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- vsujohn2, on 06/14/2009, -0/+52Problem #9
More bureaucracy doesn't make us safer - bearsandbulls, on 06/14/2009, -3/+48Problem #4 They are compiling lists of people who protest anything and labeling them potential terrorists.
- noupsell, on 06/14/2009, -3/+38Problem #5 The United States is no safer in many areas than it was before 9/11
- noupsell, on 06/14/2009, -1/+33Problem #7 In German, homeland is translated as "Heimatland", and this was a term used by the Nazis to refer to the more common German term "Vaterland" ("Fatherland"). It was also the name of a strongly pro-Nazi magazine edited by Wilhelm Weiss during the rise of the Nazi party in Germany.
- futurepastnow, on 06/14/2009, -1/+27Not to mention, you know, the name sounds like something the Nazis would call an agency.
- maz2331, on 06/14/2009, -1/+25How about truth in naming? Call it the Department of Defense, and rename the existing DoD back to the Department of War.
- doublefelix, on 06/13/2009, -8/+32Problem #1 is the name sounds like a 'Bushism'.
- homercles337, on 06/14/2009, -1/+23You MUST protect the Homeland comrade!
- Skuzzlbut, on 06/14/2009, -0/+21Problem #11 The name implies that the homeland is in imminent peril. It implicitly makes people afraid. If we have Homeland Security, then why have the CIA, FBI, Police, Coast Guard, Army, Marines, Airforce? Sure - there needs to be someone to help them place nice together, but shouldn't they ALREADY want to play nice? We have created bureaucracy that prevents our own protection.
- lisaawesome, on 06/14/2009, -5/+22Problem #8 That god awful picture of the author.
- inactive, on 06/14/2009, -2/+17The problem with the DHS? crass incompetance.
- noupsell, on 06/14/2009, -12/+23Problem #6 Sometimes my tinfoil underwear cause chafing
- pigfister, on 06/14/2009, -0/+10Where to start.
The DHS treats everyone as terrorists maybe? - inactive, on 06/14/2009, -5/+14#10 Government is inefficient at everything it does.
- tgc1, on 06/14/2009, -1/+10But it sure does take more of our tax dollars.
- Bactame, on 06/14/2009, -5/+13Problem #2 Brownie
- Craig304958, on 06/14/2009, -0/+6Right. Private companies would NEVER cut corners on infrastructure design or minimize its maintenance just to make more profit. Uh huh.
- ScottoGato, on 06/14/2009, -2/+8Problem #everything
KHAAAAAAAAN! - mcsenget, on 06/14/2009, -1/+7it sounds like a department the Nazis would have had in the third reich.
- bluesman3535, on 06/14/2009, -0/+6You don't love and thank the DHS on a daily basis? You're flagged until you change your ways nod your approval.
- siszam, on 06/14/2009, -2/+7America is less safe because more people hate us now than ever before. With good reason.
- StarlessKnight, on 06/14/2009, -1/+6Or Stalin ("Motherland"). Hitler and Stalin, now there's two people you want to emulate.
Ingredients call for a dash of nationalism... Ah screw it. *Tosses in the whole bottle* - DankNugzPlz, on 06/14/2009, -1/+6So one of the issues leading to 9/11 was that the FBI and CIA and other departments had all this info about Osama and their plans with the planes but the information wasn't being shared between the different agencies.
Instead of streamlining the agencies our government decided to make another agency, a massive bureaucracy and another additional agency that is bigger then all but two of the cabinets.
The original problem was too much bureaucracy...so we created a bigger one. It's still being put together some 8 years later. We need less government and more intelligent people analyzing the information we are getting. - oldgal, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4I find it is much easier to break things than to fix things.
- oldgal, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4NASA does some pretty amazing stuff and in the doing has benefited private industry substantially. I never understood what a good job the FDA did until it got whittled down to dysfunctional. Other than some issues I might have with procurement, the Military is a pretty good operation. I love the underlying assumption that non-governmental stuff is efficient...they are probably about equal with the ratio of efficient/inefficient.
- bluesman3535, on 06/14/2009, -1/+5Well-stated observation on the language Project Paperclip seems to have come in handy so many times. It's very disturbing but not surprising that an American president would willingly adapt Nazi psychological techniques in naming an agency, then unchallenged grant them unprecedented powers. But then again, from their point of view the Bush family has plenty of money to run every last genetically linked moron they can dredge up for the top office, all the while chipping at checks and balances, converting the Presidency into a form of all-powerful unchecked monarchy.
- inactive, on 06/14/2009, -3/+7The largest threat to the republic of the United States is not terrorism but media monopoly. Democracy cannot flourish if the news is controlled.
Can anyone with a love for democracy buy out Rupert's World and break it up into independent media properties? Google billionaires? That would be true greatness and a service to our nation. It would be much cheaper though for Congress to just break them up. Does anyone in Congress have the passion?
