News Tribune / May 19, 2008
Racial slurs and harsh rhetoric demonizing all Latinos have found a home on conservative radio broadcasts.

 

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Illegals Are People Too

http://thepinkflamingo.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/5/13/3689821.html

Ten Percent of Postville Arrested in One Day

By Contributing Editor S.J. Reidhead

ILLEGALS ARE PEOPLE TOO

"We are at the beginning of a national crisis," stated Ester R. Shapiro, a professor at UMASS Boston and a researcher at the Gaston Institute who contributed research for the report. "Homeland security guards told these mothers that DSS had already taken their children, that they had already lost their children.” Shapiro continued, “A detainee told me the worst night of her life was spent listening to the weeping of mothers who thought they had already lost their children. That is torture, and we have to take a …”stand against that."

No, they are not here legally. Yes, they are breaking the law – a misdemeanor. Some are involved in identity theft (fake documents) and yes it is illegal. On the other hand, they are paying money into that social security account they will never see. For the most part they entered the country illegally. They are on the lam, so to speak, hiding from the authorities. Many are being underpaid, but do you even care about that? They are the target for any sort of harassment and criminal activity because they are now afraid to call the cops. They are using emergency rooms instead of making legit doctor’s appointments. They are easy prey for abuse. Many do not speak English.

They are human beings. They hurt. They love. They are born and they die. They are just as frail and fragile as those of us who are fortunate to be American by birth or naturalization. They are doing jobs people here won’t do – and you know it. They have families. They have children. They have all the same normal feelings that you and I have . They are people – humans – who need to be treated decently and with respect.

There is a difference between a CRIMINAL who is here illegally and a migrant worker who is here illegally. They are not the same thing, and to imply that they are is a canard - a lie. I do not want criminal illegal aliens deported - at all. I want them incarcerated - no parole. Depending on the crime, once they have "paid their debt to society" they can be deported. There are some offenses that need a life-time of incarceration (child molestation and rape). But then, the offenders here who are "legal" need the same sentence. Are children in - say - Mexico any less important than the ones here. Don't they need to be protected just as much as American children? "Red or yellow, black or white, they are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world" - not just America.

Funny how a speeding ticket is a misdemeanor but no one denigrates speeders. I speed. You speed, we all speed. Jaywalking is a misdemeanor. No parking zones are misdemeanors. There are a number of misdemeanors out there.

“…A misdemeanor, or misdemeanour, in many common law legal systems, is a "lesser" criminal act. Misdemeanors are generally punished less severely than felonies; but theoretically more so than administrative infractions (also known as regulatory offenses). Many misdemeanors are punished with monetary fines. Usually only repeat misdemeanor offenders are punished by actual jail time.

In the United States, the federal government generally considers a crime punishable by a year or less in prison to be a misdemeanor.[1] All other crimes are felonies. Many states also follow this.

The distinction between a felony and misdemeanor has been abolished by most other common law jurisdictions (e.g. Crimes Act 1958 (Vic., Australia) s. 332B(1), Crimes Act 1900 (NSW., Australia) s. 580E(1)). Those jurisdictions have generally adopted some other classification, e.g. in Canada, Australia, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom the crimes are divided into summary offences and indictable offences.

In some jurisdictions, those who are convicted of a misdemeanor are known as misdemeanants (as contrasted with those convicted of a felony who are known as felons). Depending on the jurisdiction, examples of misdemeanors may include: petty theft, prostitution, public intoxication, simple assault, disorderly conduct, trespass, vandalism, and other similar crimes. In the United States, misdemeanors are crimes with a maximum punishment of 12 months of incarceration, typically in a local jail (again, as contrasted with felons, who are typically incarcerated in a prison). Those people who are convicted of misdemeanors are often punished with probation, community service or part-time imprisonment, served on the weekends.

Infractions are the least serious, are punishable only by fine (and a command to reverse the behavior), and never carry a formal social stigma (examples of violations include parking and minor traffic offences, late payment of fees, and building code violations).

Misdemeanors usually do not result in the loss of civil rights, but may result in loss of privileges, such as professional licenses, public offices, or public employment. Such effects are known as the collateral consequences of criminal charges. This is more common when the misdemeanor is related to the privilege in question (such as the loss of a taxi driver's license after a conviction for reckless driving), or when the misdemeanor involves moral turpitude -- and in general is evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

One prominent example of this is found in the United States Constitution, which provides that the President may be impeached by Congress for "high crimes and misdemeanors" and removed from office accordingly. The definition of a "high" misdemeanor is left to the judgment of Congress….”

The constant refrain that “they are breaking the law just being here” – well it is a misdemeanor. If someone speeds, they are breaking the law. If they illegally park, they are breaking the law.

They are human beings and deserve to be treated as such. Just being on American soil allows them access to our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. If not, then those sacred entities are absolutely no good. What are those who oppose illegal aliens afraid of? Are they afraid these precious laws will be extended – equally?

Why do they fear “anchor babies”?

