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Epitaph
the beginning of the end of the millenium
1999
AGNOSTIC FRONT ALL BOUNCING SOULS THE CRAMPS-
THE DAREDEVILS DESCENDENTS THE DWARVES GAS HUFFER*
H20-THE HUMPERS I AGAINST I-THE JOYKILLER WAYNE KRAMER
MILLENCOLIN NEW BOMB TURKS-NOFX-OSKER PENNYWISE
PULLEY RANCID SNFU STRAIGHT FACED TEN FOOT POLE
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Red Aunts
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John Wynne
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Although the United Stacem povernment would have to believe that is is waging an all out
war on drugs the fact remains that the continously, and the early 1950s, Dedinar
cotics of strategic weapon in elimination of car cain indesirable segments of the
US. population.
Starting in the mid 1950s, the CIA embarked on a series of mind control experiments med
the MK ULTRA Project in which they employed recently synched mind-e
pound known as LSD as an aid in the interogation or captured enemy agents. As peads
of achieving this end the
of the U.S. military, not tower tested of thousands of tart Osuspecting members
mention he public at large entirely without notification
Unfortunately, specially for all who participated in the experiments, by the 1960s
effectiveness of LSDs tool in enemynter option appeared to be inconclusive, or
S government decided intend to focus its ightton a different enemy-its own, citazinst-
in & newly developed application of the drug acid was introduced to the growing rhnks of
the anti-war movement as a clandestine confifsion agent,ducing their ranks to quivel
ng, hallucinating blobs of, flesh, all in an effort to discredit them and their polition agert
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of the world
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of the US, thereby facilitating the wholesbiene of an entire generation
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