<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><h1 style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; position: relative; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Complete Transcript of Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's CIA nomination . . .</span></font></h1><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-transcript-rand-paul-filibuster-20130307,0,876160.story">http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-transcript-rand-paul-filibuster-20130307,0,876160.story</a></span></div><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br>On Mar 9, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Joe Campbell <<a href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com">philosopher.joe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div><span>Interesting.</span><br><span></span><br><span>On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Ron Force <<a href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com">rforce2003@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>You have to know who he was speaking to-- in the extreme right-wing &</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>survivalist blogiverse, Ruby Ridge and Waco still echo loudly. That's the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>situation(s) he was talking about. Can the (black man) in the White House</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>shoot a Hellfire missile on my survivalist compound?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Ron Force</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Moscow Idaho USA</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>From: Joe Campbell <<a href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com">philosopher.joe@gmail.com</a>></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>To: Moscow Vision 2020 <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sent: Saturday, March 9, 2013 2:54 PM</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Subject: [Vision2020] Rand Paul, one more time</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>So I've waited a few days and I've done a little bit of research and</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>my verdict thus far on Rand Paul is that the filibuster was not the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>good deed some folks (Sunil, Paul) thought that it was.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>In today's Washington Post, for instance, he says the following: "I</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>wanted to sound an alarm bell from coast to coast. I wanted everybody</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>to know that our Constitution is precious and that no American should</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>be killed by a drone without first being charged with a crime. As</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Americans, we have fought long and hard for the Bill of Rights. The</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>idea that no person shall be held without due process, and that no</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>person shall be held for a capital offense without being indicted, is</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>a founding American principle and a basic right."</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sen-rand-paul-my-filibuster-was-just-the-beginning/2013/03/08/6352d8a8-881b-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394_story.html?hpid=z2">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sen-rand-paul-my-filibuster-was-just-the-beginning/2013/03/08/6352d8a8-881b-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394_story.html?hpid=z2</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>This -- the only substantive reason he gave for his filibuster in the</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>WP today -- has NOTHING to do with drone killings in other countries;</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>nor does it have anything to do with other kinds of civil liberty</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>violations, such as improper searches. Then there is the point that</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Rose mentioned: How is killing someone with a drone more of a</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>violation of their Constitutional rights than merely shooting them,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>which happens fairly regularly when police are trying to apprehend a</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>suspect?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I love Rand Paul's hair and I want to like him but he seems like a</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>fake. He raised the issue knowing it was vague and ambiguous to gain a</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>fair amount of support -- from well meaning people like Sunil and Paul</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>who are concerned about other important issue related to drones. But</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>he didn't talk about the other important issues.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>And there is something particularly annoying about fiscal libertarians</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>who are anti-abortion. This isn't a real quote from Rand Paul but it</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>might as well be: "The government should stay OUT of your life --</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>unless it comes to my own personal beliefs, which you should be forced</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>to accept. And by the way, once you pop that baby out, you've got to</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>raise it on your own because I'm cutting all the government programs</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>which might have helped your baby."</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>=======================================================</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>=======================================================</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>=======================================================</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>=======================================================</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>