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The DHS Octopus SuiJurisNews
Like much federal legislation, the Department of Homeland Security Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 H.R. 1648 was passed in the House of Representatives and referred to the Senate without any mention in the mainstream media. The bill would authorize various augmentation of the already bloated Homeland Security bureaucracy. Most intriguing and telling is Sec. 1101 that provides for “rural homeland security training initiative.” This initiative expands Homeland Security training to local and tribal governments in rural America and provides for Homeland Security’s appropriation of closed military instillations to conduct training operations. In addition, Sec .1104 authorizes the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to “assist” rural governments in purchasing surplus military vehicles. These provisions, while superficially benign, are evidence of the continuing federal integration with local institutions through the bulging bureaucracy of Homeland Security, which, on various occasions, has manifested its ineptitude and corruption very well.
The Homeland Security bill greatly illustrates the prevalence of big government as now even rural American and tribal governments are being integrated with the Department of Homeland Security. Already DHS has crawled into the education system offering college students the opportunity to study the arts of Homeland Security and offers states and cities grants for biometric surveillance, but now it seeks to imbue itself into rural America, showing a new precedent of federal entanglement with local governments. Americans need to reconsider Homeland Security’s growing attachment to military institutions and tactics. DHS appears to be styling itself as a domestic pseudo-armed force with its insistence on using closed military bases for training and military surplus vehicles in the event of an “emergency.” A movement embraced by James Pinkerton of Newsday who in March, while marginalizing the importance of Posse Comitatus as “cynical,” opined that the Department of Homeland Security should be militarized. The scruples of the sane and free ought to refute a militarization of the DHS; however, precedents for Homeland Security interference and augmentation seem to be growing. The Department of Homeland Security is not a necessity, it is a profligate bureaucracy that Americans were able to live without during the Cold War but now seem afraid to disband with despite the Department’s lack of success and odious expansion. Once Americans stop subjugating themselves to overgrown and cancerous federal mutations, the realization will dawn that imposing management-establishments are disadvantageous to a society that values liberty and conserved government. ---------------------------------------------------
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