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The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act PASSED
2009-10-23 01:34:00 Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr I'm still not up to speed so I apologize for just passing this along and not sprucing things up a big......but The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed at the Federal level today! Let me say that again - at the FEDERAL level - which means it's the law of the land! That means that it is now a federal crime to assault an individual because of his or her actual, or perceived, sexual orientation or gender identity. Sadly we celebrated the 11th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard with a March held in Lakeview - sadly I missed it because I was in Vegas. The Bill had...
J.C. Should Know About Racism and Hate Crimes In The "Cracker" Barrel South
2009-09-16 16:07:00 It comes as no surprise to all of us who have been blogging about the masked, albeit sometimes blatant rascism, President Obama has had to endure during the Health Care Debate that Jimmy Carter has acknowledged and voiced his (our) thoughts on national T.V...... Yep, he did it. The only voice of reason that has lived, worked, and governed in the South got right up there with Brian Williams yesterday and proclaimed to "the rest of the world" this was indeed the god-awful truth that still exists in this country today about racists and racism. Just when you think you're the only one, along comes a highly regarded voice to acknowledge what you(we) knew all along. Thanks J.C. for calling a spade a spade. In this case it is literally true. And that is not a bad thing.****Just a footnote to American History in Georgia and the South, but what are the odds that a black woman got beat up senselessly by a white man at the Cracker Barrel yesterday? Chris Rock would have a field day with thi...
How do we fight hate crimes?
2009-07-26 23:26:00 How do we fight hate crimes?At the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) conference in Chicago a group of leaders said the only way to do this is to band together.It doesn't matter how many Minutemen show up (just a few) to protest the conference outside McCormick Place. Check out the video made by my fellow bloggers at Dream Activist."What matters is how many good people come together to be the anti-haters," said Stacy Burdett, associate director of government and national affairs with the Anti-Defamation League.Burdett and others spoke at a panel at the NCLR conference on hate crimes."Every week we hear of new and different bias attacks," said Lisa Navarrete, vice president of the National Council of La Raza....
Help Improve The Inevitable Hate Crimes Law;Stand Up for Gay Gun Rights!
2009-07-20 15:57:00 ACTION ALERT FROM GOProud: Senators John Thune (R-SD) and David Vitter (R-LA) were successful in negotiating an agreement that will allow the Respecting States Rights Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act (Amendment # 1618) to be brought up as an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill. This vote is expected late today or sometime on Tuesday. Last ...
By: GayPatriot
Support the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009
2009-07-08 18:16:00 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ji-adoldol/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 I agree that all violent crimes are crimes of hate. They are all abhorrent. They are all to be prevented. In addition, crimes motivated by bigotry, racism, and prejudice are so abhorrent that society should rally against them and declare the motivations crimes as well. This distinction illustrates how certain values are not acceptable in our communities. This distinction shows what kind of society we live in and what we aspire to be. Since 9/11, more Americans have been killed by right-wing extremists than by any other terrorist group in the world. Haters with intent to kill must be stopped on many different levels by any means necessary. This bill will expand the current federal hate crimes law to include any violence based on a victim’s real or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. The Department of Justice will have the power to go after bias-motivated offenses and give important federal assis...
Hate Crimes in the USA
2009-06-12 17:07:00 Well it seems the DHS was right about hate crimes increasing in the USA. It’s a shame that the Republicans had to make the DHS report a political issue instead of looking at the facts. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ftodayshottopic.co-m%2F2009%2F06%2F12%2Fhate-crime-s-in-the-usa%2F'; addthis_title ...
By: Today's Talk
Congressional Dems Protect Pedophiles,Demean Military In Hate Crimes Bill
2009-05-07 22:58:00 It really leaves you speechless….. During a House Judiciary Committee meeting, Congressman Steve King (R-IA) offered up an amendment to the hate crimes bill to exclude pedophiles from being a protected category under the hate crimes legislation. Every single Democrat voted it down. In the same meeting, Congressman Tom Rooney (R-FL) offered an amendment to include veterans as ...
