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Rand Paul v. Barack Obama a distraction from real issues
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky--Photo by Joseph Earnest
by Joseph Earnest February 12, 2014
Newscast Media WASHINGTON—Senator Rand Paul, the son of former presidential candidate Ron Paul announced he will be filing a class action lawsuit against President Barack Obama, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Director of National Security Agency Keith Alexander and FBI Director, James Comey.
Rand Paul stated: "I am filing a lawsuit against President Barack Obama because he has publicly refused to stop a clear and continuing violation of the 4th Amendment. The Bill of Rights protects all citizens from general warrants. I expect this case to go all the way to the Supreme Court and I predict the American people will win."
Paul may have good intentions, and his heart may be in the right place, but in reality he himself knows that this lawsuit will go nowhere, and is just a time-waster. It will raise his profile with the Tea Party, and set the possible stage for a 2016 presidential bid, yet the real issue isn't spying—the biggest issue right now is Obamacare and how it will affect the employment sector.
There really is not much of a difference between Republicans and Democrats. They all work for the same large corporations that fund them.
The only difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans are financial individualists who believe in moral collectivism, while Democrats are moral individualists who believe in financial collectivism. Otherwise when it comes to protecting the system that sustains them, they will not go against the grain to dismantle it.
Voting on a federal level is simply to give voters the impression of a participatory democracy. It is at the local level that voting really has an impact because that is where the issues that directly affect our lives reside.
About three years ago, we discovered that some of the wells from which water was extracted to supply Harris county were contaminated. The voters, residents and media outlets put pressure on City Hall to shut the wells down, which eventually they did after we put up a big fight. So anybody who says political activism is not effective on a local level lives in a different reality. Below is an excerpt of what happened:
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