Rand Paul talks of ‘open rebellion’ in Senate filibuster over Patriot Act

Published: May 20, 2015 4:55 p.m. ET

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Sen. Rand Paul plans to speak ‘until he can no longer speak’ against the Patriot Act

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Rand Paul has taken over the Senate floor. Again.

Paul, the Kentucky Republican running for president, moved Wednesday afternoon to filibuster, or delay, a Senate bill to renew the Patriot Act. The post-Sept. 11 law allows the National Security Agency to collect phone records, and is set to expire on June 1.

Paul’s spokeswoman said the senator would speak for “an undisclosed amount of time. He will speak until he can no longer speak.” (But the Republican won’t be able to speak forever, as The Wall Street Journal notes: Senate aides said party leaders will be able to cut him off Thursday and hold a vote on a trade bill.)

Yet it could be many hours before Paul lets up. If the words Paul and delay or filibuster sound familiar, they should. The Kentucky senator waged a nearly 13-hour filibuster back in 2013 over U.S. drone strikes.

Paul began his floor speech at 1:18 p.m. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, also spoke on the floor in support of Paul, as did Republican Mike Lee of Utah.

Paul ripped the government’s collection of metadata from phone records, saying “you should be alarmed” by it.

“We should be in open rebellion saying enough is enough, we’re not going to take it anymore,” Paul said.

Paul’s planned marathon of a floor speech gets one of his premier issues in the spotlight not long after he announced his presidential campaign. Paul, who announced he was seeking the Republican nomination on April 7, is in fourth place among GOP contenders, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average.


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Westcoaster
Westcoaster

Thanks for posting this Admin. I’ve been watching it for awhile; he’s not just filibustering he’s giving a campaign speech! Great stuff!

ottomatik
ottomatik

Its hard for me to trust ANY politician, but there is a lot to admire in Rand.

Stephanie Shepard

This is great! What better way to get free 20 plus hours of exposure while campaigning for president than a filibuster on the Patriot Act. It also solidifies his positions on constitutional issues.

Mark
Mark

Paul is a committed man and a man of character. The dummies of America haven’t figured out that the government will use the Patriot Act to track down tax revenue first. And subsequent to that , snuff out rebellion later.

flash
flash

Countdown to the Rand Paul POTUShitz money bomb….but speaking of bombs, I think Guy Fawkes would have made Kentucky a better Senator..jus’ sayin’.

flash
flash

the Patriot Act will be toast when Rand is though speaking ……and Obama, George Bush jr. jr and Bill Clinton, the act that followed the harbinger of new world order will smile and break the sacramental bread with Rand and he will be chosen as the new representative of Baphomet here on earth…rejoice children the golden age is nigh!

Winston
Winston

He supports TPP. Enough said. He is also owned by the Jewish lobby. Much like Cruz, he knows were his base is. If he gets elected. We will see how fast his tune changes. Not to point just him out. They are all the same.

It simply does not matter who you vote for in a Emperor election. All the horses are tagged with their owners. They could care less who wins. They own the race…

underfire
underfire

@ wnston…. what the hell, Admin posts an article in opposition to what you stated as fact,… and no response? or did you make that up.

Time to set the record or fess up is now. I’m so fucking tired of lies today, yeah that makes the world go round but its got me ready to puke.

ottomatik
ottomatik

Admin- Your ability to conjure facts from the interlink is unparalleled, you remind me of one of those Mentats from Herberts Dune, red stained lips and all…..”by will alone I set my mind in motion…”

I want to believe in Rand, as our Representative. I still harbor suspicion that he has been selected as the syntheses, in a kabuki created Hegelian show. Hillary= thesis, Jeb=antitheses, Rand= Synthesis.
All of the toxic paper trash has been fastened to the Fed raft, the Fed will make some ‘mistake’, Rand will gain massive popularity with his audit Bill, and the Fed will be sacrificed in bankruptcy. Rand has potentially been selected to oversee this and ‘be’ the peoples champion. As the Feds owners have moved on to bigger global entitlements, we will be left cleaning up the mess…..beautiful, plausible, coming to a theater near you.
Key questions:
Who gets stuck with the defunct Feds raft of shit? Especially since a private organization.
Will the next monetary system be returned to us, as stipulated by the Constitution? Or will we be herded into a global monetary ponzi?

underfire
underfire

It doesn’t matter anymore. This whole rotten piece of shit is going down.

