Reel 1

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There was a phone call and Gavin Duffy took it. They said
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you're going to be dead mother. If you don't quit messing around.
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Yes this is here.
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In. The Hub City for the nation's functional concentration of chemical process.
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Headquarters city for the polio natural gas and off your industry. And
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Space City USA.
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Pacifica Radio in Houston resents space city below to see the
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reality blurry complete with heroes villains and a cast of thousands.
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Problem almost is not a question of a wrong.
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Now to begin our saga the road is wide but whose road is in
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another. Tales of night riders introducing
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Frank conquers Texas Grand Dragon lands of America. Vicki
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Smith and the one brother. Of underground paper space city.
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Threats of all kinds castration threats and bomb threats shooting threats
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there was a spectacular fire bombing a car.
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I guess was about 6:00 a.m. when people who were sleeping in the office
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awakened to find a car at the front office you know in flames
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and what had happened was that someone combined put
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magnesium strips or something and let them people in the inside the office didn't wake up
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until the fire and then they set off the horn in the car and one
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person who was there went outside and said he saw two police cars on either side you know blocking a
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block away and the side of the office sort of watching the car burning or person
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never been shot at anybody else's house
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and like I said before we believe that each man has a right to believe
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like he won't step away but you can see the road when you
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travel one side let me travel to the other.
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Mike owner and operator of the family hand restaurant
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the building a couch right up there. Would you replace it with riding a.
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Scooter car. Went through one of the.
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Chemicals whatever they. Just made a big
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mess. The Rafters rock out of bounds and back our stuff that
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I wanted which had to be
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right. Glass. I feel like these are just psychological
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you know they're just trying to. Maybe
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never.
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We have never been following of course we have this this is just
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accusations and comments and if I ask you where you got your term in the family you
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can remember where you picked up some piece of literature was
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found here. I don't think that's separation I would
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venture to say that already did something wrong.
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One time I had a long a long talk with him in which he sort of
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I guess that was the time I became the most absolutely convinced of what he was and what he was trying to do.
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He started he started talking about talking about the Right Wing Talking about the Klan and the
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Minutemen you know talking about them as they but it was
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quite obvious that he meant we and making you know making various
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kinds of threats and saying that that that he understood that the right wing he
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decided to make used in sort of a target area that they
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were that they were sort of concentrating forces here and that they were going to try to to
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stop the communists before you know to sort of make used an example
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of how they could they could stop stop the movement before it could everything going here and that he
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thought in that and he also said that he thought things were going to get a lot more serious now and made various
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kinds of threats and unstacked they're going to start killing people over two years we
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kept working with yes we worked with the South.
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We were right next to him for two years. So we
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you know. We didn't want to create a friction but we did. Yes we
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work.
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In many instances of harassment against the Klan has identified
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itself as being the culprit either through through identification
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or through phone calls or else by leaving stickers on the door leaving stickers on cars that
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sort of thing.
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So let's say that a good Catholic was involved in something that was wrong. That
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certainly doesn't mean that the calving religion was involved. It just
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merely means that one man with that belief that Malone thought order was involved
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and certainly run my own steps often a lot of it doesn't mean that they're all guilty of the crime.
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Richard Atwater of space city he did in the.
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Latest The July 1st 1970 I was doing I was on the front
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sidewalk walking towards the building I'd just driven up and there were
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four or five people sitting out in front of the building on a front step when a car
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pulled up on the street
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nearby and stopped at the intersection and fired six or seven shots at the
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building. The bullet struck the building about 10 feet above the heads of the people that were sitting
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there. And of course everyone made a big scramble to get inside and everything and the car just
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drove off down the street. We called the police on them. There was no action.
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Enter the loan in the person of Inspector Caldwell of The Houston Police Department.
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It's on usual if we could have made arrest and didn't or if there was information that would allow those two it's
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not only on you which was malfeasance or misfeasance the first thing they always ask is Can
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you identify any people that did it.
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Invariably the answer has been no we cannot make a positive identification of any person we have a license number
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and description of the car and how many people it has. One Direction is heading if that will be of any help and they say
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well that's not much to go on.
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But I wouldn't say that we are in a billet doux to solve a case involving a car that the job of the night
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shoots into a building and plowed off into the city of a million two hundred fifty thousand people
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256 square mile when you have a third of the number of police or you should have
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police it down his own usual Len Eubanks of the family food co-op.
