It drove me crazy when FREEPERS were all head over heals about Homeland Security when President Bush started it.....such shortmindedness. They had no idea what the future would bring but were just so glad to have this new “Secretary” to guard over America.
I don’t blame anyone for supporting DHS when it was created. At the time of 9/11, I didn’t live too far away from NYC and I’ll never forget how afraid I was; not so much for myself, but afraid something would happen to my husband and I’d be left alone. We hadn’t gone grocery shopping over the weekend and were planning to do it that evening, so we had no food (nothing satisfying, anyway) in the house. But when all of that came down we decided to stay home. My husband wanted to go grab subs for dinner and I wouldn’t let him because I was afraid I would never see him again; so we had to make due with scraps of stuff from the pantry.
It’s easy in hindsight to say that something like DHS is only as good as those who keep it. I never understood what it was supposed to accomplish that changes to the FBI couldn’t, and saw it as way too much redundancy in the policing function, that is why I didn’t really support it. So I am among those, even in dissent, that didn’t see the danger in such a thing. For the majority of my life, I never felt the need to worry about such things because they had generally been rather benign.
But Obama and his cronies who care nothing about the porper role of the Federal government in everyday life have changed all of what I believed to be true. If there is anything positive in all of this heartache and upheaval, it is that they have taught us, or at least me, the greater value of enumerated powers, and why building a behemoth of an administrative state, even if under the pretense of doing good, is a really bad idea.