US college students hunker down in tents as Pro-Palestinian protests continue | ABS-CBN News
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Up, up, up, up with liberation!
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We're anti-war in this country!
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We're anti-war in this country!
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We are the people too!
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We won't be violent or brave!
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Up for violence now, now, now, now!
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We are the people too!
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We won't get the holy chronic peace!
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The more they fight in silence,
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The stronger we will be!
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Palestine will be free!
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Let's get our energy up!
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We're locked up guys!
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I was wondering if you could talk more about what you, what was the significance of your success.
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We want Emerson College
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Number one, call for an immediate cease fire in Gaza.
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Number two, to disclose all financial investments in Zionist organisations.
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Number three, to divest from those organisations.
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organizations. Number four, to drop
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all charges against students for disciplinary
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I want Emerson to listen to the students,
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hear them, understand
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their perspective.
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for discussion of Palestine,
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the discussion of the genocide
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in Palestine, in Gaza,
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the student to express themselves.
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Freedom of speech, academic freedom.
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Freedom of speech, academic freedom.
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Freedom of speech, academic freedom.
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Freedom of speech, academic freedom.
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Freedom of speech, academic freedom.
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Freedom of speech, academic freedom.
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advocating for Hamas, advocating
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they were just chanting, you know,
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we don't want no Tuesday, we want all of it,
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right? They want to destroy, attack Israel.
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You have freedom of speech, but I don't think on a private college campus you can call for killing and attacking Jews in a Jewish country
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without saying that's hate speech and that's violating the codes of conduct of the campus.
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So I think it's really upsetting and disturbing.
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Bye guys. Good luck. Stay safe.
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My mother was in a concentration camp and she always told me as a young child,
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it's never a matter of if there will be a Holocaust, it's only a matter of when.
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She was able to survive the camps. She saw her entire family burned in front of her.
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My father's story is a little different, also why I'm here.
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My father was in hiding. He was kept by Catholics.
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His story is very famous. It's in Yad Vashem. It's in Washington Holocaust Museum.
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My cousins were the narrators at the Holocaust Museum.
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So all three of those are the reasons that I'm here today.
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Ideally, now that things have been falling apart, the university president should resign
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for the good of the city, the good of the state, the good of the country,
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and probably the good of the world so that reasonable people can sit down at the same,
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table and try to begin to decipher a problem that's been there for many, many years.
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It didn't happen overnight. People should be allowed to have diverse opinions,
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but it should never lead to violence and should never lead to threats.
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I'm for free speech and I'm for free press, free speech,
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and I think college campuses are the most important place for that.
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And Columbia has a history of advocacy, so as long as it's peaceful, I'm for it.
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This is a stain that historically, it will go down in history as an embarrassing time to New York.
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I want to also make sure that as ridiculous as these people are across the street,
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as offensive as these people are, I want to make sure that as ridiculous as these people are across the street,
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I want to make sure that as ridiculous as these people are across the street,
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agenda number one through 133 is to free our hostages.
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That's right. That's right.
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Bring them home. Bring them home. Bring them home.
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That is the most important thing. These are bullies.
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These are bullies. These are cowards.
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These are pathetic, low-life scumbags.
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That's as bad as I'm going to curse. It's embarrassing.
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President Shafiq, shame on you.
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Shame on you for not protecting these students.
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Shame on you for letting these protesters and these thugs to take over your university.
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If the president of this university is failing to keep students safe,
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well then she shouldn't be eligible for any federal aid coming into this university.
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And we will continue to fight that good fight.
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Every single one of these college and university presidents,
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who refuse to take action,
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should immediately resign in disgrace.
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And if they don't resign, their asses should be thrown out.
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I have never seen a more disgraceful act than what we are seeing on college campuses right now.
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What we are seeing on these campuses
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is an absolute abomination.
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These children that are engaged in this anti-Semitic hate
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should be expelled immediately.
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We have seen encouraging statements, we've seen encouraging actions,
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and we have seen communication.
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I think it is very easy and very politically expedient
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for people to just simply call for the resignation of their students.
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I think that is the only way out of anyone who does not do exactly right in every situation.
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That is not the way that we want to operate.
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We do not believe that the problem is with every single president.
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We believe it is a systemic problem that needs to have leadership
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and needs to have people working together,
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both elected representatives and members of the administrations of academic institutions,
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to combat what is this dramatic rise of anti-Semitism
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and a feeling of injustice.
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insecurity from Jews on campus.
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to take the right action? Are they going to clear
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the campus? Are they going to let Jewish students
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and professors go to class and
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teach? That's their test.
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So yeah, I think the pressure is on for the
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University President to step up and act.
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And I think there has to be accountability.
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We've seen good steps forward, but the
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bottom line is, we're going to be watching every single one.
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Thursday, April 18,
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remembered as a shameful day
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in Columbia's history.
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The President's decision
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to send riot police
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peaceful protesters
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was unprecedented,
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disproportionate,
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I know these folks.
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And you know them too.
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That's not who we are. And you should know that.
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The United States has the greatest
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colleges and universities in the world.
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And that's why people come from
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to research here,
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and to teach here.
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That's our inheritance.
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And we would be fools not to defend
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it in every corner,
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quarter, for those who
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in the academic mission,
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the pursuit of academic excellence.
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We demand that all
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Barnard College and Columbia University
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suspensions and charges
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be dismissed immediately
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from the students' records.
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And that all rights and privileges
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be restored to them immediately.
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We demand that no disciplinary action
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be taken against any student protesters
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without due process
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and that no police be permitted on campus
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without serious consultation
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with the Executive Committee
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of the University Senate.
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Share governance, students' rights,
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and the University's absolute obligation
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to defend students' freedom of speech
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and ensure their safety.
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We will not stop!
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We will not stop!
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We will not stop!
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We will not stop!
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We will not stop!
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We will not stop!
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We will not stop!
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We will not stop!
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We will not stop!
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You should speak, you are a liar!
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You set Palestine on fire!
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You set Palestine on fire!
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education comes from
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the Latin educare
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are we leading our students
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by police officers
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that they encountered students
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demonstrating peacefully
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and present danger
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to themselves or others
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where are we leading
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to police stations
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I think that we're at a pivotal moment
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in this university
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and it's very important for
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defend the university in the way
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that our president did not
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to stand up for our students
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to stand up for our university
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to stand up for shared faculty and student governance
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to stand up for academic freedom
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lots of things we're standing up for
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but without taking a position on the conflict
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that's ruling our campus
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or the conflict in the middle east
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this is about us standing up for
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the vision of the university
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that we hope our leadership would share
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people everywhere
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the University who have come from all of these families
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to fight for difference
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So, what is it about supporting Hamas
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that you guys support?
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I support instead of our students
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I support peacemakers
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People that support Hamas or peacemakers?
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Gotta get rid of the whole damn system
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Gotta get rid of the whole damn system
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Gotta get rid of the whole damn system
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Gotta get rid of the whole damn system
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Gotta get rid of the whole damn system
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Get rid of the whole damn system!
