So what has really happened to separation of church and State under the Bush administration; Federal money for conversion to the new State religion? We could call it the Homeland Temple of Surveillance ..........
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From Kathy Gill
Alaska Hamlet Gets 80 Surveillance Cameras From DHS, Which Now Has A Faith-Based Initiative
It's worthy of a Golden Fleece Award.
Dillingham, Alaska (map, population: 2,400) is installing 80 surveillance cameras, at the port and "around town," courtesy of a $202,000 Department of Homeland Security grant. The town is so small, it has no street lights. (tip)
Whereas Anchorage (map, population: 260,000) has fewer than 40 cameras for its port.
No blame should come to Police Chief Richard Thompson for applying for the grant. But hard questions should be directed to DHS's Chertoff, who has funneled $40 million into Alaska in the last three years. Alaska is second to Wyoming in per capita DHS monies, checking in at three times California. Reminds one of the bridge to nowhere.
About that faith-based initiative?
Homeland Security Watch reports that on Tuesday President Bush directed DHS to establish "a Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives ... to coordinate agency efforts to eliminate regulatory, contracting, and other programmatic obstacles to the participation of faith-based and other community organizations in the provision of social and community services... [and to] coordinate a comprehensive departmental effort to incorporate faith-based and other community organizations in Department programs and initiatives."
This includes conducting "a department-wide audit to identify all existing barriers to the participation of faith-based and other community organizations in the delivery of social and community services."
I don't see the connection with terrorism, the primary reason the President gave for creating DHS in 2002: "I ask the Congress to join me in creating a single permanent department with an overriding and urgent mission -- securing the American homeland and protecting the American people."
Did the Bush Administration not get the bi-partisan criticism directed at it post-Katrina? That Homeland Security and Emergency Management might not be the best bedfellows? That maybe the largest reorganization of the federal government since World War II has not gone smoothly?
For example, UPI reports on yet-another questionable Administration appointee: "a 28-year-old former White House staffer is heading a policy committee that gathers expert advice -- on behalf of the president and the Homeland Security secretary -- on key areas of homeland security, including threats to infrastructure and preventing terrorist attacks that use weapons of mass destruction."
He joins Julie Myers, Assistant Secretary for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (36, Myers is the wife of DHS Chief Chertoff’s chief of staff and a niece of former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Richard B. Myers). President Bush bypassed Senate oversight of her nomination by making a recess appointment.
Makes you feel really safe re the DP World ports deal, now doesn't it?
http://uspolitics.about.com/b/a/207637.htm
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From Kathy Gill
Alaska Hamlet Gets 80 Surveillance Cameras From DHS, Which Now Has A Faith-Based Initiative
It's worthy of a Golden Fleece Award.
Dillingham, Alaska (map, population: 2,400) is installing 80 surveillance cameras, at the port and "around town," courtesy of a $202,000 Department of Homeland Security grant. The town is so small, it has no street lights. (tip)
Whereas Anchorage (map, population: 260,000) has fewer than 40 cameras for its port.
No blame should come to Police Chief Richard Thompson for applying for the grant. But hard questions should be directed to DHS's Chertoff, who has funneled $40 million into Alaska in the last three years. Alaska is second to Wyoming in per capita DHS monies, checking in at three times California. Reminds one of the bridge to nowhere.
About that faith-based initiative?
Homeland Security Watch reports that on Tuesday President Bush directed DHS to establish "a Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives ... to coordinate agency efforts to eliminate regulatory, contracting, and other programmatic obstacles to the participation of faith-based and other community organizations in the provision of social and community services... [and to] coordinate a comprehensive departmental effort to incorporate faith-based and other community organizations in Department programs and initiatives."
This includes conducting "a department-wide audit to identify all existing barriers to the participation of faith-based and other community organizations in the delivery of social and community services."
I don't see the connection with terrorism, the primary reason the President gave for creating DHS in 2002: "I ask the Congress to join me in creating a single permanent department with an overriding and urgent mission -- securing the American homeland and protecting the American people."
Did the Bush Administration not get the bi-partisan criticism directed at it post-Katrina? That Homeland Security and Emergency Management might not be the best bedfellows? That maybe the largest reorganization of the federal government since World War II has not gone smoothly?
For example, UPI reports on yet-another questionable Administration appointee: "a 28-year-old former White House staffer is heading a policy committee that gathers expert advice -- on behalf of the president and the Homeland Security secretary -- on key areas of homeland security, including threats to infrastructure and preventing terrorist attacks that use weapons of mass destruction."
He joins Julie Myers, Assistant Secretary for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (36, Myers is the wife of DHS Chief Chertoff’s chief of staff and a niece of former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Richard B. Myers). President Bush bypassed Senate oversight of her nomination by making a recess appointment.
Makes you feel really safe re the DP World ports deal, now doesn't it?
http://uspolitics.about.com/b/a/207637.htm
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