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Director @GoodLawProject . Barrister. Live your values. Fight the power. Keep the receipts. He/him.
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Liz Truss' budget means that those earning a million a year will have £54,400 extra in their pockets after tax and NICs. For those earning £25,000, the equivalent figure is about £280.
Hard to imagine a worse response to a cost of living crisis.
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Coming up: the most extraordinary thread I’ve ever written. On how we blew over £150m and Andrew Mills (a Government adviser) seems to have made a fortune.
But let’s start with introductions. THREAD /1
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I’ve written before about how a company with connections to Number 10, Priti Patel, and Matt Hancock came to win a £100m facemask contract at superhigh prices – but we’ve had a further disturbing leak. 🧵
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Remember the story of Matt Hancock and Alex Bourne, the publican turned medical equipmemt supplier, a photo of whose pub Mr Hancock kept on his office wall?
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The only countries ever to leave the European Convention on Human Rights are Greece, temporarily, after a military coup, and Russia, after invading Ukraine. In case you were wondering what kind of company we'd be in if we left.
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Thoughts with
@Ed_Miliband
who waited seven and a half years to send this tweet. And still went too early.
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Before we get too superior, our Prime Minister (chosen by fewer than 160,000 members of the Conservative Party) suspended the elected legislature when it became inconvenient to him.
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Let's be clear here. The reason why the Mail and the BBC and the Tories are going after
@AngelaRayner
is because she is a formidable politician, and a threat, and they want to neutralise her.
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Awful to watch those brave people getting arrested in Russia for protesting against their Government. Here, our Government has just pushed through laws which allow them to arrest us for protesting against ours.
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We've had a massive data dump about the Government's illegal VIP lane. Expect some fireworks.
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We've done a pretty thorough sweep of Tory Russian donors declared with the Electoral Commission and, we believe, not even one is on the Government's sanctions list.
Wouldn't want to bite the hand that feeds, I guess.
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The Tories - tough with
😡 nurses
😡 refugees
😡 rail workers
😡 climate change protestors
- easy with
😘 tax evaders
😘 PPE VIPs
😘 sewage dumpers
😘 lying ex PMs
Strong with the weak and weak with the strong.
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If residents of Grenfell Tower want legal help with compensation and responsibility many lawyers will be happy to help. For free. I will.
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To all those journalists who are calling Johnson a liar now. Why didn't you call him a liar then? During the referendum? In the Prorogation? During Covid? That was your job - not kicking him now because he's finished. We've paid a terrible price because you didn't do it.
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Message to Lewis Hamilton. Loving your country, deserving a knighthood, means more than draping yourself in its flag. It means paying your taxes so its children can be educated and its elderly can be looked after.
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor": Desmond Tutu, RIP.
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Genuinely shocked at how much damage to public confidence in policing and the rule of law the top brass at the Met are prepared to do to avoid an embarrassing confrontation with the criminals at Number 10.
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When Cummings didn't go we all learned we didn't need to abide by the law. If Jenrick doesn't go we will learn too that political corruption doesn't matter. This is the country Johnson is making for us. A cesspool.
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RT if you supported Remain and think Boris Johnson should apologise for comparing you to Russians invading Ukraine.
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I pray that this country I love will never again see the likes of Braverman in high office.
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Good morning from a country where the Government made a Manifesto promise to "keep our existing energy cap and introduce new measures to lower bills" then lifted the energy price cap so bills rose 54% with further huge rises to come.
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The High Court has found that the Government's VIP lane - that channelled riches to its friends, donors and associates - was illegal.
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Is there anyone in the country who believes Kwarteng did not give inside information to his hedge fund pals and they did not trade on it?
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The thing is, the law can't stop protest. All it can do is criminalise the people for doing it. That's the path this Government has chosen. As intolerant, autocratic governments do.
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Quite a precedent to set - you can commit a crime, be a hypocrite, lie about it to Parliament, all whilst Prime Minister, and still not need to resign.
Where do we go from here?
