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When a strong regime receives new powers from the people they are rarely given back. Don't kid yourself, DHS, the Patriot Act, the border fence, and now SOPA, once they are passed they aren't ever going away.



Yeah if they are taken back it is usually done by force or revolution, seldom pretty.




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