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A Few Rants for the Night
Just trying to make folks do some deep thinking |
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| A Few Rants for the Night |
| 07.22.04 (9:35 pm) [edit] |
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1) Sandy Berger - what can I say? So far it looks like this is going to be one more case of smug political elitism letting someone get off the hook. If during my twenty-year stint with the intelligence community, had I walked out inadvertently (or other wise) with classified documents, my butt would have been in jail, end of story! Martha Stewart can go to jail for her part (not that I'm condoning her action mind you) because she is not political, but good old Sandy can be excused by all his political cronies for sneaking papers out of the National Archives? Worse yet, he trashed a bunch of them! There is room here to question his motives in that stuff, but I will leave this detail to the talking heads. My main point - when is a political type going to be held fully accountable for their corrupt actions by any party? Democrat and Republicans alike, I urge you to look at this case and closely watch what is going on from both sides of the fence. National issue and principle don’t count for shit anymore in both parties. I strongly suggest all of you to think of voting for a third party option, just to wake these clowns up. Maybe then we can have a look see if once again partisanship can be replaced with civics. 2) 911 Commission findings - yet another what can I say! Political and partisan white wash here from both sides of the fence. Mostly what this effort has accomplished is to trash a few more millions of the taxpayer's dollar. The only real conclusion seems to be "We need another cabinet level appointee to oversee the intelligence services." Once again from an insider's point of view, I can not necessarily argue there is not a need to share information better. Agency heads tend to treat the other ones as if it is they who are the enemy. Such turf wars make me sick! It is time to put egos aside and once again for them to become public servants! First the Director of Homeland Security, and now an Intl Oversight Director? Why can't they be one in the same? For all that, wasn't there supposed to be a consolidation of efforts, one that didn't expand the size of government when the Homeland Security Office was established? I'm guessing this has not and will not happen. Each one of these offices comes with a new army of staff. I will concede, if they are needed then they are needed, however, lets cut fat someplace by getting rid of some redundancy in these various agencies. Some redundancy is good, but there is a point where it becomes ridiculous. Given that national defense is clearly a constitutional requirement, I suggest the government cuts some fat by getting rid of the Office of Education, OSHA and Urban Welfare. Those are state's issues and most states could undoubtedly do a fine job of things if the FEDS just stopped beating them to the punch in picking the publics' pockets for funding such programs. I will say it again, excessive federal intervention is like dealing with drugs, the more hands a program goes through the more things get stepped on and who the hell knows what is really in the final product? Only about 10% of the money, that is a fact! 3) The Olympics - It was announced yesterday that 300 Military Special Operations personnel are being sent to Greece to assist in security operations for the event. WTF? Our SPECOPs types are already being run through the ringer in Afghanistan and Iraq; there aren't enough of them to go around as it is, or to even rotate properly. As far as this retired soldier is concerned (add to that a bountiful taxpayer) if the Olympics requires us (the US) to send 300 SPECOP troops (or any military for that matter) to a foreign nation to provide security operations, we don't need to be involved in the damned event! Until the day comes where the media informs me 3000 people were killed in this county by foreigners throwing javelins and discus' at them, I say to hell with providing security for an Olympic event on foreign soil! Now that these three thoughts are off my chest, things are feeling much better now! ;-}) |
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