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The annual cost of doubling the pay rise for the UK's 670,000 nurses from 1% to 2% (£174m) is less than the amount we wasted on unusable FFP2 facemasks for the Govt's VIP lane favourites Ayanda and Pestfix (£204m).
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So, instead, the Government gave the contract to their pal via Alpha Laboratories in such a way that you were supposed never to find out.
Except for the work done by the Guardian - oh, and that small bird.
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Why we are referring a series of transactions involving the Prime Minister's advisor Munira Mirza, Priti Patel and Matt Hancock to the Serious Fraud Office. THREAD.
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We have now had advice from our QC and junior. We will be sending a further judicial review pre-action protocol letter to the Met in relation to the apparent failures in its investigation into the Prime Minister later this week.
EXCL:
@ITVNews
has obtained pictures of Boris Johnson drinking at a No10 party during lockdown in November 2020.
The photos cast fresh doubt on the PM's repeated claims he was unaware of rule-breaking in No10 during the pandemic.
See all images here:
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Annual cost of helping 23,000 hugely wealthy families by abolishing inheritance tax: £7.1bn
Annual cost of lifting 250,000 children out of poverty and reducing poverty for a further 850,000, by abolishing two child benefit cap: £1.3 billion.
We have the wrong priorities.
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Yesterday we issued proceedings in the High Court against
@michaelgove
. You can read those proceedings, which allege both breaches of procurement law and apparent bias in the grant of a lucrative contract to longtime associates of Mr Cummings, here:
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Absolutely despicable of
@bbcquestiontime
. A fortnight after Hartley Brewer published the address of my family home, in a week in which she knew I had received death threats, our notional public service broadcaster puts her on its flagship.
Shame on it. Shame on it.
Here’s our panel in Beckenham tomorrow night. We’ve got
@grantshapps
,
@lisanandy
,
@TheoPaphitis
@GreenRupertRead
and
@JuliaHB1
. See you at 10:35pm on
@BBCOne
#bbcqt
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It's time for Tory MPs to say who they stand with - their constituents who made enormous sacrifices or the Prime Minister who laughs at them for doing so.
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The blunder the BBC is making is believing it can appease the Right. It can't - the Right wants the BBC to fail and always has. But by trying to appease the Right the BBC is alienating the Centre and the Left who once wanted it to thrive. And is signing its own death warrant.
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The Government has now lost five votes in the Lords on its authoritarian attempt to criminalise protest. Authority draining away?
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BREAKING: Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former Health Minister Matt Hancock broke the law because they didn’t think about disabled and ethnic minority communities in appointing Dido Harding and Mike Coupe.
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Government hammers us however it can. Threats to refer me to the regulator, complaints to the court, blatant lies, dishonest press briefings, vague allegations of wrong-doing, pressure on judges, attacks in Parliament, vast costs bills. But we're still here. I'm still here.
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Students are now paying interest rates of between 7.1% and 10.1% on their student debt. We must really hate our children.
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The only thing we can say with confidence about what Johnson will tell MPs tomorrow is that it will not be true.
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Amazing that some ex-Ministers, whose term in office was measured in hours, plan to collect three months Ministerial salary from the public purse for their self-serving publicity stunts. The staggering greed.
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Not good that the House of Commons has become a place where lies go unpunished but the truth cannot be told.
Breaking:
Courageous Labour MP
@DawnButlerBrent
has just been told to leave the Chamber by Deputy Speaker for raising my film which public have sent to 27 MILLION VIEWS in protest at Prime Ministers rampant lying in Parliament & calling PM a lier
Thank you for your courage Dawn
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So the guy who gave Boris Johnson a vintage watch and got made Charity Commission Chair despite multiple allegations of misconduct, including sending lingerie photos to female colleagues, has quit.
Another scalp for
@GoodLawProject
; nice to finish the year as we started it.
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And to round it all off, the BBC is now both-sidesing domestic violence.
There is no "context" to punching your wife in the face. Get in the bin.
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The front pages of the Metro, i, Financial Times, Times, Telegraph, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Mirror, Daily Star and Sun all appeared in "The Papers" section of the BBC News app this morning.
