Homeland Security

Information is power.

But... the challenge is to see the information shared. I think this is where they are going with this organization. If they continue with that in mind it will be successful in rooting out the more organized, larger terrorist cells. The single or pair of terrorists with spur-of-the-moment plans will inevitably accomplish some portion of their plan simply because it is so small and it is not well structured, thus lending to anonymity. But they won't normally be as devastating as we saw on 9-11.

The key to stopping these smaller cells is an alert civilian populace, to include the police.

We must all do our part by remaining vigilant, reporting unusual or suspicious activity and generally realizing its a different world now.

 

I'm with you on that 'cide.

As far as the Homeland department, it's like putting a alarm sticker on your house. The bad guy may want to risk breaking in, but they know now they may get stopped.

 

First mistake... click on the real news channel:

The Truth

 

I read both CNN and Foxnews.

CNN gives me the liberal far off leftwing view on news, FOX News gives me the closer to home right wing view on life. I don't usually get as frustrated reading foxnews as I do when I read CNN...

 

Call it as you will but atleast all three Fox, MSNBC and CNN all agree Michael Jackson is a nutbag...

 

I read DrudgeReport, it totally owns other news sites

 

YES....I....DO!

 

Here's what I think.

If someone wants to blow something up they're going to find a way to do it. There's not much you can do to stop them. Well short of stripping away every freedom this country has. George Carlin said it best. "Most Americans are soft, and frightened and unimaginative." also "Airport security is a stupid idea, it's a waste of money, and it's only there for one reason... to make white people feel safe."


Samething with this new homeland waste of time.

The world isn't complicated it's just us Americans that seem to have this misconception that if we over sophisticate somehow we are going to be safe.

You want to be safer? Here's what you do. Everytime they kill one of us we kill 1000 of them. Make the consequences so severe that the mere thought of commiting an act against us strikes fear in their hearts.

 

Oh it'll work. You don't see any planes smacking into buildings anymore. You don't see any buildings falling. They're all too busy running for their lives as missles and artillery kill everyone around them.

 

It will not stop anything. The only way to stop terrorism is to kill the terrorists,destroy their supporting states,blah blah blah, which is being done.

The whole of the homeland security bill was passed recently is that it will hurt the democrat in the louisiana race on dec, 7th. regardless of how she votes, either her hard line core voters, or her moderate supporters, will not be pleased. The daschel amendment made things 10 times worse for her as well. In addition, it gives Bush some additional power to place merit based promotions to the workers that earn them, and some hiring/firing powers as well, though all of these are subsidiary, they could have been rubber stamped out as soon as talent is sworn in and Lott has the senate majority position.

And Hamma, how is fox biased? they let colms,O'Reilly,their guests,their various liberal contributors have equal time. There is only 1 conservative on CNN, granted he is the self styled prince of darkness, but come on.

Don't say O'Reilly is a conservative, his answer to everything begins with the words "The government needs to...",doesn't sound like a conservative to me.

And damnit, can they stop playing that damned clip of him holding the baby over the railing?