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  <DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=3 face=Georgia><SPAN     style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" class=Apple-style-span><I>Anti-Trans-Texas Corridor, 
  Anti-Perry Protest, Nacogdoches, 2007<BR></I></SPAN></FONT>
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  <DIV><SPAN     style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19px; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap; FONT-SIZE: 14px"     class=Apple-style-span>To constitute depraved indifference, the defendant's 
  conduct must be "so wanton, so deficient in a moral sense of concern, so 
  lacking in regard for the life or lives of others, and so blameworthy as to 
  warrant the same criminal liability as that which the law imposes upon a 
  person who intentionally causes a crime."</SPAN></DIV>
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  <DIV><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19px; WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"     class=Apple-style-span><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; WHITE-SPACE: normal"     class=Apple-style-span><A     title=http://www.austinpost.org/content/rick-perry’s-depraved-indifference-has-governor-finally-gone-too-far     href="http://www.austinpost.org/content/rick-perry%E2%80%99s-depraved-indifference-has-governor-finally-gone-too-far"><FONT     class=Apple-style-span size=4 face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"     class=Apple-style-span><B>Click here to read why Rick Perry may have finally 
  gone too far</B></SPAN></FONT></A></SPAN><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=4     face=Georgia><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"     class=Apple-style-span><B>.</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN     style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19px; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap; FONT-SIZE: 14px"     class=Apple-style-span> Please add your comments below it.</SPAN></DIV>
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  <DIV><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19px; WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap"     class=Apple-style-span><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=4 face=Georgia><SPAN     style="FONT-SIZE: 14px" class=Apple-style-span><B><FONT class=Apple-style-span     color=#b80000>ANNOUNCEMENT</FONT></B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN     style="LINE-HEIGHT: 19px; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia; WHITE-SPACE: pre-wrap; FONT-SIZE: 14px"     class=Apple-style-span>: Independent Texans is reconstituting our Statewide 
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