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Date Sent: 2012-05-08
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Tuesday, May 8, 2012 PM edition |
Testimony continues at hearing for some CA officers who beat, tortured a defenseless man to death
Number ONE Enemy of the State --
05-08-12 -- Stefan Molynuex -
Joyce Riley - LISTEN LIVE on LRN.FM, M-F, 9-Noon (EST) --
Parents: Rule’s half-baked -- Sparta is heading to the polls --
Scott Horton Interviews Ari Berman -- Romney Operatives Caught Trying to Dilute Ron Paul Votes -- The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima
a Ticking Time-Bomb -- South Sudan expects Uganda’s backing against
Khartoum -- America — The World’s
Newest Dictatorship -- Don't tell Paul's supporters the
primary is over -- Today: Ron Paul
Subcommittee to Examine Proposals to Reform or Abolish Federal
Reserve -- West of Eden -- Less Antman: "God bless you Ron
Paul" - C-Span Live Video -- Video: CNN Reports Delegate Wins -- FOX: Ron Paul Dominating State
Conventions 5/7/12 -- Justice Department should prosecute
Israel Aerospace Ind. not just Stewart Nozette -- Surprise! Fox
News: Ron Paul is much bigger than people know -- Time for a military coup in Israel? --
Israeli Elections Canceled in Coalition Deal -- Iran accepts yuan for crude oil -- The President’s Private War - by Andrew Napolitano -- Enduring Commitments Abroad -
by Ron Paul -- Chief
executive of GAVI wants to 'immunize every kid on earth' -- “We are Preparing for Massive Civil
War,” Says DHS Informant -- Jose Padilla, John Yoo, and
Routine Exoneration for Government Criminals -- Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal: Two
Victims of Torture Give Evidence -- Video-Street Light’s
That Talk,Record Conversation & Watch You, Go Live In Michigan
-- Corruption Accounts For As Much As $14 Dollars Out Of Every Tank
Of Gas -- US secretly frees
high-level Afghan militants as bargaining chip -- European Electoral Postmortems -
by Stephen Lendman -- The
Way The Pentagon Is Predicting Your Potential To Become A National
Threat Is Frightening
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Testimony continues at hearing for CA officers who beat a defenseless man to death
05-08-2012
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AP
A video shows Officer Manuel Ramos and another officer swing at a shirtless Kelly Thomas with their batons and pin him to the ground as he pleads with them to stop.
The 33-minute video " which was paired with audio from recordings devices worn by
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News Link • Government
Number ONE Enemy of the State
05-08-2012
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www.batr.org
There is immense confusion about the nature of the State. There is even more bewilderment about what constitutes a patriot. Any discussion in the civic realm begins with a cultural viewpoint.
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News Link • Israel
Sparta is heading to the polls
05-08-2012
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http://www.haaretz.com, By Gideon Levy
The show must go on: Sparta in Israel. And in Sparta, do as the Spartans do: Security is king and the army is God. Mandatory army service, which results mainly from the IDF's function as an occupation force, is not a necessary evil but a moral value.
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News Link • General Opinion
Scott Horton Interviews Ari Berman
05-08-2012
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http://antiwar.com, Scott Horton
Ari Berman, contributing writer for The Nation, discusses his article “Mitt Romney’s Neocon War Cabinet;” the Bush administration rejects (John Bolton, Eric Edelman, Dan Senor)
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News Link • Voting - Election Integrity
Romney Operatives Caught Trying to Dilute Ron Paul Votes
05-08-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com
Two separate incidents captured on video this weekend reveal desperate attempts by Mitt Romney operatives to divide and disrupt official Ron Paul endorsed delegate slates .
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Japan - Earthquake Tsunami Radiation
The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb
05-08-2012
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http://www.alternet.org, ByBrad Jacobson
Experts say acknowledging the threat would call into question the safety of dozens of identically designed nuclear power plants in the U.S.
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News Link • Africa: On the Map
South Sudan expects Uganda’s backing against Khartoum
05-08-2012
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http://www.dailystar.com.lb
Uganda: A South Sudanese official said Monday that his government expects Uganda to play a substantial role in resolving the border conflict that has at times threatened to plunge South Sudan and Sudan into a full-scale war.
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News Link • Police State
America " The World’s Newest Dictatorship
05-08-2012
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http://www.darkmoon.me, by Montecristo
“There is no freedom, no democracy, and no government accountability in Amerika, a fascist state.” " Paul Craig Roberts
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Don't tell Paul's supporters the primary is over
05-08-2012
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AP
Don't tell Ron Paul the Republican primary is over. He's too busy mucking up Mitt Romney's efforts to accumulate enough convention delegates to officially claim the GOP nomination for president.
