Hopeless
Security...
 One
of the unpleasant lessons we learned from the horrible
event that occurred in Boston is that our government is
incapable
of protecting us even if they can eavesdrop on every email,
phone call, tarot card, fortune cookie, or carrier pigeon
in the U.S.
There is seemingly no single aspect of our lives that is
not under constant scrutiny by our government, and yet
I
learned
today that they had absolutely no clue of the impending
attack on Monday. I guess omnipresent surveillance
is only
effective
against
honest people.
The Department of Homeland Security has cost almost a trillion
dollars since 9-11, TRILLION, and from
a pure cost-analysis basis it
would have had to stop four terrorists attack A DAY to
justify its expense. As it is there have been
but 30 plots associated with terrorist activities in the
U.S. since 9-11, and a
quick scan of that list reveals
we're
hardly sentencing dangerous criminals. More like cranks
or luckless saps who became grist for political mills.
After 9-11 the public ceded freedom in order to gain security,
but we received neither.
Here, DHS, have another hundred billion to waste on whatever
the hell it is that you do. In the meantime, give me back
my Bill of Rights. You're not using it.
=Lefty=
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