Is homeland security supposed to protect all of us, or just the President?

[bobweaver]

If they wanted to demonstrate freedom and security to the world, why didn't they make all of DC a safe zone, just like they make airports and airplanes safe zones. Then everyone would have been able to "enjoy" (gag, spit, excuse me), "enjoy" the parade without having to look in between cops to see it. Wouldn't that have been a better demonstration of security and freedom?

By the same token, why should the 9/11 attacks have changed our society at all? If national security had done their job correctly, they should have just gone after the perpetrators, done justice to them, made an example of them to deter future terrorism, and strengthened our borders - and show that the terrorist attacks had no lasting effect on the U.S. as a whole.

Why should our daily lives within the border change at all as a result of the attack? The fact that they changed means the terrorists did accomplish something, even if it wasn't their exact goal. The fact that we have this color-coded terror alert system means that national security is a complete failure and that we are not secure at all. They are still failing to keep us secure.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. $12 million in security funds taken from D.C.

to protect the pretzeldent during his big tacky party. Too bad for the citizens of that city...

[journalist3072]

7. Yep

And as a life-long resident of DC, I'm really angered by this. This is the first time that the federal government has refused to reimburse the DC government for costs incurred during a presidential inauguration (in this case, call it coronation.

And if our Mayor, Anthony Williams, had any backbone, he should have told the feds "Well then you are on your own. We'll have nothing to do with the inauguration."

[NC_Nurse]

2. Are you trying to introduce LOGIC into

this? How can they lead us into fascism without the fear factor?<sarcasm>

Frustrating, isn't it? Can't even the thickest people see that this regime is USING the attacks on 9/11 as an excuse to turn this country into the their own private playground? Apparently not.



:wtf:

[quiet.american]

3. So, so damn true. n/t

[Jamastiene]

4. I agree

Did anyone beside me notice that Bush was wearing some sort of bullet proof vest? His upper body looked MUCH BULKIER and misshapen during that short time he walked in that parade.

[elehhhhna]

5. The way an EXXON employee explained to me:

DHS dos not protect port, plants, etc. per se--they just warn us about stuff. And we the public aren't privy to many of those warnings, supposedly-- threats on corporations being a big part DHS' focus.

[iconoclastic cat]

6. I just assumed that the DHS existed to perpetuate itself.

[Vidar]

8. Homeland Security is to protect corporate property and to hassle

the proletariat.

[annabanana]

9. actually.....there IS no DHS........

They just changed the letterhead on a bunch of divisions of other departments. Any actual co-ordination will take decades.