Rand Paul speaks at Berkley to packed house

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Senator Rand Paul Speaks at Berkeley Forum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vFhXpfEfQg#t=88

“I am here to tell you that if you own a cell phone, you’re under surveillance."

“No one should be allowed to invade your privacy. That’s why I’m announcing today that when I return to Washington, I will push for a select committee styled after the Church Committee that investigated the abuses of power of the intelligence committee in the 70s. It should be bipartisan. It should be independent, and wide reaching. It should have full power to investigate and reform those who spy on us in the name of protecting us.”

“It should watch the watchers.”

"I'm not against the NSA, per se, but I'm for due process to protect your rights."

"It's not my job to decide what [Snowden's] punishment should be. But I do think that hanging, shooting, stringing him up from a tree, all these things that have been suggested, are disproportionate to the crime."

[n david]

I #standwithRand!

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Originally Posted by n david

I #standwithRand!

I'm going to need him to put some clarity to his comment here. I believe we need a larger tent, but it needs to be a Conservative tent.

I don't know that he will get much support believing in traditional marriage, but making room for the young people who do not.

This is either a liberal Libertarian comment or one the Democrats have used.


"I think that the Republican Party, in order to get bigger, will have to agree to disagree on social issues," Paul told vocativ.com. "The Republican Party is not going to give up on having quite a few people who do believe in traditional marriage. But the Republican Party also has to find a place for young people and others who don’t want to be festooned by those issues."

[n david]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I'm going to need him to put some clarity to his comment here. I believe we need a larger tent, but it needs to be a Conservative tent.

I don't know that he will get much support believing in traditional marriage, but making room for the young people who do not.

This is either a liberal Libertarian comment or one the Democrats have used.

"I think that the Republican Party, in order to get bigger, will have to agree to disagree on social issues," Paul told vocativ.com. "The Republican Party is not going to give up on having quite a few people who do believe in traditional marriage. But the Republican Party also has to find a place for young people and others who don’t want to be festooned by those issues."

This will be a quote he'll be questioned about for sure.

Aquila would know more, but this statement appears to be purely libertarian. Honestly, I somewhat agree with it. Some social issues, especially gay marriage, should not be in government debate. Marriage altogether shouldn't be a government issue.

I do agree the statement needs more detail. Are the social issues he mentions limited to the gay marriage issue, or do they expand into other areas, such as women's right to choose?

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Originally Posted by n david

This will be a quote he'll be questioned about for sure.

Aquila would know more, but this statement appears to be purely libertarian. Honestly, I somewhat agree with it. Some social issues, especially gay marriage, should not be in government debate. Marriage altogether shouldn't be a government issue.

I do agree the statement needs more detail. Are the social issues he mentions limited to the gay marriage issue, or do they expand into other areas, such as women's right to choose?

• Thousands of exceptions follow from maternal health.* (May 2013)
• Coarsening of our culture led to 50 million unborn deaths. (Sep 2012)
• My opponents call me libertarian but I'm pro-life. (Feb 2011)
• Life begins at conception. (Jul 2010)
• Opposes federal abortion funding. (Aug 2010)
• Prohibit federal funding for abortion. (May 2011)

http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Ra...l.htm#Abortion

Thousands of exceptions follow from maternal health
Senator Rand Paul opposes a national law banning same-sex marriage and federal penalties for drug offenders, and said there could be "thousands of exceptions" to any abortion ban. For many of the evangelical Christians and abortion-rights opponents who dominate Iowa's Republican presidential caucuses, the traditional first round of primary season voting, those positions are unacceptable.

In Paul's view, human life begins at conception and should be granted legal protection from that moment on, although he muddied his message with a March 19 CNN interview where he said that as a physician he could see where there could be "thousands of exceptions" that could make abortion legal. An aide later clarified that Paul meant that a singular exception to save the life of the mother would likely cover thousands of medically different individual cases.