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"text": "1979, Jello Biafra & John Greenway, \"California Über Alles\", Dead Kennedys, California Über Alles.\nNow it is nineteen eighty-four / Knock-knock at your front door / It's the suede denim secret police / They have come for your uncool niece",
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"sense": "police operating outside normal boundaries of law",
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"sense": "police operating outside normal boundaries of law",
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"sense": "police operating outside normal boundaries of law",
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"word": "秘密警察"
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"word": "politia secreta"
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"sense": "police operating outside normal boundaries of law",
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