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Old 10-11-2013, 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by mpholland View Post
I'll bet that was good for the environment.
Scuttlebutt at the time was that Nixon (founder of the EPA) personally ordered the dozers in rather than a fleet of towtrucks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_May_Day_Protests

Looks like it was almost 13,000 arrested not 30,000.
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