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Donald M. Payne: “So I just do think that tasering is an apt description because at the end of the day, it is the people that we care so…”

On the recordDecember 7, 2011
So I just do think that tasering is an apt description because at the end of the day, it is the people that we care so much for, the democracy activists, the people who believe in freedom, who are getting tasered by these by the secret police courtesy of high tech companies here and abroad.
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Donald M. Payne
New Jersey

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Payne compares high-tech repression to tasering of activists by secret police.

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