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		e3pi on June 2, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What is Happening in Istanbul? We Americans may be allowed to own gas masks, but we are not allowed to wear them. I was at WTO `Battle in Seattle', protesters were arrested for wearing them, individuals had their gas masks brutally removed then pepper sprayed in the face.

petsos on June 3, 2013 [–]

Thank God for not being a police state dystopia like Singapore.

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