• Victory Act vs. civil liberties

    From sgdunn@sgdunn@cox.net to talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.republican,talk.politics.drugs on Sunday, November 09, 2003 16:43:17
    From Newsgroup: alt.society.civil-liberty

    Under John Ashcroft's supervision, the Justice Department has crafted
    yet another piece of model legislation that proponents falsely claim would
    help fight terrorism.
    The proposal was previously Patriot Act II, with Patriot Act I being the increasingly unpopular legislation that has attracted much-justified
    criticism as a violation of the 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendments. In light of
    the drop in popular support for the first Patriot Act, the Justice
    Department has removed some of the more threatening provisions from Patriot
    Act II and renamed its proposal the Vital Interdiction of Criminal
    Terrorists Organizations (Victory) Act. For a while, a version of the legislation been the "Domestic Security Enhancement Act."
    The model legislation is a classic example of a government bureaucrat proposing a more sweeping piece of legislation than he aims to get. As originally written, the Victory Act would authorize the Federal Government
    to strip any person of his citizenship for membership in any political party
    or other political organization, regardless of whether the organization promotes terrorism. The DNC and RNC would be in violation!
    The Victory Act, as it now stands, would authorize the Federal
    Government to examine business records without a search warrant or subpoena
    and delay notification for several years. This would include credit and
    debit card transactions, every business's ledgers, and even the records
    Giant and Safeway keep of purchases made on their bonus and club cards. The Sec. 504 the language in the Victory Act includes records that ISPs, online brokerages, banks, and telephone companies keep on their customers' transactions.
    The Victory Act is one of the gravest threats to Constitutional rights Americans face today.
    When it comes to fighting terrorism, the Victory Act is a cruel farce. It
    would merely reward terrorists by depriving Americans of some of the very freedoms terrorists deplore.


    --- Synchronet 3.18b-Win32 NewsLink 1.113
  • From Johnny@repro007@hotmail.com to talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.republican,talk.politics.drugs on Monday, November 10, 2003 00:48:18
    From Newsgroup: alt.society.civil-liberty

    sgdunn wrote:
    Under John Ashcroft's supervision, the Justice Department has
    crafted yet another piece of model legislation that proponents
    falsely claim would help fight terrorism.
    The proposal was previously Patriot Act II, with Patriot Act I
    being the increasingly unpopular legislation that has attracted much-justified criticism as a violation of the 1st, 4th, and 5th
    Amendments. In light of the drop in popular support for the first
    Patriot Act, the Justice Department has removed some of the more
    threatening provisions from Patriot Act II and renamed its proposal
    the Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorists Organizations (Victory)
    Act. For a while, a version of the legislation been the "Domestic
    Security Enhancement Act." The model legislation is a classic
    example of a government bureaucrat proposing a more sweeping piece of legislation than he aims to get. As originally written, the Victory
    Act would authorize the Federal Government to strip any person of his citizenship for membership in any political party or other political organization, regardless of whether the organization promotes
    terrorism. The DNC and RNC would be in violation! The Victory
    Act, as it now stands, would authorize the Federal
    Government to examine business records without a search warrant or
    subpoena and delay notification for several years. This would include
    credit and debit card transactions, every business's ledgers, and
    even the records Giant and Safeway keep of purchases made on their
    bonus and club cards. The Sec. 504 the language in the Victory Act
    includes records that ISPs, online brokerages, banks, and telephone
    companies keep on their customers' transactions.
    The Victory Act is one of the gravest threats to Constitutional
    rights Americans face today.
    When it comes to fighting terrorism, the Victory Act is a cruel
    farce. It would merely reward terrorists by depriving Americans of
    some of the very freedoms terrorists deplore.

    Just wait while they start inserting transponder chips, securely attached to vital arteries, into new born infants. Hey, if you've nothing to hide...
    you're either with us or against us. It's the patriotic thing to do, are you doing your part?


