{"id":35378,"date":"2012-05-16T00:08:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T07:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=35378"},"modified":"2014-12-30T17:14:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T00:14:12","slug":"the-totalization-of-war-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/05\/the-totalization-of-war-continues.html","title":{"rendered":"The Totalization of War Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>As our Police State continues stampeding us toward an eternal war footing in which Everywhere is the Battlefield and Everyone is a Combatant, it only stands to reason that we should get little consolation trinkets as gold stars for being good citizens of the totalizing War State.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/may\/9\/lawmakers-victims-of-domestic-terrorism-deserve-pu\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">So lawmakers are looking to hand out Purple Hearts to civilians who suffer from domestic terrorism<\/a>.  Next step: expand the definition of \u201cterror\u201d to cover more and more of what we used to just call \u201ccrime\u201d.  The step after that: use the lawless tactics we\u2019ve deployed abroad against citizens. <\/p>\n<p>Oh.  Wait.  Obama\u2019s already granted himself the power to murder and indefinitely jail any citizen he decrees to be an enemy of the state.  So we\u2019re safe.  Enjoy your trinket.  <a href=\"http:\/\/wizbangblog.com\/2012\/05\/10\/obamas-narcissism-the-troops-are-fighting-for-me-me-me\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">You are a Good Soldier for fighting for our Dear Leader.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our Police State continues stampeding us toward an eternal war footing in which Everywhere is the Battlefield and Everyone is a Combatant, it only stands to reason that we should get little consolation trinkets as gold stars for being good citizens of the totalizing War State. 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