By: GayPatriot
Hate Crimes Laws Violate the Constitution
2009-05-04 01:50:00 As an opponent of “Hate Crimes” legislation, I often cringe when I read how some who share this view attempt justify their opposition. Like the hysterical comments of gay marriage supporters, their arguments make it more difficult to convince others of the merits of their position. I mean, c’mon assuming that legislation designed to enhance penalties ...
By: GayPatriot
House Passes Hate Crimes Legislation; Delays DADT Repeal
2009-04-29 23:45:00 With the House passing H.R. 1913, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (by a 249-175 vote), gay groups are cheering. I guess the White House is too; the President had urrged Congress to pass this bill. While I don’t share the view of social conservatives that such legislation could target churches, I ...
By: GayPatriot
Hate Crimes: The Importance of Lady Justice's Blindfold
2009-01-29 19:45:00 From the desk of Thomas Landen at the Brussels Journal on Wed, 2009-01-28 11:14'The introduction of hate crime legislation brings a subjective element into the legal system. Where typically Lady Justice is blind and only takes objective facts into consideration, disregarding the position and the opinions of those committing the crimes, she may now apply the law unequally and selectively. Our societies subsequently risk losing an important principle of Western law, viz. equality under the law. Europe has already gone further down this road than America, but the U.S. is following fast in Europe?s tracks.?If I talked about Muslims the way their holy book talks about me, I?d be arrested for hate speech,? Pat Condell, a British stand-up comedian, says in a youtube video released earlier this week. Mr. Condell, though a comedian by profession, is not joking. He knows how two years ago a British television crew which went undercover in British mosques and taped sermons inciting to violenc...
By: Christian Quoter
Election of Obama provokes rise in U.S. hate crimes
2008-11-25 06:55:00 By Matthew Bigg Matthew Bigg ? Mon Nov 24 ...
By: News for Greens
Election spurs ?hundreds? of race threats, crimes
2008-11-15 22:39:00 Election spurs ‘hundreds’ of race threats, crimes Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting “Assassinate Obama.” Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars. Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are dampening the postelection glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting the stubborn racism that remains in America. From California to Maine, police have ...
By: TexasFred's
Slain woman was part of KKK ritual, St. Tammany sheriff says
2008-11-11 22:27:00 Slain woman was part of KKK ritual A woman found slain in rural St. Tammany Parish on Monday was shot to death by the head of a Ku Klux Klan chapter from Bogalusa after she tried to back out of an initiation ritual, St. Tammany Parish authorities announced Tuesday. Investigators have not positively identified the woman ...
By: TexasFred's
No Hate Crimes?
2008-07-10 11:26:00 Updated July 15:On the more mainstream and moderate White nationalist sites such as American Renaissance, the general tone of the pieces and in the comments is that there really is no such thing as White racism in the US anymore.There are only a pitiful few incidents here and there, and it's all a big joke.Hanging nooses is just a silly gag. Blacks and Hispanics need to quit being so hypersensitive about everything, and just let it go. Racism, when it refers to Whites, is always in quotes, implying it does not even exist, while other races are constantly accused of racism against Whites that is actually real. So it is as if the only real racism problem in the US is against White people.The usual response is to say that these people are just a bunch of lying racists.I will, however, say that there is a bit of truth to these accusations. Racism by Whites is dramatically exaggerated in the US, and every little comment or scribble is inspected for the horrible crime. Hispanics and Blac...
