fox files. it's called spice. and it's killing across the country. >> this was in the freezer? >> yeah, it was on top of all that meat. >> "fox files" goes on a raid at a store where they sell it. and living large. dictator style. >> the vulgarity of some of these homes. >> dictator style is glitz, it's over the top. she went from real housewife to skinny girl mogul. >> i'm excited to be here. >> we're behind the scenes of bethenny frankel's latest adventure.

>> i'm not afraid to own it and just be who i am. ♪ oh say >> meet the band who turned the star spangled banner into a rock anthem. >> you guys are sort of carving your own path? >> i'm kimberly gilfoil. >> that's next on "fox files." my son nicholas was full of life, very energetic. he loved the outdoors. >> it was a typical wednesday afternoon, september 2011, colorado springs, colorado. 19-year-old nicholas colper checked in with his mom, stephanie, before running out with friends. >> they were going to go to the

kwik stop to get some smokes. i went on doing what i was doing, and i came home. i thought he was sleeping. i tried to wake him up but he wasn't sleeping. he was gone. >> at 4:40 p.m., nicholas colber was dead. what would surprise many friends and stephanie colber is what killed her son sold to him at a convenience store. he bought the drug for about $25. nicholas had smoked synthetic marijuana, also known as spice. his autopsy report says it all. synthetic cannabinoid toxicity. rapid heartbeat and seizures. >> i'm so surprised at how many people have not heard of this. it boggles my mind. >> mostly made in asia, spice is sold at convenience stores and

even major gas stations. it's marked under names like k-2 and mr. smiley. stephanie is now suing the convenience store for allegedly selling her son the drug that killed him. >> i was very naive since it's being sold with other convenience store items. i thought it was completely legal. >> david woodruff is one of her attorneys. >> the coroner told her, here's what killed nicholas. there were two chemicals in that stuff that are banned substances. >> spice delivers a powerful and dangerous high, and that list of banned substances is growing at the federal and state level. packaged to appeal to teens, "fox files" was shown the exact container of mr. smiley that killed nicholas colbert. >> the one taken by nicholas just before he died is packaged as bubble gum flavor. some of the other flavors it comes in is mango potpourri and

blueberry potpourri. >> she's at the forefront in the fight for synthetic marijuana. >> sometimes they'll stamp this is not legal on the back of it as well. you can't stamp that on the back and make it legal. that's just a ploy to get teens to purchase it. >> they call it synthetic marijuana, but there's no pot in this, right? >> no. >> harmless leaves like tea leaves are often used in drugs like spice. what's sfrad spraprayed on them can kill you. it's found in paint thinner, nail polish remover. it's like playing russian roulette. >> perhaps the idea is if you're buying it from a convenience store, it can't be as dangerous as buying it from a drug dealer down the street?

>> exactly. in their minds they don't think it's anything like cocaine or heroin that they're having to buy at night on a street corner. this is very different from the drugs that people used to talk about in the '60s or '70s. >> right. and here's how it started off, really. these were one of the first ones, the roxxie's. and they were geared more toward teens, 17 to 19 to older. they started changing the packaging. then they started going after our 12 to 14-year-olds. >> they look like poke mon trading card things. >> nowie wowie. k-2. all different kinds of packaging. >> wow. >> i find it to be despicable. >> the high and buzz from spice was not like marijuana. it was more like crack am f

methamphetamines. >> he's at university of colorado. >> you were paranoid, didn't want to eat, see people, very isolating. >> it can cause psychotic lluci paranoia. >> people started using them in the mid h-90s. then in 2009, we started to notice more people was using it. >> he's a doctor at university of colorado hospital. in the summer of '13, colorado had an epidemic of spice characters, with three deaths and 16 people rushed to emergency rooms. >> we were at a point where we were getting five to six cases a day with patients coming in with high blood pressure, very agitated and their temperatures go up dangerously high. >> i smoked too much. >> according to the d.a., calls

about synthetic drugs to poison control centers rocketed in 2013 to more than 13,000 a year later. >> when you look at the range of drugs that you have to deal with here in the state of florida, which ones concern you the most? >> mollys, of course. >> other synthetics include molly and ecstasy, both nicknames for mdma, an illegal stimulant that's positipular at raves. >> it's being glamourized by singers. >> madonna, for example? >> miley cyrus is singing about it. >> pop singer miley cyrus recently told rolling stone magazine that molly was a, quote, happy drug. >> that's a shame. because our kids look up to people like that, and people are dying from it. it is extremely toxic.

