A morsel from the same interview in which he wondered whether Rand Paul would care if hundreds of Americans were killed in a new terror attack. I’m calling it now: Actual blood on the stage at the 2016 primary debates.
In a sense, this is Egalitarianism 101. When a reporter asks you, as a congressman, whether congressmen should have special privileges that the hoi polloi don’t have, the answer’s almost always “hell no.” Imagine the headlines if King had said instead, “Well, of course *I* should be exempt.” There’s an egalitarian alternative, though: No indiscriminate data-harvesting among either the public or its elected leaders. The takeaway here is that he’d rather keep mass surveillance going even if the price is licensing one branch of government to vacuum up dirt in the form of metadata on another.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
"If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here." - Barack Obama, June 7, 2013
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
"If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here." - Barack Obama, June 7, 2013
He's desperately screaming for attention in order to establish his credentials as a "moderate Republican" for the White House Races in 2016.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)