January 8, 2012
Ron Paul voted NO on establishing nationwide AMBER alert system for missing kids.

anticapitalist:

Inb4 ron paul fanboys.

Ron paul said:

However, Mr. Speaker, I am concerned that making the AMBER Alert system a Federal program is neither constitutionally sound nor effective law enforcement.

So setting up a system for saving children is bad because of a piece of paper? lol k.

All Americans should be impressed at the demonstrated effectiveness of the AMBER system in locating missing and kidnapped children. However, I would ask my colleagues to consider that one of the factors that makes the current AMBER system so effective is that the AMBER Alert system is not a Federal program. Instead, states and local governments developed AMBER Alerts on their own, thus ensuring that each AMBER system meets the unique needs of individual jurisdictions. Once the AMBER Alert system becomes a one-size-fits all Federal program (with standards determined by DC-based bureaucrats instead of community-based law enforcement officials) local officials will not be able to tailor the AMBER Alert to fit their unique circumstances. Thus, nationalizing the AMBER system will cause this important program to lose some of its effectiveness.

This at first seems like a reasonable argument.

 The federal government is shit at almost everything it does.

However, I thought about it, which is why I posted it. 

If a child goes missing, they don’t go missing at just at the state level. They go missing at the national - No, the universal level. The least we can do is have a coordinated effort to find a child all across the United States. This bill ensures interstate coordination in the search to find lost children.

And Ron Paul voted against it, in the name of the oh so sacred constitution.

Ron Paul is not a libertarian, he’s an anti-federalist.

ElectFick2028 is pro-effective tactics for saving children from kidnapping.

(Source: shitthatlibertarianssay, via socialistexan)

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    Well, if each state has their own amber alert system, what makes a federal one...much...
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    so you don’t know who you support, but we’re dummies for thinking a federal amber alert system is a necessity? lame....
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    Ron Paul hates children, minorities, and freedom. Clearly Ron Paul 2012.
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    ElectFick2028 is pro-effective tactics for saving children from kidnapping.
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    Inb4 ron paul fanboys. Ron paul said:...So setting up a system for saving children is bad...
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