>> so toxic that in august of 2013 at the electric zoo dance music festival in new york, 20-year-old olivia rotondo and 23-year-old jeffrey russ died from overdoses of mdma. rotondo reportedly told emt she had taken six hits of molly. as a result of the deaths, the three-day festival, where a ticket can cost as much as $400, was shut down by the city after just two days. >> it's very tragic. the bottom line here is what you see is people doing drugs that shouldn't be doing drugs and you see the fatal consequences. when people want to go down that slippery slope and say, oh, it's just fun, it isn't just fun. there's two families that won't have their children come home. >> next, f"fox files" goes on a spice raid. we put members first. join the nation.

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we're getting ready to we're getting ready to go on a raid here. tell me about the target. >> the target is a convenience store that's been selling spice. our detectives have had numerous spies in there. we're going in there, make an arrest and hopefully confiscate some spice. >> have eyes for spice. >> haskell county, florida has a spice problem. the detectives are leading the charge. >> any time you go up against a tough situation like this, there's butterflies, there's nervousness. it's almost like a game on the nfl. >> fox files rode along with undercover narcotics detectives for the raid. >> do businesses start to know the drill and are they communicating with one another, giving one another a heads up with what might be coming? >> as far as spice, it's very similar to the missubpoesame su and they'll know and lay low for

a little while. >> narcotics got ahold of 18 or 19 buys yesterday. >> we'll be there in 30 seconds. >> is it a smoke shop we're going to? >> a mobil gas station. >> mobil gas station? ♪ >> florida attorney general pam bonde and i follow them in. >> we have a search warrant for this place. we've done some undercover deals. we bought spice from here, just to let you know what's going on. we'll get the search warrant real quick and you guys start getting names of people. >> the detectives start their search and quickly focus on a locked door in the back. >> do you have a key to this? do we need forced entry? >> police, police! >> sheriff's office. >> with the back room secure, the detectives now find drug

paraphernalia and packets of spice behind the front counter. >> this is spice? >> it's all considered spice, k-2, synthetic marijuana. >> it certainly looks like they're trying to market it to kids. this is under the counter. they used to sell it prominently displayed. >> florida has been proactive, banning 127 compounds found in spice. >> it's amazing to me how they add chemicals to these plants, and that's what makes it so toxic. but they keep changing the chemical compound so they can stay a few steps ahead of the law. >> except they're not anymore. >> how is that? >> i have authority by emergency order if they bring in a new one to also ban that. so they're running out of chemicals. and we're going to stay ahead of them. >> the detectives also come across a pretty cool hiding place. >> this was hidden in the freezer? >> yeah. it was under these here and on top of all that meat. >> so the food that they might make if you're coming into the

mini mart, they're hiding that stuff, too. >> sure. they're hiding it on top of the meat they're selling you. >> pretty creative. >> they adopted all the same tactics as drug dealers. when we go into a crack house we have to search boxes and fridges and freezers. same thing with synthetic marijuana now. >> the raid proves to be successful for sergeant chris starnes and the paschal county sheriff's office. they seize more than 200 packets of spice. they also arrested the store manager and fined the store more than $100,000. >> are you happy with this? did you get a lot? is this what you thought you would get? >> i'm ecstatic about it because this is a point of 20 sells for spies. >> they said in a statement, exxonmobil absolutely does not condone the sale or use of illicit drugs or drug paraphernalia. exxon and mobil branded stations are independently operated.

our contracts explicitly prohibit the sale of these products. we will review the matter and take appropriate action. >> my life just became completely unmanageable. i couldn't stop getting high, i couldn't stop drinking, i couldn't stop using drugs, and i knew i needed help some way. >> i would highly encourage anybody that has a friend or family member or struggling themselves to get help and not try to do it on their own. >> michael danes is a recovering user. >> it was really a patient who educated me the most and told me what this was all about and how they need help. >> i met him after i did my first 30 days of inpatient. he became my counselor. >> he's like the perfect patient because he came in really highly motivated and willing to go through our process. when somebody is willing to do that, there is usually a very

high success. >> michael has now been sober for nine months and is still working on his sobriety every day. >> every day a wake up, i feel great. i don't have this drive to do everything i can to try to hustle together to get my fix for the day. >> something else that's importanere's hope. that addiction is real, and that it's an illness, and it can be treated. >> stephanie colbert hopes the death of her teenage son nicholas is a warning to others. spice isn't harmless, it kills. >> for one, get the word out there that synthetic marijuana is very harmful to you. and store owners need to stop selling it. i just want our kids to be safe. and this isn't it. gaudy, lavish, exotic. "fox files" brings you a closer look at dictator style.