By: Robert Lindsay
‘Republican’ Hate Crimes - An Anthology
2008-05-16 16:22:00 Related Posts May 16, 2008 — Stuck in the 1800’s — Racist, Ignorant West Virginians (0) May 2, 2008 — The Clinton’s ‘Filthy Dossier’ makes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
PART X: CAIR Pushes Phony Charges of Anti-Muslim Hysteria, Hate Crimes
2008-04-04 16:24:00 In a series of thorough and carefully documented articles, the Investigative Project on Terrorism has detailed the sinister side of the self-proclaimed Muslim civil rights group CAIR. Today's tenth and final installment takes a look at CAIR's persistent -- and often contrived -- charges of "hate crimes" perpetrated against Muslims and supposed "anti-Muslim hysteria" rampant in this country. Here are some of the highlights: · CAIR's annual report on the status of Muslim civil rights in the United...(read more)
Central Michigan Officials Unable to Confirm/Deny Penalty for Noose Student
2008-03-27 08:27:00 OK, so the Central Michigan Life did a story in response to my recent blog post and I just wanted to keep you updated on the situation. The CM-Life asked for a statement from the university concerning the leak, and Tony Voisin, Director of Student Life, said, “It would be a problem for that person to ...
Hate Crimes - An Anthology
2008-03-23 13:30:00 Hatred is an emotion of intense revulsion, distaste, or antipathy for a person, thing, or phenomenon, generally attributed to a desire to avoid, restrict, remove, or destroy the hated object. Hatred... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Leaked Info: Noose Student at Central Michigan Suspended
2008-03-22 01:20:00 I received the following information from a Central Michigan University faculty member (read here for my previous post on this: http://inkslwc.wordpress.com/20-08/03/17/what-ever-happened-to--the-noose-student-at-cmu/): CMU has kicked the student out until Aug. 1, 2008. The student (a white male senior ? not a black guy trying to generate sympathy for ?his cause,? as some have suggested)), will take incompletes ...
False Anonymous "Hate Crimes" DVD from Scientology
2008-03-15 22:33:00 This DVD was given out today, the ides of March, at Scientology centers across the globe. A rip of it was uploaded to youtube, but within an hour of its posting, it was removed due to pressure from... A place for the various funny movies I've found on the net, as well as clever thoughts about religion, politics, quantum mechanics, philosophy...
By: A Fox's Thoughts
Cable news blamed for rise in Latino 'hate crimes' [Digg]
2008-02-02 10:54:00 La Raza charges that anti-immigrant show guests are inciting violent attacks against Latins. But let's not forget the kind of outfit La Raza really is.
Papers show Oklahoma City Bomber Timothy McVeigh had little remorse
2008-01-03 11:54:00 Timothy McVeigh sometimes laughed, joked around and appeared to show little remorse as he described for his attorneys his 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, recently discovered defense documents show.
CONGRESS SHOOTS DOWN MATTHEW SHEPARD HATE CRIMES BILL
2007-12-08 13:08:00 Imagine being beaten to death for being different.... Matthew Shepard (December 1, 1976 ? October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was brutally attacked near Laramie, because he was gay, on the night of October 6 ? October 7, 1998. He was robbed, repeatedly pistol whipped, tortured, tied to a fence in a remote, out in a rural area, and left to die. Shepard died from severe head injuries at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, on October 12. His murder brought national attention to the issue of hate crime legislation at the state and federal levels. His two assailants, Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney, were convicted of the crime and imprisoned. Henderson is currently serving two consecutive life sentences and McKinney is serving the same but without the possibility of parole. Henderson and McKinney were not charged with a hate crime, as no Wyoming criminal statute provided for such a charge. The disturbing an...
Log Cabin Criticizes Democrats for Derailing Hate Crimes
2007-12-07 00:30:00 Log cabin’s latest press release puts me in a bind. On the one hand, I’m delighted that they’re taking on the congressional Democratic leadership for blocking legislation they favor. On the other hand, I oppose the legislation the Democrats are blocking. Just a few moments ago, I learned that Log Cabin had condemned Democrats ...
By: GayPatriot
'Blade': Hate crimes officially bashed
2007-12-07 00:00:00 This from the Washington Blade: Capitol Hill sources are telling the Blade that the hate crimes measure has been stripped from the National Defense Authorization Act. The House passed a freestanding hate crimes bill in May, but lawmakers in the...
By: Good As You
Hate Crimes Rise In Gay Friendly Amsterdam
2007-12-03 08:00:00 Amsterdam has a reputation for being a city in which gays and lesbians can find security, but recent events have raised questions about that safety. In 2006, the city registered 32 hate crimes committed against gays and lesbians, but mid way through this year there already have been 27 such crimes including one during a ...
