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The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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The Private Army in St. Paul

The commission would ignore mob attacks happening on them. Such as tar and feathering. Um, and beatings of league members. The private army is now just patrolling the streets with bayonets and rifles. And they court downtown. They sleep in the street car barns. We're not going to stop your lungs and it's sweet to back. Have a rippity do that. But St. Paul has no commission of public safety and it is a shit show. There's no private army there to stop them. Thousands of men are roaming the streets,. breaking windows, attacking the street cars. That's our future. Then a private army of 500 was sent from Minneapolis to St

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