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birthday in november. peter york says the flashiest of the class are the dictators like hussein. york has dedicated a book to their tastes called "dictator style." >> dictator is glitz. it's over the top. it's designed to give off messages to their own populations which say, i'm great, i'm invincible, i could eat you alive. >> not only do dictators control their people, but they spend their money, too. >> you've got to start with a lot of money. >> what matters to dictators are things that are very glittery, big, sexuality that's outsized also. >> dr. keith ablo is a forensic scientist and a fox news contributor. >> calculate that and say, look, if you need to be so flashy, you might feel dull inside. >> what are some of the key

design principles? >> big, glass, chandeliers, mirrors and fake french 18th century furniture. not real fake french 18th center furniture. they don't like it because it looks old and it's not quite shiny enough. >> recently "fox files" went there to check out the bling on board. lots here to keep the super rich happily afloat and plenty fit for a dictator, too. >> if it isn't weird, that's not the norm. generally the materials are more opulent on the yachts than they are in the owner's houses. >> looking for a spot to park your super car? >> swimming pools up to very substantial sizes. >> what about building a huge shark tank aboard a ship? >> aquariums on yachts are not unheard of. >> in 2010, the son of the late

dictator ordered a cruise liner worth $17 million which included a 120-ton shark tank. >> the problem is, if you have an aquarium on a ship, the fish become seasick. so you have to make special provisions. >> the offspring of autocrats are notorious for their spending sprees. the president of guinea owns this $30 million malibu mansion. less than half the population of guinea have accessed the cle ac drinking water. >> suddenly they become oil and gas rich and all that money has gone to his dad and his son. >> for more than two years, the u.s. justice department has attempted to seize his oceanfront estate and other assets, claiming he purchased the assets with dirty money.

recently a judge ruled that the prosecutors lacked probable cause to pursue the offenses against mr. gama, but a justice party spokesman told us they still plan to pursue the case. "fox files" repeatedly tried to contact mr. gama and his attorneys for an interview but didn't hear back. do we get any clues to the mindset of a dictator by looking at his home? >> you can tell this is a person who works on a very crude and brutal basis. >> how does the brutality relate to a love of luxury items? >> dictators feel inside vulnerable, unworthy. they need everything around them that would suggest they're the opposite of that, that they're loveable beyond belief, that they're worthy of incredible wealth, so they have to surround themselves with constant reminders of how special they are. >> saddam hussein had about 65 palaces. not quite like buckingham

palace. they looked like 1970s american hotels. >> and fox news cameras witnessed it all during the invasion of iraq. >> chandeliers as big as cars and very horrible ones, too. really fascinating about saddam hussein's separation with these weird paintings, but they're very kinky indeed. >> "fox files" tracked down the artist. it was news to her that copies of her art ended up in saddam's house. >> when you're doing a painting, lord knows where it's going to end up. he would probably identify with the heroic man and he would love the sensuous woman. >> hard to believe that amid all the fighting, he would have room for this built for his

grandchildren. >> adolf hitler had a place to unwind with her nazi friends and edith lebron seen in these home movies. >> it was meant to be a manly, german hunting lodge. the truth is that the taste is very mimsy, very dinky 19th century china, almost ladylike. >> during his 20 years as dictator of the philippines, ferdinand marcos is believed to have stolen billions of dollars. his infamous wife, imelda marcos, a former beauty queen, is best known for her shoe collection. >> how many pairs do we think she had? >> reportedly, thousands. >> was it easy to escape the compound? >> you couldn't escape. an adju. ted is now on hold with his insurance company.

