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tblue37

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1. Admiral Adama, Battlestar Galactica: "There's a reason you separate military and the police":

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Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:13 PM

7 hrs ago

One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people".

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