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In reply to the discussion: Rand Paul Promises To Derail NSA Vote [View all]underthematrix
(5,811 posts)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.