RAND PAUL Takes On 'Amnesty' Opponents: 'Do They Want Us To Put Illegals In Concentration Camps?'

Rand Paul Takes On 'Amnesty' Opponents: 'Do They Want Us To Put Illegals In Concentration Camps?'



 Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) may have voted against the Senate's "Gang of Eight" immigration reform bill last week, but he seemingly does not count himself among the conservative critics of the bill who oppose any and all forms of "amnesty" for illegal immigrants currently living inside the United States. In an interview with WNDtv, Sen. Paul took on the critics of so-called "amnesty" who oppose efforts to "normalize" illegal immigrants and absorb them into the United States. "Let's get them work visas, let's normalize them, let's make them taxpayers," he said of the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently residing within the states.

"They're not going home," Paul said, adding that even the most vocal opponents of so-called "amnesty" seem to recognize this fact. "Are they for sending these people home? Do they want us to put them in concentration camps, on buses, and send them back home? I don't think anyone's proposing that."

Paul also addressed the common anti-immigration belief that undocumented workers "steal" low-paying jobs from America's labor pool. "I haven't met any farmers who say Americans will pick crops," he said.

Sen. Rand Paul Audit The IRS Rally

Rand Paul speaks for three minutes after Mike Lee and a 45 minute oration from Glen Beck.The tea Party returned to DC on Jun 19, 2013 to ask for an audit of the IRS. It was also a rally against the current Senate immigration bill - s.744.

Rand Paul: I don't believe NSA spying prevented 50 terrorist attacks

Rand Paul: I don't believe NSA spying prevented 50 terrorist attacks
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky says that the National Security Agency's secret seizure of U.S. telephone records violates the Bill of Rights and that he's "appalled" by the practice.


On Tuesday, during a House Intelligence Committee hearing into the revelations surrounding the National Security Agency's monitoring of American communications, members of the intelligence community testified about the success of these programs in thwarting potential terror events. Those officials detailed the plots that were thwarted because of the programs revealed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden to The Guardian newspaper. RELATED: Obama Defends NSA On Charlie Rose, Rejects Cheney Comparison: Americans 'Not Getting The Complete Story' "The information gathered from these programs provided the U.S. government with critical leads to help prevent over 50 potential terrorist events in more than 20 countries around the world," said NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander, "at least 10 of these events including homeland-based threats." "In the fall of 2009, NSA -- using 702 authority -- intercepted an email from a terrorist located in Pakistan," said FBI Deputy Director Sean Joyce. "That individual was talking with the individual located inside the United States talking about perfecting a recipe for explosives." Joyce said that this person was identified as Najibullah Zazi, an aspiring terrorist, who was located in Denver, Colorado, and eventually tracked to New York City where he was arrested. He later confessed to a plot to bomb the New York City subway system with explosive devices located in backpacks. "Also, working with FISA business records, the NSA was able to provide a previously unknown number of one of the co-conspirators, Adis Medunjanin," Joyce continued. "This was the first core Al Qaeda plot since 9/11, directed from Pakistan." Joyce testified that the NSA used the communications monitoring programs to disrupt a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange. He said that the NSA programs identified David Headley, a Pakistani-American residing in Chicago, who plotted to attack a Danish newspaper office that published cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohamed. description and video from mediaite

Rand Paul speaks at the Audit the IRS Rally 6-19-13

Rand Paul speaks at the Audit the IRS rally 6-19-13
Republicans need to get behind this man and let him lead.... he is a leader.Rand Paul Joins the Tea Party Patriots on the west lawn of the US Capitol in Washington DC as we rally to Audit the IRS! in order to Fight back against government corruption! The IRS is a bureau under the Department of the Treasury. Definitely, both need to be audited.US government is OUT OF CONTROL! Fix it Rand!!!

Rand Paul Blasts Dick Cheney: 'Someone Should Have Been Removed From Office' For Pre-9/11 Failures

6/18/13 - Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared on CNN's The Situation Room on Tuesday evening where he was asked to respond to former Vice President Dick Cheney who told Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace that the junior Kentucky senator was wrong when he criticized the NSA's surveillance programs. Paul tore into the Bush administration's role in the establishment of the post-9/11 security regime, noting that he thinks it is possible to catch terrorists using methods consistent with the Constitution.

