One Million Names on Terrorist Watch List


	One Million Names on Terrorist Watch List

Wisco

7-14-2008 2:50 PM

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Wisco says:

Do they really think there are 1,000,000 terrorists in the US? How absurd does this whole police state thing have to get before we're all either up in arms or laughing at how ridiculous it all is?

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