Ron Paul slams Boston police. Has he gone too far?….. “Former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has slammed US law enforcement for responding to the Boston Marathon bombing with “police state tactics.” In a post on the website of libertarian activist Lew Rockwell, Mr. Paul said Monday that the governmental reaction to the tragic explosions was worse than the attack itself…”

Congressman Ron Paul at an event hosted in his honor at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

 

 

Ron Paul slams Boston police. Has he gone too far?

 

 

 

 

 

Yahoo! News ^ | 04/30/2013 | Peter Grier

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 7:15:04 PM by E. Pluribus Unum

 

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Ron Paul, in a posting on the website of a libertarian activist, accused US law enforcement of ‘a military-style occupation of an American city’ in its response to the Boston bombing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul has slammed US law enforcement for responding to the Boston Marathon bombing with “police state tactics.”

 

In a post on the website of libertarian activist Lew Rockwell, Mr. Paul said Monday that the governmental reaction to the tragic explosions was worse than the attack itself…

 

 

 

Ron Paul: Police manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect scarier than attack

Congressman Ron Paul at an event hosted in his honor at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

Ron Paul: Police manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect scarier than attack

 

The Washington Times ^ | April 29, 2013 | Cheryl K. ChumleyPosted on Monday, April 29, 2013 8:09:10 PM by 2ndDivisionVetFormer

 

Rep. Ron Paul said the law enforcement that swarmed around Boston in the days following the marathon bombings was scarier than the actual terrorist attack.

 

“The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city,” he said on the Lew Rockwell website, Politico reported.

 

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“This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.

 

”The terror attacks on April 15 in Boston killed three and injured 264.Mr. Paul, a former libertarian political candidate who served in Congress as a member of the Republican Party, said the door-to-door searches police conducted in Watertown for the bombing suspects were particularly alarming.

 

Glenn Beck Shoots Down Rand Paul: If Police Get Drones, ‘The 2nd Amendment Is Absolutely Dead’

Glenn Beck Shoots Down Rand Paul

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 If Police Get Drones, ‘The 2nd Amendment Is Absolutely Dead’

Mediaite ^ | April 27, 2013 | Matt WilsteinPosted on Sunday, April 28, 2013 2:09:54 PM by 2ndDivisionVet

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Senator Rand Paul‘s media tour following his “misunderestimated” statements on drones brought him to Glenn Beck‘s radio show Friday, where the two men discussed the prospects of a terrifying future where police cars have “robotic firing arms” that take down criminals with the push of a button.

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Ron and Rand Paul pressuring Justin Amash to forego Senate run, report says

Ron and Rand Paul pressuring Justin Amash to forego Senate run, report says

 

Mlive ^ | April 24, 2013 | Zane McMillin

 

Posted on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:08:46 PM by cripplecreek

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — U.S. Rep. Justin Amash, R-Cascade Township, is being pressured to stay out of the race for retiring Sen. Carl Levin‘s seat by libertarian power brokers Ron and Rand Paul.

 

That’s according to a National Journal article published Wednesday that examines the potential candidacies of Amash and fellow Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Howell.

 

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According to the article, rumors are flying that Amash — branded in several national media articles as the “next Ron Paul” — is being cautioned against a run by the elder Paul and Rand Paul, a Kentucky senator:

 

 

 

Rand Paul: Hillary’s Benghazi story unraveling……………….

Rand Paul: Hillary’s Benghazi story unraveling

 

WND ^ | WND

 

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Posted on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:27:43 AM by JohnPDuncan

 

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was “surprised” by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s sworn testimony in a Senate hearing in which she claimed that she did not know whether the U.S. mission in Libya was procuring or transferring weapons to Turkey and other Arab countries.

 

 

 

The Secret Media War of 2012… “The growth in alternative media readership as well as independent political and economic thought from the Ron Paul Campaign educational effort have almost reached the tipping point thus making the past public control function of the media establishment a lost cause. Adding up the alternative media readership numbers and Paul’s GOP vote percentages primarily from younger voters spells disaster for the establishment. ” by Ron Holland

Congressman Ron Paul at an event hosted in his honor at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

……Ron Paul Has Brilliantly Turned the Tables On the Political Establishment

His campaign is using the closed two-party control structure and their media gatekeepers previously utilized to control public opinion and elections against them. For example the state presidential primary and caucus system, televised debates and related campaign news coverage formerly was a GOP establishment monopoly. Today thanks to the Internet, it has become the Trojan horse used by Paul’s campaign and liberty supporters to get inside the closed walls of the GOP to educate millions of Americans about freedom and free-market ideas.

The establishment news media has been powerless to stop this infiltration so the real battle in 2012, isn’t the visible political campaign but rather the hidden impotence of the media elites to protect the establishment control. This is why the media so hates and fears Ron Paul.

