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Tesla and Terrorism Nonsense

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2025
When Barbary Pirates demand a fee for allowing you to do business, it’s called ‘tribute money’. When the Mafia demands a fee for allowing you to do business, it’s called ‘the protection racket’. When the State demands a fee for allowing you to do business, it’s called ‘sales tax’.
– Jeff Daiell

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March 26, 2025
Tesla and Terrorism Nonsense
The 9/11 attacks provided the U.S. government with one of the greatest opportunities in U.S. history to destroy the freedom of the American people. Declaring a “war on terrorism,” federal officials seized upon the crisis to exercise omnipotent powers, purportedly to keep the nation “safe” from the terrorists who were supposedly hell-bent on coming to get us. In the process, the war-on-terrorism racket …
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