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> From: Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 21:59:39 -0800
> To: TechGnosis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [TechGnosis] Ron Paul: The Homeland Security Monstrosity
>
> Ron Paul, one of the few good guys in Congress ... and he's a Republican ...
> from Texas! Well, his party affiliation is Republican, but he's really more
> of a Libertarian. Incidentally, he won by a landslide in this last election,
> so there is some hope.
>
> - jt
>
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> http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul62.html
>
> The Homeland Security Monstrosity
>
> by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
>
> 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!
>
> When the Homeland Security department first was conceived, some
> congressional leaders and administration officials outrageously told a
> credulous rank-and-file Congress that the new department would be "budget
> neutral." The agency simply would be a reorganization of existing federal
> employees, we were told, and would not increase the federal budget. In fact,
> the agency was touted as increasing efficiency, rather than expanding
> federal power. Of course the original 32-page proposal sent over by the
> White House quickly grew to 282 pages in House committees, ending up at more
> than 500 pages in the final version voted on last week - with a $3 billion
> price tag just for starters. The sheer magnitude of the bill, and the
> technical complexity of it, makes it impossible for anyone to understand
> completely. Rest assured that the new department represents a huge increase
> in the size and scope of the federal government that will mostly serve to
> spy on the American people. Can anyone, even the most partisan Republican,
> honestly say with a straight face that the Department of Homeland Security
> does not expand the federal government?
>
> The list of dangerous and unconstitutional powers granted to the new
> Homeland Security department is lengthy. Warrantless searches, forced
> vaccinations of whole communities, federal neighborhood snitch programs,
> federal information databases, and a sinister new "Information Awareness
> Office" at the Pentagon that uses military intelligence to spy on domestic
> citizens are just a few of the troubling aspects of the new legislation. To
> better understand the potential damage to our liberties, I strongly
> recommend a November 14th New York Times op-ed piece by William Safire
> entitled "You Are A Suspect." The article provides a devastating critique of
> the new Homeland Security bureaucracy and a chilling warning of what the
> agency could become. The article can be read on my website, under the
> section entitled "Speeches."
>
> November 19, 2002
>
> Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas.
>
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