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\u2026and the Republic continues its unresisting slide into the Permanent Servile Security State, consider this story <\/a>and the remark of Canadian writer Mark Steyn: \u201cGeorge III wouldn\u2019t have done this to you.\u201d <\/p>\n

What should we make of the American Revolution? Perhaps it\u2019s too early to tell. If it ends with 95 year old women being humiliated by State Goons claiming \u201cNational Security\u201d as their rationale, I\u2019m not so sure it will be net gain.<\/p>\n

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\u2026and the Republic continues its unresisting slide into the Permanent Servile Security State, consider this story and the remark of Canadian writer Mark Steyn: \u201cGeorge III wouldn\u2019t have done this to you.\u201d What should we make of the American Revolution? Perhaps it\u2019s too early to tell. 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