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Liberals Paint Health-Reform Protesters As Dangerous Nuts
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Posted on 08/04/2009 9:41:45 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Liberals Paint Health-Reform Protesters As Dangerous Nuts Tuesday, August 04, 2009 By Susan Jones, Senior Editor

(CNSNews.com) – Democrats have a warning for Republicans: Angry constituents who berate their congressional representatives at public forums are “dangerous” people.

“These are the sort of excessive displays that breed a backlash,” wrote a Politico.com blogger on Monday. The national press secretary for the Democratic National Committee linked to the Politico item in a mass email on Tuesday, effectively endorsing the blogger’s message.

“Yes, there is now much energy on the right,” Politico’s Jonathan Martin wrote on Monday afternoon, adding “there is danger in such raw passion.”

Martin mentions Rep. Lloyd Doggett’s recent encounter with protesters at an Austin area grocery store. Some of his constituents were captured on videotape shouting “just say no” (to the Democrats’ health care plan).

Two minutes into the YouTube video of the Doggett protest “you’ll find a guy carrying a kid on his shoulders and hoisting a sign with the Nazi ‘SS’ lettering,” Martin wrote. (The hand-lettered sign appears to read “SS Stop SS Socialized” ?? health care.)

The New York Times quoted Doggett as saying that he was “ambushed,” not by grass-roots protesters, but by “a very coordinated effort where the local Republican Party, the local conservative meet-up groups sent people to my event.”

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1 posted on 08/04/2009 9:41:46 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

People with nothing left to lose are not to be trifled with.


2 posted on 08/04/2009 9:43:21 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Sub-Driver

You ain’t seen nothing yet!


3 posted on 08/04/2009 9:44:05 AM PDT by devistate one four (Back by popular demand: America love or leave it (GTFOOMC) TET68)
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To: Sub-Driver
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The Brown Shirt (BS) Media strikes again!

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4 posted on 08/04/2009 9:44:58 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: Sub-Driver
They are so afraid of the people...and the truth.

Precisely why we need to keep hammering them mercilessly over this monstrsity.

Here is a link to the full House Democrat Health Care Plan in PDF. In Section 1233 E & F, pages 426-433, you find the part about mandatory end-of-life counseling for anyone over 65 years of age. Section 152 Page 50: All healthcare services will be provided without regard to "personal characteristcs" which is not defined within the document but is understood to include immigration status.

Section 224 b Page 125: The Secretary shall design and implement the payment mechanisms and policies under this section in a manner that — (1) seeks to (B) reduce health disparities (including racial, ethnic and other disparities).

A lot more provisions now being documented at that site.

Donwload it, read it, study it, then hammer your reps over it and pass it on to all you know asking them to do the same.

HOUSE DEMOCRAT HEALTH CARE PLAN - http://www.jeffhead.com/DemHealthCare.htm

Also, here's a large image of the Democratic (Obama) Health Plan chart-another Obama empty promise. This is the one the House democrats are censuring. Email these links or the image to everyone you know.


Decmocrat (Obama) Health Plan
http://www.jeffhead.com/DemHealthCare.htm

Obama and all those pushing his radical agenda are abject marxist ideologues. Their "fundamental; change" is nothing more than a destruction of the American free market and fundamental republican principle.

A PETITION ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

A 4TH OF JULY TEA PARTY SPEECH

UNITED SOCIALIST STATES OF AMERICA - A SONG
By Ron and Kay Rivoli

...and on the lighter side, take your mind off the Obamanation for a few minutes and enjoy some beautiful Western US scenery slideshows.

JEFF HEAD'S WESTERN US SCENERY SLIDE SHOWS

5 posted on 08/04/2009 9:45:19 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Sub-Driver

Democrats want demure, compliant little subjects that wouldn’t dare question how they rule. They won you know!!!

52% to them means MANDATE! And not in the way Barry Soetoro would like!


6 posted on 08/04/2009 9:45:28 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: devistate one four

Ditto!


7 posted on 08/04/2009 9:45:41 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: Sub-Driver
THIS IS THE SOCIALIST HOSPITAL WORKERS UNION THUG LIAR , HUSSEIN BARAKAS POLITICAL DIRECTOR, THE GOEBBELS LIKE PROPAGANDIST WHO WRITES OBAMAS SPEECHES AND IS BEHIND THE SCENES PUSHING THE QUICK PASSAGE OF SOCIALIZED MEDICINE TO BENEFIT THE SEIU

Politicians and strategists praise Patrick Gaspard highly, although he stays away from the limelight.

