> And no, this isn't evidence that we are heading for a Gestapo society. No. The Gestapo was highly organized, disciplined, and effective. Homeland Security, by contrast, is a bunch of minimum-wage flunkies, unable to get a job anywhere else because of malfeasance, complete lack of job skills, illiteracy, or a combination of these, which fails to accomplish anything of note whatsoever.
What about the NSA/CIA who have managed to wholesale wiretap everyone domestically without hesitation or meaningful resistance?
You're full of shit when you suggest that the problem is with a single, disorganized agency.
I did not intend to suggest that other parts of the defense apparatus might not also be doing bad things; I was talking only about this particular incident.
I do, however, think that if we just stripped away all of the parts of DHS that were a reaction to 9/11, that would solve at least some of our problems.
What about the NSA/CIA who have managed to wholesale wiretap everyone domestically without hesitation or meaningful resistance?
You're full of shit when you suggest that the problem is with a single, disorganized agency.