Cheney told the Fox News Sunday host that Paul was incorrect in his criticisms of the NSA's communications monitoring programs. The former vice president said that Congress authorized the post-9/11 counterterror programs and there is nothing illegal about them.

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"What I would ask is who did they fire after 9/11?" Paul asked. "Not one person was fired."

"Do you remember the '20th hijacker'?" he continued. "[Zacarias] Moussaoui, captured a month in advance? The FBI agent wrote 70 letters asking, 'let's look at this guy's computer.' In the FBI, they turned him down."

"It wasn't that they couldn't get a warrant, nobody asked for a warrant," Paul added. "To me, that was really, really bad intelligence -- really bad police work -- and, really, someone should have been removed from office for that."

"Instead they said, 'Oh, we need to look at the records of all the innocent Americans' phone calls," he observed. "I think you can catch terrorists and have protections of our freedoms at the same time."

Rand Paul Mocks Idea That NSA Dragnet Necessary: Why Not 'Put A Microchip In Every Baby Born?'

Rand Paul Mocks Idea That NSA Dragnet Necessary: Why Not 'Put A Microchip In Every Baby Born?'

(June 12, 2013) - Appearing on CNN with host Jake Tapper on Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) mocked the notion that the National Security Agency's monitoring all Americans' communications were essential because they have prevented some attacks. He noted that you could curtail most criminality by putting microchips in newborns or installing cameras in all apartments, but that would be unconstitutional.

Tapper asked Paul to react to testimony delivered by National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander in which he said that the NSA's phone records program led to preventing a terrorist plot to attack the subway system in New York City.

Paul said that the credibility of the nation's intelligence community is presently in doubt. "They frankly lied to us in open testimony in committee," Paul said.

"I'm not opposed to searching the phone records of people we think are terrorists," he continued. "But that does not require the phone records of everybody who makes a call in this country. That, I think, is a generalized warrant and unconstitutional."

"Even though we're trolling through a billion phone calls a day, we're still having attacks because of poor police work," he continued. "Those who argue, 'Well, we can catch people if we just do this,' if we put a microchip in every baby born we could follow everybody better. Or, if we said, 'well, all crime is committed by people who live in apartments; why don't we put cameras in everyone's apartments?'"

Rand Paul On NSA Spying: 'I'm Going To Challenge This At The Supreme Court' - Fox News 6/9/2013

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul took to Fox News Sunday to declare his legal opposition to the NSA's surveillance programs. "I'm going to be seeing if I can challenge this at the Supreme Court level," Paul said.

"I'm going to be asking all the internet providers and all of the phone companies: ask your customers to join me in a class action lawsuit," Paul told host Chris Wallace. "If we get ten million Americans saying we don't want our phone records looked at, then maybe someone will wake up and something will change in Washington."

Rand Paul On IRS Scandal, Samantha Powers, Syria, And Immigration Reform - 6/5/2013

Senator Rand Paul joined Glenn Beck on radio today to discuss a number of issues -- from the IRS scandal to Samantha Power to the new immigration reform bill. Senator Paul explained why he believes Obama has lost the moral authority to lead America and the latest on the immigration bill.


Wikipedia : Randal Howard "Rand" Paul (born January 7, 1963) is the junior United States Senator for Kentucky. He is a member of the Republican Party, and the son of former Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, who ran for president in 1988 as a Libertarian, and in 2008 and 2012 as a Republican. He first received national attention in 2008 when making political speeches on behalf of his father and is the first United States Senator to serve simultaneously with a parent in the United States House of Representatives.

A graduate of the Duke University School of Medicine, Paul has been a practicing ophthalmologist in Bowling Green, Kentucky, since 1993, and established his own clinic in December 2007. In 1994, he founded Kentucky Taxpayers United, of which he is still the chairman.[2]

In 2010, Paul ran as the Republican candidate for the United States Senate seat being vacated by retiring Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky, beating Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson in the primary. Despite the fact that he had never previously held political office, he defeated Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway. As a supporter of the Tea Party movement, he has been vocal in advocating for term limits, a balanced budget amendment, and the Read the Bills Act, in addition to the widespread reduction of federal spending and taxation. He has gained prominence for his independent positions on many political issues, often clashing with both Republicans and Democrats.[3]

Rand Paul - "Audit the Fed!"

