assault rifles, APCs, battering rams, tear gas, and flash bangs for our already overmilitarized police?

clouds and silver linings

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The private 'Security Firms' walk right in. Gee we can't afford to pay fro training new police officers, it's not 'cost effective' How about we just Hire a Private Company to handle the City Streets from now on- 'More Cost Effective'???? So all those Atrocities at the hands of Blackwater will soon be coming to a Town Near YOU!
This is NOT the 'Free Market' this is corporationism, the Antithesis of a Real Free market. Consider ALL the other Areas which have fallen into the hands of these Profiteers- Heckova Job Ah?
How much more Gutting of the part of the Oathe stating a Public Servant will 'Protect & Defend' are we going to allow them to disregard, undermine, destroy???

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And from that I have determined that GWB missed the lecture on economies of scale. Was the toppling of one man, who wasn't near the threat he was made out to be, worth the complete destruction of one country and it's people as well as bringing your own country to near collapse.

And now that same president, who continually tells you everything he does is for your protection, sends 2/3 of 900 million dollars to another country to fight their crime problem. A crime problem that does not affect one Americam citizen on American soil. And leaves his own citizens 1/3 of that money for their crime prevention.

So here are a couple of questions for those of you who believe this bullshit administration. Why wasn't this $603 million given to say Columbia for the "war on drugs"? If the money was sent there, then that would have an actual effect on crime in America by stemming the flow of drugs into the country. Or better yet why not Afghanistan? You remember that country don't you. That same country, that had a net export of 0 on heroin in 2002, has become, since the US invasion and continuing NATO occupation, the number one net exporter of Heroin world wide? Where is the $600 million to fight the "war on Drugs" in Afghanistan let alone the War on terror. How the hell do you think the Taliban fund themselves? It sure as hell ain't from Iran.

I am also sure that if Paul Bremmner hadn't dissolved most of the Iraqi social structure, and the bush war machine hadn't destroyed most of the countries infrastructure, there would still be hundreds of thousands of gainfully employed Iraqi's paying taxes to the new government and helping pay their own way on crime prevention.

I am also sure that if Iraq were to receive IT'S entire share of the profits from IT'S oil rather than them getting a small percentage of it's worth in the form of royalty payments from mega American corporations you would not need to send them any money at all. How in the hell can there be a need to send money to a country with the third largest oil reserves in the world, especially when oil is selling at record prices?

But I am sure that none of that matters and all are irrelevant points, if your a Bushie corporatist. To hell with the consequnces lets "GET Saddam and his oil"

Kind of reminds me of kindergarden where uneducated children can be manipulated to believe anything.

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Homeland security isn't an issue. Never was.

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Considering that the greatest threat to our nation's survival is the growing numbers of deaths related to drug-related gang killings and the plethora of weapons on the streets of the U.S., the numbers of innocent lives lost here far our number those in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere combined. And we are left with fewer and fewer capable personel to deal witht he situation. Threats from so-called terrorists are less than 1%, while threats from within our borders directly or indirectly resulting from drug addiction is nearing 100%for every U.S. citizen. That is not to mention the annual cost which, in fact, is greater than the cost of the Iraq occupation.

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... and is their truly any security at the end of a barrel?

Americans should seriously consider folding the ATF/DEA/Homeland Security/ICE and any other federal policing force into one coextensive force.

reducing crime will reduce legal gridlock and free up needed resources...

how can you do this... simply by ending prohibition!

just imagine the savings to the taxpayer!

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