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Italian Magazine Says NSA Listened into Vatican and Pope<\/a> <\/p>\n

Oh! Wait! I remember! Obama supposedly had *no idea* what the NSA was doing and is therefore totally innocent of making us a rogue nation bent on trying to control everything with spy technology, drone murders, and Machiavellian cynicism. He is relieved of the guilt of being a corrupt authoritarian by being\u2013so we are told\u2013an incompetent ninny whose subordinates don\u2019t inform him lest he know too much and lose plausible deniability.<\/p>\n

I pledge allegiance to the God King of the Surveillance State of Amerika, and to Obama for which it stands, one people loyal to the State, against God and the Church, with slavery and injustice for all.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy country right or wrong\u201d is like saying \u201cMy mother, drunk or sober.\u201d \u2013 G.K. Chesterton. We accelerate toward the moment when American Catholics will, for the love of country, have to defy their country. The trick will be to defy her for the right reasons and not because we\u2019ve been ginned up by some demagogue who cares no more for the Faith than Obama does. That will be harder than most people think since our tribal culture tends to recklessly assume that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"