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    Boing Boing‏Verified account @BoingBoing 15 Oct 2017

    Puerto Rico's streets crawl with heavily armed, masked mercenaries bearing no insignia or nametags https://boingboing.net/2017/10/15/katrina-rerun.html …pic.twitter.com/DpJtMxmPBf

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      1. eli's dog,farf,is in Heaven‏ @farfnme 15 Oct 2017
        Replying to @BoingBoing

        Well, when you're too old for comic books,and too scary for ComicCon, there's always the Mercenary Armies... big guns,small "D"'s,masks,toys

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      2. ben‏ @worldpeace 15 Oct 2017
        Replying to @BoingBoing

        It’s called security. They’re contractors.

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      3. chris‏ @chrisspencer117 16 Oct 2017
        Replying to @worldpeace @BoingBoing

        Yeah most civilian security look kind of like thispic.twitter.com/mRUP7jmO2c

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      4. ben‏ @worldpeace 16 Oct 2017
        Replying to @chrisspencer117 @BoingBoing

        Interesting question. Given the blurring of the line between military and police, I don’t know if this is true anymore.

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      1. Chad‏ @generalchad 15 Oct 2017
        Replying to @BoingBoing

        I see 3 insignias and a badge. wtf

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      1. enderspel‏ @enderspel 15 Oct 2017
        Replying to @BoingBoing @aliesbati

        Seem lik a good example what is neccessary in Swedish Suburbs to get control of our territory again. Blended with temp. national emergency.

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      1. ellèmayo‏ @anchorbabyvevo 15 Oct 2017
        Replying to @BoingBoing @MADdelaRosa

        2017 is the year America insisted on proving why it deserves to get Dresden’d.

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      1. chris‏ @chrisspencer117 15 Oct 2017
        Replying to @BoingBoing @domainawareness

        One of them does have some insignia looks like an @Australia or #newzeland flag on his cap

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      2. Мungo номер пять‏ @Mungo_5 15 Oct 2017
        Replying to @BoingBoing @neilrbrts

        International conventions forbid the use of shotguns against enemy combatants, but they're fine against your own citizens.

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      3. chris‏ @chrisspencer117 15 Oct 2017
        Replying to @Mungo_5 @BoingBoing @neilrbrts

        Do they semi automatic shotguns were used heavily by coalition forces in Afghanistan.

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      1. Gambino 🇺🇸‏ @UrFriendlyGiant 15 Oct 2017
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        What the heck.

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