Paul's supporters won control of state GOP conventio
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Today: Ron Paul Subcommittee to Examine Proposals to Reform or Abolish Federal Reserve
05-08-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
The Fin Svcs Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology, chaired by Rep. Ron Paul, will hold a hearing on Tuesday to examine six legislative proposals that either reform or abolish the Federal Reserve System. LIVE STREAM 10 am EST
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Less Antman: "God bless you Ron Paul" - C-Span Live Video
05-08-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
At this weekends Libertarian Party National Convention in Las Vegas, Less Antman delivers one of the best speeches of the entire weekend. This endearing speech was broadcast Live on C-Span to an estimated 2.1 million viewers.
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News Link • Justice and Judges
Justice Department should prosecute Israel Aerospace Ind. not just Stewart Nozette
05-08-2012
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http://www.veteranstoday.com, by Grant F. Smith
Today IRmep Director Grant F. Smith confronted US Attorney Ron Machen on NPR affiliate WAMU in Washington, DC. At issue were Machen’s statements that the FBI had prevented Stewart J. Nozette from passing US military secrets to Israel.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Surprise! Fox News: Ron Paul is much bigger than people know
05-08-2012
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www.dailypaul.com
They seem so surprised about Ron Paul winning delegates but at the same time comment on how organized he is and how Romney Has NO organization!
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News Link • Iran
Iran accepts yuan for crude oil
05-08-2012
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http://edition.cnn.com, By Henny Sender
Iran is accepting renminbi for some of the crude oil it supplies to China.
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News Link • Israel
Time for a military coup in Israel?
05-08-2012
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http://www.veteranstoday.com, by Alan Hart
“The trouble with us Israelis is that we’ve become the victims of our own propaganda.” " General Shlomo Gazit
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News Link • Ron Paul Says...
Enduring Commitments Abroad
05-08-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Rep. Ron Paul
Last week President Obama made a surprise pre-dawn trip to Afghanistan to mark the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden and to sign a document further extending the U.S. presence in that country.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Israel
Israeli Elections Canceled in Coalition Deal
05-08-2012
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http://news.antiwar.com/2012/05/07/likud-kadima-de
Likud and Kadima Deal Announce New Unity Govt.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Homeland Security
“We are Preparing for Massive Civil War,” Says DHS Informant
05-08-2012
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Posted by Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul
In a riveting interview on TruNews Radio, Wednesday, private investigator Doug Hagmann said high-level, reliable sources told him the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is preparing for “massive civil war” in America.
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News Link • Obama Administration
The President’s Private War
05-08-2012
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http://original.antiwar.com, by Andrew P. Napolita
Did you know that the United States government is using drones to kill innocent people in Pakistan? Did you know that the Pakistani government has asked President Obama to stop it and he won’t? Did you know that Pakistan is a sovereign country that h
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News Link • Evacuations & Catastrophe
WTF is Going on With Peru's Dolphins and Pelicans?
05-08-2012
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http://www.motherjones.com, By Julia Whitty
Something awful is happening in the waters off Peru's northern coast, where some 3,000 dolphins have died and washed ashore since January.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Drugs and Medications
Chief executive of GAVI wants to 'immunize every kid on earth'
05-08-2012
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http://www.naturalnews.com, by: Ethan A. Huff
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-backed group Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI) is on a mission to forcibly vaccinate every single child on the planet against every single known "preventable disease."
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News Link • Bush Administration
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal: Two Victims of Torture Give Evidence
05-08-2012
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http://www.globalresearch.ca, Mathaba
Witnesses including victims of torture at the hands of British and U.S. American agencies and forces in Iraq and Afghanistan gave testimony
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bush Administration
Jose Padilla, John Yoo, and Routine Exoneration for Government Criminals
05-08-2012
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http://www.antiwar.com, John Glaser
Jose Padilla, the American citizen kidnapped by the Bush administration and detained and tortured for years without charge or trial, has been trying to sue John Yoo for a while now.
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News Link • History
A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age?
On the History of the US Economy in Decline
05-08-2012
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http://www.commondreams.org, by Noam Chomsky
The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fact.
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News Link • Internet
8 Tools To Protect Online Privacy For The Paranoid
05-08-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Jared Newman
It’s hard to use the Internet anymore without being watched. Tracking cookies follow your every move, so advertisers can figure out what to sell you.
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News Link • Corruption
Corruption Accounts For As Much As $14 Dollars Out Of Every Tank Of Gas
05-08-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Lee Fang
The prices are high at the gas station, but part of the price you pay is directly caused by commodity speculators.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Surveillance
Video-Street Light’s That Talk,Record Conversation & Watch You, Go Live In Michigan
05-08-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Joe Wright
In a move that signifies a private surveillance war between news networks, Arizona station KVOA has installed a network of remote-controlled, high-definition cameras around Tucson, AZ to “scan the streets for pretty much whatever’s out there.”
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News Link • European Union
Not so ‘golden dawn’ for Greek parliament
05-08-2012
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http://rt.com
The extreme-right ultra-nationalist party ‘Golden Dawn’ " described by many as neo-fascist " is set to enter the Greek Parliament.
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News Link • Syria
Syria votes despite opposition boycott
05-08-2012
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http://rt.com
Polling stations have closed in Syria, where people were voting for a 250-strong parliament in the first democratic election in decades.
