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| DHS Just Turned 20. It's Time To Abolish It. |
| 2023-03-13 |
| [Reason] Break it up into fewer, smaller agencies that are more accountable to pre-9/11 departments. So the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is celebrating its 20th birthday—the perfect opportunity to rethink the whole concept of "homeland security" and how to best provide it. DHS has grown into a monster that is massively expensive, incredibly ineffective, and reliably destructive of basic civil liberties. It's time to abolish it and replace it with fewer, smaller, and more accountable agencies. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, President George W. Bush called for the creation of a new cabinet-level department "whose primary mission is to protect the American homeland." By pulling border security, emergency services, and immigration into a single, streamlined bureaucracy, Bush promised that the new department would "improve efficiency without growing government." Instead, we got politically manipulated, color-coded terror alerts that only made life easier for late-night comedians. The DHS budget now stands at $82 billion, or almost double its original cost in inflation-adjusted dollars. Are there really twice as many threats to the homeland as there were when the embers at Ground Zero were still smoldering and the global war on terror was ramping up? In the early days of the war on terror, Washington was obsessed with the idea that the 9/11 attacks happened because different agencies—notably the CIA, FBI, and NSA, none of whom are part of DHS—didn't communicate with each other. Hence the idea of "a unified homeland security structure." But critics of DHS noted from the start that it didn't actually reduce bureaucracy or streamline much of anything. It just added a new layer of red tape on top of existing agencies while creating new ones, such as Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—both of which have become legendary for callousness, ineffectiveness, and root-level failures. Read the rest at the link Related: Department of Homeland Security: 2023-02-22 Haney and DHS: The Suicide That Clearly Wasn't and The Slow Roll Investigation Ploy On Display Department of Homeland Security: 2023-02-18 Tens of thousands of Afghans in U.S. could lose deportation protections unless Congress acts Department of Homeland Security: 2023-02-10 Border Patrol apprehensions of Chinese nationals at southern border up 800%: source |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 A great man once said “No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!” |
| Posted by: Beavis 2023-03-13 20:30 |
| #3 Are you referring to Dick "Civilians don't need guns" Thornburgh at DHS? |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-03-13 19:41 |
| #2 GWB was faced with a problem he had no idea how to solve. So he created an agency to take the blame. Our The first appointed head (i forget his name, from PA) quit. leadership! |
| Posted by: Snakes Splat1492 2023-03-13 19:31 |
| #1 DHS has distilled the evil and incompetence of each component entity to form a rival of the CIA, DOJ and DOD with regard to subordinating the interests of the people to their corrupt institutional desires. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-03-13 12:29 |