Thom Hartmann: Senator Rand Paul & his new McCarthy-esque witch hunt

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 07:31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t17H_s3jYCc   Posted on YouTube: June 03, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 181   Posted on DU: June 03, 2011 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 902

 
Senator Rand Paul spoke out last week against the constitutional abuses of the
PATRIOT Act on the floor of the United States Senate. He’s against the
government spying on American citizens - but if Muslims are attending speeches
that Rand doesn’t like - then he thinks they should be deported or thrown in
jail. And, just for listening to one speech or being in the wrong place at the
wrong time and listening to the wrong person speak - bam - you’re in the
slammer! Pursuing that sort of policy is like putting the PATRIOT Act on
steroids. Right after the end of World War II, Chicago-based journalist Milton
Mayer was struggling with the question of why good, average Germans like the
local baker, butcher, and clothes-maker sat quietly as their nation was
completely transformed into one that became totally and utterly lawless. How
could this happen? To find out, he spent a year in Germany, getting to know
very, very well ten "average Germans" - from a baker to a University professor -
and he found the answer to his question in their stories. Mayer wrote in his
book, They Thought They Were Free, “What happened here was the gradual
habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to
receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was
so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people
could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand
it, it could not be released because of national security." Just like here in
America - we’ve all gradually gotten used to this new security state that’s all
around us.

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[ProfessorPlum]

1. excellent

I'm glad someone finally had the guts to point this out and welcome the Godwin's Law naysayers.

[lumpy]

2. Excellent Must see.

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[bjobotts]

3. And it continues unabated regardless of our outrage.The militarization of the CIA state

[Enthusiast]

4. Well done, Thom!

Good mericans.

[Overseas]

5. Recommended.

So eerie that we didn't get the dramatic change we voted for, away from GOP destruction after the Bush Crash and torture.

I was hoping for that because it would have been a much more practical approach. They crashed the country, Democratic demand side economics would fix it. Truth and reconciliation.

Instead we got eerie compromising with the party determined to crush Democrats and democracy.

I'm still in shock I think. By how much more room we gave to the most vicious elements in our society to wreak further destruction.