His campaign is the new road map for how pro-liberty candidates and forces together with the alternative media can and will eventually defeat the power elites main protectors and gatekeepers, which is the media establishment.

The Wednesday night GOP Presidential debate could well be the last in this campaign cycle. In fact, it could be the last GOP presidential debate in your lifetime if future freedom candidates follow the Ron Paul model of turning a major campaign into an educational effort against the GOP establishment.

The Man Who Should Be President… “Today, I am going to do something that I have never done: I am going to devote virtually my entire column to posting another man’s words. That man is the man who should be President of the United States: Congressman Ron Paul of Texas.”

The Man Who Should Be President

 

Daily Paul ^ | 4/12/2012 | Chuck Baldwin

 

Congressman Ron Paul at an event hosted in his honor at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

 

 

Posted on Saturday, April 28, 2012 7:52:59 AM by IbJensen

 

 

 

 

 

Today, I am going to do something that I have never done: I am going to devote virtually my entire column to posting another man’s words. That man is the man who should be President of the United States: Congressman Ron Paul of Texas.

 

 

 

The following is a written transcript of a speech Dr. Paul gave on the floor of the US House of Representatives back in 2007. Had Congressman Paul been elected President in 2008, the country would be four years into the greatest economic, political, and, yes, spiritual recovery in the history of America.

 

 

 

‘The neo-conservative era is dead’: Ron Paul announces DC think-tank… “Ron Paul has been retired from Congress for only a few months, but he’s certainly not shying away from politics. The former US representative has already announced his new project: the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.”

‘The neo-conservative era is dead’: Ron Paul announces DC think-tank

 

RT ^ | April 12, 2013 | RT

 

Congressman Ron Paul at an event hosted in his honor at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

Posted on Saturday, April 13, 2013 8:56:31 AM by Colonel Kangaroo

 

Ron Paul has been retired from Congress for only a few months, but he’s certainly not shying away from politics. The former US representative has already announced his new project: the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.

 

In a press release sent to the media Friday afternoon, the Ron Paul camp confirms that the long-time Texas representative will launch a think-tank of sorts in order to carry on his ideologies after his time in office has ended.

 

“After decades in and out of the US House of Representatives leading the call for a non-interventionist foreign policy and the protection of civil liberties, Dr. Paul is launching a revolutionary new vehicle to expand his efforts. The Institute will serve as the focal point of a new coalition that crosses political, ideological and party lines,” the statement begins.

 

 

 

Ron Paul Politico’d by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr…. “As an establishment site, the warmongering Politico has always hated and feared Ron Paul. Here is their latest attack, within the context of a broader article.”

As an establishment site, the warmongering Politico has always hated and feared Ron Paul. Here is their latest attack, within the context of a broader article. First, they associate Ron with traditional libertarianism, which they describe as “pro-pot, pro-porn, pro-pacifist.” Needless to say, Ron has never used pot nor porn, but he does believe in the individual’s right to decide what goes into his mind and into his body. The state seeks control over both, of course.

Congressman Ron Paul at an event hosted in his honor at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Nor is Ron a pacifist – an ancient charge against those who oppose constant war. He believes in the right to self-defense, but he does not believe in the initiation of violence, whether by private criminals or the state. The state has recently taken more than a million lives in its imperialist anti-Muslim wars. Ron Paul has opposed them with all his heart and soul. He is a man of peace and the golden rule, in his private life and his policy.

Next, Politico tells us that “Ron Paul epitomized to a swath of voters the caricature of a goofy grandpa who invests in gold, stockpiles guns, sees black helicopters whirling overhead and quotes Friedrich Hayek.”

Of course, Ron Paul is the most ungoofy guy you could know. He is thoughtful, careful, serious, well read, eloquent, an important public intellectual. It’s true he’s patiently invested in gold over many years, and made a good deal of money. Hurrah for him!

Ron does not “stockpile guns,” unlike the government, though he supports gun rights for private citizens. And if they want to collect guns, that’s their business. He doesn’t see black helicopters, though he does deplore the drones that spy on us for the police state, and which can kill us, too, on presidential whim. And yes, he quotes the great Austrian economist Hayek, and Mises, Rothbard, Sennholz, and the others, too. He has also read the works of these men.

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However, I do like this quote: Ron “recounted Richard Nixon’s infamous declaration as president that ‘we’re all Keynesians now’” – “’We’re all Austrians now,’ Paul pronounced with a sense of looming triumph, a reference to the school of economics that most values the free market.”

