Stephen Colbert has a little background for you on fracking companies and the gag orders they’re imposing on children as young as seven.

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“We need some way to change what they think. Maybe … I don’t know, maybe drill into their skulls and inject new thoughts into their brains under extreme economic pressure, to shatter those old thoughts and extract positive messages about fracking.”

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What could possibly go wrong? Besides flaming tears.