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Reader's Write: Government offers solutions to pubic problems

During the course of recorded history there has been the rise and fall of empires and such as Attila and the Huns and Genghis Kahn along with the hordes rampaging across Eurasia. Then came the Crusades which were so much head bashing in the Middle East. Then the Inquisition with stretching on the rack and whatever else with the purpose of squeezing some juice of belief from so-called heretics. Here in our country was the clearing of the land of brush, trees, wildlife and the natives who for as far as we know called it home from the beginning of time. Now we are dealing with Jihad and terrorism.

posted: May 09
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