“I ran for president twice but never did I stoop to something like this,” Senator John McCain leading the chorus against Rand Paul’s filibuster of the Patriot Act.
Rand Paul has now become so reviled that he has transcended party politics to be the most hated man in America. From our liberal Democrat President Obama to Ted Cruz the most right-wing lunatic in my memory. And he’s running for the GOP nomination for president? Rand Paul must have birds in his hair, which he cuts himself by the way.
This is all because we are so afraid of ISIS – who have now killed three Americans – that we will allow the real and present Big Brother to listen to everything everyone says.
To put that in perspective, in the same period of time that ISIS has killed three of our own, American gun enthusiasts have killed 25,000 fellow Americans and we have over 40,000 dead because of those Republican and Southern states who have refused the Obamacare Medicaid match.
My own spin on this is that I just don’t care much about the NSA. The government and corporations already know everything they need to know about us from the refinement of technology, what we ourselves put up on social media, Google, Amazon and the banks watching everything we do, not to mention cameras everywhere, it’s all growing more intrusive as the years pass and nothing can be done.
We can’t fight the technology, passing a few laws is only a feel good solution, they already know about you which they cannot unknow.