These people are human. They have the same feelings we all have. Their children, who are legal American citizens have feelings. Do you think they are sub-human and have no cognitive thought? They can be hurt. They have hearts that can be broken. They have the same capacity for love and hate we all have. And this is the problem. By destroying these families – either sending these children to a country where THEY HAVE NO LEGAL RIGHTS and are illegal invaders themselves – or by deporting their parents – our anti-immigration supporters are breeding an entire generation – several million – young people who will hate this nation. They will be able to vote. Ten years from now, when they start coming of age en masse it isn’t going to be pretty.

This is how you create a generation of terrorists.

It is important to think things through before you act. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. There are going to be unintended consequences of these mass deportations, and the children who are left alone – here. We are going to be paying for those consequences for many decades to come.

There are greater laws than those man creates. Christ taught us how to care for people – with love. Our anti-immigration supporters are acting with hate.

Deal with it.

HOW TO DESTROY A TOWN

Fully 10% of the residents of Postville were arrested yesterday. Today a third of the students were not in school. There are about 2 weeks left of school. There’s no reason for them not to finish the year. Iowa is sending in state agencies (at the cost of millions of dollars) to try and assist the community, which could be destroyed over the raids. Mayor Bob Penrod is furious.

“…"They've had investigations before, but not in such a magnitude that it would disrupt the whole town like it has," he said.
 
Penrod fears that Agriprocessors might shut its doors.
 
"If Ag leaves, it'll be a ghost town here," he said. "It's not like Swift in Marshalltown. When that happens here, it has a huge, huge impact. We didn't need this. This literally blew our town away."
 
Penrod said he and other city leaders will seek government help in renewing the immigrants' green cards and also money to help the immigrants cope with lost wages because of the raid…”

HUMANE TREATMENT? ICE is saying that people are being treated “humanely” but are being denied access to telephones, their children, and as of this morning, had not been allowed to eat anything.

Read the rest of the article at the link: http://thepinkflamingo.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/5/13/3689821.html

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The Missing Link

The Missing Link Between Immigration and Terrorism

(with thanks to Militant Moderates)

A report for the Heritage Foundation by law professor Kris Korbach argues that illegal immigration is a threat to national security. Korbach argues, in short, that because illegal immigration allows a path of access for terrorists to insert operatives, all programs that he labels "amnesty" must be rejected as threats to national security.

Korbach's analysis, however, relies on a very troubling assumption hidden away at the bottom of his opening paragraphs:

It is a certainty that many more illegal alien terrorists are quietly at work in the United States. In fiscal year 2005, the Border Patrol apprehended 3,722 aliens from nations that are designated state sponsors of terrorism or places in which al-Qaeda has operated, and for every one alien whom the Border Patrol apprehended, there were likely three aliens who were not caught. If so, it is probable that more than 10,000 aliens from high-risk, terrorist-associated countries illegally entered the United States in fiscal year 2005 alone. Assuming conservatively that only one in 100 was an actual terrorist, that is still over 100 terrorists who snuck across the border in a single year.

Korbach takes pains to assert the reasonableness and even conservatism of this assumption, but is that really the case? Can we assume that 1% of all people who entered from a "high-risk" (read: Muslim) country were al-Qaeda infiltrators bound for "sleeper cells"?

It is a basic feature of sound research that all assumptions must be clearly presented and justified. Korbach clearly presents this assumption, but his justification for it is limited to a few incomplete glances at recent high-profile terrorism busts in which immigrants -- legal and illegal -- were involved. While this may appear to provide limited support for his troubling assumption, however, it obscures a critical fact: In nearly every case of immigrants becoming involved in terrorism plots -- including the 9/11 hijackers -- the immigrants became seduced by radical Islamic ideology after they had immigrated to the West. Additional examples of American citizens like John Walker Lind and Jose Padilla who embraced radical Islamic extremism shows that the infiltration hypothesis does not appear to match actual patterns of the threat posed by militant Islamic groups like al-Qaeda.

There are, in fact, few if any examples of "sleeper cells" using the Mexican border to infiltrate the United States. Yet the observation that a few Muslim immigrants and citizens embrace radical and militant ideologies after already here doesn't provide the answer why. There remains, in short, a missing link. Why do immigrant communities tend to provoke radicalization among some of their members? After all, if the association between immigration and terrorism stands up even in this modified form, critics of immigration "amnesty" will certainly continue to cite it as justification for restrictive, anti-immigration policies and attitudes.

The problem is that it may precisely be anti-immigration policies and attitudes that cause the radicalization effect. Immigrants who come to the West, and more specifically to the United States, almost always come seeking economic and political opportunities not available in their native lands. But if they discover that their new homes deny them respect and opportunities for participation, they may become vulnerable to radical preachers who offer religious piety and political hatred of the West as a salve for their dashed hopes. Hatred is often the consequence of lost love.

As the violence of radicalized Muslim youth in France has shown, the "missing link" between immigration and terrorism may lie in the denial of opportunities after the immigrants have arrived rather than in the allowance of access for shadowy groups of already-radicalized infiltrators. In the case of the anti-immigration approach to "national security", it may well be not only that the cure is worse than the disease, the supposed cure might be part of the cause.

