In the margin of a public speaker’s manuscript was the notation: “Weak point. Shout.” Such is the rhetoric of those who place emotion over logic and make policy through gangs rather than parliaments. In Athens some 2,400 years ago, Aristophanes described a demagogue as having “a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, cross-grained nature and the language of the marketplace.” While 10 percent of the Syrian population is Christian, only one-half of 1 percent of the Syrian Christians were granted asylum. That marketplace today includes the biased media and the universities that have become day care centers. The recent action of our government’s executive branch to protect our borders and enforce national security is based on constitutional obligations (Art. I sec 10 and Art. IV sec 4). It is a practical protection of the tranquility of order explained by Saint Augustine when he saw the tranquillitas ordinis of Roman civilization threatened. Saint Thomas Aquinas sanctioned border control (S. Th. I-II, Q. 105, Art. 3). No
Source: Illegal Immigration Is Not a Religious Issue
