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Paul proved two things:
1. That filibusters are stupid
2. He is a weakling.
Weekend Reading: Every Book and Article Mentioned During Rand Paul’s Filibuster
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, 1865
The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich von Hayek, 1944
"U.S. Tightens Drone Rules," Wall Street Journal, Nov. 4, 2011
The Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu, 1748
"Attorney General Eric Holder: US Government Has Authority to Target & Kill US Citizens on US Soil," FireDogLake, March 5, 2013
"Obama’s new view of his own war powers," Glenn Greenwald, March 31, 2011
Posse Comitatus Act, June 18, 1878
Oath of Office, Vasan Kesavan, Heritage Foundation
"How Team Obama Justifies the Killing of a 16-Year-Old American," Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, Oct. 24, 2012
"On Drones, Contra Krauthammer," Kevin D. Williamson, National Review Online, Feb. 15, 2013
Dissenting opinion in Lochner v. New York, Oliver Wendell Holmes, April 17, 1905
The Promise of American Life, Herbert Croly, 1909
Uncons utionality of Slavery, Lysander Spooner, 1860
Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform, David E. Bernstein, 2011
The Bill of Rights, United States Cons ution, 1789
"The Federal Reserve’s not-so-golden rule," George Will, Washington Post, Feb. 27, 2013
Letters to Bishop Creighton, Lord Acton, 1887
Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen who is a Senior Operational Leader of Al Qa’ida or An Associated Force, Department of Justice, undated
The Federalist #51, James Madison, 1788
Letter From a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1949
Victory or Death, William Barrett Travis at the Alamo, Feb. 24, 1836
"A Bad Idea Gets Worse," Charles Pierce, Esquire, Feb 21., 2013
The Ten Commandments, Holy Bible, 14th to 6th century B.C.E.
"This Isn't Hard, Mr. President: Do You Think You Can Kill Us on American Soil or Not?" Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, Feb. 15, 2013
"How Obama Transformed an Old Military Concept So He Can Drone Americans," Spencer Ackerman, Wired, Feb. 5, 2013
"Assassinations by remote control," Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, Feb. 8, 2013
"U.S. Drones Can Now Kill Joe Schmoe Militants in Yemen," Noah Shachtman, Wired, April 26, 2012
"America’s Third War," Micah Zenko, Council on Foreign Relations, April 23, 2012
CCR Condemns Targeted Assassination of U.S. Citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki, Center for Cons utional Rights, Sept. 30, 2011
"Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill lists," Greg Miller, Washington Post, Oct. 23, 2012
"CIA Drones Kill Large Groups Without Knowing Who They Are," Spencer Ackerman, Wired, Nov. 4, 2011
How to Ensure that the U.S. Drone Program Does Not Undermine Human Rights, Human Rights First, Dec. 2012
"Police employ Predator drone spy planes on the home front," Los Angeles Times, Dec. 10, 2011
ACLU Report on Domestic Drones Finds Need for New Privacy Protections, American Civil Liberties Union, Dec. 15, 2011
"Revealed: 64 Drone Bases on American Soil," Lorenzo Franceschi Bicchierai, Wired, June 13, 2012
"Domestic-Drone Industry Prepares for Big Battle with Regulators," Spencer Ackerman, Wired, Feb. 13, 2013
"Killing Americans on U.S. Soil: Eric Holder's Evasive, Manipulative Letter," Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, March 6, 2013
"Here’s Why the Government Thinks It Can Kill You Overseas," Spencer Ackerman, Wired, March 5, 2013
http://www.dailypaul.com/277361/ever...l-s-filibuster
Paul proved two things:
1. That filibusters are stupid
2. He is a weakling.
Ackerman and Friedersdorf came up multiply. No one else did.
trashing the KY grandstanding trash
Rand Paul's Wrong on Drones -- Just Like Everything Else
But Paul couldn't be more wrong about drones, and largely lost in the discussion is the fact that his position is identical to that of the White House.
Paul said: "Nobody questions, if planes are flying towards the Twin Towers, whether they can be repulsed by the military; nobody questions whether, [if] a terrorist with a rocket launcher or a grenade launcher is attacking us, whether they can be repelled."
And, like the White House, Paul supports the use of (presumably unarmed) drones to patrol the border.
More importantly, Rand Paul has no objection to our actual drone policy. In his follow-up letter to Holder, Paul made no mention whatsoever of the administration's dramatic expansion in the use of drone strikes against non-Americans overseas. His singular focus was on the entirely implausible idea that the military might take out dissident voices in the United States with drone strikes; he even offered up a fantasy of Jane Fonda being blown up while sitting in a cafe.
Paul is wrong because, rather than take issue with Obama's actual drone program, his criticism is animated by the paranoid delusions of the far right -- the same apocalyptic visions that animate gun-hoarding survivalists and the militia movement. As Charles Johnson noted, "Sen. Paul is a frequent guest on the conspiracy-peddling Alex Jones Show, where he co-signs every deranged fantasy."
Paul specifically mentioned the possibility of a democratically elected Adolph Hitler-like figure coming to power in the United States. Looming federal tyranny -- against which the only protection is an armed citizenry -- is a staple item in the Rand Paul inventory of urgent concerns
http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...2C1&paging=off
KY ridge runners and assorted gun fellating bubbas suck this Paul crap down like it was finest white lightening.
the nutcase hasn't fallen far from the nut tree.
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heil, Hitler!
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