{"id":173,"date":"2011-09-29T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/09\/the-peoples-democratic-national-security-state-of-heaven-2\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T11:53:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T18:53:52","slug":"the-peoples-democratic-national-security-state-of-heaven-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2011\/09\/the-peoples-democratic-national-security-state-of-heaven-2.html","title":{"rendered":"The People’s Democratic National Security State of Heaven…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

prying into your cold remedy purchases, because you are a presumed danger to the state.<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, elsewhere, our police are being punished by bureaucrats for the sin of behaving like human beings and not like agents of an occupying power<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mike Flynn riffs off some remarks <\/a>I made some time ago about the growing tendency of the state to abandon the notion that we are moral beings capable of receiving admonishment in favor of the notion that we are cattle.<\/p>\n

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prying into your cold remedy purchases, because you are a presumed danger to the state. Meanwhile, elsewhere, our police are being punished by bureaucrats for the sin of behaving like human beings and not like agents of an occupying power. 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