"Patrick is the best political mind of his generation in New York and maybe the nation," says Kevin Sheekey, who as Michael Bloomberg's right-hand-man has frequently worked and battled with Gaspard.

"I wouldn't dispute that," said David Axelrod, Obama's chief strategist and Gaspard's cohort on the campaign trail. When reminded that such a title could be bestowed on Axelrod himself, the strategist said he was "happy to cede that" to Gaspard.

The Washington Post, among others, has announced that a longtime labor operative of Barack Obama's, Patrick Gaspard, will be named Obama's White House political director.

Gaspard served as national political director for much of Obama's general election campaign and was named deputy director of personnel for the transition effort. Prior to his work with Obama, Gaspard was the lead political operative for the 1199 branch of the Service Employees International Union, a huge and hugely influential union representing health care workers in New York. He spent the 2004 general election as the national field director for America Coming Together.

Gaspard was featured prominently in Ryan Lizza's recent New Yorker piece detailing how Obama won. Of his job interview with the Illinois Senator, Gaspard recalled Obama saying: "I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director."

8 posted on 08/04/2009 9:46:18 AM PDT by Rome2000 (Hussein Baraka Mook Kebba)
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To: Sub-Driver

Seems these days with libs, if you disagree with them you are nuts. Healthers are nuts, birthers are nuts....well, even some conservatives have latched on to that one....in any case, I guess if you don’t have a good counter argument just label your opponent nuts and be done with. Its easy and fun.


9 posted on 08/04/2009 9:47:28 AM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: Sub-Driver

I KNEW they would pull this. Said this on another thread just yesterday.

Hey, Congress? BIG MISTAKE! It will only strengthen our resolve. We know all the tactics.


10 posted on 08/04/2009 9:47:44 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey leftists.

Sucks to be you.

Get used to it.

We’ve had it with you.


11 posted on 08/04/2009 9:48:36 AM PDT by Yankee (Welcome to Obama's Fourth Reich.)
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To: Sub-Driver
OK then Congresspukes and Federal “Employee” Pukes it’n ya hate August then on 9/12 it will really suck to be you when almost 1 mil PISSED OFF US Taxpayers descend on DC.
12 posted on 08/04/2009 9:51:03 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: Sub-Driver

I’ve seen/heard/talked to Dangerous Nuts in DC at the anti-war protests “March on the Pentagon” and the Soros sponsored “March on the Capitol”.

You can Recognize these “nuts” from a distance.....I have NOT seen any Resemblence from watching Townhall Videos....looks like normal Americans defending their rights, to my eyes.


13 posted on 08/04/2009 9:51:22 AM PDT by 4Speed
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To: Sub-Driver

Activists on the left are called ‘community organizing’. Activists on the right are called ‘dangerous nuts’.


14 posted on 08/04/2009 9:51:22 AM PDT by Trust but Verify ( I am Jim Thompson!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Why So Socialist?


15 posted on 08/04/2009 9:51:28 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Sub-Driver

The Healthers are lying about those who protest Obamacare.

They say the protesters are being paid by The Party and The insurance industry.

The Healthers spin yarns of vast conspiracies.


16 posted on 08/04/2009 9:52:49 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Sub-Driver
no you fools the obama administration and all his followers are dangerous nuts..We are out to find the truth..Are these fools trying to start a race war?
17 posted on 08/04/2009 9:53:20 AM PDT by PLD
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To: Sub-Driver
Right. I bet that is what Custer said at Little Big Horn...right before all those Indians reminded him what an arrogant clown HE was.
18 posted on 08/04/2009 9:53:56 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: Sub-Driver

Well, we are dangerous to the democraps political future so in that sense we are dangerous.


19 posted on 08/04/2009 9:54:01 AM PDT by joinedafterattack
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To: Sub-Driver
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Sucks for Liberals when Conservative exercise their First Amendment rights.

20 posted on 08/04/2009 9:54:01 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: Sub-Driver

I will not be lectured by the same people who condoned this!!!


Hey, you liberal, lying KOOKS, KISS THIS...