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  • From hewpiedawg@hewpiedawg@hotmail.com (ShrikeBack) to talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.republican,talk.politics.drugs on Sunday, November 09, 2003 18:43:04
    From Newsgroup: alt.society.civil-liberty

    "sgdunn" <sgdunn@cox.net> wrote in message news:<8xyrb.12950$62.9261@lakeread04>...
    Under John Ashcroft's supervision, the Justice Department has crafted
    yet another piece of model legislation that proponents falsely claim would help fight terrorism.
    The proposal was previously Patriot Act II, with Patriot Act I being the increasingly unpopular legislation that has attracted much-justified criticism as a violation of the 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendments. In light of
    the drop in popular support for the first Patriot Act, the Justice
    Department has removed some of the more threatening provisions from Patriot Act II and renamed its proposal the Vital Interdiction of Criminal
    Terrorists Organizations (Victory) Act. For a while, a version of the legislation been the "Domestic Security Enhancement Act."
    The model legislation is a classic example of a government bureaucrat proposing a more sweeping piece of legislation than he aims to get. As originally written, the Victory Act would authorize the Federal Government
    to strip any person of his citizenship for membership in any political party or other political organization, regardless of whether the organization promotes terrorism. The DNC and RNC would be in violation!
    The Victory Act, as it now stands, would authorize the Federal
    Government to examine business records without a search warrant or subpoena and delay notification for several years. This would include credit and
    debit card transactions, every business's ledgers, and even the records
    Giant and Safeway keep of purchases made on their bonus and club cards. The Sec. 504 the language in the Victory Act includes records that ISPs, online brokerages, banks, and telephone companies keep on their customers' transactions.
    The Victory Act is one of the gravest threats to Constitutional rights Americans face today.
    When it comes to fighting terrorism, the Victory Act is a cruel farce. It would merely reward terrorists by depriving Americans of some of the very freedoms terrorists deplore.

    He who leads the fight against this ought to be President someday.
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  • From nini_pad@nini_pad@yahoo.com (michael price) to talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.republican,talk.politics.drugs on Sunday, November 09, 2003 19:44:09
    From Newsgroup: alt.society.civil-liberty

    "sgdunn" <sgdunn@cox.net> wrote in message news:<8xyrb.12950$62.9261@lakeread04>...
    Under John Ashcroft's supervision, the Justice Department has crafted
    yet another piece of model legislation that proponents falsely claim would help fight terrorism.
    The proposal was previously Patriot Act II, with Patriot Act I being the increasingly unpopular legislation that has attracted much-justified criticism as a violation of the 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendments. In light of
    the drop in popular support for the first Patriot Act, the Justice
    Department has removed some of the more threatening provisions from Patriot Act II and renamed its proposal the Vital Interdiction of Criminal
    Terrorists Organizations (Victory) Act. For a while, a version of the legislation been the "Domestic Security Enhancement Act."
    The model legislation is a classic example of a government bureaucrat proposing a more sweeping piece of legislation than he aims to get. As originally written, the Victory Act would authorize the Federal Government
    to strip any person of his citizenship for membership in any political party or other political organization, regardless of whether the organization promotes terrorism. The DNC and RNC would be in violation!
    The Victory Act, as it now stands, would authorize the Federal
    Government to examine business records without a search warrant or subpoena and delay notification for several years. This would include credit and
    debit card transactions, every business's ledgers, and even the records
    Giant and Safeway keep of purchases made on their bonus and club cards. The Sec. 504 the language in the Victory Act includes records that ISPs, online brokerages, banks, and telephone companies keep on their customers' transactions.
    The Victory Act is one of the gravest threats to Constitutional rights Americans face today.
    When it comes to fighting terrorism, the Victory Act is a cruel farce. It would merely reward terrorists by depriving Americans of some of the very freedoms terrorists deplore.

    It's questionable that terrorists "deplore" these freedoms as opposed to
    say freedom of religion, freedom of speech. What is not questionable is
    that this act opens millions of pages of data to the to the government's
    eyes, further complicating the task of sifting through it. It will result
    in poorer intelligence against terrorism.
    --- Synchronet 3.18b-Win32 NewsLink 1.113
  • From mattdittloff@mattdittloff@hotmail.com (Matt D) to talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.republican,talk.politics.drugs on Monday, November 10, 2003 11:55:55
    From Newsgroup: alt.society.civil-liberty

    The government is playing right into the terrorists' hands. If
    everyone gives up all their rights in the name of fighting terrorism,
    then the terrorists have acheived what they were trying to accomplish
    all along. A police state where nobody except those in Big Government
    has any rights.