Hate Crimes in U.S. Increase by Nearly 8%- Extremely Disappointing
2007-12-02 06:18:00 Associated PressNovember 19, 2007 10:34 a.m.WASHINGTON -- Hate crime incidents in the U.S. rose last year by nearly 8%, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported Monday, as racial prejudice continued to account for more than half the reported instances.Police across the nation reported 7,722 criminal incidents in 2006 targeting victims or property as a result of bias against a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic or national origin or physical or mental disability. That was up 7.8% from the 7,163 incidents reported in 2005. Although the noose incidents and beatings among students at Jena, La., high school occurred in the last half of 2006, they were not included in the report. Only 12,600 of the nation's more than 17,000 local, county, state and federal police agencies participated in the hate-crime reporting program in 2006 and neither Jena nor LaSalle Parish, in which the town is located, were among the agencies reporting.Nevertheless, the Jena incidents, and ...
Hate Crimes Rose 8 Percent In 2006
2007-11-20 22:40:00 FBI reports hate crime incidents were up nearly 8 percent in 2006 read more | digg story [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Islamophobia & other hate crimes statistics in the US
2007-11-20 19:22:00 Although I came across the following from a right-wing neo-con-ish, zionist-looking blog which I am thoroughly turned off by, the post itself has merit. Namely because the source of the following statistics are reliable. They’re from our very own FBI! The following tables list hate crimes in 2006: Bias motivation Incidents Offenses Victims1 Religion: 1,462 1,597 1,750 Anti-Islamic 156 191 208 Anti-Jewish 967 1,027 1,144 Anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. 7 8 8 191 anti-Islamic incidents, 1,027 anti-Jewish incidents! These statistics ...
FBI details US hate crimes rise
2007-11-20 13:01:00 More than half of the victims were attacked because of their race, while 19% were targeted because of their religion, the annual report said.
Color by Numbers: Hate Crimes Jump Nearly 8 Percent
2007-11-20 02:20:00 cnn: WASHINGTON (AP) — Hate crime incidents in the United States rose last year by nearly 8 percent, the FBI reported Monday, as racial prejudice continued to account for more than half the reported instances. Police across the nation reported 7,722 criminal incidents in 2006 targeting victims or property as a result of bias against a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic or national origin or physical or mental disability. That was up 7.8 percent from the 7,163 incidents reported in 2005. Although the noose incidents and beatings among students at Jena, Louisiana, high school occurred in the last half of 2006, they were not included in the report.Only 12,600 of the nation’s more than 17,000 local, county, state and federal police agencies participated in the hate crime reporting program in 2006 and neither Jena nor LaSalle Parish, in which the town is located, were among the agencies reporting. Nevertheless, the Jena incidents, and a rash of subsequ...
By: Thought-Blender
Jews,Blacks,Whites Face Way More Hate Crimes Than Muslims
2007-11-19 22:25:00 Remember this next time you hear a Muslim trying to act like their community is suffering so much. This via Jihad WatchRemember this the next time CAIR starts claiming protected victim status. From the FBI's site (thanks to Morgaan Sinclair) comes a table on hate crimes, from which I have taken here only the number of hate-motivated offenses committed in 2006 against each group. Be sure to look at the whole table at the FBI site.Anti-Black 3,136Anti-Jewish 1,027Anti-White 1,008Anti-Male Homosexual 881Anti-Hispanic 770Anti-Female Homosexual 192Anti-Islamic 191
Central Michigan Life Says That a Student Told Them the Nooses Were a ?Hall
2007-11-19 08:00:00 Read here for the story of the nooses if you don’t know what I’m talking about. I just got the e-mail. Apparently the student wrote a comment online in response to a CM Life article. CM Life’s website said the following: “This is mostly directed at the channel 5 news, and I thank you for not following ...
