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Re: Some call it treason

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Thos. Friedman, New York Times’s three-time Pulitzer-Prize winning foreign affairs columnist;

“I believe we are one more 9/11 away from the end of the open society,
"if terrorists strike again at America and kill large numbers of Americans, the pressure to curb civil liberties and civil rights will be “enormous and unstoppable.” What we took from that was that the more successful the protesters are in making their case in New York, the less chance they’ll have the precious constitutional freedom to protest here the next time around.
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