If we and our lawmakers don't hold the Department of Homeland Security a creation of this country's disastrous war on terror to account for its actions (or lack of them) and question not just what it does but why it even exists, then I fear for our future. After all, what 9/11 really left us with was not just those destroyed towers in New York and a damaged Pentagon, but our own second Pentagon, a "defense" department capable of being aimed in the worst way possible at the American people. The problem is that the enemy of the future for DHS may very well be the American people and not just the terrorists among us either.
And, in truth, none of us should be surprised. After all, the original proposal for that agency called for the targeting of invisible enemies capable of striking the "homeland." In other words, the enemy could be anyone. It could, in fact, be the Department of Homeland Security. And that should concern us all.
Copyright 2022 Andrea Mazzarino
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