People--like me--ridiculed Rand Paul when he ran for the U.S. Senate. He was a young know-nothing, we said. But now he has proved to be freedom's hero--a position ninety-nine other U. S. Senators refused.
Senator Carl Levin of Michigan asked for a voice vote that would have turned the U.S. into a full-fledged police state. It would have authorised the U.S. military to capture and incarcerate--for life--any U.S. citizen, without any judicial oversight and without the requirement of charges of the possibility of trial.
A voice vote doesn't record who votes yes and who votes no. And Levin was sure a voice vote would produce an affirmative majority.
Nobody objected but Rand Paul. And his requesting a recorded roll-call vote saved us. The prospect of being known for having voted for the end of the rule of law, for having voted to turn the U.S. into a police state, caused at least ten Senators to change their minds and vote against the measure. Among them, of course, was Senator Carl Levin.
What an extreme of dishonor. What dangerous dishonesty. Senator Levin should resign from the Senate, in shame. And Rand Paul ranks--by this one action--with the greatest of American heroes.
Bert Hornback
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