Rand Paul, U.S. Senator (R-KY), weighs in on the Fed minutes today and his proposed "Audit the Fed"
The Fed They take your money and than they use it against you so they can rule you. And people put up with these shenanigans...It is good to see both Rand and Ron Paul doing a real job! Hopefully more "enlightened" politicians will follow in their footsteps and redirect the path we are on.

Rand Paul: Someone has to be fired over IRS scandal - Fox News 5/21/2013

Rand Paul: 'Someone has to be fired' over IRS scandal - Fox News 5/21/2013


Rand Paul joins Fox News' Neil Cavuto to talk about the IRS scandal and how no one has been fired over that, nor over Benghazi and the President's 'passive' and 'detached' on both scandals.

Rand Paul : Apple Deserves Apology From U.S. Government

I had the opportunity to interview Rick Rule of Sprott Asset Management shares his perspective on weather or not the dollar will collapse. It was a great experience to speak with him at the Minerals & Metals Conference in NYC

Rand Paul Call For Independent Commission On The IRS Targeting Of Tea Party Groups

Rand Paul Call For Independent Commission On The IRS Targeting Of Tea Party Groups



The IRS is nothing but a collection agency of the Rothschild/Rockefeller private federal reserve bank,which is not federally owned or controled at all.Geting rid of the IRS is the right and moral thing to do, and the PTB do plan to close it down. However, what they plan to replace it with is going to be FAR WORSE. This is why we all need to help FORCE the taken down of the IRS but also make sure NOTING else is put in it’s place. We cannot let them try and put the scandals back in closet if they see that replacing it with their planned scheme is not working.

Rand Paul: There was a Coverup with Benghazi

Sen. Rand Paul discusses the Benghazi controversy with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.



"misdirection"? cover up! LIEs, more lies, liars. Why do they keep hamming on the "talking points"? We already KNOW that is a pack of LIES. What about obamagod telling the rescue forces to stand down? What about that? ONLY the president could have authorized such a move, ONLY him. obamagod is such a punk, for political gain he let Americans be killed. Every service member KNOWS he will have no support from this corrupt administration if ever in harms way, they are leaving the service in droves.

Rand Paul: There Was A "Cover Up" With Benghazi - CNN 5/16/2013

Rand Paul: Hillary Clinton Has Been Trying To Escape Culpability On Benghazi - Glenn Beck 5/16/2013 : Senator Rand Paul discusses Hillary Clinton's role in the Benghazi coverup and her refusal to answer questions on whether the CIA Annex was running guns to Syrian rebels via Turkey on Glenn Beck's radio show.

Rand Paul with Glen Beck on Immigration & Drones - 4/26/2013

Senator Rand Paul joined the radio program this morning to discuss immigration reform and his recent statements regarding drones. While Glenn and the senator are like-minded, and Sen. Paul is one of the few congressman Glenn holds high regard for, they don't agree on everything.

Glenn took issue with comments Senator Paul made following the Boston bombings regarding drones. While Rand says everything he said aligns with what he said during his infamous filibuster on drones, Glenn couldn't get on board.

"What I was trying to say is, and interestingly I used this hypothetical in my filibuster, if you look at the filibuster I use the exact same working and the exact same analogy 3 or 4 times," Sen. Paul noted. "What I was trying to describe was a gun fight where someone is coming out of liquor store and shooting at policemen. Most of us acknowledge that police have the right to shoot back and to use deadly force on criminals who are using deadly force against them or hostages, customers, etc.

The point I was trying to make was, instead of the policemen getting out of his car, was pushes a button and some kind of robotic firing arm is able to engage in the firefight instead of the policeman. That's what I'm imagining."

Glenn wasn't convinced.

"You may in the end be right but I am against it because I don't want to give the government any more power," Glenn said.

They did both agree that Tsarnaev should have had his Miranda Rights read to him and not have been considered an enemy combatant at any point.

While Glenn and Rand may not find common ground at this point on that issue, however, when it comes to immigration reform, the two men are on the same page. The answers are found in making the student visa program and the border is more secure, while making it easier for good, hardworking people to immigrate to the United States.

Did Rand Paul Flip Flop On Drones ?

