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Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.

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John Ashcroft
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: May 9
Former Governor Of Missouri
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