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If you read the chain of posts I directly responded to, then there's nothing vague about what I said. Here, I'll help you out:

That chain was in response to:

    >> We can not allow the FBI to work for Evil here

    > Historically speaking I can't see this as even being in the top 100 evil things the FBI has done.

    Perhaps, but we can't change the past: we can only fight against what is happening in the present to try to get a better future.
So in that context, there's nothing "vague" about my somewhat tongue-in-cheek response. Neither, you'll find, is there any attempt by me to say that one SHOULDNT stop the FBI from doing anything bad.

The pushback, by other chap & me, is about quantifying this particular misdeed as "evil", showing a remarkable lack of acknowledgement about the many, many, many other things the FBI has done (from its inception as a personal blackmailing operation by Hoover against US politicians - ring any bells?) and is doing, which are far, far worse than this "bad thing".



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