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Feds Expect, & Find Violence From Anti-Immigration Extremists

Feds watching anti-immigrant extremists - USATODAY.com



By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY

Carl D. Wynn Jr., who last fall posed as a U.S. border agent and wrongly suggested that a Little Rock construction company had hired illegal immigrants, has come to symbolize how the divisive immigration debate can progress from legal expressions of opposition to offensive action.

Wynn, also accused of attempting to sabotage the same company by planting tire-ripping spikes outside the business, has quickly come to represent a "troubling" development within the radical ranks of the anti-immigration movement, said Little Rock U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin, whose office won a guilty plea last month from the laborer.

Since 2000, the number of extremist groups has increased by 40%, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which closely tracks the groups' activities. In the past two years, the growth has been largely driven by the emergence of about 144 "nativist" groups that oppose immigration.

"When folks try to take law enforcement matters into their own hands, it creates a potentially dangerous situation," Griffin said. "Mr. Wynn's actions are troubling to us."

Charles Frahm, FBI deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, said there is increasing concern that the most radical elements of the anti-immigration wing may be "susceptible" to recruitment by white supremacists and other groups inclined toward violence.

Police departments across the country also are uneasy as political divisions regarding immigration enforcement have raised local tensions.

"This is certainly a concern for every police chief in the country," said Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C. Police Chief Darrel Stephens, president of the national Major City Chiefs Association. "As long as the issue remains unsettled, the tension grows."

Perhaps not since the anti-government militia movement came to prominence in the early 1990s, the Southern Poverty Law Center says, have so many groups embraced such a common campaign for dealing with what they describe as failed government policy.

"The infection is spreading," said Mark Potok, editor of the center's Intelligence Report.

"It's no longer unusual to hear vilifying fairy tales of immigrant-borne secret conspiracies and massive criminality on radio, cable television and even in the mouths of pandering politicians," he said.

Among the most abrasive figures on the anti-immigration movement, according to the center, is Donald Pauly of Nevada.

In an interview with USA TODAY, Pauly's voice is calm but serious.

Frustrated by the surge of illegal immigrants into Las Vegas, the self-employed electrical engineer formed the Emigration Party of Nevada Headquartered largely on the Internet, Pauly has advanced some radical ideas for dealing with illegal immigrants. He openly advocates the deployment of government snipers to the porous southwest border and favors the forced sterilization of Mexican women after the birth of their first child.

"For the time being, we do not associate with anyone who is violent unless in self-defense," Pauly said in a later e-mail message. "However, I remind you of this quote of Thomas Jefferson's:

'The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is its natural manure.' "

The radical discourse has become increasingly common across the USA.

Last year, an Arizona jury leveled a judgment of nearly $100,000 against a rancher for threatening a Mexican-American family.

Prior to the court decision, the rancher, Roger Barnett, gained national attention for his efforts to round up illegal immigrants who had cut paths through his property.

"There is not a clear understanding (among the public) of who is ultimately responsible for enforcing immigration laws," Stephens said. "The tension will only increase until the issue is resolved."

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FEDS ARREST ANTI-IMMIGRATION EXTREMIST, SEIZE WEAPONS CACHE, JUDGE DENIES BAIL TO "FREE REPUBLIC" EMPLOYEE EXTREMIST

Judge refuses bail to armed protester - Examiner.com

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - A D.C. Superior Court judge refused on Friday to offer bail to the man police say brought a rifle and two knives to a counter protest of an immigration rally on May 1.

Tyler Froatz II, an Eagle scout and District resident for the past 18 months, will be held in police custody until a May 17 court date after Judge John Hess expressed concern over whether Froatz posed a threat to the area.

Police say that on Tuesday, Froatz, was counter protesting at an immigration rally in Meridian Hill Park when he became embroiled in a fight with immigration rally organizer. According to police, Froatz bent the organizer's left arm and scratched her hand, before leaving the area to don dark camouflage clothing. Police arrived and arrested Froatz and found a host of weapons on him including a hammer, taser, and a loaded flare gun. In addition, Detective Robert Freeman of the U.S. Park Police testified that Froatz was carrying two knives including a "12 inch dagger-style knife."

A search of Froatz's nearby Jeep recovered a loaded M-1 rifle and ammunition. A map of a local embassy and a detailed, hand-drawn sketch of the park with lines pointing towards the center of the protest was found in the front seat of the Jeep, Freeman said.

But those items were overshadowed by what investigators discovered in Froatz's apartment in the 5300 block of 8 th St. NW. Freeman described a home bristling with a variety of bladed weapons, 13 guns and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition. Froatz did not have a permit for the guns which include a fully-loaded 12-gauge shotgun and a .45-caliber pistol.

Police also discovered an explosive resembling a Molotov cocktail. The cocktail was found in a Welch's grape juice bottle wrapped in a t-shirt and appeared to be a mix of gasoline with a jelly-like substance which if it exploded would stick to a person "like napalm," Freeman explained.
Kristinn Taylor, a friend of Froatz who attended the hearing, expressed shock that the "nonthreatening," and chatty 24-year-old could hurt anyone.

"Like a lot of people who feel strongly about the immigration issue, he was out protesting," Taylor said, who added Froatz was not working for Free Republic during his protest. "He didn't say anything about killing illegals or nothing like that."

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