Homeland Security, how safe do you feel?

With the events that occurred on 9/11 we ushered in a brand new era of powers to the executive branch of government. We saw George W. Bush institute new reforms to violate our personal freedoms and trample on the amendments. One of the biggest violations that occurred was the formation of the good old Department of Homeland Security. This was an organization that was created to prevent terrorists and the threat they pose of attacking us on our home soil.

One of the claims made by the DHS is that by clamping down on all forms of immigration they have made it virtually impossible for terrorists to come to the United States. Unless you are a total idiot, then you can see through this we have very loose borders even after 9/11 and the flow of immigrants has not ceased. Look at what was happening in NJ with the threat of an attack on the Army base they were foreign immigrants yet they were here. Our system of keeping track of immigrants was so flawed when 9/11 occurred that the attackers had been in our country for some time illegally and no one knew, yet they were all on a watch list. The current watch list is no better with many innocent civilians being placed on the list for having similar names and even when showing they are not who the government thinks they are, have no recourse to get themselves off the list.

Another startling statistic of the DHS is that of 800,000 plus individuals charged, only 114 have been charged with terror related offenses. That comes up to less than .01% for those of you keeping track at home. Are we to believe that this organization is necessary when after all its work and all its charges only .01% of the people it has charged are even linked to terrorism? What then is the DHS doing? Are we to believe that there are either no terrorists, or that DHS is just terrible at catching them, which do you think it is? I’m betting on a combination of the two. The threat of domestic attack and terrorism in this country is drastically overblown by the Bush Administration who rules purely by fear. If the White House can’t keep the majority of lemmings I mean citizens afraid of a terror that doesn’t exist how can they continue to suppress our rights?

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Since 9/11 the PATRIOT Act has been used in numerous cases involving American citizens, including strip club owners, toy store proprietors, the homeless, owners of websites, writers, internet users, artists, journalists and photographers.

Maybe in order to find more terrorists the DHS should investigate itself. In 2004 the DHS employed former East German Stasi head, the 'Silver Fox' Markus Wolfe who had previously been denied entry to the US as he was considered a terrorist. In addition, the DHS also hired Ex-head of the Soviet KGB, General Yevgeni Primakov.

Lets all salute the new world order of the Bush Administration. To think like a police state it only helps if we hire those who are from the police state, this is your new America.
Special thanks with this piece to this article at Infowars.net.

I work with a person who I would describe as fairly right wing and who is supportive of the current administration. We were discussing some of the steps taken under the Patriot Act etc. the other day while driving from one job site to the other. I brought up the idea of illegal wiretaps, and of email checking and other forms of spying by the US government on its citizens. His response was the "because I’m not doing anything I don’t care". I was the complete opposite and I think many people would agree with me, it is precisely because of the fact that I am innocent that I object so much to the idea of being spied on by my own government. If I have done nothing then why should I be watched? It is the idea that innocence should mean compliance that is flawed thinking by many Americans today. It has been said that people should not fear their government, but the government should fear its people, I don’t think we could be further from that point.