 

Rand Paul Cautions: Republicans And Some Evangelicals Often Appear ‘Too Eager For War’

Rand Paul Cautions: Republicans And Some Evangelicals Often Appear ‘Too Eager For War’

 

Mediaite ^ | Andrew Kirell

 

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Posted on Sunday, April 07, 2013 11:15:53 AM by JohnPDuncan

 

 

 

“Part of Republicans’ problems and, frankly, to tell you the truth, some in the evangelical Christian movement, I think have appeared too eager for war,” Paul said.

 

The Rebel (Time article on Rand Paul)…

The Rebel (Time article on Rand Paul)

 

Time ^ | Alex Altman

 

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Posted on Sunday, April 07, 2013 7:19:14 AM by BarnacleCenturion

 

Riding shotgun in a red minivan, his foot propped on the dash, the Republican Party’s man of the moment zips down the back roads of southern Kentucky.

 

Rand Paul is on his way to a meeting with Christian leaders in Somerset, a conservative stronghold where locals couldn’t buy alcohol until last year.

 

It’s his third event in as many hours, and he looks tired; his voice nearly gave out the day before.

 

Rand Paul-backed group attacks Republicans (Paul not cowering under pressure)

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Rand Paul-backed group attacks Republicans (Paul not cowering under pressure)

 

Politico ^ | 4/2/13 | Kate Nocera

 

 

 

 

Posted on Wednesday, April 03, 2013 8:19:46 AM by cotton1706

 

Sen. Rand Paul, the tea party favorite and possible 2016 presidential candidate, is raising money for a conservative gun rights group that’s targeting fellow Republicans, including House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

 

And when one congressman complained, the message from Paul’s camp was: too bad.

 

The Kentucky Republican has lent his name to fundraising pitches for the National Association for Gun Rights, a group that says the National Rifle Association is too willing to compromise on gun rights.

 

Rand Paul has a ‘News Flash’ for Ann Coulter: We have de facto amnesty

Rand Paul has a ‘News Flash’ for Ann Coulter: We have de facto amnesty

 

YouTube ^ | Bill Hemmer

 

Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2013 5:39:24 PM by JohnPDuncan

 

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared on America‘s News room this afternoon and declared: “I’ve got a news flash for those who want to call people names on amnesty – what we have now is de facto amnesty,” Paul shot back. “We have 11 million people here that have been here, some of them for a decade or more. No one is telling them to go home. No one is sending them home.”

 

Rand Paul wants to give all illegal immigrants US citizenship | EUTimes.net

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In another break from Republican Party orthodoxy, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has said that America’s illegal immigrants should be integrated into the tax system in a program that would eventually lead to the possibility of citizenship.

 

Speaking about immigration issues at the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Paul said “Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport” the millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States en masse.

 

“Prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into becoming and being taxpaying members of society,” the Tea Party leader and suspected 2016 presidential candidate added.

 

Old stale RINO Bill Kristol calls Rand Paul ‘Neo-Isolationist’ and ‘dangerous’ (Video)

Old stale RINO Bill Kristol calls Rand Paul ‘Neo-Isolationist’ and ‘dangerous’ (Video)

 

Fire Andrea Mitchell ^ | 3/18/13 | FAM Blog

 

Posted on Monday, March 18, 2013 9:25:55 PM by pacificpundit

 

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What do Bill Kristol, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Karl Rove and other old, stale RINO hacks all have in common? They fear Rand Paul and the new generation of libertarian-conservatives or constitutional-conservative.

 

 

 

Bill Kristol went on America Live with Megyn Kelly to whine about how ‘dangerous’ the ‘Neo-Isolationist’ Rand Paul is. Kristol also declared that Paul has no political future or something.

 

Gunny G: (As Always, See Reader Responses!) ~ Rand Paul: Not One Penny To Countries That Burn Our Flag

Rand Paul: Not One Penny To Countries That Burn Our Flag

Freedom Outpost ^ | Mar. 15, 2013 | Tim Brown

Posted on Friday, March 15, 2013 9:50:59 AM by EXCH54FE

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At the opening of CPAC 2013, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) picked up where he left off in his 13 hour filibuster last week. Paul took off the gloves and went after Barack Obama on indefinite detention, defending the Constitution, and unlawfully killing American citizens. He also spoke on debt and foolish and frivolous spending and when he touched on foreign aid he said, “I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag.”

What Rand Paul Got Right…

What Rand Paul Got Right

 

Townhall.com ^ | March 13, 2013 | Jonah Goldberg

 

Posted on Wednesday, March 13, 2013 4:35:49 PM by Kaslin

 

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Last week, freshman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) held an old-fashioned filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA. Paul’s stated reason for taking to the floor and talking for 13 hours was that the Obama administration wouldn’t give him a straight answer on the question of whether the president can unilaterally order the killing of American citizens on American soil with “lethal force, such as a drone strike … and without trial.”

