Homeland Security—Size Matters

One Giant Leap Toward Communism

12/03/02—The term "Homeland Security" has this eerie tone that dredges up visions of the bushy browed Brezhnev and all the rancid ways of communist rule. Being that the direction America's government is taking is one of centralized planning and control, a one class society, an equal distribution of goods, a one-party structure, and an emphasis on the requirements of the state rather than individual liberties, . . .should it really be all that eerie?

That is communism, even without the bushy eyebrows. (see table below)

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Size matters when it comes to running a government.

In the America of yesteryear, we had more of a limited government based on our Constitution. George Bush had an option—either take the limited government approach by fixing and enhancing our security infrastructure, or take the communist approach and make it big, central, and impossible to be efficient. They say that they grow things big down in Texas. Size matters with Mr. Bush. The President took the big, centralized, and the impossible to be efficient route (or communist route) and even gave it a communist name—Homeland Security.

In the corporate world, the dumpster is full of failed conglomerates. These companies acquired company after company and grew to enormous size, with the belief that size mattered when it came to generating profits. The "centralized planning and control" did not work for most, and these conglomerates broke up, spun off, and basically waved the white flag and surrendered their cross and sickle logo to the old-style American focused, limited, and decentralized style of governing in the corporate world.

Two notable exceptions that survived were WorldCom and Tyco, both of which grew by acquisition, and both of which found ways to hide their inefficiency and corruption in their size and complexity. Just as investors were scammed with WorldCom and Tyco, one fears that our national security will suffer the same fate in the 170,000 person strong Homeland Security department, where it will also be easy to hide the inefficiencies and corruption, and let departments continue on without appropriate accountability.

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The Homeland Security Act of 2002 could have been called

The Great 911 Cover-up Act of 2002.

Had these 22 merged departments been held accountable for their roles in their respective failures of 911, and had heads rolled of those responsible, there would have been no need to take this giant step toward communism in the creation of this centralized Bolshevik styled conglomerate.

At the bill signing ceremony:

"Comprehensive and united" does not equate to efficiency and results. The failure of the FBI and the CIA to communicate, and the reported failure of their computer systems to talk to each other, was so blatant that either a major purge had to take place, or a major bureaucracy had to be created to cover-up the gross negligence of the two.

In the computer world, a company may use an application by Peoplesoft running a database by Oracle on a server from Sun Microsystems. Not only do these technologies need to "talk" to each other, but these three corporations find a way to communicate and coordinate with each other to produce a technology that millions utilize worldwide. These three companies did not need to merge to produce results.

Decentralization, along with a managerial and policy purge, would have been far more efficient than a communist style centralized bureaucracy. If the corporate world can remain independent and still communicate and produce world class products, then these 22 agencies can also. The difference is management skill and accountability—a trait lacking in American government.

If Lockheed Martin as prime contractor, along with Boeing and Pratt and Whitney and a huge number of subcontractors can talk to each other and produce the highly complex and best fighter in the world (F-22), then why couldn't the FBI and CIA share a few data files and stop the 911 attacks, and produce the best national security in the world?

It is all the reports of failed communication between the NSA, the FBI, the CIA and others that caused the drive to create this "united Bolshevik style" department. Bush could have chosen to ax those responsible for their miserable failures and put experienced managers in charge of those departments to clean them up. He chose instead the Great 911 Cover-up Act of 2002, and these three agencies with the biggest clout in national security are not even part of the new department.

That is a shabby excuse, Mr. President, that merging all these departments was needed in order to have a "comprehensive and united" national security effort. The bold move would have been to fire the slackers and poor managers that were responsible for all the Three Stooges antics of the NSA, FBI, and CIA, and to expose the Clinton regime for its failure to respond to eight years of steady attacks by Al-Qaeda and even a formal declaration of war against America by bin Laden in the mid-90s.

