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07-12-2013, 10:01 PM
In Las Vegas, Rand Paul laments dangers of a ‘surveillance state’
By Andrew Doughman
Published Friday, July 12, 2013 | 8:30 p.m.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., warned of a “grand spymaster” during a speech he delivered in Las Vegas Friday evening.
He delivered his remarks to a crowd of thousands of people gathered at Planet Hollywood for Freedom Fest, a libertarian-oriented conference and film festival.
Paul, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, devoted his brief speech to the concepts of security and liberty. He assailed the federal government, and especially the National Security Agency.
“What if you were a minority by virtue of the color of your skin or the color of your ideology? Will the ends justify the means?” he said. “What if the frightened majority pleads security as they rifle through your mail? What if the grand spymaster uses the least untruthful of his lies to send you to prison but he claims he does it for your own good?”
Alluding to comments that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper made when he claimed to have delivered the “least untruthful” answer on the recently revealed NSA Internet and phone spying programs, Paul called security the “siren song” of America after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City.
“The surveillance state quietly avoids the fact that their leader lied to Congress, a felony punishable by up to five years,” Paul said, presumably of Clapper. “Not a peep about any prosecution from the one who lied, only vim and vigor for the blood of the leaker.”
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http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/jul/12/las-vegas-rand-paul-laments-dangers-surveillance-s/
By Andrew Doughman
Published Friday, July 12, 2013 | 8:30 p.m.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., warned of a “grand spymaster” during a speech he delivered in Las Vegas Friday evening.
He delivered his remarks to a crowd of thousands of people gathered at Planet Hollywood for Freedom Fest, a libertarian-oriented conference and film festival.
Paul, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, devoted his brief speech to the concepts of security and liberty. He assailed the federal government, and especially the National Security Agency.
“What if you were a minority by virtue of the color of your skin or the color of your ideology? Will the ends justify the means?” he said. “What if the frightened majority pleads security as they rifle through your mail? What if the grand spymaster uses the least untruthful of his lies to send you to prison but he claims he does it for your own good?”
Alluding to comments that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper made when he claimed to have delivered the “least untruthful” answer on the recently revealed NSA Internet and phone spying programs, Paul called security the “siren song” of America after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City.
“The surveillance state quietly avoids the fact that their leader lied to Congress, a felony punishable by up to five years,” Paul said, presumably of Clapper. “Not a peep about any prosecution from the one who lied, only vim and vigor for the blood of the leaker.”
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read more:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/jul/12/las-vegas-rand-paul-laments-dangers-surveillance-s/