On the recordSeptember 25, 2013
I am appalled. Our friend said Republicans are in the bedroom, but we have a President who is collecting our phone records, collecting our medical records, and now wants to collect our gun records. Where in the world and when do we say stop? Even our friends in the media, he collected their records. Now we have a treaty, so-called treaty, which stomps on our individual rights, undermines our Constitution, and strips us of any kind of protection. They said don't worry about it, the Senate will never ratify it. But in a tradition of treaties, once a treaty is signed--once a treaty is signed--our Nation typically follows that treaty. We are seeing before us a President who is not listening to the people. Time and time again, these actions are taken when there is--like a magician, he is over here, focusing over here, and he did this today when a Texas Senator was speaking. This is all designed for us to be asleep while our rights are being stripped. When are the American people going to wake up and realize that the book ``1984'' has come about? Your rights are being stripped, and I hear nothing. My friend, Bill Murray, who is an unwilling participant in a lawsuit to take prayer out of schools, said it best. His mother was an atheist who sued. He said the greatest fear that she had was that the American people would rise up, but what happened was nothing. Not a word was said. Today, your rights were stripped, and we hear silence.…
