Mordor is Displeased with Rand Paul

Like the Eye of Sauron, it didn’t take long for the editors of the WSJ (War Street Journal) to zero in on Senator Rand Paul as a threat to their fantasy police state. Watch if you can stomach it…

Yesterday, Senator Paul responded to an article calling for the Boston bombing suspects to be held as ‘enemy combatants.’

The Journal wants those of us who believe in the Bill of Rights to shut up about civil liberties in the wake of the Boston bombings (“Enemy Combatants in Boston,” Review & Outlook, April 22). Like children in the schoolyard you chant: “See, look at these bombers, they don’t deserve trials or lawyers!”

…I have never claimed that there won’t be special exceptions to the rules, especially in regard to acts of terror. What I have opposed are those who want so many exceptions that there are no longer any rules—where the Constitution and the Bill of Rights become null and void, especially as part of a war with no discernible end and no geographical limits… Read more.

Saruman, it seems, is not amused either…

“How many treaties will be held hostage?” asked Cathy Schultz, a lobbyist for the National Foreign Trade Council, a Washington, D.C.-based group that represents companies such as Caterpillar Inc and Pfizer Inc.

(Reuters reports) Senator Rand Paul is coming under pressure from some multi-national businesses to drop his opposition to tax treaties between the United States and other nations.

Together, my lord Sauron, we shall rule this Middle–earth. The old world will burnin the fires of industry. Forests will fall. A new order will rise.

Citing privacy concerns about Americans’ tax data, Paul, a Republican and libertarian, has single-handedly blocked Senate action on treaties with Hungary, Switzerland and Luxembourg that have been signed by authorities on both sides, but have been awaiting Senate review since 2011.

At least six other tax treaties or treaty updates — with Chile, Spain, Poland, Japan, Norway and Britain — may soon be added to the Senate’s queue for confirmation votes…More from Reuters.