I've introduced HR 8470, the Surveillance Accountability Act, with @RepBoebert.
It requires a probable cause warrant before the federal government can search your private data — even if that data is held by a third party.
Warrantless searches are unconstitutional.
It’s not American oil. It’s Venezuelan oil.
Oil companies entered into risky deals to develop oil, and the deals were canceled by a prior Venezuelan government.
What’s happening: lives of US soldiers are being risked to make those oil companies (not Americans) more profitable.
The US is bombing Venezuela in an actual unprovoked attack. Many excuses will be given over the next days: Narco-terrorism; Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran and others "operating" in Venezuela; democracy promotion backed by the Nobel Peace Prize etc.
Thomas Massie is going NUCLEAR on Trump’s regime change war in Venezuela.
“How did it work out in Cuba, Libya, Iraq, or Syria?”
“Do we want another Afghanistan in the Western Hemisphere?”
“This is about oil and regime change.”
“Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs, weapons of mass destruction, that did not exist.”
“Now it’s the same playbook, except we’re told that drugs are the WMDs.”
“James Madison warned us that in no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war and peace to the legislature—not the executive.”
“The framers understood a simple truth: to the extent that war-making power devolves to one person, liberty dissolves.”
“By escalating toward war, we would predictably create countless refugees.”
“Are we prepared to receive swarms of the 25 million Venezuelans who will likely become refugees?”
@RepThomasMassie@MassieforKY
1) We have problems at home and shouldn’t be wasting military resources on another country’s internal affairs.
2) Military strikes on Iran require Congressional authorization.
3) This threat isn’t about freedom of speech in Iran; it’s about the dollar, oil, and Israel.
In case you were wondering after five posts in ten days… I am NOT paying any rent to live there. 😂 BTW, the name is Ron Paul, Jr. — Rand and I were mixed up at the hospital.
🏆 In spite of a last ditch effort by the President to foil the motion, and @SpeakerJohnson’s propaganda, the discharge petition I have been leading just succeeded! In December, the entire House of Representatives will vote on releasing the Epstein files.
https://t.co/kGhb7qli8O
Here’s my solution to the shutdown. Pass 12 separate bills. I made this video in 2018 when Schumer did the same thing he’s doing this week. It’s really worth a watch, because some things never change…. Well… the color of my hair changed but that’s about it!