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Eric Garland of Des Peres, Missouri is a strategic intelligence consultant.

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We Are Not Occupying America -- They Are
Americans generally are unused to images from the Occupy protests being domestic ones. Grandmothers and unarmed college students pepper-sprayed with alarming casualness. Reporters singled out and beaten. Veterans returning from war in Iraq only to be gravely injured trying to exercise the precious liberties for which they supposedly risked life and limb.
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