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eru on Jan 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: British Spy Agency Considers Journalists a Threat,...

What's your point? Sorry, I am but a humble unAmerican and might be hard of understanding.

fit2rule on Jan 23, 2015 | [–]

It is a level of groveling that no free man should willingly endure, nor require.

eru on Jan 26, 2015 | | [–]

It's a traditional form of address.

The proto-US people kept slaves at the time. That's worse.

JimmyM on Jan 23, 2015 | [–]

> What's your point?

My inference is the reference to deference

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