The only thing that matters? Make the most of what time is left.

llpoh
llpoh

Granting the President additional power – now, if ever there was anything that defines stupid, that would be it.

underfire
underfire

Lead by our government and it’s cronies, we’ve become a nation based more and more on a foundation of lies. The fall is just a matter of time.

Hollow man
Hollow man

It will still pass even if not in its current form

Wyoming MIke
Wyoming MIke

I’m willing to give Rand a shot. At least until Judge Nap is in the running.

Rife
Rife

Hey Goy Boy,

Get on your knees and put your yamulke back on.

Winston
Winston

Admin

He may oppose fast track, but I was not talking about that. I said the TPP. That is what he supports NAFTA on fucking steroids…

Face the facts. Anyone running for President is completely controlled. You can choose to ignore that fact, or understand it. This includes Rand Paul. The NSA will do what it wants, when it wants, regardless of what any President says about it. That’s how the police state works.

America’s problems will not be solved by a President. They will be solved much in the same way they were solved in 1776, that is, if they are solved at all.

High Treason: Rand Paul wants Obama to “Prioritize” TPP

Editor’s Note…

If anyone still needs proof that Rand Paul is controlled opposition, this is it. Of course, those of you who followed our warnings since 2012 are not surprised at all about this recent horror. From now on, any “alternative media” venue caught promoting Rand Paul in any way should be immediatley denounced as a mockingbird disinfo operation.

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The New American

Politics, the saying goes, makes strange bedfellows. In presidential politics, the cozy compromises with the unconstitutional seem even more unsettling.

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a man whose personal popularity and political fortunes have increased in direct proportion to his spreading of his libertarian-leaning ideals, has now publicly embraced the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an unprecedented sovereignty surrender masquerading as a multi-national trade pact.

Paul’s speech coincided with the TPP ministerial meeting conducted October 19-24 in Sydney, Australia.
Speaking at the Center for the National Interest dinner in New York City on October 23, Senator Paul said:

Our national power is a function of the national economy. During the Reagan renaissance, our strength in the world reflected our successful economy.

Low growth, high unemployment, and big deficits have undercut our influence in the world. Americans have suffered real consequences from a weak economy.

President George W. Bush understood that part of the projection of American power is the exporting of American goods and culture. His administration successfully brokered fourteen new free trade agreements and negotiated three others that are the only new free trade agreements approved since President Obama took office. Instead of just talking about a so-called “pivot to Asia,” the Obama administration should prioritize negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership by year’s end.

Why would Rand Paul, a man who has in the past demonstrated a remarkable adherence to the principles of the Constitution, make his own “pivot” away from those doctrines and toward a pact as pernicious as the TPP? Perhaps the answer is found in this paragraph from a story on Paul’s speech printed in The Diplomat: “As a Republican presidential hopeful, Paul likely recognizes that his and the party’s interests are best served by trying to find some issues on which Republicans can cooperate with the administration. This would give the American electorate confidence that the Republican Party is interested in governing, and would make it harder for Democrats to use disgust with the Republican Party to mobilize the Democratic base in the 2016 election.”

With the exception of Paul’s father, former congressman Ron Paul, it seems that when constitutionalists begin to crave the chair in the Oval Office, their fidelity to the principles of republicanism is swapped in exchange for approval by the principals of the Republicans.

