Rand Paul attacked for Judge Napolitano association

[jct74]

Rand Paul Writes Foreword For Confederate Apologist And 9-11 Truther's New Book
Paul: "Judge Napolitano Gets It"

OLIVER WILLIS
November 10, 2014 1:21 PM EST

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) wrote the foreword for a new book from Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano. Napolitano has promoted 9-11 conspiracy theories, attacked President Abraham Lincoln, and defended a former Paul aide with "neo-Confederate" and "pro-secessionist" views.

Napolitano's Suicide Pact: The Radical Expansion of Presidential Powers and the Assault on Civil Liberties is described by publisher Thomas Nelson as "a shocking chronicle of America's descent from a free society to a frightening surveillance state."

In the foreword, Paul writes, "Now President Obama says he just wants to 'balance' liberty and national security. Judge Napolitano succinctly answers President Obama. To Napolitano, it isn't possible to balance rights and security because 'rights and [national security] are essentially and metaphysically so different that they cannot be balanced against each other."

Paul praises Napolitano for "unravel[ing] the labyrinthine assault on civil liberties that has taken place as a side effect of the War on Terror."

He concludes, "Judge Napolitano gets it, and I hope his new book will help the American public to get it; to wake up and mount a defense of our most precious liberties before it's too late."

While Paul thinks Napolitano "gets it," the Fox News contributor has a long history of promoting outlandish conspiracy theories and making controversial statements.

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more:
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[Spikender]

Napolitano is one of the best and brightest minds out there and this is nothing but an attack article smearing his name and of course by proxy Rand's name as well.

Fuck the media machine.

 

[jct74]

check out the media matters video with the spooky music, lol.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32xpfkTrK7k

 

[jct74]

Rand Paul on Lincoln, from the article:

Napolitano attacks Lincoln in Suicide Pact, writing in the introduction that "Lincoln suspended natural rights, disobeyed lawful orders of the Supreme Court, and arrested newspaper publishers and elected officials who disagreed with him, all while reflecting the profoundly, embarrassingly immoral white supremacist attitudes of his day." Paul acknowledges Napolitano's criticism of Lincoln in his forward, writing, "Lincoln said any man can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man give him power. Even Lincoln sometimes failed that test, as Judge Napolitano recounts in Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus; the test is nonetheless one that challenges liberty lovers everywhere."

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edit: I made a separate thread for the book in General Politics so everyone can go out and buy it.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...Suicide-Pact-quot-coming-out-on-November-18th