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We want to console ourselves that all those angry mobs of Muslims abroad are just yelling about a stupid Youtube movie. In reality, many of them are angry because you blew up their house and nearly killed (or succeeded in killing) their children or their wives and your President is lying about it and your press corps is covering it up.<\/p>\n

And, curiously, this is a bi-partisan effort since Obama\u2019s ruthless use of lawless power to kill innocent people abroad is one of the few things the right wing media is either silent about or full of tacit approval about.<\/p>\n

A country doesn\u2019t act like a lawless dictatorship whose God King is above all human and divine law forever.\u00a0 Sooner or later, hubris meets nemesis.<\/p>\n

Obama voters: how can you sleep at night?\u00a0 Your President is a lawless war criminal.\u00a0 If you want hope and change, try hoping that if you vote for somebody who does not advocate grave intrinsic evil, you will see change starting in your own heart and spreading out from there.\u00a0 Otherwise, you are just a slave of Caesar and an accomplice to his murders.\u00a0 Think different.\u00a0 Free yourself.\u00a0 It is for freedom that Christ has made us free.\u00a0 Do not let yourself be bound by a yoke of slavery.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"