Paul endorses constitutional rights , such as the right to keep and bear arms , and '' habeas corpus '' for political detainees . He opposes the Patriot Act , federal use of torture , presidential autonomy , a national identification card , warrantless domestic surveillance , and the draft . Paul also believes that the notion of the separation of church and state is currently misused by the court system : " In case after case , the Supreme Court has used the infamous ' separation of church and state ' metaphor to uphold court decisions that allow the federal government to intrude upon and deprive citizens of their religious liberty . " Sometime within the same month but much after the event of authorities executing a lock-down in sequence to the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing , Paul commented on the tactics used by governing forces into a harsh criticism that he has written as a " military-style occupation of an American city "
Boston Marathon bombing
Boston Marathon bombing
Ron Paul