Homeland Security has a very specific purpose. It was created to coordinate the efforts to defend the U.S. of internal and external threats, however, it has created a huge bureacracy whose most important qualification is to be a "patriot". Doesn't anybody see the fact that it perpetuates itself, creates new jobs, new allegianges among the "initiated" and does business for billions of dollars by fostering paranoid fear among the American people? Why has it taken over functions traditionally performed by the FBI, the NASA, the CIA, and local police? Does it have to do with the scope of the threat and the need to coordinate efforts, or is it just another naked power grab? Are there any other similar instances in past world history? Could any one illustrate them?
2006-06-22
02:23:37
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Ricardo Ricci
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