A serious investigation into 911 would have had the intelligence services of Britain and other allies, along with the best security experts from the private sector, as members of this investigation team, not old cronies and cocktail buddies still tied to government officials. But with Kissinger and Mitchell and other DC social circuit club members now in charge of the 911 investigation, where you have government investigating government, George knows that the cover-up is in good hands and there is no need to expose the blatant failures of many agency and department heads who are part of the Beltway cocktail circuit.

Bush's Homeland Security Act bill signing, along with the Kissinger and Mitchell appointments, was an outrageous excuse to cover-up the litany of failures by multiple agencies, and to cover-up the destruction of our national security infrastructure by the Clinton regime.

Our own military is scaling down to be "light and quick" to combat the threats in the 21st century. Gone are the days of planning for strictly Corps level battles over half of Europe, but now light infantry divisions able to deploy and move quickly are becoming more important. It is inconceivable that our national security structure has taken the opposite path, going from smaller, focused, and more agile departments into one giant Cold War era style organization that Bush hopes will be "comprehensive and united".

America's porous borders are not the result of not having a centralized Homeland Security Department, but result from a lack of desire by this government to enforce the security at our borders. The Homeland Security Department will not change our government's open borders agenda and its lack of desire to enforce border security.

Any attempt to fake sincerity in claiming that the government is doing "everything we can to enhance border crossings" runs counter to the facts presented at the White House website where you can get a chronology of the weekly dose of billions of dollars being doled out to various global welfare money pits. These global waste dollars dwarf what you will see being dispersed for American border security.

The term "Homeland" sounds good to the 15 million or so illegal aliens in the United States. We could have called it a pro-American name like the National Security Department but "Homeland" was more accommodative to the millions of illegals on our land and allows America to retain the title of being the "Flophouse of the World".

That quote, Mr. President, is a blatant lie.

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If the name "Homeland Security" sounds eerie enough,

and the sheer size and centralization of it rings a Stalinistic tone, take a look at some other traits of communism:

Communism Trait	American Examples
Centralized Planning and Control	Homeland Security, Two Trillion Dollar Annual Fed Spending, Federal Reserve's Unnecessary Manipulation of the Free Market System by Excessive Interest Rate Manipulation and Stock Market Valuation Comments
One Class Society	Legitimizing of Illegal Aliens Through Issuance of Driver's Licenses and Acceptance of Mexican Matricula Cards, Schools Forcing Children to put Personal School Supplies in a "Common Box" for the "Benefit of Each Child"
Equal Distribution of Goods	Wealth Transfer System, Progressive Form of Income Tax, Welfare, Affirmative Action (Skin Color Based Preferential Treatment), Preferential Home Ownership of Less Affluent (Net Worth Based Preferential Treatment) through Selective Rebates, Loans, and Grants. Half of the Population not Paying Income Taxes (The Masters) and the Other Half Paying Excessively (The Slaves)
One Party Structure	Expansion of Welfare State and Spending Growth Regardless of what Political Party is in Power
Emphasizing the State over Individual Liberties	Patriot Act, Tax Slavery on the Upper Third of Wage Earners

Wake up and smell the communism. Communism is the clear and present danger in America every bit as much as the terrorists this Homeland Security Department is supposed to fight.

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If you still believe that accountability is demanded by this administration, get this:

Size matters? With bonus checks for bozos, I guess so. The bigger the bonehead bumblings, the bigger the bonus.

Zero accountability and rewarding massive failure is a symptom of low standards or no standards. That is changed by improved managerial ability and new policy, not by merging 22 agencies and departments run by department heads with no standards and zero accountability.

It is not just the terrorists we need to fear, we now need to add the push toward a centralized communist style government to our watch list.

"That was one small step backward for efficiency—one giant leap toward communism."

For those who still believe we will see a return to a limited government, you just saw the biggest nail in the coffin yet to that key founding principle.

Homeland Security Act of 2002?

What's next—the Motherland From Each According To His Ability, To Each According To His Need Tax Enhancement Act of 2003?