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Rand Paul at Black Pastor Conference: Democracy Hurts MinoritiesBy Tyler O'Neil , CP Reporter
http://www.christianpost.com/news/rand-paul-at-black-pastor-conference-democracy-hurts-minorities-106400/
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While the Senator did not attack the idea of representative democracy, he did criticize the unchecked rule of majorities over minorities, a theme discussed in both the Constitution and Federalist Papers. "We should never be for democracy," Paul argued, because majorities do not have the right to enforce their will on minorities. "Jim Crow came out of democracy," he argued, and so did a recent law which allows an American citizen to be indefinitely detained.
"Who gets to decide who's dangerous and who's not?" the Senator asked. He mentioned the theoretical case of an Arab American who emails his cousin in Lebanon. If the United States government suspects his cousin is a terrorist, should it be able to detain him? Paul referred to the 100,000 Japanese Americans sent to internment camps during World War II. "We've done things wrong when we forget what a just law is," he said.
Paul's speech at the Coalition of African American Pastors (CAAP) is far from his first outreach to the black community. In April, he visited Howard University the first major Republican figure to speak there since General Colin Powell did in 1994. In the Howard address, Paul argued for the repeal of federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws, giving convicted felons the right to vote, and school choice, which he later called "the civil rights issue of our day."
"NO ONE in this country is crafting a better message of uplift for the African American community than Rand Paul," tweeted Kevin W. Cosby, senior pastor at St. Stephen Church in Louisville, Ky. "At least he was trying to provide some answers and solutions," Cosby told local 11News. "He has his finger on the pulse on what I believe are the preeminent issues in the urban community."
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applegrove
(118,844 posts)How does Rand feel about that? Democracy and three branches of government work to mitigate majority rule.
Turbineguy
(37,375 posts)I can see why he'd be worried.
Skittles
(153,226 posts)I mean, seriously......UGH
Rex
(65,616 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)I trust Skittles on this mission of ass-kicking and wholeheartedly agree!
Rex
(65,616 posts)in the title roll for Kick Ass and Kick Ass 2. NOBODY does it better!
Rex you are always hilarious, my friend
Rand Paul is such a clueless douchebag that it's impossible to accurately describe.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)is impossible to accurately describe, he's fucked up from head to toe. I'd imagine his toenails would scare an ogre.
Initech
(100,108 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)residence for two months and couldn't find a vacuum cleaner.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Tore up.... from the floor up! (gotta imagine it in a deep southern accent)
I heard he has toenail fungus that is shaped like Sarah Palin
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Poor guy... said nobody ever.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)o hai secret service
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and hate his hair as much as everyone else does. The man needs a hair cut. It looks like a raccoon tail in a wind farm.
It is a danger to the public.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)And I agree. That hair needs to spend some time in Gitmo so we can figure out what it knows. I don't trust it.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)If it was on an anus I'd shave it.
Oh wait.
Skittles
(153,226 posts)yes INDEED
Rex
(65,616 posts)FUCK RAND PAUL.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Oh the Irony
I seriously doubt he would be saying this if he was in the position he currently is
alarimer
(16,245 posts)That's a little self-serving.
applegrove
(118,844 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)But he and his buddies love to hate the courts when they do just that.
He's a disgusting asswipe making fatuous, self-serving statements. He should be tarred and feathered.
applegrove
(118,844 posts)Blue Owl
(50,529 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)sad-cafe
(1,277 posts)isn't he
applegrove
(118,844 posts)people who want marijuana legalized have been voting libertarian over the years when they could. It seems Rand Paul thinks that such voters in the African American community have not been tapped yet.
U4ikLefty
(4,012 posts)He says this stuff with a straight face.
MFrohike
(1,980 posts)Did anyone ask about his views on the Civil Rights Act?
xfundy
(5,105 posts)One would think that alone would earn censure. But today, it's cheered by certain factions.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)pansypoo53219
(21,004 posts)Cha
(297,806 posts)Rand Paul getting his ducks in row.. to bad for those who fall for his sleeze.
thanks applegrove
Initech
(100,108 posts)Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)'The Audacity of Hope' where one of the pastors asked Obama to not mess things up because
"the Mayor is a good man he takes care of us and I have access to him any time I want, I even
have his phone number"
How charming.
yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)Its creepy ass Republicans.