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I arrived late in the evening and there was a car parked in front of our house that
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fit the description of a car that in earlier that evening shut up space city. So
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instead of letting you know we were on the lawn I went in the back way and was coming out of the
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word she was going to get a license number on the car when they
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threw a bomb into the yard. And it was poorly made
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and it went out when it hit the web graphic image with me.
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So when I went in and probably you know things can get you in the car I. Think I want to stay
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there. It took my friends a little over half an hour to get their lives with their
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unit so we have to know where they can reach me tell them that you'll say stay in the house and they
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can come to me when the police got there when I go to the house. I didn't take that long with
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the which I very carefully going to overhear his and maybe he's not touched or
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gave them my statement and I had gotten the license number of the car which I also gave them a description
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illegal there's a street light right in front of houses many you know really exist
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and the next day I was told that I must be mistaken. There was no such license
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number that I was incorrect but I was sure I was the
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seller I checked through personal sources and was finally able to ascertain that there
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was such a license number and that it did belong to the car that the description I'd
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given the witnesses and were able to get a name and address of the guy.
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Have you done more good on this issue. There was still her right
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to drink you're just going to use you don't use the AC on.
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We are not privileged supposition. Sure to phrase it in terms of
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criminality.
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Show me your grammar back within the purview of the Lord and another occasion I was talking to a
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police dispatcher on the telephone at the time that an arrow was fired through our front door from
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a crossbow and a car pulled in front of the house
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and I looked down from the second floor window and saw a man in the passenger seat across both
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me and my things. I called the police and as I was talking to the dispatcher he came
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around the corner second time driving very slowly and saw I was giving a running
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account of the whole thing to the dispatcher. As you know I went through the front door as they just shot
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at us pavement. If you have a car license number one direction and in
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time after a fart in the office and you know you just laid out the whole thing it was in
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broad daylight it was like six o'clock in the morning and saw the
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name Carson didn't apprehend anybody didn't see anybody doing anything wrong and sent a man by about
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10 minutes later to take a report and hold your own.
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Not a whole lot worse in Reston we have back within the purview of the law but
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40 is the purview of the law. A discourse by Inspector Caldwell and Ralph
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come out of the Southwest Center for Urban Research.
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We should go to this broader sense would say the department bases its
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rules on the premise that this republic that we live in is
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based on the foundation of the wars and all the basic institutions of this society stand on
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this violation where the law itself is without meaning
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unless the Republican or whatever body politic can unfortunately
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you get asked a question whose law you talk about are what you are talking about.
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Now our local police. Have traditionally forced the local
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law. Not necessarily the national. National principles
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of Colonel justice. Houston like. Many other communities. Not
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just Western ones. Has a back up community to.
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Police and force. And that is to those on the community that I knew
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years ago participated in vigilante law. That isn't joining
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the police and reinforcing the police force to talk a lot more cost.
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A moment's pause for a sermon at Bob Jones Callaway American Civil Liberties
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Union Chairman I don't demo the whole libertarian
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gone mamma.
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Take just what we've been involved in the sheep for example
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back in March to what we call our parade case when used in
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City Council tonight had a properly applied for a
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permit to a small peaceful peace group to have
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a parade down around federal building. Well then we represent them in getting
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their permit granted to the city council given to federal court.
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Well but.
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Mayor Welsh gave us a reason for denying it. Prayed For me it
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was a good thing they were going to pray about were not broadly
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patriotic that is he said we're not going to give them a parade permit to
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have a a parade because what they want prayed about not broadly
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patriotic. They were going to be critical of the inner signs of the Selective Service Act for example
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and the war in Vietnam and our peaceful dissent. That's what that is not all it
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is is peaceful dissent. There was never any suggestion that they were violent people.
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I read no one talked about these cases I think that it points to the problem that we face in the
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community of our highest leadership not wanting to permit people
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to have the right to dissent even though it's no question about it being peaceful.
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Now we in the ACLU believe market we know that dissent is the very essence of freedom
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and that dissent is as American as apple pie. And yet the mayor of the security sitting
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United States want to take it upon himself to deny this right to free
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assembly peaceful assembly in them the right to free speech because and only because by
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his own words reported Chronicle impuls book that the reason you do it because it is
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not broadly patriotic. On the same day he denied them the right to have
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their parade. The city council approved parades for two or three other people like sporting
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people they thought lived to have their Thanksgiving Day Parade. Tim and Bob have their
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scent Patrick's Day parade and things like that but they don't know these
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people the right to dissent which is the which is the essence of freedom
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we have then a police chief who is who works for the
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mayor who comes out in the newspaper the other day when he was granted some kind
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of a good citizenship
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medal bother youthen CHAPLIN SON to American Revolution he
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says. He chastise a society that would allow an
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organization such as the American Civil Liberties Union to fight prayer in school on
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the one hand and defend dissenters on the other.
