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Leith

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9. The media used to show the victims of atrocities
Mon Mar 27, 2023, 05:31 PM
Mar 2023

The little girl running naked and terrified in Vietnam. Emmett Till. Tate-LaBianca crime scene photos. I remember watching a monk set himself on fire to protest the Vietnam war on the 6 o'clock news.

It sounds horrible. but nothing else is going to turn people away from rabid gunhumpers. They like shoving pictures of fetuses in our faces (withOUT their usual concern for the children who would see it), so let them get a taste of their own medicine.

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