Posted on 01/14/2018 2:42:00 PM PST by DoodleBob
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 2,400 years ago, Aristophanes described the demagogue as having “a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, cross-grained nature and the language of the marketplace.” That marketplace today includes the biased media and the universities that have become daycare centers.
The recent action of our government’s executive branch to protect our borders and enforce national security is based on Constitutional obligations (Art. 1 sec 10 and Art. 4 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...
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It is worth noting that Kellyanne Conway reportedly took Donald Trump to meet Father Rutler (probably in Mahattan, where Fr. Rutler is the Pastor of Church of Saint Michael the Archangel) who blessed the future president just days before his election.
Fr. Rutler pulls no punches, and as usual he really nails it herein.
Just read in full. Reason vs Treason.
Good stuff.
In the margin of a public speaker’s manuscript was the notation: “Weak point. Shout.”
I had an Hispanic employee with a pretty thick accent whose ability to speak or comprehend English degraded sharply when he realized he was in trouble for something.
Fr. Rutler is a towering intellect. My first parish was named because of a talk Fr. Rutler had given (St. Joseph of Arimathea).
Thanks for posting this.
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