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06-16-2015, 11:02 AM
Rand Paul criticizes federal government’s power during Lexington speech (AUDIO)
by Matt Long
June 15, 2015
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul focused on what he said is a too-powerful federal government during a campaign stop in Lexington on Monday.
Full Rand Paul speech (26:04) (http://cdn.southcarolinaradionetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Rand-Paul-RAW.mp3)
The Republican spoke to more than 200 people gathered inside a Veterans of Foreign Wars post just south of town. It was Paul’s only stop in South Carolina this week, although his wife Kelley visited the Berkeley County GOP in Moncks Corner later in the day and will be in the Charleston region on Tuesday.
Paul continued hammering on his usual points Monday, criticizing the NSA’s collection of phone records. At one point he even compared it to unpopular tactics that British customs agents used in Colonial-era America. “(The NSA’s) argument is: Well we’re not looking at them, we’re just collecting them,” Paul said during his 27-minute speech. “That would sort of be like the British soldiers saying, ‘We’re coming into your house and taking your papers, we’re just not going to look at them.’ I think the same objection to our privacy is that act of collecting and taking our records.”
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read more:
http://www.southcarolinaradionetwork.com/2015/06/15/rand-paul-criticizes-federal-governments-power-during-lexington-speech/
by Matt Long
June 15, 2015
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul focused on what he said is a too-powerful federal government during a campaign stop in Lexington on Monday.
Full Rand Paul speech (26:04) (http://cdn.southcarolinaradionetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Rand-Paul-RAW.mp3)
The Republican spoke to more than 200 people gathered inside a Veterans of Foreign Wars post just south of town. It was Paul’s only stop in South Carolina this week, although his wife Kelley visited the Berkeley County GOP in Moncks Corner later in the day and will be in the Charleston region on Tuesday.
Paul continued hammering on his usual points Monday, criticizing the NSA’s collection of phone records. At one point he even compared it to unpopular tactics that British customs agents used in Colonial-era America. “(The NSA’s) argument is: Well we’re not looking at them, we’re just collecting them,” Paul said during his 27-minute speech. “That would sort of be like the British soldiers saying, ‘We’re coming into your house and taking your papers, we’re just not going to look at them.’ I think the same objection to our privacy is that act of collecting and taking our records.”
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read more:
http://www.southcarolinaradionetwork.com/2015/06/15/rand-paul-criticizes-federal-governments-power-during-lexington-speech/