[Captain Peter Blood]

And also had the biggest expansion of Governement and Government spending since LBJ in the 1960’s.
The war on terror is nothing more at this point than a expansion of the Poice State and usurping our Rights and Liberties.
Witness Boston you tag a couple of useless itdiots as Terrorists and a entire metropolitan area is shut down with untold economic damages.
George Bush was at best a medicore RINO President that lied about who he was all the time just like his Father.

[ilgipper]

When the Homeland Security Dept was created, my hesitation, like many here was not what it was in 2002, but what it would be under a future administration. All our fears were warranted, because it didn’t even take 10 years.

The concept of all the agencies rolling up to one person was a good idea to create accountability and break down the existing barriers of sharing data. The addition of airport screeners, etc created a new monolithic body to infringe on our privacy. It was not hard to predict, either.