Ron Paul wrote this scathing assessment and prediction about the newly created DHS eleven years ago. He was outraged by the $3 billion price tag. The DHS 2014 budget is $60 billion. Were his warnings about the American people being spied on by our government accurate? Are you safer today than you were in 2002? Do you have more or less liberty and freedom than you had in 2002? Was it worth it?
The Homeland Security Monstrosity
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) November 19, 2002
Congress spent just a few short hours last week voting to create the biggest new federal bureaucracy since World War II, not that the media or even most members of Congress paid much attention to the process. Yet our most basic freedoms as Americans – privacy in our homes, persons, and possessions; confidentiality in our financial and medical affairs; openness in our conversations, telephone, and internet use; unfettered travel; indeed the basic freedom not to be monitored as we go through our daily lives – have been dramatically changed. The last time Congress attempted a similarly ambitious reorganization of the government was with the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947. Back then, congressional hearings on the matter lasted two years before President Truman finally signed legislation. Even after this lengthy deliberation, however, organizational problems with the new department lasted more than 40 years! What do we expect from a huge bureaucracy conceived virtually overnight, by a Congress that didn’t even read the bill that creates it?Surely more deliberation was appropriate before establishing a giant new federal agency with 170,000 employees!
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In many ways the Uni-Bomber was correct in his manifesto about the degradation of society from modern technology. He just did the wrong things to warn us of that fact.
ReplyDeleteTechnology is great, we've come a long way with science and medicine and communication, however we've also put ourselves out of work as technology takes over many facets in our life.
I'm sure at one time grocery clerks thought at least they'd always have jobs, now look and see modern technology has replaced grocery clerks with self check out aisles.
Now we have to wonder how much our actual private lives are being recorded and documented using said technology.
It won't be long and we will be vulnerable to cyber attacks that shut down our entire electrical grid and that will be even more effective in destroying our economy than an atomic weapon, or flying planes into buildings.
He's the only non sellout I've ever seen.
ReplyDeleteWhy could Ron Paul won the election for president, if he had we wouldn't have a Democratic government who does worst then a bunch of monkeys with powdered wigs.
ReplyDeleteOf course he was right. He was right then, and he's still right. That's why he was blocked out of the presidential run by the MSM/ GOV. Thieves and murderers hate exposure. We ars blessed to have him and his son in our world. Someday, others may realize the gems we own.
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