4/25/13 - Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has been doing a bit of damage control this week after he spoke to Fox Business Channel's Neil Cavuto Monday night about his seeming change of heart on the issue of using drones to kill American citizens on U.S. soil. Once the backlash to Paul's "flip-flop" was splashed across the top of The Drudge Report, the senator apparently felt he had no choice but to clarify his controversial remarks. First, Paul released a short statement on his senate website, reading in part, "My comments last night left the mistaken impression that my position on drones had changed. Let me be clear: it has not." He went on to explain that "armed drones should not be used in normal crime situations. They may only be considered in extraordinary, lethal situations where there is an ongoing, imminent threat." Last night, Paul went on Fox News' Hannity in an attempt to put the "flip-flopping" narrative to bed once and for all. After playing a clip of Paul making the statement that gave his critics the most ammunition ("If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash," he said, "I don't care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him"), Sean Hannity asked, "So, has Senator Rand Paul changed his position?" Paul came out of the gate immediately denying any change in his position, saying, "It's exactly the same position I expressed during the 13-hour filibuster." Evoking the man who dominated the political media conversation yesterday, he said, "In the famous words of George W. Bush, I think I was 'misunderestimated.'" But was Rand Paul really simultaneously misunderstood and underestimated, which can only be the meaning of that legendary Bush portmanteau? He went to explain that he used the same liquor store example in his 13-hour filibuster and urged "left-wing bloggers out there trying to promote something" to look back at what he said. A look at the transcript of the filibuster shows exactly how he framed the liquor store scenario during hour three: "If some guy's robbing a liquor store two blocks from here and the policemen come up and he comes out brandishing a gun, he or she can be shot. They once again don't get Miranda rights, they don't get a trial, they don't get anything. If you come out brandishing a weapon and people are threatened by it, you can be shot. So it's important to know what we're talking about. We're not talking about the guy coming out of the liquor store with a weapon. Even a drone could kill him if the FBI had drones. So my objection to drones isn't so much the technology. There may be a use in law -- for law enforcement here. But there are also potential, great potential for abuses." So, yes, Paul did use the same example in his filibuster, but he also seriously undersold the scenario to Cavuto when it was simply someone "with a weapon and fifty dollars in cash," a description that could describe a lot of people in this heavily armed country who would not be considered "imminent threats." When Paul says drones shouldn't be used in "normal crime situations," where does he draw that line? Paul has essentially tried to brand himself as the ultimate "civil libertarian." As he told Hannity last night, "you're talking to the senator who is the most concerned about privacy, the most concerned about your civil liberties, and the most concerned about restricting the use of this kind of technology." But when that senator goes on television and says he has no problem with a drone killing an American who some authority somewhere believes may have just robbed a liquor store, he can't be that surprised when people question his dedication to that cause.

Rand Paul Speech Howard University : The Republicans 'Haven't Changed'

4-10-13 - Rand Paul came to Howard University on Wednesday and argued to students at the historically black college that the Republican Party hasn't changed. : "The story of emancipation, voting rights and citizenship, from Fredrick Douglas until the modern civil rights era, is really in fact the history of the Republican Party," Paul said. "How did the Republican Party, the party of the great emancipator, lose the trust and faith of an entire race?"

Rand Paul Draws Large, Young Crowd At University of Kentucky Campus - WHAS11 3/27/2013

If Republicans were worried about tapping into a younger voter base, Kentucky's Rand Paul pulled a huge crowd on the campus of the University of Kentucky on Wednesday, March 27. Take a look at the crowds lined up to see Senator Rand Paul waiting in the cold and students wrapped around the building. The students applauded Paul for sticking to his guns on gun rights. He and two other Tea Party senators plan to filibuster a democratic gun control measure in April. Paul did say new legislation will have "significant opposition" and the Senate will need 60 votes to push it forward. The Senate requires 60 votes to halt a filibuster.

Rand Paul - The Last Two Presidents Could Have Been Put in Jail for Their Drug Use

3/24/13 - "I also don't want to put people in jail who make a mistake. There are a lot of young people who do this and then they grow up and get married and quit doing this. I don't want to put people in jail and ruin their lives. Look, the last two presidents could conceivably have been put in jail for their drug use and I really think, look what could have happened, it would have ruined their lives."

