<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><font size="2">You have to know who he was speaking to-- in the extreme right-wing & survivalist blogiverse, Ruby Ridge and Waco still echo loudly. That's the situation(s) he was talking about. Can the (black man) in the White House shoot a Hellfire missile on my survivalist compound?</font></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA<br></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, March 9, 2013 2:54 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] Rand Paul, one more time<br> </font> </div> <br>
So I've waited a few days and I've done a little bit of research and<br>my verdict thus far on Rand Paul is that the filibuster was not the<br>good deed some folks (Sunil, Paul) thought that it was.<br><br>In today's Washington Post, for instance, he says the following: "I<br>wanted to sound an alarm bell from coast to coast. I wanted everybody<br>to know that our Constitution is precious and that no American should<br>be killed by a drone without first being charged with a crime. As<br>Americans, we have fought long and hard for the Bill of Rights. The<br>idea that no person shall be held without due process, and that no<br>person shall be held for a capital offense without being indicted, is<br>a founding American principle and a basic right."<br><br>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<br><br>This -- the only substantive reason he
gave for his filibuster in the<br>WP today -- has NOTHING to do with drone killings in other countries;<br>nor does it have anything to do with other kinds of civil liberty<br>violations, such as improper searches. Then there is the point that<br>Rose mentioned: How is killing someone with a drone more of a<br>violation of their Constitutional rights than merely shooting them,<br>which happens fairly regularly when police are trying to apprehend a<br>suspect?<br><br>I love Rand Paul's hair and I want to like him but he seems like a<br>fake. He raised the issue knowing it was vague and ambiguous to gain a<br>fair amount of support -- from well meaning people like Sunil and Paul<br>who are concerned about other important issue related to drones. But<br>he didn't talk about the other important issues.<br><br>And there is something particularly annoying about fiscal libertarians<br>who are anti-abortion. This isn't a real quote from Rand Paul but
it<br>might as well be: "The government should stay OUT of your life --<br>unless it comes to my own personal beliefs, which you should be forced<br>to accept. And by the way, once you pop that baby out, you've got to<br>raise it on your own because I'm cutting all the government programs<br>which might have helped your baby."<br><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br> http://www.fsr.net<br> mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</a><br>=======================================================<br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>