Arrested for disorderly conduct -outside- an Arab Cultural Festival - for simply offering a pamphlet (Gospel in English and Arabic ) to people walking by - with no verbal harranguing or harassment evident in the video. Police restricting exercise of free speech for a 5 block area around the festival, according to four detained Christian Missionaries.

Read the full post at redstate.com

I listened as host Robert Siegel baited Rand Paul, asking whether the Civil Rights Act went too far since Paul has said that the Americans with Disabilities Act was an overreach of the federal government.

Paul’s response was,

“What I’ve always said is that I’m opposed to institutional racism, and I would’ve, had I’ve been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.”

“I think a lot of things could be handled locally. For example, I think that we should try to do everything we can to allow for people with disabilities and handicaps. You know, we do it in our office with wheelchair ramps and things like that. I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who’s handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator. And I think when you get to the solutions like that, the more local the better, and the more common sense the decisions are, rather than having a federal government make those decisions.”

That was followed by an appearance on MSNBC (Rachel Maddow) where the smear machine moved into top gear.

I’m not a libertarian, nor do I live or vote in Kentucky, but I’m amenable to reasonable common sense views that would keep the Federal Government doing what it should be be doing, protecting our security, representing our interests with foreign nations, promoting our economic well being through international trade but otherwise staying out of our back pockets, our homes, our beliefs and our personal and cultural lives.

The President of Mexico, in the United States, on the lawn of the White House rails against a law passed by the Arizona legislature and signed by the Governor of Arizona and supported by 70% of the citizens of the State of Arizona, in an attempt to aid in curtailing a lawless flood of illegal aliens and drugs, and our President sides with Mexico and the illegals against the citizens of Arizona.

Obama demonstrated with the full pomp and ceremony of his office that he has greater affinity for those who break our laws, despoil our borderlands and by their actions and words laugh at our sovereignty, than he does for the majority of the citizens of Arizona. Come to that, I’m not at all sure that lack of concern doesn’t extend to rest of us.

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A “Right On” response to President Obama’s SOTU admonitions to Congress to act on Supreme Courts’ free speech protection for corporations.

via Power Line