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Chris Smith: The enabling of high-tech to enable a dictatorship to find, apprehend, and incarcerate people of faith... calls out for…

On the recordFebruary 13, 2012
The enabling of high-tech to enable a dictatorship to find, apprehend, and incarcerate people of faith... calls out for this legislation.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith discusses the necessity of legislation to combat technology misuse by dictatorships.

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