Rand Paul Says Drone Lobbyists are Seducing Congress

Let's recall Dwight David Eisenhower's farewell address to the country. In it, Eisenhower the great Army general, warns the country of the vast military industrial complex and its threat to freedom. Eisenhower saw the writing on the wall where America would be launched into a state of perpetual war to keep the economy rolling through this manufacturing sector. Soon America would find itself in Vietnam with no intention to win--just a long drawn out war in which companies profited and young men died.

Here we are nearly 40 years removed from Vietnam and the war machine follows the same pattern--long endless wars. With nearly a trillion dollars a year in military spending, one would think we could crush Afghanistan, but that simply is not the case with the promise of more war on the horizon. What is the cost?

Well Americans are losing valuable liberties and freedoms in the name of national safety. In fact, Senator Lindsey Graham recently announced that our backyards are now the battlefield in the government's war on terror. Funny, the only thing I see as an enemy in my backyard are the Japanese beetles munching on my garden, none the less, the federal government is stepping up its campaign to use drones domestically.

Drones are the controversial remote control machines that are producing death to our supposed enemies. They are also full of error and are racking up the casualties associated with collateral damage. Now the federal government wants to fly them over the airspace in our cities and neighborhoods.

Senator Rand Paul has introduced legislation to stop these drones. It appears Congress will be bought by the drone lobbyists paid for by the same industrial military complex Ike warned of.

Paul recently appeared on the Jerry Doyle show talking about the influence and the power this drone army of lobbyists have in Washington:

PAUL: Interesting thing is, I went on CNN to announce this [drone legislation] the other day even before I went on CNN and I think even before I went on CNN — we didn’t think we’d announced it anywhere — we got a call before we went on to CNN from a lobbyist for the people who sell drones wanting to have a talk with us, somehow the word got out pretty quickly that we were going to be saying something about limiting what drones could do. People do make money selling stuff like this, you have to be aware that the advice they’re giving to congressmen is not particularly dispassionate that it has something to do making money selling this drone technology. And so we do have to be worried about it.
No regard for the Constitution. It's about the money, and you know Congress is going to fill their pockets before standing up for the Constitution with only a few exceptions, like Senator Paul and his father Ron Paul.