21 posted on 08/04/2009 9:54:14 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: xcamel

Laura Ingraham was quoting some lib’s commentary on the picture of Obama as the new Joker. The commentary described how he was in “white face” with his mouth “cut”, etc etc calling it racist.

You officially cannot make parody images of Obamessiah now. It’s racist.

A chill wind blows.


22 posted on 08/04/2009 9:54:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Sub-Driver

“there is danger in such raw passion.”

So if the guys in ACORN, Americorps, Organizing For America or the camp attendees under Serve America Act get enthusiastic, will they be called “dangerous”?


23 posted on 08/04/2009 9:54:38 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: Sub-Driver

Americans who react to Socialized Medicare in the SAME manner are “Co-ordinated Republicans ?

Wow, Repub recruiting is WAY UP !


24 posted on 08/04/2009 9:54:38 AM PDT by 4Speed
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To: Sub-Driver

Sometimes you feel like a NUT

Sometimes you don’t.


25 posted on 08/04/2009 9:54:45 AM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: kcvl
The media and Democrats PROVIDED access credentials to Code Pink.
26 posted on 08/04/2009 9:55:18 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Sub-Driver

** ...a very coordinated effort where the local Republican Party,**

This is HIGHLY DOUBTFUL, BUT .. if coordination is true... “IT”S ABOUT DAMNED TIME” the GOP Grew a PAIR!!!


27 posted on 08/04/2009 9:55:20 AM PDT by gwilhelm56 (Orwell's 1984 - To Conservatives, a WARNING - to Liberals, a TEXTBOOK!)
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To: Sub-Driver

** ...a very coordinated effort where the local Republican Party,**

This is HIGHLY DOUBTFUL, BUT .. if coordination is true... “IT”S ABOUT DAMNED TIME” the GOP Grew a PAIR!!!


28 posted on 08/04/2009 9:55:35 AM PDT by gwilhelm56 (Orwell's 1984 - To Conservatives, a WARNING - to Liberals, a TEXTBOOK!)
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s very simple libs. Simply tell us exactly who these “plants” are working for. We have no problem finding out which Democrat your member of the “public” is being backed by when they appear at staged events.


29 posted on 08/04/2009 9:56:13 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: DBrow

New Black Panther Party members patroling with guns outside of a polling center on election day isn’t even considered “dangerous” or “intimidating” by this corrupt administration or their injustice department.


30 posted on 08/04/2009 9:56:39 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Sub-Driver
“These are the sort of excessive displays that breed a backlash,” wrote a Politico.com blogger on Monday.

You idiot, this IS the backlash.

31 posted on 08/04/2009 9:57:09 AM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’m flattered. I’ll have to ask Mrs WBill if she’s attracted to the “Dangerous Bad-Boy” type. :-)


32 posted on 08/04/2009 9:57:19 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

We are supposed to forget about all of the Democrat staffers who asked questions at the “undecided voter” GOP debates in 2008.


33 posted on 08/04/2009 9:57:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Since the beginning of this Country the left has done nothing but try to damage it, they are completely useless, Contribute nothing and are unneeded;Why then do we put up with them??
34 posted on 08/04/2009 9:59:11 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Sub-Driver

It sucks to be them since they SET THE STANDARD!

35 posted on 08/04/2009 9:59:37 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: US Navy Vet

Arkansas Congressman Boozman is ‘staying home with family’ during this recess. COWARD!

http://www.boozman.house.gov/

If anyone hears of a fundraiser he is having please let me know. I want to remind him that he doesn’t have time for the citizens of Arkansas (his employer) but I bet he has time for a fundraiser.


36 posted on 08/04/2009 10:04:00 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Sub-Driver
If you can't defeat the argument, attack your opponent.

The Whitehouse, the Democrat Party and the Mainstream Media (I repeat myself) are doing their best to spin this. This should be fun to watch, since many mainsteam American's are involved in this protest.

Even Americans who support some sort of health care reform can sense the Democrats are in too much of a hurry and are trying to pass a bill before the issues have been fully examined.

People sense something is wrong. They saw the big rush to pass the stimulus bill without reading the bill, and has seen no positive results in the economy. They saw the rush to pass "cap and trade" before anyone had a chance to read the bill.

Americans smell a rat and certainly don't trust politicians.

