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Well, the conventions are over….so the guys that were busy harassing protesters have to pretend to fight terrorism in the meantime. And all the actual terrorists were probably taken.
They’re probably just following up on their WWII investigations of Japanese-Americans. Since they were all disloyal (or we wouldn’t have shipped them off), they’re probably supporting al Qaeda today. It’s no coincidence that this library was in Area 1 of the Western Defense Zone.
(Satire alert)
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