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headquarters. president obama reaching out to benjamin netanyahu after the prime minister slammed the iran nuclear deal. earlier iran reached the historical agreement with six world powers, including the u.s. this exchange for curbing its nuclear activities, iran will seek sanctions. the white house is saying it looks guard to consulting with israel on the matter. in the u.s., mother nature not cooperating with holiday travel plans. much of the country getting hit by rain, sleet or snow. at least eight people have died in weather-related accidents. hundreds of flights have already been canceled because of bad weather in the southwest. forecasters are warning it's likely to create a major mess for thanksgiving travelers as that system moves east. i'm marianne rafferty. now back to "fox files."

expensive shopping sprees and regardless of the backdrop. first lady assad delved into some research therapy. allegedly mrs. assad spent tens of thousands on gold, chandeliers and furniture. although the authenticity of the e-mails couldn't be verified, in 2012, the european union slapped sanctions on mrs. assad's assets. >> western magazine said she is a breath of fresh air, she's tremendously nice. >> this woman is addicted to fi finery, to the trappings of power. >> then there's addiction the north korean way. "fox files" has descended heavily on north korea's new leader kim jong un. recently dennis rodman returned to pyongyang for the second time, and he says he's helping train the north korean

basketball team for the 2016 olympics. >> he's perfect to hang around with a dictator because the two of them can i inflate each othe like the big balloons in the macy's day parade. it can be easy to poke fun at the aesthetic excesses, but impossible to ignore millions of people repressed by regimes. >> we're talking about people living multi-million-dollar lives while their countrymen live on less than a dollar a day. >> after you consider yourself a different species, you don't obsess over the disparities in power. >> wherever he traveled, he was surrounded by female bodyguards

kindly known as the amazons. >> he would say, i'm the best friend of the woman. >> but there was something far more sinister going on. "fox files" sat down with a french journalist in paris. her book, gadhafi's harem, has exposed his sexual appetite. >> some of these women have been chosen just for their look, and most of them were his sex slaves. >> i see his expose revolves ar woman named sariah. she is one of countless women kidnapped and repeatedly raped by gadhafi. >> she spent time in this building. it was the headquarters of his secret harem. >> the day after she was kidnapped, she was given a uniform and was supposed to act

as if she was a real soldier. >> sariah cwas just 15 when gadhafi visited her school. he put his hand on her head and it was a secret to his bodyguard saying, i want this one. he got her sexy clothes. she joined a group day ask night. he forced her to smoke, take cocaine, drink whisky. he was always on some substance. >> what happened to people who refused gadhafi's advances? >> they were beaten. a lot of girls were blackmailed and forced to stay with him because of what would happen to their parents, their brothers, their sisters. >> was it possible to ever escape from the compound? >> gadhafi had spies everywhere. you couldn't escape. it was just impossible. >> the dictator scouts, which included women, were always hunting. >> every location to select women, weddings, parties,

festivals, university lectures. >> this apartment belonging to the colonel with a secret female physical examination room was discovered right on university campus. >> also there was this obsession of having more important praise, tv, movie stars, but also the daughters and wives of ministries, heads of state. >> and gadhafi seemed to have an obsession with former secretary of state condoleezza rice. there was a woman named mabrouka sharif who has gone under dts grou -- underground. >> her real job was to take care of the women. >> gadhafi's victims also included young men. >> i haven't heard of any system like gadhafi's system. sex was used for him as a weapon of power.

>> how many women do you think at any one time were part of this harem? >> i would say around 30, but thousands of women have been raped by gadhafi all those years. >> in october 2011, gadhafi's 42-year reign of terror finally came to an end when he was captured in the arab spring. the interim government struggles to take control of the country. >> it's a disaster. >> a new libya has yet to emerge from the nightmare of the gadhafi years, and few want to acknowledge his sex crimes. >> these are countries that people don't talk about sex, don't talk about rape. >> how is sariah today? >> she's not welcome in their family. she tries to imagine a future. she would like to marry. she would like to have a normal life. i don't know what will happen to her. >> peter, are dictators a thing of the past? we've seen so many overthrown recently. >> dictators will be with us for

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housewives of new york." >> people lot of the show. >> earning two spin-off series. "bethenny getting married." and "bethenny ever after" document her engagement and marriage to costar jason hoppy. the birth and first year of parenthood of their daughter. the 43-year-old is never far away from the camera. whether on the red carpet, as a frequent cover girl, or as a four-time best-selling author. but all this pales in comparison to her $100 million skinny girl brand. >> you can't deny she's a brilliant businesswoman. >> if that's not enough she's add addai time talk show to her growing empire. her namesake show premiered this fall. >> i'm excited to be here. this is the moment. >> bethenny is unfiltered. >> everybody knows that you can't sleep with a guy on the first date. you cannot. but you're probably going to. >> brutally honest. >> i like somebody to take control in the bedroom.