 

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In other words, if an American member of al-Qaeda is sitting at a Starbucks, can the president sic one of his death-dealing robots on him?

 

Who Speaks Now for the GOP? “Does the president, Paul demanded to know, in the absence of an imminent threat, have the right to order U.S. citizens killed by drone strike on U.S. soil?”

Who Speaks Now for the GOP?

 

Townhall.com ^ | March 12, 2013 | Pat Buchanan

 

Posted on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 8:47:29 AM by Bratch

 

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Last Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul rose on the Senate floor to declare a filibuster and pledge he would not sit down until either he could speak no longer or got an answer to his question about Barack Obama’s war powers.

 

Does the president, Paul demanded to know, in the absence of an imminent threat, have the right to order U.S. citizens killed by drone strike on U.S. soil?

 

By the time he sat down, 13 hours later, Paul had advanced to the front rank of candidates for 2016, and established himself as a foreign policy leader whose views must be consulted equally with those of John McCain.

 

How did he pull this off?

 

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First, Attorney General Eric Holder arrogantly refused to rule out the possibility that President Obama could order execution by drone-strike of U.S. citizens, even here in the United States.

 

When Rand demanded to know what Holder was talking about, all across America people tuned in.

 

Republican ‘Old Guard’ Rips Into Rand Paul…

Republican ‘Old Guard’ Rips Into Rand Paul

 

Flopping Aces ^ | 03-11-13 | Curt

 

Posted on Monday, March 11, 2013 1:40:00 PM by Starman417

 

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John McCain

 

The old guard….that old guard that gave us McCain and Romney to sacrifice at the altar of Obama, knowing full well they would lose….is at it again pulling out the knives and placing them into the backs of the new guard.

 

 

 

 

 

The guard that has actual idea’s, that actually has courage, that is willing to take on the old crony’s.

 

Here’s Bill Kristol, that champion of the old guard:

 

President Paul: Rand Rising? (Some in the GOP resent the younger Paul and worry he’s too radical)… “

President Paul: Rand Rising? (Some in the GOP resent the younger Paul and worry he’s too radical)

 

 

 

National Review ^ | 03/11/2013 | John Fund

 

 

 

Posted on Monday, March 11, 2013 10:03:26 AM by SeekAndFind

 

 

 

 

 

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Palm Beach, Fla. — Those who doubted that Rand Paul was will running for president need to change their minds after considering how he energized the conservative grass roots with his 13-hour Senate filibuster last week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Paul took a narrow issue — as he put it, “whether an American can be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime” — and captured the attention of political activists. As social media lit up with praise for his efforts, many of his fellow senators joined him on the floor, in solidarity with his demand that the Obama administration answer a question it had legalistically evaded for days.

 

 

 

Representative Keith Rothfus of Pennsylvania was part of a group of House members who went to the Senate floor to “stand with Rand.” “The atmosphere was electric, “ he says. “Republicans felt we were advancing.”

 

 

 

What Rand Paul Misses: Congress, not the Constitution, should curtail the president’s war powers.

What Rand Paul Misses: Congress, not the Constitution, should curtail the president’s war powers.

 

National Review ^ | 03/09/2013 | Andrew McCarthy

 

Posted on Saturday, March 09, 2013 8:03:48 AM by SeekAndFind

 

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It was Wednesday, shortly before Senator Rand Paul’s bravura 13-hour filibuster, the Jimmy Stewart star turn in Paul’s crusade to have the Constitution ban a bogeyman of his own making: the killing of American citizens on American soil by America’s armed forces — a scandal that clearly cries out for action, having occurred exactly zero times in the 20 years since jihadists commenced hostilities by bombing the World Trade Center.

 

Rand’s Band of Brothers… “…he didn’t fill that time alone. Fourteen other Senators total offered him a respite along with comradely, thought-provoking questions, and humor, to boot”

Rand’s Band of Brothers

America Spectator Magazine ^ | 3.8.13 @ 6:07AM

Posted on Friday, March 08, 2013 2:45:34 PM by drewh

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Whatever his ideological leanings, surely Shakespeare would have raised an eyebrow at the political scene Wednesday, if only for the content it would have stirred in his creative mind. Though Rand Paul spearheaded an epic 13-hour filibuster, he didn’t fill that time alone. Fourteen other Senators total offered him a respite along with comradely, thought-provoking questions, and humor, to boot.

Some comments, or technically questions, were in part to pass the time, but many managed to raise spirits by quoting movies, musicians, famous authors, or regular supporters. Sens. Cruz, Scott, and Flake are all freshmen.

Traditionally, their first speech on the Senate floor would have been on something of personal importance, but instead they helped Rand further his filibuster. Since cell phones are banned on the floor, Cruz offered to read series of Tweets so Paul could see what was going on in the outside world — the “Twitterverse” — encouraging Paul (and supporters).