    "sgdunn" <sgdunn@cox.net> wrote in message news:<8xyrb.12950$62.9261@lakeread04>...
    Under John Ashcroft's supervision, the Justice Department has crafted
    yet another piece of model legislation that proponents falsely claim would help fight terrorism.
    The proposal was previously Patriot Act II, with Patriot Act I being the increasingly unpopular legislation that has attracted much-justified criticism as a violation of the 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendments. In light of
    the drop in popular support for the first Patriot Act, the Justice
    Department has removed some of the more threatening provisions from Patriot Act II and renamed its proposal the Vital Interdiction of Criminal
    Terrorists Organizations (Victory) Act. For a while, a version of the legislation been the "Domestic Security Enhancement Act."
    The model legislation is a classic example of a government bureaucrat proposing a more sweeping piece of legislation than he aims to get. As originally written, the Victory Act would authorize the Federal Government
    to strip any person of his citizenship for membership in any political party or other political organization, regardless of whether the organization promotes terrorism. The DNC and RNC would be in violation!
    The Victory Act, as it now stands, would authorize the Federal
    Government to examine business records without a search warrant or subpoena and delay notification for several years. This would include credit and
    debit card transactions, every business's ledgers, and even the records
    Giant and Safeway keep of purchases made on their bonus and club cards. The Sec. 504 the language in the Victory Act includes records that ISPs, online brokerages, banks, and telephone companies keep on their customers' transactions.
    The Victory Act is one of the gravest threats to Constitutional rights Americans face today.
    When it comes to fighting terrorism, the Victory Act is a cruel farce. It would merely reward terrorists by depriving Americans of some of the very freedoms terrorists deplore.
    --- Synchronet 3.18b-Win32 NewsLink 1.113
  • From Cole Firearms Inc.@colefirearms1@comcast.net to talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.republican,talk.politics.drugs on Monday, November 10, 2003 20:18:53
    From Newsgroup: alt.society.civil-liberty

    Matt D wrote:

    The government is playing right into the terrorists' hands. If
    everyone gives up all their rights in the name of fighting terrorism,
    then the terrorists have acheived what they were trying to accomplish
    all along. A police state where nobody except those in Big Government
    has any rights.

    In a way, the terrorists have gotten the American government to work for
    them. The government has taken away Rights, passed restrictive laws
    against all kinds of things.

    The terrorists are winning the War.



    "sgdunn" <sgdunn@cox.net> wrote in message news:<8xyrb.12950$62.9261@lakeread04>...
    Under John Ashcroft's supervision, the Justice Department has crafted
    yet another piece of model legislation that proponents falsely claim would help fight terrorism.
    The proposal was previously Patriot Act II, with Patriot Act I being the
    increasingly unpopular legislation that has attracted much-justified criticism as a violation of the 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendments. In light of the drop in popular support for the first Patriot Act, the Justice Department has removed some of the more threatening provisions from Patriot Act II and renamed its proposal the Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorists Organizations (Victory) Act. For a while, a version of the legislation been the "Domestic Security Enhancement Act."
    The model legislation is a classic example of a government bureaucrat proposing a more sweeping piece of legislation than he aims to get. As originally written, the Victory Act would authorize the Federal Government to strip any person of his citizenship for membership in any political party
    or other political organization, regardless of whether the organization promotes terrorism. The DNC and RNC would be in violation!
    The Victory Act, as it now stands, would authorize the Federal Government to examine business records without a search warrant or subpoena and delay notification for several years. This would include credit and debit card transactions, every business's ledgers, and even the records Giant and Safeway keep of purchases made on their bonus and club cards. The Sec. 504 the language in the Victory Act includes records that ISPs, online brokerages, banks, and telephone companies keep on their customers' transactions.
    The Victory Act is one of the gravest threats to Constitutional rights Americans face today.
    When it comes to fighting terrorism, the Victory Act is a cruel farce. It would merely reward terrorists by depriving Americans of some of the very freedoms terrorists deplore.


    --
    ""Sic Semper Tyrannis" - Thus Always with Tyrants - John Wilkes Booth"

    "Per ardua nec flectitur nec mutat. Confido,
    est voluntas dei, invictus maneo. Addere leci justitiam
    deo certavi et vici." - Rev. Shawn Cole, Cole Firearms Inc.
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  • From Johnny@repro007@hotmail.com to talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.republican,talk.politics.drugs on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 00:28:15
    From Newsgroup: alt.society.civil-liberty

    Cole Firearms Inc. wrote:
    Matt D wrote:

    The government is playing right into the terrorists' hands. If
    everyone gives up all their rights in the name of fighting terrorism,
    then the terrorists have acheived what they were trying to accomplish
    all along. A police state where nobody except those in Big
    Government
    has any rights.

    In a way, the terrorists have gotten the American government to work
    for
    them. The government has taken away Rights, passed restrictive laws
    against all kinds of things.

    The terrorists are winning the War.

