Rand Paul Responds To Ferguson: 'We Must De-Militarize The Police'

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28. So was Sen. Byrd, at one time. That didn't diminish his later

awakening to how wrong he was back then.

Of course Right Wingers never let him forget that, hoping to diminish his influence on trying to stop Bush's horrendous war by ignoring what he was talking about and raising his past hoping we would then ignore the important points he was making.. But we Dems understood that a person can change and are generally grateful when they do. So the tactic didn't work, on Democrats. We are generally able to separate what is important and relevant to a particular topic from what is being done to distract.

Byrd was one of the most outspoken Democrats against Bush and made one of the most moving speeches to try to stop that murderous war on the day that vote was taken. He was also one of the only Senators who actually mentioned what would happen to the Iraq people IF we went ahead with it.

That speech will go down in history. But yes, he was a member of the KKK in his early years, something he addressed openly throughout his life, acknowledging that it would be 'part of my legacy'. He was an example to many people of how someone can change for the better.

Paul, who is now joined by Claire Mccaskill is 100% right on this, and THAT is the topic of this OP.

If you don't want to see an end to the militarization of our PD, then go right ahead and change the subject. Same as Repubs tried to do with Byrd.

As for me, I hope other Republicans join him AND Claire Mccaskill along with ALL Dems.