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You say so the police chief in Houston
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thinks that dissenters. You say that defending dissenters is a
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bad thing but the right to dissent which is what he
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is apparently unhappy about.
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Or here is is the greatness of our
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country. Now when the police chief blasts the dissenters and
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when the mayor will provide those same dissenters the right to have a parade which is
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the basic most basic.
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You see even the most basic rights in this country is a right to have a peaceful parade.
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That's a one of a privilege that Americans get because we're supposed to be a free country
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and when a mayor wants to deny that because what they're going to pray about is not broadly
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patriotic. Think about that. I want you to think about the
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majority to think about that even if you don't even hear how important that is to this community
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that the mayor wants to deny free speech to people who want to
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say things that are not broadly patriotic warning.
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Parades and other broadly unpatriotic activities may be
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hazardous to your health and so police.
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You know in the absence of any specific prohibition. Police. Have seized the
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first duty.
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Of the enforcement of local laws. Without.
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Undue regard for you know for individual rights of the criminal.
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And if people stop whining if the wrong people use
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violence. It's the wrong people protest.
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You know the. Thing custom would be to. Put them back in
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line. With what are seen by them to be oppressive
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measures as necessary to kill the leaders of a
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violent or seemingly dangerous protest movement. Carol. You know it's
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a long list. This is this becomes then.
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Legalized. Killing.
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My country of the family and restaurant.
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They had come once before and they came out with two paddy wagons they had
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posted back. The place was like they had a man post.
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12 maybe 15 policemen all together. And. Just came into the beer
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garden. I walked up to the sergeant who was directing the whole thing and I saw
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him and what's going on. There where we're conducting an investigation. We were
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checking out your license. That's one. Thing. And I said does it take
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two. Paddy wagons half a dozen squad cars and two
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German shepherds to come in here and check out the license. He said we're not coming here and getting
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anybody hurt I said well you can see around here there's people you sit near.
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Drinking beer and not really trying to give anybody a look like you're trying to give us.
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The morning of the drug crisis.
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Traffic control monitors western areas.
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Some 120 volt car forward with additional additional adult
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you're in your home an area and the kids and their store sales
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to the narcotics department and the Justice Department. My
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systems and is trying to get
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rid of them and they were doing things right.
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For. Saturday night. Right right. He is.
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And then we saw that one coming in morse or
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tripping and. That was that. Hear from him
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enough to turn the security company to the police the
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police number 30. Bring out the real.
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Attorney Bobby Caldwell.
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Take John a coward for this is the. Case that I think the world
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need to know about a young man facing I think it but went to
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war now. Two years ago.
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But 19 if Jen is that old I'm not quite sure but
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Dunn a coward was kicked out
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by two police officers here in Houston Texas
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and got a cop out was also following at the same time it would keep in his
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eyes.
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They buy our own.
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He'll play aggravated assault on to police stuff.
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Judge it was a quick leave
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charge after Jenner was acquitted of the
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charges a fee you became interested in the case
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and started making demands that David is too old to be
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indicted by the grand jury.
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Some for five grand jury could this
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testimony unheard in this case before one grand
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jury would even indict these two officers.
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And yet the state of Texas Cal Bear
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the without no later than I think three days will follow
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Karr have a tour with Keil. Somebody out
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there for now to dismiss those to
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indict me and gives these two. Officers on the ground then
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sufficient evidence that during this time
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look prior to the dismissal of these Keith again the coward was never contacted
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by the state for Jenna Cawood till the discontent of time in this case what
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happened he dared to test one full ledger. But now we have read your
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mail for 12 people that decided they did their worst officially
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over this time that these two officers with yet some
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guy with a little turd often just sad so we don't have enough evidence
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to prosecute so they dismiss
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drivel they lived in a coward would be shot to death but
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alluding to God something quite new to this book.
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And then no later than Saturday morning and I got that all done a coward
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called that on the NDA.
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I said for what he said I would rather solve them to
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police out.
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Plate number one political
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assassination of Johnson is performed by District Attorney Carol Vance a
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single.
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Mom who represents a cross section of people from his many many
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contacts.
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Many many and. Many.
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Many. Here you know.
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Mr. JOHNSON.
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I was first proved and whenever we
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conversed with. Him as a mongrel
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you might as well realize you know the young
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generation we began to look at.
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That we. As a rich country.
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People we
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don't recruit.