Senator Rand Paul: 'Defends American Citizens Against Indefinite Detainment'

Source:Senator Rand Paul (Republican, Kentucky)

"Sen. Rand Paul Defends American Citizens Against Indefinite Detainment" 

From Senator Rand Paul

My favorite parts about the Republican presidential debate about national security last week and I admit I'm not a Republican (I would be an insult to the current Republican Party) so my favorite moments in last weeks debate are obviously limited but my 2nd favorite moment from that debate, was when a Neoconservative from the Heritage Foundation asked Newt Gingrich: "As we are going through deficit reduction right now, with how important our national security is, should the defense budget be off the table in deficit reduction?" And Speaker Gingrich simply put said, no. 

Speaker Gingrich in the debate explained why his answer was no and that no part of the Federal budget should be off the table in deficit reduction. Where ever there's waste in the Federal Government, we should eliminate it, including in the Defense Department. Newt Gingrich simply making the case for fiscal conservatism and responsibility. Which is something that apparently only Neoconservatives don't understand. 

But my favorite part of that debate was when Representative Ron Paul (the father of Senator Rand Paul) was asked about enhance techniques used against terrorist suspects. And I'm paraphrasing here but Representative Paul answered that once we surrender our individual liberty, the terrorists have won, because thats exactly what they want us to do. 

There's no such thing as national security without individual liberty. You can't have one without the other. Goes without saying that you can't have individual liberty without national security. Once you surrender or lose one, you've lost both because without individual liberty, we become prisoners of the state for them to be able to do to us as they please, because we don't have the individual liberty to stop them from doing to us as they please.