If Senator Paul’s purpose in pushing for the quick passage of the TPP is to draw so close to the Democrats that they can’t stab him, then he’s probably picked the wrong issue. As The New American has repeatedly reported over the last couple of years, Democrats in Congress have been pumping the brakes on negotiations of the TPP, worried that a significant bloc of their base would leave the party should the agreement be approved before the November elections.

During a recent round of TPP negotiations held in Ottawa, it was reported that members of President Obama’s own party were pressuring him to slow progress on the pact until after the November 4 elections for fear that environmental activists and labor unions who traditionally support Democrats would abandon the party over their opposition to the controversial 12-nation trade deal.

The article in The Diplomat noted this incongruity as well, reporting:

Indeed, as The Diplomat has previously noted, opposition to new trade deals has been strongest among Obama’s own party. For example, in March 2013 nearly 20 percent of the Democratic House caucus wrote a letter to President Obama expressing their opposition to Japan joining the TPP talks. Then, in November of last year, 151 House Democrats — about 80 percent of the entire caucus — wrote to the president to express their opposition to giving him fast track authority, which many experts and the president himself see as vital to getting the eventual trade deal through Congress.

Of course, most of the foregoing analysis focuses on the political considerations that may or may not have influenced Senator Paul’s decision to encourage the acceleration of the conclusion of the TPP negotiations and subsequent consent of the Senate. More important than that, however, are the manifold crimes against the Constitution committed by the TPP.

Republicans, Democrats, and Americans of all political persuasions need to understand particulars of the TPP that threaten not only the economic vitality of the United States (contrary to the claims of Senator Paul in his speech), but the fundamental principles of elective government, as well.

In November 2013, portions of the TPP draft agreement published by WikiLeaks contained sketches of President Obama’s plans to surrender American sovereignty to international tribunals.

Another WikiLeaks disclosure in January 2014 revealed that the president was attempting to surrender sovereignty over U.S. environmental policy to international bureaucrats interested in lowering those standards to mirror those of our TPP partner nations. Naturally, the green lobby criticized this concession, organizing demonstrations opposing the agreement.

U.S. copyright laws, Internet freedom, and web-based publishing would also be obliterated by the TPP, and, although it hasn’t been widely reported, the TPP would give the global government sweeping surveillance powers, as well.

Although the American people (and the people of all nations involved in the pact) are prevented from seeing or commenting on the treaty being ostensibly negotiated on their behalf, multinational corporations have seats at the trading table.

While the TPP grants corporate giants such as Walmart and Monsanto the power to bypass Congress and the courts, the elected representatives of the American people are kept from even seeing the draft version of the agreement.

As with the multitude of similar trade pacts the United States has formed, the ultimate aim of the TPP is the creation of a regional super government, thus the stonewalling of federal lawmakers who dare seek to assert some sort of oversight.

In the case of the TPP, the zone would be called the Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP). Members of the proposed “free trade” bloc include all the current TPP participants: Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Vietnam, Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Mexico, Chile, Canada, and the United States. The regional trading partnership is intended to establish “a comprehensive free trade agreement across the region.”

The ultimate goal of the TPP isn’t just the creation of an FTAAP, though. Supporters of the deal insist that the TPP is a “trade agreement designed to achieve broad liberalization and a high degree of economic integration among the parties.”

Integration is a word that is painful to the ears of constitutionalists and those unwilling to surrender U.S. sovereignty to a committee of globalists who are unelected by the American people and unaccountable to them. Integration is an internationalist tool for subordinating American law to the globalist bureaucracy at the United Nations.

Economic and political integration will push the once independent United States of America into yet another collectivist bloc that will facilitate the complete dissolution of our country and our states into no more than subordinate outposts of a one-world government.

Equally significant is that 600 industry lobbyists and “advisors,” as well as unelected trade representatives, are at the table, while representatives from the public at large and businesses other than huge monopolies are conspicuously absent.