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News Link • European Union
‘Bye, bye, Merkozy': Will it be Merkollande?
05-08-2012
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http://rt.com
Germany has ruled out any possibility of renegotiating the EU's fiscal pact, which is seen by the bloc as a defense against default.
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News Link • Afghanistan
US secretly frees high-level Afghan militants as bargaining chip " report
05-08-2012
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http://rt.com
News has emerged that in order to reach a truce in the most restive Afghan provinces, the US has secretly released several dozen high-ranking Afghan militants.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US airstrikes kill at least 14 civilians
05-08-2012
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http://rt.com
The US military is taking the blame for an airstrike in Afghanistan over the weekend that left at least six civilians dead " one mother and five children.
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News Link • Government
The Way The Pentagon Is Predicting Your Potential To Become A National Threat Is Frightening
05-08-2012
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http://www.prisonplanet.com, Eloise Lee
Taking a novel approach, the Pentagon is spearheading research into studying the predictive behavior of personnel in the lead-up to a betrayal.
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News Link • Torture
The Everyday Evil of America’s Torture State
05-07-2012
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www.lewrockwell.com/William Norman Grigg
After Daniel Chong was arrested in a federal drug raid, he wasn’t taken to Gitmo. Instead, the Feds thoughtfully arranged to bring Gitmo to him, nearly torturing him to death in the process.
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Feature Article • Activism
Tempe's attack on Free Speech
Thomas Costanzo
Morpheus http://BankOnRon.com interviews Josh from http://PropertySix.com about a shooting that occurred in Tempe in March 2012. Now according to Josh the Police have created a Black List of "Dangerous Artists". Venue owners who have "dangerous Art
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News Link • Conspiracies
JFK Special 3: Oswald was in the doorway, after all!
05-07-2012
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www.veteranstoday.com
So we begin with the Altgens photograph, where JFK is clutching his throat and you can even see a bullet hole in the windshield"a small, while spiral nebula with a dark hole in the center"where his left ear would be if it were visible, where it passe
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News Link • Currencies
Canada Stops Making Cents as Flaherty Lets Penny Drop
05-07-2012
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www.bloomberg.com
Canada minted its final penny today as Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said the coin was too expensive to produce and no longer needed for business.
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News Link • Israel
Exposing Israel’s Most Dangerous Secret
05-07-2012
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www.inpursuitofhappiness.wordpress.com
What’s Really Going On at the Israeli Institute for Biological Research?
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News Link • Activism
Jim Rogers’ Warning: Riots Coming To America
05-07-2012
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www.etfdailynews.com
Speaking with the Wall Street Journal on Friday, commodities trader Jim Rogers of Rogers Holdings said riots such as the ones witnessed in Greece
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News Link • Police State
You Are All Suspects Now. What Are You Going to Do About It?
05-07-2012
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www.antiwar.com
You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia, or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished.
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News Link • World News
Many Jews Prepare to Leave France For Israel
05-07-2012
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Breitbart.com
Immigration from France to Israel has increased significantly over the past several years, largely due to upticks in perceived anti-Semitic feeling in the country.
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News Link • Surveillance
Yes, The Re-Education Camp Manual Does Apply Domestically to U.S. Citizens
05-04-2012
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Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet
A shocking U.S. Army manual that describes how political activists in prison camps will be indoctrinated by specially assigned psychological operations officers contains numerous clear references to the fact that the policies apply to U.S. citizens.
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News Link • Politics: Libertarian Campaigns
Libertarian National Committee Gets 'Grass Roots' Leadership
05-07-2012
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Ed Vallejo Reporting
...and a Governor Gary Johnson of New Mexico/Judge Jim Grey of California Presidential Ticket for the 2012 Election Cycle. (p.s. Starchild is now an 'At-Large' Member! Whoa!)
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News Link • Military
Georgia Opens Jail Devoted To U.S. Veterans
05-07-2012
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http://govtslaves.info, Ed Pilkington
The problem of US military veterans falling into a life of crime after returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has reached such levels that a law enforcer in Georgia has opened what is believed to be America’s first county jail devoted to veteran inmates
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News Link • Government Waste
US reportedly abandons plans for Afghan consulate after already spending $80M
05-07-2012
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http://www.foxnews.com, MAZAR-E SHARIF
US officials abandoned plans to open a consulate in northern Afghanistan over security concerns -- despite spending more than $80 million on the site, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
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News Link • American History
Every president is a war president
05-07-2012
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http://www.chicagotribune.com, Steve Chapman
Ninety-six years ago, when President Woodrow Wilson ran for re-election, two notable things happened: 1) His campaign used the slogan "He kept us out of war," and 2) he won.
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News Link • Law Enforcers or Peace Officers
Woman Jailed For Trying To Fill A Prescription
05-06-2012
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CBS News
Anne Lenhart never thought filling a prescription at CVS Pharmacy in Dallas could land her in jail. Still on crutches and unable to drive, a friend of Lenhart’s, drove her to a CVS Pharmacy in Oak Cliff.
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