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I'll hit anyone who's seriously threatening my life... that's what happened, and that's what sent me to prison.

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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same conformist personality types who would have carried torches in lynch mobs a century ago.
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Liberating is a gay word, so let's phrase it this way: I know everything about me and still manage to be good friends with myself, so nothing anyone says that's truthful about me ever bothers me.
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