Plaid Prohibition

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“Look at this place, all of you,” Schäffer said to the others, observing the architecture at the front part of the school, “And examine the wonder of this place. Splendid as it is, every one of us can safely agree that it is gleaming beacon to one of those days when the Children’s Paradise was just beginning to make its appearance in the shape as it is to this day. Someday, and I am not sure when, but when the time will come for us to see the Children’s Paradise soaring higher than it ever had, I would like to see ourselves at the forefront of this renaissance. The rebirth of American Catholic Education, its sudden ushering of the Greater American Catholic School System did not end with the beginning of the Republic; nor did it end, when the Great Leaps Westward marked the beginning of the attempts made to expand both Programs all the way to the West Coast. It continues even to this day, for there is much that …show more content…
The Plaid Prohibition continues its firm grip, like a continuing episode or nightmare, sadly. For this so-called Plaid Prohibition will continue to go unhindered and unopposed. By now, everyone here knows that I, Representative Beatrice Peterson of Chicago, am staunchly opposed to that policy for reasons that I had already expressed on this program during several occasions in the past; far too many to name, if I may add. In other news, demonic phenomena continue to grow steadily outside the Greater American Catholic School System. But compared to the ones that we had experienced a few months earlier, the effects of which were far more amplified over in the other school systems. We hope that our fellow peers are remaining strong in their faith, and pray for them as they continue to live with the demons. And maybe, just maybe, the demonic activity might sway those who were affected to come closer to the one true faith. Who knows, we’ll just have to wait and

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