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When I was 7 years old.

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I was given a piece of sugar candy

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and I was led by a Kardashian to a

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room.

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And he looked at me with eyes.

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I've never seen

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the cardassian began to ask him questions

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and during the next two hours

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is I was forced to watch

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my father was tortured until he died.

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Do you know what cardassia policy was?

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I'm not even talking about the murder murder was

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just the end of the fun for them.

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First came the

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Should

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mothers

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raped in front of their children

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husbands beaten until their wives couldn't recognize them all

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the people buried alive because they couldn't work anymore.

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We had an Empire to protect we needed your

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resources.

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Everything I did was for the greater glory

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of God Dacia

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and if you spineless come had to be ground

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under

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so much the better.

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Planet beige or was a beacon of civilization in

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the alpha quadrant

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while humans on Earth were not yet standing erect

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ancient bajoran culture flourished

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producing many great Architects

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artists

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Builders and philosophers.

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Centuries before most nearby race has developed spaceflight.

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The bajorans had already flown their first

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solar sail vessel to other planets

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and even crossed into Interstellar space

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at faster-than-light speeds.

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The bajorans

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were peaceful people

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and deeply spiritual

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believing themselves to be guided by the prophets of

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the celestial Temple.

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But their way of life was forever changed when

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the cardassians arrived.

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At first

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they were there to offer assistance.

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Their presence was seen as benign even constructed

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but the Kardashians covered at the planets Rich natural

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resources

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within two decades

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the cardassian Empire formally Annex the bajoran Homeworld

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and established an oppressive regime

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enslaving the natives on their own world to help

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strip the land of its resources.

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Labor camps were established

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including the infamous gallitep

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administered by the sadistic gold our heel

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under his command

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thousands of bajorans starved to death or were slaughtered

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when you caught genocide

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acordes work

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throughout their own land.

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They were beaten

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tortured

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imprisoned for practicing there.

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subjugated to toil in the Iridium minds

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and to labor on an ore processing station in

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orbit

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called terok nor

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the suppression of his urine culture was brutal ancient

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paintings and artifacts were stolen or destroyed the sacred

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orbs sent by the prophets were confiscated families were

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torn apart Assurance were seized from forced to serve

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as comfort women for cardassian officers those suspected of

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crimes against their oppressors were summarily executed without trial

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in droves the

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beige or were driven from their Homeland

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forced to wander the Galaxy settling wherever they can

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find

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camps of the shore and refugees sprung up on

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nearby planets

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where they were treated as pariahs

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conditions in these camps were primitive

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often lacking food and blankets

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and other basic necessities of life,

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but it was preferable to what was going on

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back home

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where the planet was being scarred by the Relentless

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Mining

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and by death and disease

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in the

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course of 40 years

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more than 10 million bajorans

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perished at the hands of the cardassian,

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but the bajorans fought back

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underground groups organized in the mountains and caves of

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Decor Province and elsewhere

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bombings and other acts of sabotage applied pressure

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one resistance cell led by Shikara Donna

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successfully liberated gallitep.

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In small ways and large the bajorans defied the

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occupation long-held Traditions like the dish or a caste

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system were put aside so they could unite the

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once peaceful people of beige or learn to be

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militaristic spirituality took a backseat to aggression their victories

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mounted.

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They became a painful thorn in the Kardashian side

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after four Decades of tyranny, the

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Its resources were virtually depleted.

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terrorist intimidation was incessant

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and political pressure was growing.

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The cardassian were finally compelled to withdraw from The

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Battered Planet, but they did so with as much

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brutality as they ruled.

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Ravaging

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and burning the city's

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desecrating the ancient Monastery

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and poisoning the once fertile soil.

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it left a bajorans a broken but determined people

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determined to restore self-rule

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determined to restore Faith

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determined

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to restore dignity

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with the provisional government installed

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the bajoran set out to rebuild

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with the

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Since of the Federation

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it's good to be free.

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That's good to know

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after all our years of struggle.

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Beige or is finally free

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it may take decades.

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But with a guidance of the prophets

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beige or is on its way to once again

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be a beacon of civilization.