No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of due process and legal accountability in the use of drones for lethal actions on American soil.
Rand Paul's quote highlights the essential principle of due process in the American legal system. It asserts that no individual should face lethal force from governmental actions, such as drone strikes, without first being formally charged and convicted of a crime in a court of law, reinforcing the values of justice and accountability in a democratic society.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about civil liberties at a law conference.
The U.S. should never get involved where we have no clear national interest. We should not intervene militarily in a country like Syria, where we canβt separate friend from foe and might end up arming the very people who hate us the most.
The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered. I don't think we need to name any names, do we? Our party is encumbered by an inconsistent approach to freedom. The new GOP will need to embrace liberty in both the economic and the personal sphere.
Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury - national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture - we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands.
I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court.
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.
It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!
There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.
The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind.
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