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Rand Paul’s Wrong About BP And Just About Everything Else- Editorial

05/21/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
“Maybe sometimes accidents happen.” That is Rand Paul’s assessment of the disaster in the Gulf. The disaster where BP has been shown to have cut corners, followed lax safety procedures and may even be criminally negligent in the deaths of eleven people. Sometimes accidents happen. Yes, sometimes accidents do happen. Sometimes you can make mistakes.

This was not one of those cases, and even Dr. Paul’s followers know that.

Dr. Rand Paul may have his doctorate in optometry, but that does not mean that he is qualified to speak about anything else. The other thing is, that his handlers and the Republican Party must be going absolutely bananas right now trying to get him to shut up. The GOP cannot afford to be seen siding with the likes of BP right now. They cannot side with the megacorps who have been running this nation into the ground faster than a train hurtling at the ground at full speed.

The disaster by BP is why we got away from all those regulation free years, decades, centuries of business. There was a time when if a worker fell into the sausage vat, they fished out the clothing if they could. Who cared if the worker died in there. Who cared if the worker was eaten by a dozen people in Manhattan. Workers were a dime a dozen and who cared how many died in these places. In this country, we have had such a hostile image of these “socialist”, “communist”, and “pinko” reforms for the last thirty years that we have even tried to purge the disasters that lead to these regulations from our educational system. Businesses cannot be trusted to do the right thing. The Massey mine disaster should show that. Their CEO is so certain that he has done nothing wrong despite making absolutely sure that everything that his company did could and did result in the deaths of over two dozen miners. It has been generations- over a century- since our mines were that unsafe.

Dr. Paul, I am far more of a libertarian than you are. I honestly believe that government should be smaller, and that regulations interfere with businesses and individuals. I am a libertarian who also understands that the reason why we have government is because people and businesses do not do the right thing. If given the choice, a company would rather not hire someone who needs a wheelchair or a translator to function in their business environment. They will not make accommodations for them. They will not give them an office on the ground floor, assuming that they have an office on the ground floor. Without the ADA, Dr. Rand, there would be no closed captioning, no books printed in braille, no ramps into buildings. What there would be is a group of people marginallized into oblivion by the actions of others because we live in a society that could care less about what other people do.

Dr. Paul, BP knew that what it was doing was wrong. They knew that what they were doing could kill people. They did not care. This was no accident. This was negligent homicide. Eleven people died because BP’s executives were more worried about getting a few extra dollars than they were about the lives of people. They did not care that they were not going to be able to handle a disaster of any proportions. They did not care how many people would be hurt by the destruction of the sea that they depend upon for their livelihoods.

And you want to give them free reign. You want to give them the right to destroy what ever they want in the name of money because it suits your unthinking, unfeeling, twisted philosophy as to what this nation should be. You want to give them the right to slaughter people in the name of money because money is God to men like you.

Dr. Paul, having a doctorate does not mean that one is smart. I learned that back in my first attempt at grad school. I learned that you have to know how to play politics and suck up to people, and that includes in medical school. Being an eye doctor does not mean that you have the knowledge to understand what is going on in the Gulf, or what is wrong with Massey Coal. It does not mean that you understand that people will, if given the chance, discriminate against everyone and everything.

Dr. Paul, you are no libertarian. You are nothing more than a Palinite trying to disguise your naked ambition for power behind a label that you have coopted into something that it is not. A true libertarian, Dr. Paul, believes in marriage equality and abortion. They believe that we have the right to do what we want, and that includes marrying the people we love and having control over our bodies. What you, half governor Palin and the rest of your cadre believe in is not libertarianism. It is fascism. It is good old fashioned fascism. I am not talking the take over the government and instal a dictator kind of fascism, Dr. Paul, I am just talking about the every day sort which puts the interests of business ahead of the people, and the Church ahead of the State.

Without these laws, Dr. Paul, nothing would have happened, but in the echo chamber of your mind and soul, all you hear is the applause of like minded people telling you that your beliefs are spot on instead of understanding even your own philosophy. It is an ideology, Dr. Paul, not a philosophy. It is something you march behind in stead of think through.

Dr. Paul, I have, in the course of my time in academia, met many a doctor who could not think their way out of a paper bag. I have met many a doctor in medicine who could not understand the most basic concepts of human interaction. Being a doctor does not make you smart. Being a doctor does not make you informed. Being a doctor does not mean you understand what is going on!

The real world is now knocking at your candidacy’s door, Dr. Paul, and you are still digging yourself towards the molten center of political oblivion. At the rate you are going, Dr. Paul, you really will be Kentucky Fried Candidate.

Pretty soon, you will be joining Sarah Palin and the Chicken Lady in Nevada in political obscurity. The Tea Party movement may win primaries, Dr. Paul, it does not win elections.

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