{"id":5592,"date":"2011-05-24T07:08:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T19:55:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T19:55:40","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5592","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul on the PATRIOT Act, invoking James Otis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Rand Paul website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randpaul2010.com\/2011\/05\/senator-rand-paul-floor-statement-on-usa-patriot-act-extension\/\">him speaking on the PATRIOT Act extension<\/a> in the Senate, which has video and a transcript, even invoking James Otis who warned and vigorously litigated against the Writs of Assistance a quarter of millennium ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, the thing is that it will not always be angels that are in charge of government. You have rules because you want to prevent the day that may occur when you get someone who takes over your government through elected office or otherwise who really is intent on using the tools of government to pry into your affairs, to snoop on what you\u2019re doing, to punish you for your political or religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why we don\u2019t ever want to let the law become so expansive. But the thing is you have to realize that you can still get terrorists. We get rapists and murderers every day by calling a judge. That\u2019s what I\u2019m asking for.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m asking that we go through and obey the Fourth Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>We cannot give up our liberty. If we do, if we trade it for security, we\u2019ll have neither.<\/p>\n<p>So I rise in opposition to the vote on cloture.<\/p>\n<p>I will be introducing amendments to the PATRIOT Act this week, and we will be having a real debate about how we can stop terrorism but also preserve freedom at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A TeaPartier that gets it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5592\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}