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Originally Posted by JumpinJesus
I hate to admit this, but I could just as easily have called 9-1-1 myself. I'm sure they got a few calls, but one more wouldn't hurt.
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That's the killer. Everybody drifts along assuming someone else will do it. I've heard people say they don't want to bother the operators. I've done it. It took a few "what was I thinking" moments but now I'm a regular Mrs. Kravits if I see crap taking place.
If you think anyone should call, do it yourself. Now. The operators might need your perspective. Let them weed out repetitive calls.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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