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Daemonaquila

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2. Because that would be far worse.

Reply to FarCenter (Original post)

Wed Jan 30, 2013, 06:41 PM

Jan 2013

Thanks, but I'll happily exchange a little more risk for basic constitutional rights. Preventative detention because someone *might* hurt others has no place in civilized society.

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