Rand Paul: The Apple That Fell So Far From The Tree

Dissent, discontent, and diatribes on the American Empire

The junior Senator from Kentucky recently gave a speech at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC in which he denounced a global “war on Christians” being waged by 100 million Muslims. It is so frustrating how great Rand Paul sounds on so many issues, and sickening how neocon-warhawk he sounds far, far too frequently.

Is he wearing his heart on his sleeve? Or he is just pandering to the so-called Republican base because he wants to be Caesar? Does it even matter? He won’t win either way. The conservatives think he is too libertarians, and the 10-15% of libertarians that make up the GOP don’t trust him. By straddling both fences, he will placate neither.

Just contrast this with the speech Ron Paul made at the Values Voter Summit to see the difference between father and son.

On his Facebook page this morning, Bruce Fenton could not have summed up my feelings on this matter any better. “Islamic radicals” or whatever the hell neocons call it is a foreign bogeyman. A minor threat, perhaps, but nothing compared to the threat the large, centralized state poses to liberty and peace:

Last week Islamic terrorists shot and killed an unarmed 84 year old man, smashed a woman’s face on a concrete structure, shot an unarmed woman in front of her baby, killed half a dozen family dogs in front of families and sexually assaulted a woman, they are now more heavily armed than ever and have tank-like vehicles and machine guns in every city…

…just kidding this was all stuff done by our new improved militarized police departments who got billions in DHS funding to, you know, protect us.