UPDATE DUE TO CONFUSION:Just to be clear: We’re talking about RAND Paul. not RON Paul. RAND is the son of RON, and is running for Senate.
Second update: Lol.
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Tut tut, he’s not the chip off the old block we thought he was, is he?
Leading United States Senate candidate Rand Paul today criticized the Obama administration’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and try terrorism suspects in United States Civil Courts.
“Foreign terrorists do not deserve the protections of our Constitution,” said Dr. Paul. “These thugs should stand before military tribunals and be kept off American soil. I will always fight to keep Kentucky safe and that starts with cracking down on our enemies.”
Dr. Paul believes in strong national defense and thinks military spending should be our country’s top budget priority. He has also called for a Constitutional declaration of war with Afghanistan.
Hmm, how wonderfully pro-liberty. Er. No.
I’m not sure that someone who’s supposed to believe in th Rule of Law can advocate a quasi-legal torture camp. I’m also not sure how anyone calling themselves a constitutionalist could accept the “They don’t have rights because they’re accused of terrorism, oh, but we don’t need a trial to make sure they’re terrorists because they’ve been accused of terrorism” bollocks.
It seems Paul the Younger has succumbed to neo-conservatism. Boo, down with this sort of thing.
This rhetoric seems perfect for a closed Republican primary…
Also, a neocon doesn’t support a non-interventionist foreign policy. A neocon doesn’t want to require a declaration of war. A neocon wouldn’t vote against the authorization of force in Iraq. And most certainly, a neocon doesn’t speak out against the PATRIOT Act.
While the rhetoric might be a bit disheartening to us libertarians, I fully understand that that this is politicking. Rand will be the best Senator since decades, he still has my support 100%.
Must be why Rand is running as a republican and not as a Losertarian.
The man’s name is “Ron” Paul, not “Rand” Paul.
The prisoners detained in military prison are not US citizens born and raised in the US nor are they naturalized citizens with all the full rights that are supposed to pertain to those of US citizenship.
They are considered, for the time being, rightfully or wrongfully, POWs and have rights coming from the Geneva Convention more so than the US constitution.
Ron Paul would of course audit the Federal Reserve and upon that audit could ensue a movement to unseat the Federal Reserve and give control of the US money supply back to the US Congress, which is where by constitution it is supposed to lie – not with private bankers who control the Federal Reserve and act in secret and independently of the US people and their Congress.
His audit bill is in fact a real audit while there is a phony “audit” being introduced in counter to his by supporters of the Federal Reserve to try to pull political heat off, which Ron Paul has thus far successfully managed to create.
If in order to win political support he must use rhetoric that calls upon some flag-waving and incantation against some non-US citizens held in captivity as POWs, rightfully or wrongfully, tortuously or trumped-up-tortuously as an oppositing rhetoric would be in order to dissapate political power away from those who might actually do some change in the US that would be for the good over-all, then a candidate must say so rhetorically – and I don’t see in his speech something so shameful or anti-libertarian to suggest he should be abandoned entirely, especially when there is none other to take his place in the current political establishment in Congress.
It’s better him than democratic-socialists or their counterparts, the RINOs, who would if left all to them just continue on their merry way to destroying every last shred of the US Constitution and spitting it out when through.
I would say Ron Paul is the lesser of the evils and to me, I don’t castigate him entirely for what is said in his campaign rhetoric.
One can’t please all the people all the time, but one has to win an election and enough support – and to abandon Ron Paul is essentially to abandon maybe the only true current action to try to bring the US Federal Reserve out into the daylight and exposing whoever has been behind it all these years for all to see.
Protip susan: Rand Paul is Ron’s son. I’m not talking about Ron.
My error. I apologize for my ignorance and not having been following his son.