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Old 09-07-2012, 05:53 PM
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Just started reading "Someplace like America". Fascinating. He speaks of how the book was named in the Preface. He was camped out with some homeless people, squatting in a public park in California back in 2003, when cops with batons already drawn and helmets on emerged at 3 a.m. and began beating people as they scattered. (One woman was killed, still in her slleping bag, and the case never even made to the news.) Later, he asked "Red" the Vietnam Vet, "How can something like this happen?" Reds reply; "What? In someplace like America, where even homeless people are supposed to have inaliable rights? Happens every day, man."

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