The truth around Homeland Security

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Homeland Security is a euphemism for internal security, and Manifesto Bush is based on Homeland Security, for without political "internal security" at home, he cannot plunder the world.

There is no other need for Homeland Security.

That's right: Bush did not concoct the Homeland Security apparatus to provide Americans with bigger SUVs or greater protection from terrorism.

On the contrary, at a cost of $50 billion in taxpayer’s money, it will provide Bush with the 170,000 political cadres he needs to pacify the unwitting, flag-waving American public, including the 75% that support him and his illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, and the idiotic 40% that believe Saddam Hussein was responsible for the terror attacks of 11 September. Homeland Security is a Trojan Horse through which Bush will unleash his ideological storm troopers on America, and exploit his ill-gotten power to achieve personal and political gain.

This is no mean feat. Creating the Homeland Security apparatus is the largest reorganization of the US government in fifty years. According to Lawrence Korb, one of the nation's leading national security experts at the Council on Foreign Relations, it might even "bankrupt the country." Which may be another of its unstated purposes, for Bush will need a series of national emergencies, a depression as well as preordained terror attacks, to perpetuate his de facto military dictatorship. (5)

It's important to remember is that the Bush Régime is creating this fascist police state through the Big Lie technique favored by Hitler.

A generation has passed since the Vietnam War, and thirty years of Hollywood propaganda has erased from America's collective memory the lessons that humiliating defeat taught about the abuse of power. Americans no longer have a moral imperative to pretend that they care what is right or wrong. The only thing that matters to them now is conquest.

http://www.douglasvalentine.com/article_security.html

[FloridaPat]

1. A few comment.

1. The Democrats first proposed Homeland Security. It took other agencies and merged them together, so it shouldn't have cost a lot more to run. I assume the other agencies had funds taken away. Why anyone proposed it remains beyond my understanding since we have yet to find out who did 9-11 and how.

2. A lot of us have not forgotten the lessons of Vietnam. And they weren't humiliating defeat. The lessons are that the government lies to the people so that their buddies can get lots of money in defense contracts. The government does not put people first. The government has a secrect agenda that very few know what it is.

[shance]

2. Interesting thoughts FP. Thanks for posting.

I would only add that I think alot of us have pretty good indications about the origins of 9-11, or atleast the who and how of things. Now, are Americans willing to address the truth of their government's involvement is I think a better question. I believe most are. A good indication was the success of Fahrenheit 9-11.

I also believe that governments will lie to the extent that they become disconnected, are not held accountable come to believe they are inaffected by the people at large, and not to mention to the extent that the citizens stop participating. It's kind of the chicken/egg thing.

I tend to conclude that a government is as corrupt or as healthy, inherently good and responsible as the people that are running it.

Thoughts?

[Wwagsthedog]

3. "Business, like a jackal, trots on the heels of war"

From Barbara Tuchman in "A Distant Mirror". The same could reasonably said for a government security apparatus, etc. Lets face it, we are becoming a one party state; that of the corporation party.

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4. I think getting the word out is the way to avoid that direction.

And opening up dialog and conversation and ACTION against what is happening to our country.

To resign is to be complicit. I'm not complicit.

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5. kick

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6. early afternoon kick*

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