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sailingaway
06-11-2013, 12:22 AM
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/paul-white-house-surveillance/2013/06/10/id/509111


Former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul calls the Obama administration's secret surveillance of Americans' phone calls "very dangerous."

Paul, currently the chairman of the Campaign for Liberty, told Newsmax TV that he is concerned about the public's right to privacy and enforcement of the Fourth Amendment, saying, "It's a very, very serious matter and very, very dangerous, and the abuse has been going on for a long, long time. If the people don't wake up it'll get a lot, lot worse."

In response to claims by Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein that the PRISM surveillance program has foiled multiple attempted terrorist attacks inside the United States, including a 2009 plot to bomb New York City’s subways, Paul said, "If they can find one incident they'd be lucky. They are exaggerating, but even if they did, is that an excuse to throw the whole Constitution out the window?"

"And besides," he continued, "the statistics they cite are grossly exaggerated because – I think it was The New York Times that reported it – 14 out of 22 of these so-called incidents where they saved us from these horrible attacks were actually sting operations. They're entrapments and the FBI's involved and they get out of hand and then it's, 'oh, we just saved you from ourselves.' So no, that's all to build fear and intimidate people and make them willing to sacrifice their liberties at the expense of thinking they're going to be safer."

Paul said that instead we should "throw out" measures such as the Patriot Act and FISA courts and "obey the Constitution."

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Feeding the Abscess
06-11-2013, 12:38 AM
"And besides," he continued, "the statistics they cite are grossly exaggerated because – I think it was The New York Times that reported it – 14 out of 22 of these so-called incidents where they saved us from these horrible attacks were actually sting operations. They're entrapments and the FBI's involved and they get out of hand and then it's, 'oh, we just saved you from ourselves.' So no, that's all to build fear and intimidate people and make them willing to sacrifice their liberties at the expense of thinking they're going to be safer."

Love it

sailingaway
06-11-2013, 01:24 AM
Twitter is quite active on this topic tonight:

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sailingaway
06-11-2013, 12:24 PM
bump

kathy88
06-11-2013, 12:25 PM
What a crazy lunatic. I wish he were more like Rand and reserved judgement./s