{"id":3568,"date":"2002-10-25T09:56:57","date_gmt":"2002-10-25T14:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2013-06-05T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:22:23","slug":"blame_game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/25\/blame_game.html","title":{"rendered":"Blame Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll bet you didn&#8217;t realize that the DC Sniper was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workingforchange.com\/printitem.cfm?itemid=13977\">really the fault <\/a>of the Army, the War on Terror, the War on Drugs, the INS, societal warping of the male psyche, and the capricious and unjust nature of our economy and justice system.<\/p>\n<p>Well, you <i>would <\/i>realize it, if the Man weren&#8217;t keeping you down.  No, really.  Honest.  Wait &#8230; where are you going?  Don&#8217;t you want to hear the truth, man?  Really!  I&#8217;m not kidding around here &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\/archives\/004968.php#004968\">InstaPundit<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll bet you didn&#8217;t realize that the DC Sniper was really the fault of the Army, the War on Terror, the War on Drugs, the INS, societal warping of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeland-security","category-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3212,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/24\/glow_sticks_and.html","url_meta":{"origin":3568,"position":0},"title":"Glow sticks and chill rooms and water, oh my!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Jul-02 9:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Glenn Reynolds weighs in on why the War on Drugs bodes horribly for the War on Terror. 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