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There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write history.

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Paul Watson
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: December 2
Activist
Environmentalist
Naval Officer
Sailor
City of Toronto
Paul Franklin Watson
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Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.
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