    You can't fight terrorism in the way the US government seems to think you
    can, let alone win anything. It's a long difficult road and involves more
    than a little humility along the way. All that waging war does is polarise
    and galvanise opponents, legitamise the acts of terror as retaliation and
    the true cause then becomes lost in the struggle as the spiral of fear, mistrust and violence takes over.


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  • From American@death@christian.gov to talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.republican,talk.politics.drugs on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 05:19:17
    From Newsgroup: alt.society.civil-liberty


    "Matt D" <mattdittloff@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:32473db3.0311101155.64687719@posting.google.com...
    The government is playing right into the terrorists' hands. If
    everyone gives up all their rights in the name of fighting terrorism,
    then the terrorists have acheived what they were trying to accomplish
    all along. A police state where nobody except those in Big Government
    has any rights.


    Its been that way all my life

    voodoo disease 666

    Death to the christian military.


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  • From American@death@christian.gov to talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.republican,talk.politics.drugs on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 05:23:03
    From Newsgroup: alt.society.civil-liberty


    "Johnny" <repro007@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:bopae5$1hqcf0$1@ID-169595.news.uni-berlin.de...

    The terrorists are winning the War.

    You can't fight terrorism in the way the US government seems to think
    you
    can, let alone win anything. It's a long difficult road and involves
    more
    than a little humility along the way. All that waging war does is
    polarise
    and galvanise opponents, legitamise the acts of terror as retaliation
    and
    the true cause then becomes lost in the struggle as the spiral of
    fear,
    mistrust and violence takes over.


    Kewl I want to see more results of what the government trained its
    monkeys to do. Speaking of Timothy McVeigh and the DC sniper and
    whatever government monkey shipped anthrax.


    voodoo disease 666

    Death to the christian military.


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  • From Eric Johnson@erj66@xs4all.nl to talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.republican,talk.politics.drugs on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 14:28:26
    From Newsgroup: alt.society.civil-liberty

    On 11-11-2003 11:19, in article boqda30v0b@enews1.newsguy.com, "American" <death@christian.gov> wrote:


    "Matt D" <mattdittloff@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:32473db3.0311101155.64687719@posting.google.com...
    The government is playing right into the terrorists' hands. If
    everyone gives up all their rights in the name of fighting terrorism,
    then the terrorists have acheived what they were trying to accomplish
    all along. A police state where nobody except those in Big Government
    has any rights.


    Its been that way all my life

    voodoo disease 666

    Death to the christian military.


    Lots more wife swapping, adultery, and swinging in the military than
    christian fundamentalism.

    EJ

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  • From GEM@webmaster@gemsgallery.org to talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.republican,talk.politics.drugs on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 17:36:09
    From Newsgroup: alt.society.civil-liberty


    "Matt D" <mattdittloff@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:32473db3.0311101155.64687719@posting.google.com...
    The government is playing right into the terrorists' hands. If
    everyone gives up all their rights in the name of fighting terrorism,
    then the terrorists have acheived what they were trying to accomplish
    all along. A police state where nobody except those in Big Government
    has any rights.


    That's really very good.
    Now staying fully on that track, who then were the terrorists actually
    working for?

    Realizing the truth aint hard. Its just ever so embarrassing is all. :)

    GEM


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  • From American@death@christian.gov to talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.republican,talk.politics.drugs on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 17:53:09
    From Newsgroup: alt.society.civil-liberty


    "Eric Johnson" <erj66@xs4all.nl> wrote in message news:BBD6A28A.357C0%erj66@xs4all.nl...
    On 11-11-2003 11:19, in article boqda30v0b@enews1.newsguy.com,
    "American"
    <death@christian.gov> wrote:


    "Matt D" <mattdittloff@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:32473db3.0311101155.64687719@posting.google.com...
    The government is playing right into the terrorists' hands. If
    everyone gives up all their rights in the name of fighting
    terrorism,
    then the terrorists have acheived what they were trying to
    accomplish
    all along. A police state where nobody except those in Big
    Government
    has any rights.


    Its been that way all my life

    voodoo disease 666

    Death to the christian military.


    Lots more wife swapping, adultery, and swinging in the military than christian fundamentalism.

    EJ


    The leaders are the tightest bastards ever,

    So what if people practice their reproductive instincts, as long as no
    one gets hurt.

    Now the funduhmentalcysts get hurt because they can't stand on a
    pedestal.
    That's what friendly fire is for.

    voodoo disease 666

    Death to the christian military.




