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Politics

Telephone Surveillance Permission Form

Humor by Bruce McCall

May 2006 Issue

Note: Your telephone may be tapped in the course of conducting official surveillance business. If you hear clicking, hang up immediately and call your lawyer...

Click here for the cartoon (in PDF format.)

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