Central Michigan: Nooses Found in Engineering and Technology Building at CM
2007-11-18 22:46:00 Well - I had been waiting to write about this until something developed, and I had given up that any more developments were going to come, so I went to get the news article and found out that the guy turned himself in. So, now I can write… On Monday of last week (November 12th), nooses were ...
Hate Crimes Charges Urged For Six Accused in Torture Case
2007-11-04 01:28:00 CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered at West Virginia’s Capitol on Saturday to urge prosecutors to add hate crime charges against six white people charged in the beating, torture and sexual assault of a 20-year-old black woman. Authorities say the accused, three men and three women, held Megan Williams captive for days at a rural trailer — sexually assaulting her, beating her and forcing her to eat human and animal feces. “Hate crimes are out of control in America,” Malik Shabazz, a legal adviser to Williams and her family and a founder of Black Lawyers for Justice, told the group. “Nooses are being hung and our women are being raped by white moms. What happened to Megan Williams was a hate crime and we want this prosecuted as a hate crime.” Shabazz pointed to statements from suspect Frankie Brewster and her son, Bobby Brewster, that racial epithets were used every time Williams was stabbed. | read more | Share This ...
By: Thought-Blender
Hate crimes opponents: Focus on their Desperation
2007-10-06 00:00:00 So you might have heard that Anthony Fortunato, one of the men allegedly responsible for the 2006 death of openly gay New Yorker Michael Sandy, has come out and said that he's had closeted encounters with other men and that...
By: Good As You
Gay basher is gay. New York and hateless hate crimes
2007-10-04 07:50:00 Doesn't this illustrate how stupid we've become? Instead of just finding out if the guy did it or not, we have to know how he felt at the time- whether or not he "hated gays." Is the victim less dead? Get this line: Under New York law, they said, defendants can be convicted of a hate crime even if they bear no actual hatred for their victim. So, it's worse because you attack a favored group? The arguing sounds like a SNL skit. More below: => Read more!
By: Asymmetric
Joe Solmonese, Hate Crimes & Jena:The Narrow Worldview of the HRC Chief
2007-10-04 02:09:00 When Chris Crain commented on my piece (inspired by one of his) on Human Rights Campaign (HRC) President Joe Solmonese and the Jena 6, he highlighted some thoughts I added as I was editing the piece. I noted how, in his remarks at a rally for the Jena 6, Solmonese linked the Jena 6 to the ...
By: GayPatriot
Hate crimes passage: Nothing but a dinner party icebreaker
2007-09-28 00:00:00 Responding to yesterday's cloture vote on the Matthew Shepard Act, the always affable Andrea Lafferty of the Traditional Values Coalition says the following: ?Why are Americans seeing such an onslaught of pro-homosexual/drag queen bills being rammed through the House and...
By: Good As You
Hate Crimes Passes, Mixes With Iraq War Politics
2007-09-27 20:40:00 Dateline Washington… news via Log Cabin Republicans. Senate Approves Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Bill 60-39 - All Headline News Senate Democrats on Thursday morning passed by a 60-39 vote a hate crimes bill attached to the critical defense appropriations bill funding the Iraq War and Pentagon. The bill incorporates violent crimes against gays into the federal hate crimes laws. The ...
By: GayPatriot
Russian Hate Crimes Finally Punished
2007-09-26 19:06:00 An ongoing legacy of the authoritarian ethnocentrism policies of the Putin administration is fostering hate crimes in Russia. Africans, Armenians, and members of other ethnic groups who come to large cities like Moscow encounter discrimination, hatred, and even death. A few months ago, a jury in the Moscow Region Court found a man innocent of ...
UK: Racist thugs urinated on worshippers? belongings in mosque
2007-09-04 18:01:00 Two racist thugs who crept into a mosque and urinated on worshippers' belongings as they prayed are being hunted by UK police.
Neo-Nazi ex-leader sentenced
2007-08-18 13:37:00 The former leader of a West Virginia-based neo-Nazi group will spend seven years in federal prison for civil rights violations he committed in Utah.
Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Bill Does Not Limit Free Speech
2007-08-12 00:00:00 The religious right ran a full-page ad in USA Today last week repeating the falsehood that the hate-crimes bill named for Matthew Shepard, now before the U.S. Senate, limits religious speech, particularly silencing those who believe that faith demands condemnation of homosexual people.... Read more!
By: Gay Blog Ruffian
News & Current Events :: Bush Pledges to Veto Homosexual Hate-Crimes Legisl
2007-08-09 21:33:00 Author: Eric Subject: Bush Pledges to Veto Homosexual Hate-Crimes LegislationPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:33 pm (GMT -4) Bush Pledges to Veto Homosexual Hate-Crimes Legislation Elizabeth O'Brien WASHINGTON, D.C., August 8, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As the contentious "hate crime" legislation that would add sexual orientation as a specially protected class is put before the Senate, after being passed in the House of Representatives, Bush has promised to veto the proposed bill should the Senate vote in its favor, the Washington Times reports Democratic Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Republican Oregan Senator Gordon Smith reintroduced the "hate crime" bill, also known as the "Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act" into the Senate this July, buried as one of many amendments to the Defense Reauthorization bill. The bill's inclusion in the Defense Reauthorization bill forces Bush to choose between denying extra ...
Hate Crimes (WU)
2007-08-05 21:44:00 What, could someone possibly explain to me, is the difference between a "hate crime" and a run of the mill murder, and why is one worse than the other? Please don't give me the legal difference -- that much I get. What I don't understand is why every murder isn't classified as a hate crime. read more
By: Communati.com
Hate-crime arrests in Quran desecrations at Pace University
2007-07-30 02:41:00 A 23-year-old man was arrested Friday on hate-crime charges after he threw a Quran in a toilet at Pace University on two separate occasions, police said.
Personal Threats From Atheist (Beast)
2007-07-28 00:18:00 I just received the following threat from Beast, (Roy Chui), from http://atheisthaven.blogspot.co-m/."Tim:If you don't want to be abuse, try not to make me abuse you.I don't wish to reiterate the same old s--t, only for you to revert back to your original claim.You know shit about me. If you stand in front of me, I will wack your f--king face so flat your mother won't recognize you. "Is it really necessary to visit my blog and tell me that you want to abuse me and wack my face flat? Or comments like, "F--k you."?Do other Atheists believe this to be the norm or proper character of an Atheists or person in general, to visit another's blog and threaten them?Could this be the beginning of a "hate crime"?Honestly, Beast, continue with this type of comments, and I will certainly reject all further comments of yours and forward, if necessary, the comments to necessary persons.Don't take this as a threat, but as asking you to show proper character and respect if you wish to continue to ...
False Prophet Kills Homosexual Claiming God Said To
2007-07-23 14:00:00 Again we have a misrepresentation of God and the New Testament Scripture concerning how we are to live our lives as Christians. Any honest Christian or Atheist knows a person which claims ?I believe I'm Elijah, called by God to be a prophet?, going around planning and desiring to kill a homosexual (or anyone) with a desire as, ?I planned on sending him to hell?, is clearly confused to the Biblical message of Christ in the New Testament of Scripture.Scripture clearly notes that there are false prophets, false teachers, false Christs, and false doctrine which was even prevalent during the days of Christ. Interestingly noted is that this false prophet apparently said, ?God first commanded him to kill during a "visitation," or dream, while he was in prison in 2001.? Why would God make a ?house call? to give him a job opposed to what He has openly revealed in the New Testament? Sorry, that is not the character of God.Christians, we need to ensure that we follow the Scripture, by studyin...
Log Cabin: Senate Dems Hold Hate Crimes Hostage Over Iraq
2007-07-19 16:43:00 Yesterday, after Senate Democrats failed yet again to force surrender in Iraq…. Senate Majority Leader, and Baby-In-Chief, Harry Reid took his toys and went home: He pulled the Defense Authorization Bill entirely. So in one fell swoop, Reid put the truth to the lie that Congressional Democrats “support the troops”. He is now using the ...
By: GayPatriot
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