That Horrible Teabagger

Thursday 29 November 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

Rand Paul The Terrible:

I rise today in support of Sen. Feinstein’s amendment. I compliment her on her work. And I also echo the importance of the right to trial by jury. In fact, I’m appalled that anyone would think that we could arrest anyone in our country without charging them and giving them a right to a trial. It seems so fundamentally un-American. I agree with her also that I think the Supreme Court would apply this to anyone. Our amendment will say citizens and permanent residents, but I think the Supreme Court, if challenged, will uphold the right to trial by jury of anyone within the United States.

Today, we will either affirm the right to trial by jury or restrict it. Today we will vote to affirm the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution or we will spurn it. Today we will vote to affirm 800 years of history beginning with the Magna Carta or we will relinquish or at the very least diminish a right that Jefferson referred to as the only anchor yet imagined by man which a government can be held to the principles of its Constitution.

The right to trial by jury was a check on oppressive government. Opponents of the right to trial by jury will come today and they will argue that the American homeland is now a battlefield and that we must circumscribe our right to trial by jury to be safe from terrorists. But if we give up our rights, have not the terrorists won? If we let fear relinquish our rights, if we relinquish our rights because of fear, what is it exactly then we’re fighting for?

Only teabaggers believe in the right to trial by jury. Fucking ingrates.

2012-11-29  »  madlibertarianguy