>> and playful. >> my goal for the season is to learn how to twerk. >> we can do that now. >> with over 2 million followers on twitter and facebook, her fans can't seem to get enough. >> i'm so excited, are you kidding me! >> she'll say the things that you're thinking but may be too afraid to say. oh, no, she said it. oh, okay. >> take a look at bethenny's new talk show. >> i just want to say i love you and i've been your fan for a bazillion years. >> i sat down with bethenny in the signature red room. >> first of all, did you ever think you would have your name like this in a daytime talk show along with the likes of oprah and ellen? it's pretty incredible. >> it is incredible. i'm not drinking my own kool-aid. >> so what makes bethenny different in terms of a to you show? >> i think what makes it different is that i'm different. and i'm complicated like many women. and i want to be open about what i'm going through.

yet still keep something for myself. >> always candid with her audience, bethenny opened up about the end of her highly publicized three-year marriage. >> i've been going through a really difficult divorce, as many of you can probably relate to. and you helped get me through it. >> that's tough with daytime talk shows. you have to see if the chemistry is there and the audience is going to open up as well. it's very important. you want people to feel safe. not feel judged. and i think that we're getting there. i think we're connecting. it's really, really early in the show and it as marathon, not a sprint. >> ellen degeneris is one of her biggest fans. >> the audience loved her. and i was so impressed that i said, do a show. >> fox said, all right, we'll give you a test show for six weeks. so we went for it. >> this is so awesome! you are my first audience ever! >> ellen and bethenny are two of the show's executive producers. if bethenny can do for daytime talk what she's done for her

brand skinny girl, the sky's the limit. >> skinny girl is a great example. where this was just -- just took off and people really love it. i mean, i have it. i'm a big fan. i always have it at my place and all my girlfriends love it. >> i always shop at the stores, i have overshot the mark. no, i never thought it would be this big. i didn't. >> great branding. i did -- research going into different liquor stores, et cetera. they said, this sells really well. people really love it. women feel like, okay, i can have fun, have a drink, not be worried about the extra weight. >> skinny girl cocktails is one of those amazing ideas. just a practical solution for women. and it's like a unicorn. you don't see them every day. it's amazing. >> skinny girl started during "the real housewives of new york." bethenny was the only entrepreneur of the group. she said to me, what's the point of being on tv if you have nothing to sell? >> staff writer megan wrote "forbes" 2011 celebrity list cover story about bedny. here's how she came up with the skinny girl margarita.

>> she was at a restaurant one night order are her standard drink which is fresh lime juice, tequila, a little triple sec. they decided to call it the skinny girl margarita. given that happened on television, it was a perfect opportunity to build the brand. >> the idea that bethenny really hit upon was the average margarita at a restaurant that you love has 400 or 500 calories. were not create something that tastes as great but only has 100 calories? it's easy to create a solution in a way that says light or diet or something like that. the idea that it was created around this idea of skinny. and it gave it a personify instantly. and the silhouette and the name. just changed the entire dynamic of it. >> kevin george is the chief marketing officer of beam, incorporated, in chicago. his company bought skinny girl cocktails in 2011 for an estimated $100 million. >> it's been very successful for us. for a brand that didn't even exist in our portfolio two years ago, now to be in our top five

brands, is pretty powerful. >> she did not sell this thing and walk away. so she's really integral to the ongoing success of this brand. they expect her to be there to market it 100%. they're never taking bethenny out of this brand. >> thank you so much for your hard work and commitment to selling skinny girl cocktails. dy know it was a great idea? yes, 100% certain it was a great idea. but execution is really the whole thing. there was so many people with wonderful idea. if they don't execute them properly they're never going to get anywhere. there were times i thought i'd never get anywhere. >> it's hard to expand a brand while hosting a daily talk show. >> my skinny girl brand is taking on a life of its own. that's not true, i'm involved in every decision. >> she's launched skinny girl supplements, energy bars, bath productions, lotions, face creams, shapewear. she sees no limits to the skinny girl line. >> kim kardashian would probably be right up there in terms of building brands. in terms of a spirits brand or a brand like this? i think bethenny's kind nerve a class of her own.

