LOL he’s going to get burned badly.
Good...enough with the Stalinist spying on citizens.
But Paul argues that bill actually expands the PATRIOT Act
I'd be very surprised if that isn't completely true.
Fourteen year later and I’ll bet no one in Congress has read it yet.
As big a WHACK JOB as his father...maybe bigger.
GOOD!
He has shown himself to be a political opportunist and part of the very GOP establishment that he promised to run against.
Rand has none of the economic and monetary brilliance of his father. At least Ron Paul was a true independent and was despised by both political parties.
FUNSA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4th amendment enforcement.
Paul gets one right
Prescribes regulations establishing minimum standards for financial institutions and their customers regarding the identity of a customer that shall apply with the opening of an account at the financial institution.
On October 26, 2001, Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 into law. Contained in section 326(b) was the provision that allowed US banks to accept the Mexican Matricula Consular card as valid ID for opening a bank account.
Congress sent a request for opinion to Bush's Treasury Dept. about 326(b). Bush's Treasury responded:
| “The proposed rules set forth the requirement that financial institutions would have to establish a customer identification and verification program applicable to all new accounts that are opened, regardless of whether the customer is a U.S. citizen or a foreign national. While the proposed rules prescribe minimum standards for such programs, they leave sufficient flexibility to permit financial institutions to tailor their program to fit their business operations. The customer identification program would have to contain reasonable procedures for identifying any person, including a business, that opens an account, setting forth the type of identifying information that the financial institution will require. At a minimum, for U.S. persons the proposed rules would require financial institutions to obtain the following information: name, address, taxpayer identification number, and, for individuals, date of birth. While a taxpayer identification number is not required for non-U.S. persons, a financial institution must describe what type of information it will require of a non-U.S. person in place of a taxpayer identification number. The regulations state that financial institutions may accept one or more of the following: a U.S. taxpayer identification number; a passport number and country of issuance; an alien identification card number, or the number and country of issuance of any other government-issued document evidencing nationality or residence and bearing a photograph or similar safeguard.” |
This also contained a footnote (17):
| “Thus, the proposed regulations do not discourage bank acceptance of the ‘matricula consular’ identity card that is being issued by the Mexican government to immigrants.” |
Rand Paul is nothing more than a Lyndon LaRouche of the Libitraian Party.
The fear of Muslim terrorists have made those like Chertoff and many other elites even richer, and have justified the concerted effort to spy on American citizens that had nothing to do with 9-11.
The govt needs to enforce our borders and forget the Middle East. I support this effort. It is time to support our freedom instead of fear. Those that can’t protect us under the bounds of the Constitution need fired.
My real fear is that Obama, or a neocon, or an elite war profiteer will create a national tragedy to put more fear in our hearts and divide us as a nation. This is what works for the elites but screws us.