OK, just so we're clear.
No elected official should now ever discuss our border problem, our ports security, or in any other way publicly point out ANY deficiencies in our national security.
That's insane, and a recipe for fascism - jailing anybody who questions the government.
"OK, just so we're clear "
Apparently we're not.
I'll try again.
Elected officials should not be discussing, in public, the specifics of vulnerabilities.
The operative word is specifics.
If you're asking City Hall for more police protection in your neighborhood, do you also publicly annnounce that you don't have a security system ,your back window is broken and the house is empty every day from 8 until 6 ?
July 28, 2004
Biden: ..We have 101 nuclear power plants in the United States.
None of them have federal protection.
We’re in a situation where today if you got on an Amtrak Train from Boston to New York, you’d hit New York, there’s more people in the tunnels that were built in 1917 with no ventilation,
no escape and no lighting underneath that New York City as we speak today,
sitting in car seats of trains than there are in five packed 747’s.
May 6,2004
Representative Stephen F. Lynch, Democrat of Massachusetts, after describing the lack of security at Boston's South Shore train station , added that it was the busiest in the country and all the employees he spoke to at the station " don't know what they are supposed to do in case of a terrorist attack."