Feeling Safer Yet?
Feb 23rd, 2006 at 9:46 am by Susie
Julia explains why the ports deal went down:
Yep. Four and a half years after 9/11, high-level national security decisions involving foreign governments are being made by unsupervised low-level staffers who can’t be troubled to inform Our Fearless Leader and his cabinet officers when they’ve made a controversial decision so they can inform congress.
Every bit of that is against the letter and the spirit of the rules (they call them “laws” that do speak of them) for the board that’s supposed to be making these decisions.
And that, as the architect of the war which was going to stand in place of actual homeland security and terrorism prevention and keep us safe aptly points out, is a bit of a joke.
Hey, national security voters, you laughing?
Hysterical. “They call me Catherine, that do talk of me.”
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal outright.
For all of the rhetoric of protecting us from terrorists, the track record of the Bush administration is really clear:
Measures that limit individual freedom get a resounding “yes”.
But anything that even slightly infringes upon the ability of the big money boys to conduct business(radio band for first responders, chemical plant security, port safety, etc) gets a resounding no.
“Protecting” us is nothing more than runaway republican corporatism.