Rand Paul: Obama should be wary of the NSA because...he's....BLACK!!!!!

[Cali_Democrat]

Rand Paul: First Black President Should Be More Wary Of NSA Spying On Citizens
by Sabrina Siddiqui

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) escalated his criticism of the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs Wednesday by invoking race to argue that President Barack Obama should be more sensitive to spying on citizens.

During an interview with The New York Times, Paul brought up the government's response to dissent in the 1960s, when leading civil rights advocates, including Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali, were spied on.

"The first African-American president ought to be a little more conscious of the fact of what has happened with the abuses of domestic spying," Paul told Times reporter Jeremy Peters. "Martin Luther King was spied upon, civil rights leaders were spied upon, Muhammad Ali was spied upon, antiwar protesters were spied upon."

"The possibility for abuse in this is incredible," the senator added. "So I don’t care if there’s never been any evidence of abuse with the NSA. They should not be collecting the data."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/19/rand-paul-nsa_n_4994953.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Did you know Obama is black? Just in case you forgot.

Thank gawd we have Rand Fucking Paul here to remind us. Where would we be without his brilliance?

[blm]

1. Where are all Paul's public statements about Bush's use of NSA including to spy on Obama?

What about the private firms selected by Poppy Bush to participate in the spying and who are most likely STILL reporting covert actions to Poppy Bush and the powerful elite?

[Cali_Democrat]

6. Their guy was in the White House at the time...

and he was white.

So it didn't matter.

[mfcorey1]

2. Yeah and that spying was coeintelpro with J Edgar Hoover. Oh, I forgot. An idiot like Rand Paul

Paul would know nothing about that.

[Puzzledtraveller]

3. We all should be wary of the NSA.

[TheKentuckian]

4. He should be wary of the NSA because he lives and breathes on planet Earth.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Ya, but Obama's black

so he should be extra wary...or something....

[tularetom]

5. Well, he's half right - Obama should be wary of the NSA but not because he's black

He should be wary of it because he's a citizen, with the same right of privacy that any citizen has.

You can bet the NSA knows everything about him right down to when he takes a dump. They know how much money he has in his bank account, what kind of socks he buys and when he gets a haircut.

And if they wanted, they would know this about any of us. And they probably do. So I don't disagree with Paul that the NSA should not be collecting the data.

I didn't read the link. But I wonder what kind of crazy shit he said to offset the sort of normal comments posted here. Gotta be something.

[JI7]

8. any comment on black men who are regularly stopped by police

for being suspicious because they are black ?

about minorities being denied housing, jobs , and other everyday things in life because of their race ?

[Blue_Tires]

9. Funny Paul would try to make a racial analogy

since he is the one who explained (badly) to a national audience why he would have voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act...

[Rex]

10. Rand Paul is full of shit.

"So I don’t care if there’s never been any evidence of abuse with the NSA. They should not be collecting the data."

SO what is the problem asshole!? YOU YOURSELF say there is NO evidence of abuse! JUST want to play the racist card? YEP.

[treestar]

11. So he's up front about requiring more of a black President

And there isn't any "mass surveillance." Exaggeration of this is so Benghazi-like. They had no problem with Bush not even getting FISA warrants. Now suddenly it's "mass surveillance."