Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) announced this week that he is suing the Obama administration in a class-action lawsuit over the surveillance excesses of the NSA, as revealed by documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Specifically, he is challenging the constitutionality of the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata.
“We think it may well be the largest class-action lawsuit ever filed on the behalf of the Bill of Rights,” Paul said on Wednesday. He compared, as he has many times before, the bulk collection of telephone metadata as precisely the kind of general warrant Britain subjected American colonists to in the lead up the the revolution.
We believe, he said, “that these decisions cannot be made in secret, by a secret court, but they need to be made in open by the Supreme Court.”
One day after this announcement, Paul senior, Ron, announced the launching of a petition calling for Edward Snowden to be granted clemency.
“Edward Snowden sacrificed his livelihood, citizenship, and freedom by exposing the disturbing scope of the NSA’s worldwide spying program,” Paul’s web page for the petition says. “Thanks to one man’s courageous actions, Americans know about the truly egregious ways their government is spying on them.”
Ron and Rand Paul are increasingly the subject of ridicule and marginalization from mainstream politicos. This is especially true among the left, which apparently sees the escalating libertarian bent on the right as a threat to the Democratic Party’s electoral viability. The right detests both Pauls for the same reason, it seems, in addition to finding anything that undercuts limitless government power distasteful.
Both initiatives have an uphill battle, to say the least. But the public is largely on the side of Snowden and transparency. One would be hard pressed to find two individuals in Washington’s political gamut more supportive of Snowden and of the reforms necessary to rein in the NSA. Still, it’s difficult even for leftists who lack fealty to Obama and the Democratic Party to acknowledge this about the Pauls.
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I'm with Rand Paul but am afraid of both parties marginalizing him (like they did his father) and trying to make him out as a "wacko bird" (to use McCain's phrase). However, if he does run for president and stays in the GOP race until the end, that will mean that he will be out of the Senate as he is up for reelection in 2016. Who will be left to take up the cause? The problem, as I see it, is that the GOP is finished on the national level due to the country's changing demographics. If we wind up with a president Hillary, we will need Rand in the Senate more than ever.
McInsane, that warmongering degenerate, is the "wacko bird."
I couldn't agree with you more. I like the way you spell his name.
What can I say, except that I heartily support the Doctors Paul in their Constitution-affirming efforts. Hell, somebody has to do it! . . .
It is one thing to spy..it is another to change your character/not let you have a computer job/ implement viruses in your computer/steal your stuff and threaten you of taking US passport.
Impeach Clinton-BBBu$h-Obumpa and their oileez
The Paul's have my phone number for doing the right thing:UE NOW
Whatever Sen. Paul's faults, he DOES have the character to state his positions unequivically and without double talk. That puts him in the company of Sen. Bernie Sanders and………??? Expounding your beliefs without taking a poll or asking a pressure group what they would like to hear from you is a godsend. We really can't afford to lose Rand at this stage.
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