“Fought with Christie”
It wasn’t a fight he made. Fatso with a bad toupee said Rand was ridiculous for believing you did not need billions of everybody’s phone records to fight terrorists. Rand stood up for the fourth amendment where fatso has in the past declared how great it is that he could call the nsa/fbi and get phone records for anyone without all that pesky warrant stuff.
Thank God for a guy like Rand Paul in the senate.
I agree that Paul is on the right side of the NSA issue...and Christie is using the “we must do this for security,” argument to trya nd basically scare people into not only giving up their constitutional rights, but to try and make anyone who disagrees look like an idiot.
Snowden risked all to reveal what the NSA, politicians, and appointed officials had been denying, over and over again. IOW, they lied. The fact is, any email, any FB post, any text message, any voice mail, any cell phone call, any Credit card transaction, any electronic communication whatsoever is being gathered and compartmentalized.
They are not “watching it” in real time, but they are running programs against the data and pulling info and targeting anyone based on key words, locations, etc., etc.
I do not mind it when they select specific people on specific grounds of criminality and then get a specific court order regarding the same.. Or gathering data from non-US citizens abroad. I do mind when, in violation of the constitution, they gather such personal and private information on virtually all citizens.
This is what Snowden revealed, and IMHO, he was right to do so. Why do you think they have built the two huge data centers, as large as or bigger than the pentagon in Utah and back east? It is to gather, keep, sift through and store all of the data.
Far too much power in the hands of government. Far too easy (as we have already seen IMHO with the IRS) to abuse such power.
Rand Paul, in the debate, emulated his father’s attitude and evocative, emmotional outbursts that are documented in, of all places, a documentary about Morton Downey Jr.
He belongs in his place, the Senate, but not in the White House. Why? He has shown that he takes it upon himself, to make certain issues noted.
What has he said about the stoppage of illegal immigration?
What has he said about bringing jobs back to America?
What has he said about the repeal/destruction of governmental oversight of medical care?
What has he said about repealing any assault weapons ban?
What has he said about taking better care of military veterans?
With his seat in the Senate, what has he actually done towards any of these actions???
What bills has he fought the bacon-wrapped shrimp crowd, to bring to fruition?