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Orange Alert Sirens To Blow 24 Hours A Day In Major Cities

Funny story from the onion, but it sort of makes a good point. After reading some of the responses to the passing of the patriot act on this and other online fourms, i begin to wonder if many of you would actually think any differently about the sirens then the woman interviewed in the story.

Assume the us government really did want to implement measures like this - would you tolerate it?
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They're gonna use sirens?
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it's from the onion.

it's satire.

but i like the point they're making. if sirens were implemented, most amerikans would probably defend them.
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I'd move to Vancouver.
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i'd go with you, even though I'm already in Canada... i wanna see BC :nod:
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The Onion is great... my brother has a book full of a lot of their stories.

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