[Vision2020] Rand Paul

[Joe Campbell]

I'm suspicious of R Paul. Why did he make it simply a domestic concern? What exactly is the number of people that we've killed in the US with drones? Say what you wish but the problem that Rand actually talked about is not a pressing issue at the time (not as pressing as the economy for instance) IMO. The timing is curious.

No one who has posted on the thread is in favor of the current drone policy. When it comes to drones, my concern has more to do with the death of innocents than with the issue of rights but we've killed far more innocents without drones than with them. I didn't here R Paul talk about that. 

I don't see how the innocent folks who died in the initial Iraq invasion are merely an acceptable cost of war but when an innocent dies from a drone intended for a terrorist, that is atrocious. To me the Iraq war was and is one horrible mistake and drones are just part of that.

Given the timing and the content of the speech, R Paul's comments strike me as purely political. 

On Mar 6, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Sunil Ramalingam <sunilramalingam at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I'm with Paul R and R Paul on this. Like Paul R, when I read Sen. Paul's statement, my regret was that he limits his concern to US citizens on US soil. We should be concerned about these atrocities wherever they occur. This, and his expansion of the security state and executive power, and his refusal to prosecute torturers (but his willingness to prosecute those who expose it) led me to vote for Jill Stein in the last election. That was the first time since 1980, when I could first vote, that I didn't vote for the Democratic Party candidate. And I'm not coming back while the Democrats embrace and take Bush-Cheney policies to heart.
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> Sunil
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> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 18:43:14 -0800
> From: godshatter at yahoo.com
> To: donaldrose at cpcinternet.com
> CC: Vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Rand Paul
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> "Showboating", huh?  Whatever.
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> The vast amount of drone strikes overseas have either been against people on their kill list going about their day, not currently involved in a violent attack, or they have been against people they can't identify but that they are reasonably sure are terrorists because of their associations.  Again, not taking them out while they are actively engaged in combat, just assassinating them wherever they happen to find them, doing whatever they happen to be doing at that moment.  Doing the dishes, blam, dead, along with who knows how many people nearby.  No due process, no vetting of evidence, no jury of their peers, no idea even what criteria our President uses to determine who gets to die that day.
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> Nobody I've seen is saying that we can't use drones, even on American soil, against people actively involved in combat.  The problem is that that isn't what they are being used for.
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> If you want to wish this away as some kind of stunt because he's a Paul or because he's a Republican or because you don't like his haircut, then you're part of the problem.  Our President is out of control with these assassinations, and our police departments are out of control in their militarization.  Drop the damned Us vs. Them crap, please.
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> Paul
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> On 03/06/2013 06:06 PM, Rosemary Huskey wrote:
> Should there be a disclaimer with this “purist’s” showboating?   Where does shooting someone in self-defense, or those occasions when law enforcement  officers are forced by a  critically dangerous situation (for example  a gun battle) to shoot to kill come into this equation?  I am sure that Rand will zoon right to the top of the list of right wing nutbags with this stunt. 
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> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Paul Rumelhart
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 5:55 PM
> To: Vision 2020
> Subject: [Vision2020] Rand Paul
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> I found this on Google+, I didn't make it and I don't claim it.  
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> I don't agree with this guy on everything by any means and I wish he'd left out the "on American soil" part, but I am behind him on this.
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