But this one, from the Guardian, did not. I wonder why?
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In a way, what the Met has permitted, parallel criminal law regimes, a normal one for normal people, and a special one for special people, is as profound an attack on the rule of law as Johnson's suspension of Parliament was on democracy.
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I was wondering what kind of a 'Christian' you'd have to be to look at people not having food to eat and be outraged that UNICEF was feeding them. But then I remembered when Rees-Mogg said that the people who died at Grenfell died because they lacked his commonsense.
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Am told Wetherspoon will now pay enployees after all. Calling these dreadful people out, and threatening them with the law, does work. We at
@GoodLawProject
will next turn our attention to their treatment of their suppliers.
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Yesterday I was asked if it was reasonable to be scared by the Tories' plans. Well, Rishi Sunak has put out a press release, naming me (and no one else) *ten* times. So, yes, they are explicitly targeting their critics. And who knows where this goes?
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The journey that began with Boris Johnson backing Dominic Cummings over his trips to Durham and Barnard Castle reached a destination today. The rules never apply to them.
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Worth noting: Government spent more money on lawyers defending its unlawful award of a contract to Public First than the actual value of the contract. Its own costs were over half a million for a one day judicial review. Extraordinary stuff.
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I guess, if you were told you couldn't hold your Mum's hand as she died you'd find this less funny than Downing Street does.
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Funny how there's no end of police resource when it comes to peaceful protestors. And bugger all when it comes to investigating criminality at Number 10.
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Good morning in a country which may have criminals in Cabinet but whose voters aren't allowed to know.
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Excuse me,
@pritipatel
, but have you decided which VIP will get the contract to fly refugees to Rwanda?
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I think it's safe to predict that 2022 will be the year that sees this dishonest Government - and the PR team which masquerades as an independent media - turn its guns straight at
@GoodLawProject
.
We're ready. We're not going away.
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Does anyone else think it's weird to spend about the same moving a single refugee to Rwanda as we spend educating a child through all six years of primary school? Wouldn't the money be better spent on schools?
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I may have won 11-0 in the Supreme Court but I still got sent out in the pissing rain by my notionally loving family to lock up the chickens.
Night all.
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Herd immunity wouldn't have been our strategy if the virus had targeted Etonians and bankers rather than working class and poorer people.
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How many times must we go through this before, y'know, voters get a say?
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We think Boris Johnson broke the law when he gave a huge Tory donor a seat in the House of Lords. And we're suing him.
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Three immutable truths about Brexit.
(1) It can't be stopped.
(2) It was never legitimate.
(3) It will be reversed.
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We are struggling to understand this and have instructed lawyers to write a further letter to the Metropolitan Police asking for an explanation. We will, of course, publish that letter.
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The question is not *why* Michelle Mone got £29m of your money. The question is *how* Michelle Mone got £29m of your money.
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The truth is, the Met don't want to investigate. The real question is, why?
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We have had a massive data leak relating to PPE contracts. Today we can reveal the true number of PPE VIPs was not 47 or 50, as Government had previously said, but 68. Almost £1bn more was awarded through the VIP lane. They have misled everyone.
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Patriotic isn't about a poppy. Patriotic is about paying your taxes so your country can educate its children and care for its elderly.
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The personal attacks from
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
won't make the scrutiny of his Government's misspending go away. They reveal merely how much his Government abhors what scrutiny represents.
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Rishi Sunak is in charge of tax policy. And he has a conflict of interest when it comes to making choices about who and how to tax because his wife is vastly wealthy and a non-dom.
But, really, it's worse. He has chosen to raise taxes in ways that protect vastly wealthy people.
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If the police turned up at your door to investigate whether you had committed a criminal offence they wouldn't go away because you said you had asked a colleague to carry out an inquiry.
Why are they doing that for Johnson? Isn't the law supposed to be the same for everyone?
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I have a question for the parents of white school age daughters. Can you imagine your daughter being strip searched at school while she was on her period? Can you imagine police asking to do it? Can you imagine teachers permitting it?