Blog: Old guard GOP in lock-step with Obama regime

Keith Edwards

President Barack Obama and Senator John McCain in a press conference, taking place on March 4, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul did something on Wednesday that hasn’t happened in the Republican Party since Obama won the White House in 2008. Senator Paul stood up for what he believed and defended the Constitution during an old fashioned filibuster against what has become known to most conservatives as a quasi-tyrannical socialist Obama regime.

Senator Paul’s filibuster was an attempt to set a narrative within the context of the constitutionality of the Obama regimes domestic drone policy.

 

 

NY Times Buries Sen. Paul’s Filibuster

NY Times Buries Sen. Paul’s Filibuster

 

NewsBusters ^

 

Posted on Thursday, March 07, 2013 8:46:33 PM by chessplayer

 

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Republican Sen. Rand Paul‘s filibuster on Attorney General Eric Holder‘s refusal to rule out drone strikes against U.S. citizens, which ended early Thursday morning, was absent from the front page of Thursday’s New York Times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Times buried its coverage of Paul’s striking “talking” filibuster, in which he held the floor for nearly 13 hours, ostensibly in opposition to Obama‘s choice of John Brennan for CIA director.

 

Brennan was serving as a proxy for Paul’s demand that Holder rule out drone strikes on American citizens or on U.S. soil.

 

Holder: No drone strikes on American citizens ‘not engaged in combat’

Holder: No drone strikes on American citizens ‘not engaged in combat’Yahoo News ^ | 7 Mar 2013 | Chris MoodyPosted on Thursday, March 07, 2013 7:28:02 PM by mandaladon

 

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Attorney General Eric Holder has responded to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul‘s question about whether the federal government can legally use a drone strike against an American citizen on U.S. soil if the person is “not engaged in combat”:

 

 

 

 

Earlier this week, Holder wrote in a letter to Paul that the president has the authority to order militarized drone strikes on American citizens within the United States, but only in “an extraordinary circumstance.”In protest,…………

 

Rand Paul’s Drone Rant (this is Paul Gigot undermining Rand Paul)

Rand Paul‘s Drone Rant (this is Paul Gigot undermining Rand Paul)

 

Wall Street Journal ^ | 3/6/13 | Editorial board

 

Posted on Thursday, March 07, 2013 8:46:51 AM by cotton1706

 

Give Rand Paul credit for theatrical timing. As a snow storm descended on Washington, the Kentucky Republican’s old-fashioned filibuster Wednesday filled the attention void on Twitter and cable TV. If only his reasoning matched the showmanship.

 

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Rand Paul: The Feds claim they can drone strike you when having dinner

Rand Paul: The Feds claim they can drone strike you when having dinner

 

Politico ^ | KEVIN CIRILLI

 

Posted on Wednesday, March 06, 2013 10:37:15 AM by JohnPDuncan

 

English: United States Senator Rand Paul speaking at the Night of the Rising Stars in Des Moines, Iowa. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

 

 

Sen. Rand Paul blasted Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement that drone strikes could be carried out on U.S. soil under extreme circumstances, with the Kentucky Republican suggesting that means Americans could be killed while they’re “eating dinner” or “at a cafe.”

 

“The thing about the drone strike program is we’re not talking about someone’s actively attacking America — we’re not talking about planes flying into the World Trade Center,” Paul said on Fox News on Tuesday. “What we’re talking about is you’re eating dinner in your house, you’re eating at a cafe or you’re walking down the road.”

 

Revealed: Holder Letter Leaves Open Possibility of Drone Strikes on U.S. Soil (Rand Paul)

Revealed: Holder Letter Leaves Open Possibility of Drone Strikes on U.S. Soil (Rand Paul)

 

The Blaze ^ | March 5, 2013 | Billy Hallowell

 

Posted on Tuesday, March 05, 2013 4:51:24 PM by Perseverando

 

This morning, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told Glenn Beck’s radio team that he had some new information about the U.S. government drone program — information that some individuals might find troubling. Later in the day, TheBlaze obtained letters that were sent to the senator by Attorney General Eric Holder and President Barack Obama’s chief counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan.

 

It is select contents in Holder’s letter that citizens might find most problematic.

 

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After Paul sent an inquiry to learn more about the government’s drone program and to ask whether “the president has the power to authorize lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without trial,” he received a response that is sure to be scrutinized.

 

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The senator’s inquiry was certainly specific, however the government’s response was not so concise — or at least not pointed enough to put critics like Paul at ease.

