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The intrusion in gathering of data about us and surveillance and all the other things
that the founding fathers of this nation understood would be the end
result of out-of-control government.
We have the IRS going after tea party groups, conservative
groups, abusing their power.
The IRS, which under Barack Obama means Department of Intimidation, Retribution, and
Surveillance gathering information
going after who knows whatever groups.
Last year, in California, one of the major healthcare insurance companies filed a lawsuit
against the IRS and 15 of its employees for confiscating illegally
the health records of ten million California residents.
There's no privacy anymore, folks. Not when you have the IRS gathering healthcare
records, controlling healthcare implementation. Not when we have the national security agency,
the NSA, gathering the phone records of millions of Americans.
They have mine, I'm certain. They know how many times a week I call my mom to check on
her.
Then gathering emails of millions of Americans. First, when they were caught, they said, "well
we don't get the phone records," then it turns out they did.
Then when they found the gathered emails, they said, "well, we don't gather emails,"
and it turns out they did. Now they say, "we don't read emails,"
so I put "God bless America" in every email just so they have to read it.
This is an over-extension of power and an all-out abuse of our individual freedom.
Two weeks ago in New York City at the Bloomberg View luncheon, Cory Booker was asked
one of the potential candidates against me in this race
"Mayor Booker, where are you on this invasion of privacy and surveillance?"
His response was exactly what the president had said a week later:
"I look forward to a robust discussion about privacy and surveillance in this country."
We had that robust discussion, Mr. Booker, 237 years ago.
It was called the American Revolution. We decided what that meant.