{"id":50563,"date":"2014-02-10T00:41:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T07:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=50563"},"modified":"2014-12-29T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T23:56:54","slug":"homeland-security-seizes-fake-nfl-merch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/02\/homeland-security-seizes-fake-nfl-merch.html","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security Seizes Fake NFL Merch"},"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>You may wonder \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/01\/30\/dhs-seizes-21-6-million-in-fake-nfl-merchandise-arrests-50-involved\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">How is fake NFL merch a Homeland Security issue<\/a>?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ah!  But you fail to grasp the evolving view of our Ruling Class on what is \u201cterror\u201d and who the enemy is.  Once you declare that \u201cthe battlefield is everywhere\u201d and you adopt an elastic enough view that \u201cterror\u201d means \u201ccrime\u201d and \u201ccrime\u201d means \u201canything that sufficiently irritates our monied class and their incestuous lovers in the State\u201d much becomes clear.  \u201cHomeland security\u201d stops being about the pretense of keeping you safe from The Terrorists[TM] and becomes, increasingly, a massive new police force for the purpose of treating anybody it likes as part of the great bogey network of The Terrorists[TM].<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may wonder \u201cHow is fake NFL merch a Homeland Security issue?\u201d Ah! But you fail to grasp the evolving view of our Ruling Class on what is \u201cterror\u201d and who the enemy is. 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