 

Rand Paul: Voters Ready for libertarian Republican

Rand Paul: Voters Ready for libertarian Republican

 

POLITICO ^ | MANU RAJU

 

Posted on Sunday, February 17, 2013 2:35:25 PM by JohnPDuncan

 

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Sen. Rand Paul says he’ll wait until 2014 to decide whether to run for president, but he believes voters are ready for a Libertarian-minded Republican candidate.

 

“I would absolutely not run unless it were to win,” the Kentucky Republican said on “Fox News Sunday.” “Points have been made, and we we will continue to make points. But I think the country is really ready for the narrative coming — the Libertarian Republican narrative.”

 

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Voters want a “different face,” he said.

 

Ron Paul Reacts to State of the Union Address… “Surely, Dr Ron Paul and our history since the ConCon of 1778 must be living proof that we should return to the Articles Of Confederation for the simple reason that we cannot trust a large governing body with the authority and responsibility involved in such a task. Ref http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/the-daily-bell-axiom-3-back-to-the-articles-of-confederation-as-americas-central-government/” …(Articles of Confederation, etc.)

Ron Paul Reacts to State of the Union Address

Stossel on FBN via Youtube ^ | 2/12/2013 | Eduardo89rp

Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 2:26:32 PM by Laissez-faire capitalist

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Former presidential candidate Ron Paul reacted to President Obama’s SOTU address with John Stossel on Fox Business Network.

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Paul said in the speech, “certainly we didn’t get any answers tonight” to the key issues facing the nation.

Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance

The Republican Party needs to broaden its appeal by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly “eager to go to war,” U.S. Sen. Rand Paul told hundreds of Greater Cincinnati Republicans Saturday.

 

“We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don’t always all agree on every issue,” the Kentucky Republican said at the Northeast Hamilton County Republican Club’s annual pancake breakfast at the Sharonville Convention Center.

 

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To help the party rebound from two successive losses in presidential races, Republicans must find new strategies and messages to reach voters who now often look askance at the GOP, Paul told a crowd of more than 500.

 

Rand Paul: Obama in guns-to-jihadists cover-up?

‘A kind of international Fast and Furious in Benghazi‘

 

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., raised questions during a radio interview today about whether the Obama administration was smuggling guns to jihadist rebels in a possible “international Fast and Furious” that the White House has tried to cover up.

 

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Speaking on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on New York’s WABC Radio, Paul said the guns scheme could help explain the reason for the coordinated attacks against the U.S. special mission and CIA annex in Benghazi last September.

 

Rand Paul: GOP Must Adapt Or Die

Sen. Rand Paul said on Sunday that he will make a decision on a 2016 presidential run within two years and plans to be a force in the refashioning the Republican party regardless of whether he seeks the Oval Office.

 

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“We will continue to pursue and, you know, try to make that decision over the next two years or so,” the Kentucky Republican told WABC Radio’s Aaron Klein when asked about a potential White House bid.

 

In the meantime, Paul said, he will “try to be part of the national debate” and added that he hopes to play a major role in directing the future of the Republican Party.

 

Sen. Rand Paul: Build Iron Dome Over White House, Capitol, Key Cities

Sen. Rand Paul says The White House, Capitol buildings, and key U.S. cities should build their own versions of Israel‘s Iron Dome to defend them from missile attacks, BuzzFeed reports.

 

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“I saw presentations of the Iron Dome and it was very impressive … [I am] absolutely in favor of it,” Paul told reporters in a conference call after touring Israel and Jordan. …

 

Rand Paul Seeks to Undo Obama’s Executive Actions on Guns

Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday night announced plans to try to undo parts of President Barack Obama’s executive proposals to curb gun violence, saying the president may be developing a “king-like complex.”

 

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“We will nullify anything the president does that smacks of legislation,” the Kentucky Republican said on Fox News in reference to 23 actions Obama unveiled earlier in the day. The executive actions range from steps to encourage states to improve information sharing on background checks to directing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct new studies related to gun violence.

 

Rand Paul In Israel: End The Gravy Train Of US Foreign Aid

The U.S. Senator (R-Ky.), who is already being touted as a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, was recently appointed to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and is showing some strong Woodrow Wilson-style isolationist tendencies.

 

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The role of the committee, according to its own website, is to “develop and influence United States foreign policy,” and in the past has “helped shape foreign policy of broad significance.” In other words, the actions of the committee matter just a bit, and the membership of a Senator like Rand Paul, who’s primary policy goal seems to be deficit reduction and budget balancing to the exclusion and possible detriment of all other policies, is a worrying prospect to many, particularly in the pro-Israel community.

 

Ron Paul’s Liberty Movement Spreads in Congress (Paul Broun)

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The retirement of Congressman Ron Paul from the House of Representatives last week did not end the Texas libertarian’s influence in Congress. And if the first week of the new Congress is any indication, his influence has only multiplied.

