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CanadaSucks (48)
07/18/2008
Meant everything to those who find speeches and slogans to be satisfactory for emotional comfort. But creating an ineffective organization did little to put the rest of us at ease. We need intelligence, talent, patience, aptitude, and efficiency- qualities that this president nor his new creation really exhibit. And the real politically-incorrect thing believed in DC that no one says publicly is that there are too many almost-CIA's and almost-FBI's in Homeland Security. . .in other words, less talented people who weren't good enough to break in without a sweeping mandate from arguably one of the least gifted presidents of recent memory.

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irishgit (146)
07/18/2008

While I understand and even sympathise with the motivations for its creation, I'm not sure that an immensely powerful mega-bureaucracy is the best answer. A certain amount of the politics of fear was in effect here, and essentially the Department was a coordination and combination of several existing agencies.

Having worked in politics and government, I'm well acquainted with the fact that bureaucracies don't willingly give up power and influence, but rather strive to increase it. While protecting the nation is a worthy and essential goal of any administration, a careful auditing of the means undertaken to do so should also be in place. Unfortunately, that latter element doesn't seem to be going on.


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FranksWildYears (54)
07/18/2008
Accusations of bloated ineffective bureaucracy and audited accounts of waste and fraud in the billions aside, the creation of the Department of Homeland security was really just a shuffling of the deck chairs. Most of the agencies and employees were there before just under a different structure. It's been a branding exercise on one hand, and a front for the creep of Big Brother into the daily lives of citizens which has nothing to do with finding evil guys in caves on the other side of the world.

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Astromike (21)
07/18/2008
Like or hate him, was definately necessary. Come on you got to admit it. How come we havent been attacked since 9-11? Hmmmm. This is something that should be bi-partisian (protecting America). Go ahead put your stupid "funny" ratings lol. Ya'll are pathetic, can't give him credit for ANYTHING lol. Amazing.

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middlefinger (4)
12/04/2004
Not necessary. This HOMELAND was secure until BUSH took office (the 1st time)!

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LanceRoxas (40)
11/08/2004
The passage of the Patriot Act and the creation of this new department have been essential to keeping our nation safe from direct terror strikes since 9-11. Thanks to this new legislation that allowed agencies to share information and cross reference sensitive data terror plots were thwarted in New York City, Las Vegas and LA. Terrorists were captured in New Jersey, Buffalo, Chicago and New York City.

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EschewObfuscation (65)
11/08/2004
The Dept of Homeland Security was appropriately developed to centralize functions of national security pertinent to the safety of the American people, in need of oversight by one coordinating body. Tom Ridge has done an adequate job of start-up, in the face of much unfair criticism, and will most likely resign this position early in the Bush 2nd term, and Rudy Giuliani wil be his likely successor, riding the authority of the position into the 2008 Presidential nomination cycle, being seen over the next 2-3 years as being singularly focused on the safety of the American people, thwarting plans for terrorist acts to be conducted on the US mainland. I suspect that America's Mayor will broaden the definition of terrorist to include groups like PETA, People for the American Way and, possibly, Greenpeace, which will force the lefty fringe in America to declare and confirm their unwavering support for groups who foster anarchy and undermine American security and the tasks of the US military.

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Anonymous (1)
03/14/2004
The Department of Homeland Security is no more than a bogus organization that strikes fear in people. There is abosutely nothing to base the terrorist-alert color codes on. We need a Department of Peace, not a Department of Homeland Security.

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