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What I Want To Know, Though, Is Why All Of A Sudden Is Everybody Acting Like Gangs Are Some New Phenomenon In This Country? Almost Everyone In America Is Affiliated With Some Kind Of Gang. We Got The Fbi, The Atf, The Police Departments, The Religious Groups, The Democrats And The Republicans. Everybody's Got Their Own Little Clique And They're All Out There Gangbanging In Their Own Little Way.

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What I Want To Know, Though, Is Why All Of A Sudden Is Everybody Acting Like Gangs Are Some New Phenomenon In This Country? Almost Everyone In America Is Affiliated With Some Kind Of Gang. We Got The Fbi, The Atf, The Police Departments, The Religious Groups, The Democrats And The Republicans. Everybody's Got Their Own Little Clique And They're All Out There Gangbanging In Their Own Little Way.

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