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### This Is the Only Story Now

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## [Rights. Politics. SNAFU Deja Vu!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16326:rights-politics-snafu-deja-vu&catid=312)

The nation was beset with claims of Group Rights. The British insisted they had greater rights than the colonists and the White colonists claimed tha…

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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on October 01 2018.

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Written by Jeff Allen on October 01 2018.

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Written by Jay Handal on October 01 2018.

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Written by Paul Hatfield on October 01 2018.

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