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We are in a degenerate state of self-government. In fact, even to use the words self-government, is not only an exaggeration, it's a lie. It's a big lie!

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That's another step forward in creating a nation of sheep in a totalitarian state, saying, "Yes sir, yes sir! Is that what you want? Do it to me again!" By the time they graduate, kids won't even know they have rights. They'll be little stooges for a fascist state.

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The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead, we have something that seems very kind and benign and technical; the injection of chemicals, Nazi-style.

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Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.

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Some of the same rhetoric used by the law-and-order crowd has been used by authoritarian states over and over again.

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The way people are treated in them [prisons] is very similar to gulags.

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Born: April 7, 1938 (age 87)
Bio: Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr. is an American politician and lawyer who has been serving as the 39th Governor of California since 2011.
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