Posted on 10/19/2014 12:55:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
The Secret Service is scandal prone. It spends excessively on foreign presidential trips, and it has agents who get in trouble with prostitutes and liquor bottles. The recent White House fence-jumping incident was a stunning failure. Despite the Service spending $1.9 billion a year, a guy with a knife jumped the fence, sprinted across the lawn, pushed open the front door, galloped through the Entrance Hall, danced across the East Room, and almost had time to sit down for a cup of tea in the Green Room.
In the wake of the incident, the head of the Secret Service resigned. But the Service is an agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the head of DHS, Jeh Johnson, did not resign. Indeed, he said very little about it, presumably to evade responsibility. So what is the purpose of having the DHS bureaucratic superstructure on top of agencies such as the Secret Service? If DHS does not correct problems at agencies when they fester for years, and if DHS leaders do not take responsibility for agency failures, why do we need it?
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DHS the worst most malevolent agency ever created. It needs to be shut down.
Thank Bush for this monster.
I’d rather carry a K-Bar.
W. Bush combined a bunch of agencies that tended to act like the Keystone Cops, figuring they needed centralization to be more efficient. He was partially correct, but the execution of that idea was awful.
The TSA, for example, is founded on the idea of building a security system based on irrational rules, so of course it is a horrible mess.
The US government needs to accept a basic axiom that yes, sometimes, “profiling” is essential. They need to get over the idea that profiling potential enemies in a war has *absolutely* nothing to do with the abusive behavior of some law enforcement agencies during the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
It really is that simple. In World War II, the US had NO, ZERO problem in profiling ethnic Germans, Japanese and Italians. Doing so was an essential part of wartime security.
Today, almost exclusively, the terrorist threat is created by Muslims. It does not matter that they are a minority of Muslims. But because that is who the enemy is, ALL Muslims entering or leaving the US must be inconvenienced.
That a tiny handful of Muslims are inconvenienced is a ridiculously small price to pay to avoid a substantial and vicious threat from terrorists, who want to kill thousands of Americans. Inconvenience is *much* less important than homicide of our citizens.
Their arguments about this are nonsensical, such as “Islam isn’t a race”, or “you can’t tell a Muslim by looking at them”, or “just because they come from a Muslim nation, you don’t know they are a terrorist.”
This is why it is called “profiling”, because it means you profile a majority to find a criminal minority within it.
To pretend otherwise is suicidal.
The government MUST get this through their heads.
But get rid of it? When was the last time a gov. bureaucracy was abolished?
Once created, they are forever.
> If ya have a pocket, ya have a knife. That is the standard.
The subject of pocket knives is my number one pet peeve.
Everyone should carry a pocket knife. You should never go anywhere without one. The only reason we can’t carry one on airlines is the flying waitress union had a sh!t fit when TSA announced last year that it was going to reverse their stand on knives and allow people to carry a small one.
I went on a business trip a week ago. I needed a knife twice during the trip. First the mouse for my laptop died and when I bought batteries, I couldn’t open the damn things because of the blister packaging. Second, I came down with a cold and bought a small bottle of cough medicine what was blister wrapped. I couldn’t get the seal off. I had to go to the hotel desk and have them open the cough medicine bottle for me.
There is no common sense being applied to travel regulations, just whatever makes liberal unions “feel good” and has the ability to inconvenience people.
I joined the military to fight the Cold War and Communism. I studied Communism to make sure I really knew what I was fighting. When they announced the inception of the Department of HOMELAND Security I first thought the name alone smacked of something from a communist country.
All these years later I think the name may be appropriate since we have almost arrived at communism.
Welcome to Free Republic.
There was a time when protecting the country meant the FBI and the Marshall Service handled everything domestic and the CIA handled everything else.
Now we have DEA, TSA, DHS, NSA, ATF, ...
Why do we need so much duplication of effort?
Get rid of all the extra federal agencies and put their responsibilities back where they used to be.
We don’t need it. Remember a short time back?
We got along just fine without it.
We don’t need Obama either.
The answer is sort of frightening isn't it?
Many of the “higher-ups” in the dhs are moozlums. Go figure.
One of two of president Bush’s biggest mistakes. Establishing dhs and putting soldiers on the ground in afghanastan.
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