Rand Paul and the bogus terrorist threat to Amerika!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - June 8, 2015 - You can divide Congress into two groups:the fools, who are just not clever enough to understand what is going on, and the knaves, who are too clever by half.

Between them, the cronies have a field day… duping the former and conniving with the latter.

Rand Paul’s father, Ron, never fit into either group. Maybe Rand doesn’t fit either.

Ron Paul couldn’t be bought; and he was smart enough to see that the do-gooders weren’t doing any good - except for themselves.

If we had a beef with Ron, it was that he lacked cynicism. We often wanted to ask what a nice guy like him was doing in a place like this?

It was as though he didn’t see the sordid scenes going on around him, and wouldn’t stoop to notice the sleazy motives of his fellow representatives.

He was always for liberty and the Constitution, and that was it. It was as though he thought he had been elected to defend the liberty of his constituent voters.

What they really wanted was something else - power, status, and other people’s money. But Ron ignored it… like one ignores the character flaws of an old friend… and continued on his lonely mission.

Surely, Rand must have learned from watching his father.

He grew up in a political world full of stuffed shirts and empty heads.

Did he learn how to work with this crumbly, second-rate clay and shape it into the world he and his father wanted? Or did he learn how to get along by going along… and maybe become more successful - at least in Washington’s terms - than his father?

We had our doubts.It seemed as though the apple had fallen… and then rolled far from the tree.But then this past weekend, despite howls of protest, Rand did his father’s work.

The USA PATRIOT Act was an embarrassment from the get-go. How could a people who valued their liberty give it up so readily?

The terrorist threat was gaudy and spectacular, but never serious.

Statistically, Amerikans are more likely to be killed by our own children than by terrorists.They are more likely to starve to death, or die after tripping over furniture.

For every Amerikan killed by a terrorist, there are about 100 who are gunned down, run over, or Tasered to death by their own terrorist pig thug cops.

Still, eavesdropping was sold to the public as a way to head off terrorist attacks.

How many attacks did it thwart?

Zero.

So we salute Rand Paul. Good on you. In the long march to a police state, the feds were forced to take a small step back.