Pass the Tin Foil Hat

The first person I ever depicted with a tin foil hat was Ron Paul.  While I favor most of his foreign policy, his extremism on domestic issues and covert but evident racism made him appear a few cans short of a six pack.  This was long enough ago that such extremes has not yet become common in the Republican Party.  The acorn did not fall far from the tree.  The time has come for Ron to pass the tin foil hat to his son Rand.  The extreme paranoia of his latest escapade into fantasy land demonstrate that he is a few toons beyond loony.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has a real knack for paranoia. Playing the hero in his contrived world of made-up threats, Paul battles the menacing enemies of pregnant women, American babies, and the Department of Education. On Monday, Paul’s right-wing fan base [extremists delinked] got a sneak peek at Paul’s next target: the U.N. Small Arms Treaty.

In an email to supporters, Paul warned that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the “global gun-grabbers” are out to “strip you and me of ALL our freedoms” by signing a treaty designed by the “petty dictators and one-world socialists who control the UN” to “CONFISCATE and DESTROY” all civilian firearms across the world. With his trusty sidekick the National Association For Gun Rights [extremists delinked] and a financial contribution from his base, Paul can “lead the fight to defeat this radical treaty“ [Teabuggery delinked]:

Gun-grabbers around the globe believe they have it made.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced the Obama Administration will be working hand-in-glove with the UN to pass a new “Small Arms Treaty.”

Disguised as an “International Arms Control Treaty” to fight against “terrorism,” “insurgency” and “international crime syndicates,” the UN’s Small Arms Treaty is in fact a massive, GLOBAL gun control scheme.

I’m helping lead the fight to defeat this radical treaty in the United States Senate and I want your help.

Please join me by taking a public stand against this outright assault on our national sovereignty by signing the Official Firearms Sovereignty Survey.

Ultimately, the UN’s Small Arms Treaty is designed to register, ban and CONFISCATE firearms owned by private citizens like YOU.

So far, the gun-grabbers have successfully kept the exact wording of their new scheme under wraps. […]

And along with your signed survey, I hope you’ll send a generous contribution of $250, $100, $50 or even just $35 to help finance this battle.

With your generous contribution, the National Association for Gun Rights will continue contacting Second Amendment supporters to turn up the heat on targeted U.S. Senators.

Paul’s conspiratorial email is missing one tiny footnote: there is no U.N. Small Arms Treaty… [emphasis original]

Inserted from <Think Progress>

You’d think that at the very least, Rand would fear monger by distorting something that actually exists!