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There is one sector - only one - in which the United Kingdom is actually world-leading. It's the arts - and this Government is actively trying to destroy it.
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And now reports suggest they are furiously destroying the evidence, whilst the police refuse to investigate. Truly sickening.
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How on earth, if you're the senior civil servant in the country, do you agree to investigate whether parties have been held where you know you've held one of your own?
I mean, you can't put it down to stupidity. What's left to blame it on, beyond amazing arrogance?
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BREAKIING: The High Court has ruled Michael Gove broke the law in awarding a contract to his associates at Public First. The Court ruled a reasonable observer would think there was a real risk Public First won the contract because of favouritism.
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Today is a good day to remember the Government's decisions to criminalise those protesting the destruction of the planet and give tax relief to those destroying it.
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"Alleluia" says Jacob Rees-Mogg. Your actions are the "opposite of the nature of God" says the Head of the Church.
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We are today able to publish full leaked details of the PPE VIP lane - and, my goodness, the Tory VIPs have made out like bandits.
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We are already pursuing a
Government over the £108m PPE contracts it said it entered into with a chocolatier and a supplier of pigeon netting.
I know there's only so much of this weirdness you can take but here are two more.
First Aventis Solutions Limited.
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Has Dominic Cummings talked yet about the period of time he spent in Russia, before he delivered the Brexit that has caused immense harm to the United Kingdom?
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People Jacob Rees Mogg has sneered at (an incomplete list). Those
😐who burned to death in Grenfell Tower
😐who socially distance
😐who wear face masks
😐elected as Scottish conservatives
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Labour should announce that, if elected, it would conduct a full review into contracts awarded by this Government above, say, £100m in value and, where they were improperly awarded, recover all profits from those who benefitted.
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For an MP to be bullied or intimidated might or might not be a normal part of modern political life. For an MP to be told on a Minister's behalf that his constituents won't get public money unless the MP votes with the Party is unlawful and very probably criminal.
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🧵 We are expecting to issue proceedings against the Met in relation to its refusal to investigate the parties at Number 10 whilst the country was in lock down. More details here 🧵
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Lots of things not illegal are still immoral. Like forcing children into poverty, making pensioners live in the cold and failing to pay your fair share in taxes. This Government does them all.
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What's the end point for a country ruled by a Government that has become indifferent to breaches of the rule of law?
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Not sure how Boris Johnson, whose lover was paid with public money, sacks Matt Hancock for paying his lover with public money. But they are both all kinds of sleazy.
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If Ministers don't see the UK as their home we should know. So, how many Ministers are non-doms?
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It's all very well William Wragg urging fellow Tory MPs to refer blackmail (or misconduct in public office) to the police. But can we have confidence they will investigate?
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The Met has, at last, admitted it didn't send questionnaires to the PM. But it still hasn't explained how it decided not to fine him. So we're proceeding with our case, alongside
@brianpaddick
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Ministers don't apologise for lying and Charities do apologise for telling the truth. Welcome to the upside down world of Tory Britain.
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Soon, a leader who wasn't elected of a Government without a majority will promise an outcome that can't be delivered to a group that isn't representative then impose it on a public that doesn't want it.
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Bet they still trouser their pay-cheques. Grubby little hypocrites.
Brexiteer MEPs turning their backs during the playing of the European anthem in Strasbourg:
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National insurance, unlike income tax, isn't paid on unearned income. Raising national insurance, rather than income tax, is a choice to favour people who don't have to work for a living.
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We've cracked.
We won't stand and watch as Boris Johnson hangs, on Govt's own figures, £100bn+ of debt around our childrens' necks without consulting either Govt's own expert body or seeking the consent of Parliament. So we've issued proceedings.
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So you're worth gazillions. How do you look at a pot of money notionally for communities that have none and think to yourself, "I know what! A third of a million of that can be used to fix my driveway!"
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The killings in Israel were appalling. But they were not by the population of Gaza. I desperately hope I am wrong. But I fear the world is about to stand by, and many will cheer, as a State commits an atrocity of generational proportions against innocents.
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