When Bush and the GOP conceptualized the Department of Homeland Security, I was for it. Civil libertarians said it had grave potential to erode our liberties and be used against us, but I harumped the idea as Left-wing drivel.
So let me publicly state I was WRONG.
I apologize. They were right.
To make amends, I will push for the dissolvement of the Department of Homeland Security, with their duties and responsibilities taken up by the armed forces and a separate customs and border patrol service, the establishment of laws that further support and defend the US Constitution, including the amendments known as the Bill of Rights, their supremacy over all other edicts and emergency proclamations EXCEPT in an active, congressionally declared war, and laws limiting the exemption to lawsuits by the tech giants.
As I remember, after 9/11, when the dept of homeland security was proposed, Bush was against it based on “not another gov agency”...which was right. But he was pressured and gave in. What a mess.