Devils Advocate;1401828 wrote:Although I think that many of Rant Paul's pet peves misoginistic and theologically derived, I thought that is 13-1/2 hour fillibuster was a refreshing throwback to the old days when if you wanted to hold up a bill, you had to ACTUALLY had to stand up, identify yourself , and publicly state your opinion on the issue at hand. Then if you wanted, start reading a telephone book to kill some time.
13-1/2 hours is a long time to go through what he was speaking about. However, He was done talking about his issue with the nominee in about 4 minutes. The rest of his diatribe was just filler.
That being said, I for one think that the use of drones ON ANYONE to be unlawfull. Whele there is some awsome technology available, the margin of error on any persons life is to great to use airstrike to kill a human being.
Every one seems to be hung up on this Drone assasination of US citizens. Espionage and targeted assasination have been going on since we have been a country. Anyone thinking the contrary is fooling themselves. I for one think that if you want to target an individual and are close enough to kill them with conventional means, that you are close enogh to arrest them. Unfortunately, many of these types of targets know too much information, and I would guess that the normal course of action is to try and debrief them, subect them to "enhanced interogation" and then kill them.
I have no idea what having a right to a trial has to do with misogyny or theology, but I pretty much agree with everything else you said. The filibuster was never about Brennan. It was about the fact that the president wouldn't clarify what authority he believes he has when it comes to taking our lives. Rand has been asking for a month after a memo was leaked that claimed the authority to kill us without due process. He never got a response.