>> bethenny is a 50/50 partner in all her lines with the exception of shapewear. all her deals are structured she has long-term earning potential as opposed to say a $1 million payout. >> as you sit here today is there another idea you're thinking about or another venue you might want to get involved in? >> i have a lot of different products that solve problems for women that are coming out with the skinny girl brand. i'm looking to focus on the show. this is 150 people relying on me. and i want it to do well. so i'm looking to that only. >> if the talk show doesn't work out, we have not seen the end of bethenny on television. >> and cheers! up next, some in the nation, sometimes bad things happen. but add brand new belongings from nationwide insurance and we won't just give you the partial value of items that are stolen or destroyed... ...we'll replace them with brand-new versions. so you won't feel robbed.

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>> the screaming guitars are hard rock. but the words' melody are hauntingly familiar. ♪ >> the song was written more than two centuries ago. but this version of "the star-spangled banner" is modern rock. the band performing is madison rising and their new fang angled version of the national anthem has received more than 4.5 million hits on youtube. ♪ and the home of the brave >> i really feel that music has the ability to, like you said, give people goosebumps. it lets people feel like they're a part of something. >> i realize that there was a huge void in the rock music industry. >> formed in 2011, the band,

named after one of america's founding fathers, former president james madison, is the brain child of entrepreneur richard megrodichan. >> there were no pro-american rock bands out there. for all purposes there were no present-american songs out there. >> he hand picked the members of madison rising based on more than just their musical ability. >> we sorted first on musical capabilities, second on ideology. are you pro-american? for real? or just for a gig? thirdly on chemistry. >> "fox files" caught up with a band at a midtown manhattan music studio. lead gui the first to sign on. he was no stranger to rock 'n' roll having been part of scott stapp's band, lead singer of creed. the band includes drummer sam fishman and bass player pa dell ski. the last is bray, a military

veter veteran, stationed aboarded "uss guam." >> the navy for me was call to service. my dad and brother were navy guys. i'd spent time in africa. when i got back, i had a gig less than a week after i signed my papers to get out of the military. i was onstage. ♪ o say >> how did you decide to do this rock 'n' roll cover of "spar-spangled banner"? >> it haunted me. i told rich it came in a dream, i had to do it. ♪ through the perilous fight >> why do you think it has resonated? >> just what it means. what it stands for. the brave men and women who serve our country today and in the past are all things that are so i think meaningful to most americans that when they do listen to it, the sense of pride just sort of comes over. ♪ the bombs bursting in air ♪ gave proof through the night

that our flag was still there ♪ legendary australian rockers ac/dc proclaimed, it's a long way to the top if you want to rock 'n' roll. madison rising discovered it's harder to get there if you want to do more than rock 'n' roll. >> the mission is to promote american culture, to bring back great rock music, authentic rock music, with a message. there's nothing wrong with loving your country. >> and yet you as their promoter have had a hard time selling them to mainstream musical media. what's going wrong? >> it's no secret that the media and entertainment industries are, for the large part, controlled by the left. so as we approach people in the music industry who do rock, they're like, no, no, no, thanks. we don't like this. >> what's it been like trying to make a name for yourself? >> it's been like being a

door-to-door salesman. you're right, we have had a lot of doors slammed in our face because of basically what we stood for. singing songs about ronald reagan. >> "in the days that reagan ruled." which features lyrics like these. ♪ he stood firm and proud ♪ not like other men who would have knelt down and bowed ♪ >> the pro-gun right to bear arms make them not everyone's cup of tea. still, the band says they will not compromise just to sell records. >> i believe that the right to bear arms protects all the other rights in the amendments to the constitution. >> we go up there screened by that second amendment, that right to bear. all of a sudden people, their heads go back, you know what, it is one of my rights as a free person. it's definitely the goal of the band to support our military, get behind our troops. give thanks to the families and things like that. we're out there to spread

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