 

Congressman Paul’s battles to audit and ultimately abolish the Federal Reserve Bank have been picked up by his former colleague Paul Broun of Georgia, who scored 92 percent on The New American‘s “Freedom Index” in the last Congress.

 

“I applaud Congressman Paul’s efforts. He was fighting for liberty,” Broun told The Hill newspaper, which covers Congress from Washington, D.C. The story, entitled “Georgia’s Broun keeps Ron Paul’s anti-Fed mission alive in new Congress,” details how Broun — like former Congressman Paul, a medical doctor — has continued the anti-Fed mantra of Ron Paul. “My plan is to pick up right where Congressman Paul left off,” Broun said on his congressional website, “I’m just going to stand on his shoulders and go forward in that same fight.”

 

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» Ron Paul On The Fiscal Cliff: “We Have Passed The Point Of No Return” Alex Jones’ Infowars: There’s a war on for your mind!

In a little under three minutes, Ron Paul explains to a somewhat nonplussed CNBC anchor just how ridiculous the charade that is occurring in D.C. actually is.

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This succinct spin-free clip should be required viewing for each and every asset-manager, talking-head, propagandist, and mom-and-pop who are viewing the last-minute idiocy of the ‘fiscal cliff’ debacle with some hope that things will be different this time.

(“There’s Never Been Anyone Like Ron Paul As the Republican shills at the NRA discover.”) ~ Retiring Rep. Ron Paul Becomes First Republican To Rip NRA’s Plan for Armed Guards at Schools, Saying That It Would Create ‘Orwellian Surveillance State’

Outgoing Republican Senator Ron Paul from Texas took on the National Rifle Association this week, arguing that the gun lobby‘s recent proposal to place armed guards at every U.S. school is ‘just another kind of violence.’

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In a statement released on Monday, the uncompromising libertarian lawmaker said that the federal government should not try to ‘pursue unobtainable safety’ and claimed that Democrats and Republicans have ‘zero moral authority to legislate against violence.’

‘This is the world of government provided “security,” a world far too many Americans now seem to accept or even endorse,’ the 77-year-old congressman wrote on his website. ‘School shootings, no matter how horrific, do not justify creating an Orwellian surveillance state in America.’

[Video] Glenn Beck: Rand Paul, the Only Politician With a Spine… (“Rand Paul – the only one left?”)

Rand Paul – the only one left?

 

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Glenn Beck

 

Nov 29, 2012

 

Glenn interviewed seemingly the only politician with a spine on radio today, Senator Rand Paul. While many Republicans are displaying a readiness to just throw out everything they said they believed in and cave to Obama, Sen. Paul is trying to hold the line. Check out the interview today in the clip above and find out how to get involved.

 

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Sen. Rand Paul Renews Fight Over Indefinite Detention of US Citizens

Sen. Rand Paul Renews Fight Over Indefinite Detention of US Citizens

The Hill ^ | Nov. 25, 2012 | Jeremy Herb

Posted on Sunday, November 25, 2012 9:22:47 AM by VitacoreVision

Sen. Rand Paul renews fight over indefinite detention of US citizens

The Hill

Nov. 25, 2012

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is bringing a new — and more aggressive — approach to a longstanding debate over the Defense authorization bill, threatening to filibuster the bill to get a vote on his amendment limiting indefinite detention.

Prison Planet.com » Ron Paul Defends Growing Secession Movement

In his weekly update, released today, Congressman Ron Paul defends those who have signed petitions in all 50 states advocating secession from the federal government, referring to the principle as “deeply American”.

 

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Echoing comments he made back in 2009, Paul notes “This country was born through secession. Some thought it was treasonous to secede from England, but those “traitors” became our country’s greatest patriots.”

 

“…the principles of self-government and voluntary association are at the core of our founding….There is nothing treasonous or unpatriotic about wanting a federal government that is more responsive to the people it represents.” the Congressman adds.

 

Explaining that the recent election only served to further entrench the political status quo, Paul urges “…our own federal government is vastly overstepping its constitutional bounds with no signs of reform.” He reminds Americans that “the first and third paragraph of the Declaration of Independence expressly contemplate the dissolution of a political union when the underlying government becomes tyrannical.”

 

Would a President Ron Paul say “9/11 Denial is Holocaust Denial” | Veterans Today

Time to Really Find and Deal With the Real Culprits of the Wordwide 9/11 Holocaust

 

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By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

 

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America just went through an election, another stolen election. The clear winner of the Republican nomination was Ron Paul. Instead, we were given, if those who voted for him are honest enough to admit it, a piece of human garbage.

 

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Paul would have taken half the Democratic vote as well. Many of us believe he should have trusted the American people and gone “Independent.” Here is a video of Ron Paul being “circumspect” about 9/11. Paul is very close to the intelligence community, the real one. This is why his view tend to differ from they hypocritical blither of the two that ran.

