I know Kemp left but in case he comes back, I hate Libertarians.

It's beyond the free drug use crap, or even "yeah abortion is murder but who am I to say we can't kill 900,000 people a year".

Through Rand freakin Paul we now have 4 of the most senseless, ignorant unAmerican themes that I as a right winger am supposed to salute.  I'll take civil war instead as the lesser evil.

1.  Surveillance

The libertarians got bizarre exegesis of the Constitution.  to wit:

2nd amendment "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." must be read literally: all laws infringing my right to buy machine guns is void as an infringement.  I agree with that.

14th amendment "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."  must be read IN CONTEXT-- they didn't mean ALL, just MOST, and most probably not them anchor babies born to illegal aliens.   

4th Amendment "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."  must be read LIBERALLY to mean the freedom from surveillance shall not be infringed!

which it doesn't say.   
Personally whereever you fall on reading dead words written before your great-grandfather was born, you're pretty much stuck with picking one method and sticking to it.  But not libertarians.

those statist freaks we call the Founders DID NOT create a barrier to surveillance.  They put in the wishywashy word "unreasonable" meaning "lacking reasonableness" and what that means is informed by 225 years of history.  Yeah they COULD have written "freedom from surveillance and snoopyness shall not be infringed" but they DIDN'T. SUCK IT UP loonytunes.

We're at war, meaning 3000 people got killed and Congress and the President keep authorizing military action against declared enemies of the United States. And yeah that counts regardless of what you like.

Constitutionally Obama has the same powers as FDR and J Edgar Hoover.  don't like it, end the war.   Don't like that fork in the road, you are INNOVATING, you are proposing NEW CHANGES.  New changes are part of what this country is about.  Quit being ashamed of it.  Quit lying to us that you are "PRESERVING" the constitution when you are rewriting the constitution to be something it never has been.

I get why they do it.  Things that are Unconstitutional are forbidden, end of argument - there is no argument!  Things that are new changes are debatable all day long.  Lying about it means you can pretend no true American would DARE disagree with you.  The thing is, I once read a book, so, you're screwed.

2.  Drone strikes against American citizens

Trivia question- when George Washington called out the militia to go shoot down the Whiskey Rebellion, what court issued the warrants he was enforcing?    Trick question.  George Washington was going to shoot American citizens on American soil without a trial.

I guess though it is eminently reasonable that Rand Paul knows the Constitution better than George Washington, or all the guys who lined up when he said, "Bugler sound the muster" or in fact all the guys in Congress at the time who didn't faint when they read what Washington was doing and failed somehow to impeach him for violating the 4th Amendment.

See back then in them olden days they had something called "Truth".  It was respected because of the Bible.  Guys like Pontius Pilate who told Jesus "what is truth" and then had him lynched, that was not respected.  They divided the human race between truth-handlers and outright liars, who ought be horsewhipped out of town to lurk in the woods.

And part of that Truth was, if you could define a crime, then people who did the crime, were truly guilty.  That's something libertarians don't believe in.   They don't believe there's an al qaeda, really.   They don't believe Americans are Al Qaeda.  There has to be a basic denial of the Truth in government.  Libertarians just don't accept that a President can say, "Hey I heard this guy out of his own mouth is an enemy of America, so, let's march out and let him have it."   That's what Washington did when he heard people were saying they were rebels.  The speech of rebellion defined a rebel.  And rebels could be smashed.

Not just Washington, but Lincoln during the civil war, heck Lincoln during the Blackhawk war, and our government in two world wars.   We just didn't interrupt military ops with a quest for American citizens so they got a trial.   Ken Burns mentioned in his movie that we torpedoed a boat with a Japanese ballplayer on board.  Sorry Charlie, down you go.  In truth, people organized as the enemy ARE the enemy, and we don't need to pretend that Truth doesn't really exist.  It's another way that Rand Paul is harrumphing not for 1787, but for the 1960s.

3.  Drone surveillance against American citizens.

In 1955 the LAPD put cops in helicopters.   I think they were first because of our weather and the amount of freeways.  We've had MANNED surveillance for sixty years.  Since that's legal, there's no point pretending a robot glider is somehow a sinister destruction of the Rights of Man.   I mean I get that Obama is a liar and a crook and a hack.  That's not in the Constitution though; it's just that he and his crew suck as government.

4.  Militarized cops

This drives me up the wall.  Every person who complains about this is guilty. Every one of them.  He is guilty of something and hates to know he can get caught for it.  You hear them talk about it long enough and it will smack you in the face.

Like, the grandpa whose fishing trip with the grandkids was ruined by "American Gestapo" from the DNR.  They stopped him for a "safety check".  They made him get out his ID (left it home) and his fishing license (don't need it, the kids are fishing not us -hahahah right).  They asked to see his safety jackets (he pulled them out) and checked his horn and lights (nope and nope).  Then they sailed away, by which time it was too late to teach the kids how to fish anymore (by not fishing, hahahah right).  He got mad as hell, and wrote the paper about it.

The Founders answer to this was Bat Masterson.  Yeah I don't know the name of the guy who had the job 100 years before Bat Masterson but that's cause of the media not being interested.  Bat Masterson was appointed by most people to go around to some people and bitchslap sense into them.   I dunno if Bat Masterson would have pistolwhipped this old man, but I do believe he would have sailed up to him and put a lantern on him. "Listen you g-d-n idiot" would he say, "you got a boat full of kids on a lake at night with no horn, no light and nobody's wearing their safety vest.  You're a greenhorn s---  and for two bits I would whup sense into you.  Maybe you're figuring I'd save your ass if your boat rolled over, which you being a  g-d-n idiot is mighty probable.  Well Hell! I won't, and I got this iron here to stop anybody else interfering with the destiny of a g-d-n idiot. Go home! Ya drunken coot, yer a villianous wretch for dragging these chillun down wit ye. Patooiee!"

Maybe the old coot would tolerate Bat Masterson cause he wasn't"militarized" by which they mean wearing body armor and a helmet and a tactical vest.  Somehow a cop being impervious to knives and smallarms is sinister, it means he is not friendly like Andy Griffith in the Mayberry show, which is the icon I see quoted.

Waaaal, ol' Andy probably had a tommy gun in that jail, cause cops back then toted fully automatic weapons.   In fact, that Sheriff who went after Bonnie and Clyde ditched his tommy guns, not because it was unAmerican to shoot Americans on American soil without due process, but because they couldn't punch through a windshield at 100 yards.  That sheriff went with the BAR, a fully automatic full-size weapon that the USMC doled out 4 to a platoon in the Pacific.  And shoot if he didn't welcome ol' Bonnie and Clyde straight to hell with a downhome countrystyle ambuscade.  Cause the Truth was, they were guilty.   At that he was quaint, cause big-city departments were using the Browning M1919 .30 caliber tripod mounted machine gun to shoot gangsters out of apartment buildings up into the 1940s.  No foolin, if anybody shot ol Barney down like a dog, which happened back before they wore body armor and helmets, ol' Andy would probably have rung up the Colonel of the State Police and rustled up some old fashioned Army gear to hose that g-d-n sumbitch out of his hotel room with a shower of hot lead.  Golly! That would be something!

Hmm.  I think I got the pilot for the remake.

Anyhow Libertarians are ignorant, and I guess we got a 2nd amendment right to form a vigilance committee.