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jj/VERY American boy dreams of being a policeman some day. Because a policeman is the hero who fights crime, yet still remains the child’s friend at the school comer.
He’s the symbol of American freedom, where the law is the trusted servant of the people. It’s a lot different in police states, where the man in uniform is the symbol* of tyranny and oppression.
It can’t happen here, you say? Yet many a country has been inched into a socialistic form of government, so slowly, so gradually, that its people were enslaved before they realized the danger . . . and all the while their leaders declared, “Everything is being done for the good of the people 1”
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