F I L I B U S T E R !!!!.....Rand Paul in historic moment

[Acala]

Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere on this forum but if you read what Holder wrote, he said very specifically that there may be rare situations where using a drone to kill on US soil is warranted. I can imagine dozens of scenarios where this might be the case. The drone is ultimately just a very advanced gun. Why make such a huge fuss over this? I am certainly against using any weapon on a noncombatant but if there were hostile, armed forces firing on US citizens on US soil, why not use drones if that would serve best?

Please, I'm only trying to rationalize this out in my mind. Enlighten me at your discretion.

The use of deadly force to stop a violent attack in progress is justified. But that is not what is being discussed. This is about what is essentially assassination. Murder. No trial. Just termination by executive fiat.

 

[klamath]

Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere on this forum but if you read what Holder wrote, he said very specifically that there may be rare situations where using a drone to kill on US soil is warranted. I can imagine dozens of scenarios where this might be the case. The drone is ultimately just a very advanced gun. Why make such a huge fuss over this? I am certainly against using any weapon on a noncombatant but if there were hostile, armed forces firing on US citizens on US soil, why not use drones if that would serve best?

Please, I'm only trying to rationalize this out in my mind. Enlighten me at your discretion.

Ask the 17 year old American kid eating lunch along a road that Obama killed with a drone strike what an immediate threat consitutes? Was that one of Brennan's rare circumstances?

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

I forget the US governmental department which the US CONSTITUTION covers... I saw it somewhere

 

[ravedown]

ugh...why do i read and engage in huffpo comments? back to the garbage disposal for you, typing hand.

 

[ghengis86]

Randy's letter to holder asked about US citizens being assassinated on US soil. Holder gave two examples, both were referencing non-US citizens on US soil (pearl harbor and 9/11. The question is still explicitly not answered, but implicitly, yes and for sure.

No trial, no accusation of a crime and no evidence. Just a name on a list.

 

[angelatc]

Am I the only one that can't make a post anymore on that page?

You guys know how it always is when the boss shows up and tries to help?

(love ya Josh!!!)

 

[TomtheTinker]

Why are they playing Rubio on the radio..and Jen bush..wtf

 

[TomtheTinker]

Rhetorical question^^^^

 

[RCA]

Rand to his assistant: "Can I get a candy bar too?"

Rand: Eats candy bar

Rand: Keeps on fighting for liberty

Rand: Needs his own candy bar

 

[coastie]

I really wish he'd stop hitting that water...But either way, as serious as this is, I would think nothing less of this man if he simply pissed himself right there instead of leave the floor.

 

[shane77m]

pizzabomb

 

[satchelmcqueen]

im watching now and its going on 6.5 hrs! rand is awesome!

 

[RCA]

pizzabomb

I'm in!

 

[shane77m]

I really wish he'd stop hitting that water...But either way, as serious as this is, I would think nothing less of this man if he simply pissed himself right there instead of leave the floor.

Someone needs to bring him a bucket.

 

[twomp]

pizzabomb

Is anyone from these forums in the area? Is there anyway we can get the man fed? There's no need for a pizza bomb. I'd be willing to pay for it myself if someone in the area can get it to him somehow? !!!

 

[ghengis86]

Will anybody else take over for Rand? Or is it a one man gig for the foreseeable future? Would be awesome if someone else grew a pair

 

[Iptay]

Will anybody else take over for Rand? Or is it a one man gig for the foreseeable future? Would be awesome if someone else grew a pair

Well some people are asking him questions to let him take a break every now and then...

 

[wormyguy]

Will anybody else take over for Rand? Or is it a one man gig for the foreseeable future? Would be awesome if someone else grew a pair

I believe he can only maintain the filibuster so long as he is the one on the floor. So others can give him a break by asking extended "questions," but can't take over.

 

[freejack]

Wow the ACLU is backing Rand now. This is getting kind of awesome.

 

[presence]

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“I’m here to filibuster John Brennan’s nomination to be director of CIA”

“I will speak for as long as it takes.”

7 HOURS!!! and counting...
The President cannot be judge, jury, and executioner.
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The filibuster is a powerful parliamentary device in the United States Senate, which was strengthened in 1975 [SUP][42][/SUP] and in the past decade has come to mean that most major legislation (apart from budgets) requires a 60% vote to bring a bill or nomination to the floor for a vote. In recent years the majority has preferred to avoid filibusters by moving to other business when a filibuster is threatened and attempts to achieve cloture have failed.[SUP][43][/SUP] Defenders call the filibuster "The Soul of the Senate."[SUP][44][/SUP] Senate rules permit a senator, or a series of senators, to speak for as long as they wish and on any topic they choose, unless "three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn"[SUP][45][/SUP] (usually 60 out of 100 senators) brings debate to a close by invoking cloture under Senate Rule XXII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster#Senate

John Owen Brennan (born September 22, 1955) is chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama; officially his title is Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Assistant to the President.[SUP][2][/SUP][SUP][3][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP] His responsibilities include overseeing plans to protect the country from terrorism and respond to natural disasters, and he meets with the President daily
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The senate was set to vote on Brennan's nomination on March 6th, 2013. However, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul began a Senate filibuster of the vote, citing President Barack Obama and his administration's use of combat drones, stating “No one politician should be allowed to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual, and to execute an individual. It goes against everything that we fundamentally believe in our country."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_O._Brennan

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