Truth: It's In the Cryptic Quote from Sir Robert Peel

I'm not familiar with British politics, but, after working out a cryptic quote today by Sir Robert Peel, I looked up his biography. Peel founded the Metropolitan police force in London in 1829 when he was Home Secretary because the crime rate in the city was out of control. His philosophy was that the police were the public and the public were the police. In other words, the citizens have a duty to protect their own communities. The "peelers" or "bobbies" were paid about the same as day laborers to emphasize they were not above ordinary citizens. (I don't think it takes much imagination to figure out what Peel would have thought about Antifa and Black Lives Matter thugs.)

So what was the quote that sent me searching for more information about Sir Robert Peel?  One that made me laugh ruefully:

• There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Now ain't that the truth, a truth we see illustrated every single day by Congress and the administration. How many facts come out of Biden's press secretary Jen Psaki? How many facts do we hear from Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer or Marco Rubio and Mitch McConnell for that matter? And most laughably -- from Biden and Harris? 

These days the tale seems to be wagging the dog. For two years we saw facts trampled by the COVID propagandists as they censored anyone who dared to question the dominant narrative. "Shut up, you ignorant deplorables!" And now the same thing is happening with anyone who questions the prudence of escalating the war in Ukraine by sending billions in arms to keep the war going and possibly light the fuse of World War III. 

We could use a wise politician like Peel today who, as an Anglican, opposed emancipation for Catholics, but later reversed himself to avoid civil war in Ireland. Do you think he'd be voting to impoverish Americans by sending billions to Ukraine to protect their borders from Russia while drug cartels and human traffickers invade our country with impunity? 

Somehow I doubt it! He seems to have been a politician with both compassion and common sense. Catholics should support Ukraine with humanitarian aid through private groups. The government has no right to take taxes meant for building up the infrastructure and preserving the safety of our own country and lavishing it on foreign nations.