Each of the “partners” to the pact, including foreign corporations, would be exempted from abiding by American laws governing trade disputes. Moreover, the sovereignty of the United States and the Constitution’s enumeration of powers would once again be sacrificed on the altar of global government by subordinating U.S. laws passed by duly elected representatives of the people to a code of regulations created by a team of unelected transnational bureaucrats.

Americans who study the subject realize that the redrawing of national boundaries and domestic legal processes being carried out in secret by the globalists sitting around the TPP negotiating table is an attack on American laws, American courts, American freedom of expression, American sovereignty, and the American Constitution. Any person seeking the presidency must realize that executing many of the mandates of the TPP would require that person to violate the presidential oath of office.

Winston
Winston

Hate too pick on Rand Paul, they are all in the tank for the Joo money. Just wanna take off the blinders. Rans Paul is not your savior. None of them are. I think it is better not to vote at all. If enough people do it, what does that say about our wonderful Republic..

A former US Senate candidate says Republican Senator Rand Paul, a potential contender for the 2016 presidential elections, has sold himself to the Israel lobby, becoming the Neville Chamberlain of the libertarian movement.

Mark Dankof, a political commentator and broadcaster in San Antonio, Texas, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday while commenting on independent US Senator Angus King’s warning to Republican senators against their efforts to sabotage Iran nuclear negotiations.

In a bizarre move on Monday, a group of 47 Republican senators ignored protocol and sent an open letter to Iran, warning that whatever agreement reached with President Barack Obama would be a “mere executive agreement” that could be revoked “with the stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time.”

“I think Senator King of Maine is essentially correct that you’ve got 47 Republican senators who are playing fast and free with the Constitution of the United States and with the national security of the American people, and they’re doing this on the behest of the Zionist state of Israel,” Dankof said.

Cotton, a freshman senator from Arkansas, drafted the much-criticized letter. He claimed that the letter has more support in the US Congress than the Republican senators who have signed it.

“Tom Cotton obviously of Arkansas has currently been purchased by the million dollars he received from the Emergency Committee for Israel, that is Bill Kristol’s group, just before the last election,” Dankof said.

On Tuesday, the New York Daily News denounced the 47 Republican senators as “traitors” for writing letter to Iran. The Manhattan-based newspaper used its front page to condemn the Republicans for sending the letter to Iran’s leaders.

The tabloid’s front page prominently featured Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senators Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton and Rand Paul.

Commenting to Press TV, Dankof said, “The 47 Republican senators in all likelihood had violated the Logan Act, which, if understood properly, would suggest very strongly that there may be a legal case against these Republican senators in regard to having committed treason.

“But the real story, the real story in this whole thing is the fact that Rand Paul has sold out the libertarian and paleoconservative wing of the Republican Party and he has been purchased by the Israel lobby.

“There have been a series of things that have led up to this:

“Rand Paul changed his position on foreign aid to Israel after taking a trip to Israel on Mr. Netanyahu’s expense.

“Secondly, Rand Paul was seen, along with every other presidential contender, in the presence of Sheldon Adelson, the Zionist donor of the Sands Casino in Las Vegas, who, of course, has been bankrolling every serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination in the last election as well as the one that is upcoming.

“And, finally, this letter, this Tom Cotton letter signed by these 47 Republican senators, including Rand Paul, which indicates that his cooptation by Israel is absolutely complete.”

Dankof said Paul’s betrayal of libertarian and paleoconservative values is “the biggest story here.”

“People can understand the context of this if they go to antiwar.com and read what Justin Raimondo has said on Rand Paul today in a piece that’s titled, Rand Paul’s Munich.

“I agree with Justin Raimondo: ‘Rand Paul has essentially become the Neville Chamberlain of the American right.’”

Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a British Conservative politician who became prime minister of the UK in the late 1930s.

Chamberlain is known for his appeasement foreign policy, particularly for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938 that conceded the German speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler’s Germany.

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