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After looking at this for the past week, I'm more convinced than ever that this port deal has nothing to do with national security. It simply won't make a difference safety-wise whether the deal goes through or not because there won't be any changes in the way the security procedures are handled.

This is just an issue of the government continuing its agenda of promoting globalization and free trade which it has done since H. Bush, then with Clinton and continuing to W. Bush.

If you look at the people who support this and then look at the people who oppose this, they all line up exactly the same way as they do on the issues of NAFTA and GATT, and for the same reason.

As usual, the McJournalists in this country have misrepresented this to the public by trying to convince people that if the port deal happens, then two weeks later Mohammad J. Terrorist is going to be sitting in a crane unloading nuclear bombs in a shipping container and putting them on a truck to New York.

I'm not going to jump on the paranoia bandwagon that the media wants me to ride every time they get bored and don't feel like reporting real news.

In order for the port managers to do their jobs, they have to know what is in the containters and where they are being shipped, to what port on what day and on what ship. If there are any bad guys on their end, they can ship dangerous materials and alter the manifest.

The UAE is a conduit for Libyan and Iranian nuke money, a center for drug running and money laundering, one of three countries to recognize the Taliban, a country that refuses to recognize Israel, a funder of Al Qaeda (at least in the past), and a known sponsor of terrirsts. It was the home of Marwan Al-Shehi. That is not a country I want in a position to manage our ports, which are simply our borders along the water.