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  • From NoUse4DoGooders@NoUse4DoGooders@webtv.net to alt.society.civil-liberty on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 18:59:38
    From Newsgroup: alt.society.civil-liberty

    I like it.....only it didn't go far enough.......

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  • From Asmodeus@asmodeus@removeinsightbb.com to talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.republican,talk.politics.drugs on Wednesday, November 12, 2003 23:30:46
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    "Johnny" <repro007@hotmail.com> wrote in news:bomn7o$1fui1e$1@ID-169595.news.uni-berlin.de:

    Just wait while they start inserting transponder chips, securely
    attached to vital arteries, into new born infants

    It's not far off. You know about "smart guns" don't you?

    --
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    X AGAINST HTML MAIL || "Shall Not Be Infringed"
    / \ AND POSTINGS || don't you understand?
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  • From strabo@strabo@flashmail.com to talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.republican,talk.politics.drugs on Thursday, November 13, 2003 20:04:08
    From Newsgroup: alt.society.civil-liberty

    On 9 Nov 2003 19:44:09 -0800, nini_pad@yahoo.com (michael price)
    wrote:

    "sgdunn" <sgdunn@cox.net> wrote in message news:<8xyrb.12950$62.9261@lakeread04>...
    Under John Ashcroft's supervision, the Justice Department has crafted
    yet another piece of model legislation that proponents falsely claim would >> help fight terrorism.
    The proposal was previously Patriot Act II, with Patriot Act I being the >> increasingly unpopular legislation that has attracted much-justified
    criticism as a violation of the 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendments. In light of
    the drop in popular support for the first Patriot Act, the Justice
    Department has removed some of the more threatening provisions from Patriot >> Act II and renamed its proposal the Vital Interdiction of Criminal
    Terrorists Organizations (Victory) Act. For a while, a version of the
    legislation been the "Domestic Security Enhancement Act."
    The model legislation is a classic example of a government bureaucrat
    proposing a more sweeping piece of legislation than he aims to get. As
    originally written, the Victory Act would authorize the Federal Government >> to strip any person of his citizenship for membership in any political party >> or other political organization, regardless of whether the organization
    promotes terrorism. The DNC and RNC would be in violation!
    The Victory Act, as it now stands, would authorize the Federal
    Government to examine business records without a search warrant or subpoena >> and delay notification for several years. This would include credit and
    debit card transactions, every business's ledgers, and even the records
    Giant and Safeway keep of purchases made on their bonus and club cards. The >> Sec. 504 the language in the Victory Act includes records that ISPs, online >> brokerages, banks, and telephone companies keep on their customers'
    transactions.
    The Victory Act is one of the gravest threats to Constitutional rights >> Americans face today.
    When it comes to fighting terrorism, the Victory Act is a cruel farce. It
    would merely reward terrorists by depriving Americans of some of the very
    freedoms terrorists deplore.

    It's questionable that terrorists "deplore" these freedoms as opposed to
    say freedom of religion, freedom of speech. What is not questionable is
    that this act opens millions of pages of data to the to the government's >eyes, further complicating the task of sifting through it. It will result
    in poorer intelligence against terrorism.

    Seems like it has more to do with accumulating material for
    blackmail than combatting the new devil.


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  • From strabo@strabo@flashmail.com to talk.politics.libertarian,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.politics.usa.republican,talk.politics.drugs on Thursday, November 13, 2003 20:08:13
    From Newsgroup: alt.society.civil-liberty

    On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:28:15 -0000, "Johnny"
    <repro007@hotmail.com> wrote:

    Cole Firearms Inc. wrote:
    Matt D wrote:

    The government is playing right into the terrorists' hands. If
    everyone gives up all their rights in the name of fighting terrorism,
    then the terrorists have acheived what they were trying to accomplish
    all along. A police state where nobody except those in Big
    Government
    has any rights.

    In a way, the terrorists have gotten the American government to work
    for
    them. The government has taken away Rights, passed restrictive laws
    against all kinds of things.

    The terrorists are winning the War.

    You can't fight terrorism in the way the US government seems to think you >can, let alone win anything. It's a long difficult road and involves more >than a little humility along the way. All that waging war does is polarise >and galvanise opponents, legitamise the acts of terror as retaliation and
    the true cause then becomes lost in the struggle as the spiral of fear, >mistrust and violence takes over.

    Since "terrorism" is simply another word for the nebulous
    "devil", it should be clear that the Neo-con movement has
    another agenda.



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