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I was raised to honor the sacrifices of veterans, especially combat ones.
For that reason, US Senator John McCain has gotten a break from me (and even my vote in 2008.)
But, I’m not questioning his Vietnam service record.
My current inquiry has a much more recent vintage.
While US Senator Rand Paul undertook his historic filibuster, McCain and 11 other Senate Republicans were eating dinner.
With the president of the United States.
The same president whose drone policy and feared domestic deployment united left, right, and center of varying degrees into an unlikely coalition of grave concern.
Obama picked up the tab.
What he got in return was witnessed shortly thereafter.
Senator McCain wasted no time denouncing Rand Paul’s filibuster. His words speak for themselves:
Paul’s critics say this was a stunt to fatten his resume for a 2016 presidential run, designed not only for maximum PR but also to ingratiate him with libertarians, skeptical independents, and the conspiracy wings of both parties.
If that’s the case, then McCain’s heroism continued unbroken from his prisoner of war days.
This scenario paints Rand Paul as an ambitious politician so hungry for the White House that he’d stir up mistrust against the current administration.
Another scenario, once accepted by many in the liberty movement, the Tea Party and the GOP, feels McCain cast himself as a political prostitute for Obama, in exchange for unknown benefits.
His Senate speech was long on trusting government (the same one that drone-by shot terrorist American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki ) and short on demanding guarantees citizens are indeed safe
from this remote-controlled weapons system.
At issue is whether the government could plot to deprive Americans under suspicion of not only their rights but their very lives!
Casting my eyes to my own strand of the national fabric as an American Black shows a history replete with overreaches and downright conspiracies that abused generations.
The same government that recognized slavery, nationalized the act of slave-catching escapees, and supported second-class citizenship (even after a bloody civil war and waged covert war against civil rights activists with no regard for the Constitution), is one that I’d be foolish to blindly trust.
The crimson I see on its hands isn’t ink; it’s innocent Black blood- and that’s just from my strand of the national fabric!
Other Americans recently pointed to Waco and Ruby Ridge as examples of this same government rendering fatal N-word treatment to White Christians whose views ran afoul of it.
In my opinion, Rand Paul wasn’t catering to wild-eyed fringes who’d cost him reelection, let alone the Oval Office.
Whatever political calculations were included, I think he was also issuing a rarely heard challenge to the conspiracy of silence imposed upon responsible Americans by the Bush-Obama national security state, where questioning policy is treasonous.
We are not as free post-9/11 as we were before.
While foreign terrorists rightfully deserve much blame, they didn’t draft tyrannical legislation that in effect made every American a suspect who must prove his identity and good faith (where once before, the burden of proof rested with the state.)
Questioning an ultimate expression of this national security-flavored tyranny and trial-less drone-by shooting was an invaluable service he rendered the Republic.
I’d grown resigned to a mute America whose government declared all of us, regardless of color, N-words whose opinions no official needed to hear.
Against this somber backdrop, I’d have to judge US Senator John McCain, hero of the Hanoi Hilton, a whore for Obama on an issue striking like a hellfire missile at what’s left of our liberty.
Harsh words for a harsh reality.
I was raised to honor the sacrifices of veterans, especially combat ones.
For that reason, US Senator John McCain has gotten a break from me (and even my vote in 2008.)
But, I’m not questioning his Vietnam service record.
My current inquiry has a much more recent vintage.
While US Senator Rand Paul undertook his historic filibuster, McCain and 11 other Senate Republicans were eating dinner.
With the president of the United States.
The same president whose drone policy and feared domestic deployment united left, right, and center of varying degrees into an unlikely coalition of grave concern.
Obama picked up the tab.
What he got in return was witnessed shortly thereafter.
Senator McCain wasted no time denouncing Rand Paul’s filibuster. His words speak for themselves:
Paul’s critics say this was a stunt to fatten his resume for a 2016 presidential run, designed not only for maximum PR but also to ingratiate him with libertarians, skeptical independents, and the conspiracy wings of both parties.
If that’s the case, then McCain’s heroism continued unbroken from his prisoner of war days.
This scenario paints Rand Paul as an ambitious politician so hungry for the White House that he’d stir up mistrust against the current administration.
Another scenario, once accepted by many in the liberty movement, the Tea Party and the GOP, feels McCain cast himself as a political prostitute for Obama, in exchange for unknown benefits.
His Senate speech was long on trusting government (the same one that drone-by shot terrorist American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki ) and short on demanding guarantees citizens are indeed safe
from this remote-controlled weapons system.
At issue is whether the government could plot to deprive Americans under suspicion of not only their rights but their very lives!
Casting my eyes to my own strand of the national fabric as an American Black shows a history replete with overreaches and downright conspiracies that abused generations.
The same government that recognized slavery, nationalized the act of slave-catching escapees, and supported second-class citizenship (even after a bloody civil war and waged covert war against civil rights activists with no regard for the Constitution), is one that I’d be foolish to blindly trust.
The crimson I see on its hands isn’t ink; it’s innocent Black blood- and that’s just from my strand of the national fabric!
Other Americans recently pointed to Waco and Ruby Ridge as examples of this same government rendering fatal N-word treatment to White Christians whose views ran afoul of it.
In my opinion, Rand Paul wasn’t catering to wild-eyed fringes who’d cost him reelection, let alone the Oval Office.
Whatever political calculations were included, I think he was also issuing a rarely heard challenge to the conspiracy of silence imposed upon responsible Americans by the Bush-Obama national security state, where questioning policy is treasonous.
We are not as free post-9/11 as we were before.
While foreign terrorists rightfully deserve much blame, they didn’t draft tyrannical legislation that in effect made every American a suspect who must prove his identity and good faith (where once before, the burden of proof rested with the state.)
Questioning an ultimate expression of this national security-flavored tyranny and trial-less drone-by shooting was an invaluable service he rendered the Republic.
I’d grown resigned to a mute America whose government declared all of us, regardless of color, N-words whose opinions no official needed to hear.
Against this somber backdrop, I’d have to judge US Senator John McCain, hero of the Hanoi Hilton, a whore for Obama on an issue striking like a hellfire missile at what’s left of our liberty.
Harsh words for a harsh reality.
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