WHY RAND PAUL IS (WAS) RIGHT
Rand Paul, the Repulican candidate for Senate in Kentucky, took and continues to take a lot of heat for saying, shortly after he won the nomination, that he didn’t agree with the idea that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prevented a restaurant owner from refusing to serve blacks.
Of course, liberals jumped all over him and called him a racist because that’s what liberals do.
They refuse to consider the possibility that someone like Rand–a pretty smart guy–could see the danger in giving the government the right to tell you what you can or can’t do on or with your private property, or with whom you can and can not associate.
A court order created the policy for the entire school district. That’s the government using its power to discriminate. That’s what the Civil Rights Act was intended to end–government discrimination.
But the people who refused to serve blacks in their restaurants were living under a government that sanctioned discrimination.
Paul’s point is that the government should not have the power to tell us who we can and can’t associate with because that power can be used for evil purposes, too.
The Jim Crow laws were proof of that.
