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underthematrix

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30. Please lower the volume on your outrage. mcveigh was not a student
Sat May 30, 2015, 05:59 PM
May 2015

Police officers who shoot black people are not students. The people who had a shootout in Texas are not students. The people who organized a hate rally in Phoenix at a local Mosque to foment hate of Muslim Americans are not students. The Phoenix group even asked potential hate rally participants to come armed - JUST IN CASE. Do you recall Cliven Bundy and Las Vegas? i understand you think it is a constitutional and personal freedom thing but dead people can't exercise either. And yes there are many many threats out there. FOX HATE NEWS spends 24 hours a day 7 days a week fomenting fear, hate and violence against the "other." The other goes by many names but none of the others are called "white people". The truth is white people are angry, NOT ALL but many. And many many people in positions of power especially the media and the GOP and the Libertarians are feeding that anger. That's their constitutioonal right, e.g. freedom of speech. But in order to protect the rest of us from the consequences of the exercise of said right, we need the NSA domestic surveillance program. it's just the reality of the world we live in. If the NSA program bothers you, you would have been horrified at the things the FBI and CIA used to do. Do you remember why the Congress finally brought impeachment articles against Nixon? For using the FBI and CIA to spy on and intimidate American citizens. President Obama is not going to break the law so if Congress does not re-authorize the program, so be it. The President should NOT tarnish his legacy because of the stupidity of others. We will just have to live with the consequences. By the way, my husband is English/German and we are gun owners.

if it were anyone else, I would support them... Javaman May 2015 #1
What's it worth to be rid of illegal spying on US citizens by our own government? Psephos May 2015 #21
it should be a dem, not this halfwit racist. Javaman May 2015 #38
and yet, it wasn't...that's what disgusts me most n/t Psephos May 2015 #45
NSA surveillance powers lapse after Senate stalls Javaman Jun 2015 #49
What a ridiculous statement Reter May 2015 #36
this is not broccoli and paul is not hitler. godwins law and all that. Javaman May 2015 #39
Exactly billhicks76 May 2015 #46
The cynical part of me wonders if hes opposed to it because he doesnt want to get nailed like cstanleytech May 2015 #2
That's a little too much of a conspiracy theory for me. I will just give the totodeinhere May 2015 #7
Even a broken Aerows May 2015 #9
Pretty much sums it up n/t War Horse May 2015 #12
Libertarians are right on some issues. nm rhett o rick May 2015 #17
They are right on the very same issues dems traditionally are... Javaman May 2015 #41
Yes, I agree. nm rhett o rick May 2015 #43
Me too. raindaddy May 2015 #19
Ahhh... BumRushDaShow May 2015 #3
I don't care who's is leading the fight against mass surveillance Jack Rabbit May 2015 #4
Oh Rand you're sooooooo edgy olddots May 2015 #5
where are our people hill2016 May 2015 #6
Excellent question. CharlotteVale May 2015 #16
exactly fucking right. Javaman May 2015 #40
WTF?? moonbeam23 May 2015 #8
We have people like Feinstein christx30 May 2015 #13
Where is Bernie?...nt Jesus Malverde May 2015 #33
considering that some ask my to swallow my pirinciples DonCoquixote May 2015 #10
If it's the right thing to do, we're going to oppose it because Rand Paul is doing it? Maedhros May 2015 #11
That is one of the major ills of our gov't today. If the other sides supports/opposes it, we are Purveyor May 2015 #15
I have a close friend who suffers from this pathology, acutely. Maedhros May 2015 #20
+1000 n/t Psephos May 2015 #22
You have a huge white element in US underthematrix May 2015 #14
what white terrorism hill2016 May 2015 #18
Most domestic terrorists in the US are white underthematrix May 2015 #23
most people in the US are white Psephos May 2015 #26
here you go underthematrix May 2015 #28
I think hill2016 May 2015 #29
fuck the global security state. Warren Stupidity May 2015 #25
The NSA is going to stop white terrorism in the US? So tell us how many school shootings has the A Simple Game May 2015 #27
Please lower the volume on your outrage. mcveigh was not a student underthematrix May 2015 #30
it doesn't protect you Man from Pickens May 2015 #32
Liberal white people who want to eliminate the Patriot Act as it is now...are insensitive to the deurbano May 2015 #34
But it has been shown time and time again that those surveillance methods are not effective totodeinhere May 2015 #37
good for him. Warren Stupidity May 2015 #24
Hope he succeeds, but where are our Reps. on this? GGJohn May 2015 #31
Fake. nt onehandle May 2015 #35
Go Rand Go! BadGimp May 2015 #42
Good for you Rand. I ain't voting for ya, ever. But good for you. I hope you make a difference. phleshdef May 2015 #44
True grit on Rand's part. Kurska May 2015 #47
Alt headline: "Rand Paul Using Senate Floor to Campaign and Grandstand" Blue_Tires May 2015 #48
And if I was a single issue voter Sgent Jun 2015 #50
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