 

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Last week, a man was praying while on a United Airlines 757 flight. Two fighter jets were called to intercept the plane and force it to land. They were there in less than 10 minutes. This has been US policy for over 45 years and bases across the US keep planes for these missions fueled and armed and have for decades. One of those units is the 180th Fighter Wing in Toledo, Ohio.

 

Ron Paul: Election Shows U.S. ‘Far Gone’ (Gunny G: As Always, See Reader Responses…)

Ron Paul: Election Shows U.S. ‘Far Gone’

 

By Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times

 

November 8, 2012, 11:56AM

 

Rep. Ron Paul, whose maverick presidential bids shook the GOP, said in the wake of this week’s elections that the country has already veered over the fiscal cliff and he sees no chance of righting ship in a country where too many people are dependent on government.

 

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“We’re so far gone. We’re over the cliff,” the Texas Republican told Bloomberg Television‘s “In the Loop” program. “We cannot get enough people in Congress in the next 5-10 years who will do wise things.”

 

The video can be seen at

 

The Daily Bell – Republicans Rage as the Great Burning Arrives

Republicans descend into civil war as Tea Party movement vows to drive party further to the right … The Republican Party was last night descending into a civil war over control of its political future, as recriminations raged about its failure to oust Barack Obama and take control of the US Senate.

 

Some conservatives warned colleagues that they risked annihilation by refusing to change and appeal to the women, younger and ethnically-diverse voters who had stood by Barack Obama since 2008. Yet many supporters of the Tea Party movement – whose agenda was rebuked across the US – claimed Mitt Romney had actually not been conservative enough, vowing to drive the party further to the Right. – UK Telegraph

 

Dominant Social Theme: Republicans are out of touch. Democrats are not. The Tea Party is dead.

 

Free-Market Analysis: Post-election, the US Republican Party will go about the business of tearing itself to pieces, as well it should. As observers of directed history here at the Daily Bell, watching the past ten years of politics presented via the prism of what we call the Internet Reformation has been instructive indeed.

 

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Prison Planet.com » Voting for a Third Party Candidate Is NOT a Wasted Vote

…..How do we drive large-scale change during moments of crisis? How do we use this election to do so? Well, voting third party or even just honestly portraying Obama’s policy architecture is a good way to identify to ourselves and each other who actually has the integrity to not cave to bullying….

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We need to put ourselves into the position to be able to run the government.

After all, if a political revolution came tomorrow, could those who believe in social justice and climate change actually govern?

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[If we had had more courage, we could have] reorganized our politics. Instead the oligarchs took control, because we weren’t willing to face them down when we needed to show courage. So now we have the worst of all worlds, an inevitably worse crisis and an even more authoritarian structure of governance.

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Ron Paul 2016? | Peace . Gold . Liberty

In his blog, Doug Wead has given some credence or plausibility to a Ron Paulrun in 2016 if Romney wins in 2012:

 

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Rand Paul Is Launching A New Ad Campaign To Help Todd Akin (Mo Senate Race on fire for Akin)

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is wading into the nation’s most incendiary Senate race this week, with the launch of a new statewide, six-figure ad campaign to help Missouri Republican Todd Akin.

 

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Business Insider has learned that Paul’s political action committee, RANDPAC, will go on air Wednesday with a new ad attacking Akin’s opponent, Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill, for her vote against Paul’s amendment to block U.S. aid to Pakistan, Egypt, and Libya.

 

Ron Paul Won’t Endorse Romney, Sees “Essentially No Difference” ~ (“There are other people who are technically capable of winning because they’re on a lot of ballots,” Paul said about alternatives to Romney or Obama. “Like Gary Johnson, for example,” the interviewer suggested. “Yeah,” Paul replied…..)

EXCERPT!!!!!

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…..”I don’t know how anybody could be against transparency,” Paul said during debate on the bill, arguing that the American people have a right to know the details of the Fed’s rescue deals and its support of foreign central banks.

“It’s time that we stood up to the Federal Reserve that right now acts like some kind of high, exalted priesthood, unaccountable to democracy,” Rep. Dennis Kucinich, (D-Ohio) charged during the House debate.

A companion bill in the Senate has been introduced by Paul’s son Rand, a Kentucky Republican, though there is little chance of it passing this year.

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Ron Paul Won’t Endorse Romney, Sees “Essentially No Difference”

Ron Paul, the maverick Texas congressman who has twice run for the Republican presidential nomination, won’t endorse the nominee of his party.

Though Paul said last week it was “very unlikely” he would endorse former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, he made it definitive in an interview October 12 on the CNBC program Futures Now.