I won't hold my breath - Black6x, on 06/14/2009, -2/+6Imagine your house is the homeland
Homeland Security - Stop people as they come over to your house to blow it up
CIA - Stop people while they are still in their house. Occasionally make the people in the house kick out the current owner.
FBI - Deal with people who steal from one room of your house and move it to another room. Occasionally likes to pick up the phone while you are making calls.
Police - Stop people taht steal in one room of your house. Acts like an older brother in that it occasionally beats you up and farts in your face.
Coast Guard - protects your moat and lawn.
Air Force - Guards above your house. Also bombs other peoples houses from above.
Marines - Blow up people's houses that are near water.
Army - Blows up people's houses taht are not near water. - inactive, on 06/14/2009, -1/+4I think its English but, help me out here...
- Craig304958, on 06/14/2009, -1/+4On the other hand, if people had a choice, and if government agencies could negotiate with big pharma suppliers... if they're so incompetent, what are the big pharma and insurance companies so freaked out about?
- tgc1, on 06/14/2009, -1/+4More to the point, name one BENEFICIAL thing that DHS does. And name one thing that isn't a problem that DHS has. You can't. The new agency is a ***** disaster.
- LauraHKahn, on 06/15/2009, -1/+3I highly resent these comments about my appearance. I don't write these columns to win beauty contests, but rather, to point out policy problems that need to be addressed. If you can't contribute useful comments about the subject at hand, then kindly keep your cruel thoughts to yourself.
- fandyllic, on 06/15/2009, -0/+2It shows how hypocritical the supposed Republic platform of less government has been in the last decade.
- FAT_PIGGY, on 06/15/2009, -2/+3Dont count on it.
- stevelectric, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1bearsandbulls- We initially thought that the tea partys would be put-away in the cabinet after Tax Day to be brought-out again next year, but there are more Tea Parties being organised across America:
http://www.communati.com/redwriteblue/after-tea-pa ...
The Democratic women have several representatives on the President's cabinet that peak for them while conservative women have been gathering on the Internet where The Department of Homeland security can monitor what they are saying:
http://www.communati.com/redwriteblue/political-vo ... - WasabiBomb, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1That was my thought as well, the first time I heard the name. I seriously thought it was an Onion article.
- fandyllic, on 06/15/2009, -2/+3Yeah, look at what a mess Canada is. I mean they can't start nearly as many wasteful wars as the U.S. I imagine because they spend too much money making sure people don't die from lack of health insurance.
- stevelectric, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1DestroyFascism- There is a social networking site that you may be interested in:
http://usapatriots.ning.com/profiles/blogs/remembe ... - Atario, on 06/17/2009, -0/+1"#10 Government is inefficient at everything it does. "
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...Big time. - fandyllic, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1The problem with the DHS is it was created to give plum jobs to fund raisers for George W. Bush and Republican cronies. Brownie anyone?
- fandyllic, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1Hmmm... this sounds like libel. How do you know these are DHS people? And WTF would they be doing on a blog about Amway products?
Hilarious. - DankNugzPlz, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1I agree completely. Not too long ago they wanted to get rid of the Department of Education but they ended up doubling it instead.
Not only that, but they have been hypocritical on every plank of their platform. - fandyllic, on 06/15/2009, -1/+2It's so ironic that if you're right it also would mean we can't justify any of the executive departments. The President should just personally manage all that stuff as a big mass of people with no reporting structure. Yeah, that would work great!
- fandyllic, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1If only those things were remotely true. Also, you forgot the National Guard and the NSA.
I would say more, but why let it just get buried. - Brassbud, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1A lot of these people used to work for CIA/NSA/etc anyway, so it's not all like you say.
- Whorebane, on 06/15/2009, -1/+1As someone with experience with the workings of DHS, avner is absolutely right. The author of the article makes this point too in saying that DHS "can be responsible for those vital areas in which substantial gains in national security have yet to be made--border and port security; transportation, commerce, and infrastructure security; and nuclear and chemical material security."
- LPLawhead, on 09/15/2009, -0/+0The problem with "Homeland Security" is that it's entire point and purpose is to control, monitor and if need be, imprison American citizens. Already they are teaching boy scouts and girl scouts to handle terrorist threats, use assault rifles and clear houses. The DHS has released documents such as the Domestic Extremism Lexicon which detail potential domestic threats, these include Constitutionalists, Patriots, Militias, Questioners of the Federal Tax, and just about any other dissenters you can think of. Of course they are all mashed in with racial hate groups, animal rights and environmental activists, socialists and anarchists. Homeland Security is just a pretty name for the American Gestapo. (9/11 = Reichstag, DHS = Gestapo, Boy/Girl Scouts = Hitler Youth, FEMA Camps = Concentration Camps, Obama/Bush/Et All = Hitler, The Rothschildes = Still the Rothschildes (as heads of the snake known as the Global Banking Cartel, these bastards funded both sides of ww2 (and ww1 and vietnam and the list goeth on)))
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