37 posted on 08/04/2009 10:04:13 AM PDT by Senator_Blutarski (No good deed goes unpunished.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Liberals best get use to it. It’s going to get worse as people really find out what’s going on in Washington. The internet not only helped get Obama elected, it will now help people see what he is really up to.


38 posted on 08/04/2009 10:05:08 AM PDT by RC2
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To: kcvl

“IMPEACH BUSH & CHANEY
CHANGE HISTORY”

Change history? Change history? What, did they create a time machine?

Revisionists at play.


39 posted on 08/04/2009 10:06:47 AM PDT by This Just In
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To: Sub-Driver

Not that it matters a lot, but aren’t these some of the same people who arranged for Code Pink protesters to get gallery tickets for GWBs SOU speeches several years in a row???

And now they want to dismiss the honest negative attention they are getting from their own costituents as organized protests? Sound like a classic case of projection to me.

I can’t help but want to scream ... So what?!?!
So what if people are getting together to plan and organize to make sure their voices are heard by every elected official they can find? Since when was that something to be maligned or dismissed? Is that not the very root of our democratic republic?

Even if these are in fact somewhat organized protests one would think the Dems would have great respect for the effort. Remember - “community organizer” is a sufficiently important and complex position to qualify one for a seat in the U.S. Senate and a 4 year stay at the WH.

But - it’s not that. It is by and large people who want to be heard and who want their representatives to know that they don’t support the further socialization of our country. And if they feel ‘threatened’ it is because they fear for their jobs. And they should. They’ve seen the numbers and none of them want to be out trying to find jobs in this market either...


40 posted on 08/04/2009 10:08:18 AM PDT by BlueNgold (... Feed the tree!)
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To: Sub-Driver

De-humanizing your enemies is a required step before you can send them to the concentration camps.

This “anyone who disagrees with us is a crazy lunatic” thing is really catching on with the lefties.


41 posted on 08/04/2009 10:08:52 AM PDT by kamikaze2000
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To: Sub-Driver

If Congressman Doggett and his comrades believe that this is not grassroots but just organized by local Republicans, I hope they remember it next November (2010) when they lose their jobs.


42 posted on 08/04/2009 10:09:16 AM PDT by mak5
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey Dems NEWSFLASH...it isn’t just the right who is upset! I guess you folks just don’t realize that with this one issue you have lost the independants, and moderate democrats and they are out there to voicing their opinions. These are the people you depend upon for being elected. Guess what pass this and I am afriad you WILL see danger! ‘Cause you ain’t seen nothing yet.


43 posted on 08/04/2009 10:09:41 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: a fool in paradise

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2008/07/bush-as-joker.html

Don’t recall any media outrage over the link above...do you?


44 posted on 08/04/2009 10:10:28 AM PDT by JrsyJack (There's a little Jim Thompson in all of us)
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To: anyone

But a guy that assaults President Bush by throwing his shoes at him is a liberal hero. I am tired of these hypocritical douchenozzles and their “free speech for me but not for thee” horse crap.


45 posted on 08/04/2009 10:10:30 AM PDT by guido911 (Islamic terrorists are members of the "ROP", the "religion of pu*&ies")
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To: Sub-Driver

“there is danger in such raw passion.”

That’s right you SOB’s.


46 posted on 08/04/2009 10:10:38 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: Sub-Driver

dangerous, oh geez, using ridicule and defamatory allegations to make a point. Let’s remember what was dangerous was when the liberals congregated around the country with anti-war protests, shutting down the senate bldg because they wouldn’t get off the floor - chanting anti troop and USA slogans, enticing hate towards our country - now that was dangerous.


47 posted on 08/04/2009 10:13:15 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: Sub-Driver

I get it

group of folks are paid or told to protest is good

group of folks who just go to these protests because they really care about the country is bad

get it one is right one is left
the right are angry
the left are passionate even though they get told what tom say wit their daily talking points

the hypocrisy is astounding


48 posted on 08/04/2009 10:13:34 AM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman -- end racism end affirmative action)
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To: kcvl

Hey if he won’t come out to you, go to him! There is nothing wrong with standing on the sidewalks/side of roads near where he lives with signs stating your opinion. Remember Cindy camped in a ditch and was allowed to be there!


49 posted on 08/04/2009 10:14:30 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Sub-Driver

And Code pink was all fuzzy bunnies and lollipops....


50 posted on 08/04/2009 10:14:36 AM PDT by GraceG
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