The creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — a vast amalgamation of 22 agencies and 170,000 government workers – has been one of President Bush’s biggest bragging points. The Washington Post published the first of a series today on how DHS has been a pathetic farce since the day it was created.
In the early months of the department’s existence in 2003, at a time when Bush & team were rattling terror alert warnings again and again, DHS busied itself arranging focus group tests of a new seal for the Department that was “designed to convey ‘strength’ and ‘gravitas.’
[…] The great libertarian journalist and author Jim Bovard, author of the forthcoming Attention Deficit Democracy has a new blog and his latest is about a subject Jim’s regular readers are probably all too familier, the evil wannabe National Police Force known as the Department of Homeland Security. Citing that Washington Post article from Thursday, Bovard writes “The creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) — a vast amalgamation of 22 agencies and 170,000 government workers – has been one of President Bush’s biggest bragging points. The Washington Post published the first of a series today on how DHS has been a pathetic farce since the day it was created. […]