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) made the case for his "libertarian Republican approach," reiterating his belief that the GOP can appeal to a wider base of Americans by, among other suggestions, taking a principled stand for "the right to trial by jury," getting the government to take a "neutral" stance on marriage, reforming immigration, and relaxing rules against marijuana use and other nonviolent crimes. In order to be competitive in New England and other typically "blue state" strongholds, Sen. Paul suggested that the party consider his "libertarian Republican approach to things" because "young people are attracted to that and our party could grow if we accepted something more than the cookie-cutter conservatives in the past." He added that the left-right political paradigm "doesn't always work for people," because most people consider themselves "independents and moderates" on issues like jailing individuals for marijuana use and on whether the United States should pursue a less aggressive foreign policy than what conservatives have to offer. When pressed on his stance over the drug war, Paul suggested that the last few presidents would have been jailed for their own non-violent dabblings with drugs, and yet we continue a policy of locking up individuals for low-level drug possession. "Look, the last two presidents could have conceivably been put in jail for their drug use and I really think -- look what would've happened, it would've ruined their lives. They got lucky. But a lot of poor kids, particularly in the inner city, don't get lucky and they don't have good attorneys and they go to jail for some of these things and I think it's a big mistake," the Kentucky Republican said. The senator clarified that he does not personally condone marijuana use, but he thinks it's a "mistake" to jail users for such nonviolent crimes: "There are people in jail for 37, 50, 45 years for nonviolent crimes and that's a huge mistake. Our prisons are full of non-violent criminals. I don't want to encourage people to do it. I think even marijuana is a bad thing to do. I think it takes away your incentive to work and show up and do the things that you should be doing. I don't think that it's a good idea." On the hot-button issue of same-sex marriage, Sen. Paul maintained that he personally believes in traditional marriage, but that as opposed to conservatives actively trying to get the federal government to take their side in the marriage fight, the senator believes it ought to remain "neutral." "I don't want the government promoting something I don't believe in," he explained, "but I also don't mind if the government tries to be neutral on the issue." He advocated for the federal tax code to be "neutral" on marriage: instead of dishing out benefits to defined couples, Paul believes a simpler tax code wouldn't need to include marriage definitions.

Rand Paul FULL CPAC Speech 2013 - Attacks Obama on Civil Liberties

Today March 14, 2013 Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky brought the house down at CPAC today with his speech in front of the conservative conference.

Rand Paul FULL CPAC Speech 2013 - Attacks Obama on Civil Liberties
3/14/13 - He didn't speak for 13 hours, but Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), brandishing two large binders as he took the CPAC stage, joked that he brought "13 hours worth of information." He did go well over his reported 13 minutes of speaking time, possibly due to an enthusiastic crowd that appeared to still be fired up from his recent filibuster. Early in the speech, when Paul said he was there to deliver a message to the president, one excited fan yelled out, "Don't drone me, bro!" (a semi-obscure reference to a college student who shouted "Don't tase me, bro!" to police who were trying to remove him from a John Kerry speaking event). Paul laughed, saying "that's not exactly what I was thinking. However, I think he may have distilled my 13-hour speech into three words." Paul went on to accuse President Obama of no longer respecting civil liberties, citing his potential allowances for drone strikes on and "indefinite detention" of American citizens as prime examples. He then broadened out his defense of liberty to include economic matters, arguing for smaller government and less debt. The White House's recent decision to stop giving tours as a money-saving measure became a major object of Paul's scorn. To loud boos from the crowd, Paul displayed outrage over the tours being canceled in the same week the State Department decided to give $250 million in aid to Egypt. "I say not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag," he said. He then cited examples of small scientific studies, such as building a robotic squirrel or examining how monkeys behave on methamphetamines. "Does it really take $3 million to discover that monkeys, like humans, act crazy on meth?" Paul asked to laughter from his audience. Paul also continued the arguments he made in a recent op-ed targeting "millennials," this time labeling them the "Facebook generation." He received loud applause after this line defending decriminalization of drugs, an issue that hasn't always been a pillar of the Republican Party: "Ask the Facebook generation whether we should put a kid in jail for the nonviolent crime of drug use and you'll hear a resounding no." Arguing against large-scale government subsidies of any kind, Paul said, "There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion-dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels." He ended his rousing speech with the "stand with Rand" rhetoric of his filibuster, saying "I will stand for our prosperity and our freedom, and I ask everyone who values liberty to stand with me."