Senator Rand Paul has come out swinging against the bill that would define the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial.Rand and John McCain battled on the Senate floor today over a proposed amendment to the pending defense authorization bill.
Rand and John McCain battled on the Senate floor today over a proposed amendment to the pending defense authorization bill.
Rand argued the amendment, which is cosponsored by McCain, "puts every single American citizen at risk" and suggested that if the amendment passes, "the terrorists have won."
“Should we err today and remove some of the most important checks on state power in the name of fighting terrorism, well then the terrorists have won," he argued, "[D]etaining American citizens without a court trial is not American."
McCain responded by saying that
An individual, no matter who they are, if they pose a threat to the security of the United States of America, should not be allowed to continue that threat. We need to take every stop necessary to prevent that from happening, that’s for the safety and security of the men and women who are out there risking their lives ... in our armed services.
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Paint a thin black mustache on McCain and start burning jewish houses to the ground. HE has sworn to uphold the Consttitution and now spits on it it. What was that saying about trading freedom for security and deserving neither one? This bill does EXACTLY what is being said about it --- it says that ANY American SUSPECTED of being a "terrorist" or having "intentions" (all terms DEFINED BY THE GOVERNMENT, of course, and NOT debated within our framework of representation) can be "detained" (different entirely from "arrested") without charges, indefinitely, secretly, and with no requirement to adhere to any provisions of the Bill of Rights. These so called "representatives of we, the people" might as well take the Constitution out its bulletproof casing and BURN IT on the steps of the Capitol. Essentially, thats what they are doing anyway. WHO in the hell thought THIS bill was a smart move? I mean, other than followers of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Marx?
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