Saturday, November 17, 2018

If We Believe in Rule of Law, We Let Them in for Political Persecution

  Consider on the five categories of people, one of which you must belong to in order to qualify for asylum. One of them leaves the door wide open for many people to qualify under.
  Race, religion, nationality, political beliefs, and social group.
  If a government intimidates its people in any way to vote for it, that constitutes persecution based on political belief. If a government forces its people to support it -- in any way persecuting them -- it is those people's right to take asylum in another country. If a political group or rebel group is killing people in order to gain a political advantage, the whole general population of that nation is being persecuted based on political beliefs. Death is persecution; It works that way. The threat of death and the fear of death is persecution. 
  You might call this a loophole in the law, but it is only a loophole if you think it is not good reason for letting them come. If you think it is good reason, it is not a loophole. Either way, it is the law, and living by the law is living by the law. If the law gives you a right, then it is rule of law that must be kept, not whether you do not think the law is not just because of your personal beliefs. It is the law, itself, allowing them to come, not a loophole allowing them to circumvent that law.
  If we believe in rule of law, we let them come. Circumventing the law and trying to get around it is when you do not let them come. Believing in rule of law is believing in rule of law. If you believe in it, you let them come.
 

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