Who Protects the Ports?
Well this has become a hot issue fast. The plan that has been in the works for many months, and certainly not a secret to anyone (as opposed to many Bush admin programs), apparently got to someone's inbox who decided to pay attention to it.
As much as I enjoy watching the Bush admin. get ripped to shreds by the party faithful, this does seem, on the surface, to be a typical republican issue. I've often believed the Republicans to be the real knee jerks. So ignoring the fact that US Customs controls port security, the admin knee jerks have latched onto the idea of having arabs (ack, not arabs!) owning the company that runs the business end of some of our ports. Ok, I can buy a little of this, it could be a risk. But more of a risk than we've already got in our ports where thousands of containers come in without any inspection at all?
On the other hand, I am going to enjoy watching Bushie get ripped to shreds by his own too much to try and stop them.
As much as I enjoy watching the Bush admin. get ripped to shreds by the party faithful, this does seem, on the surface, to be a typical republican issue. I've often believed the Republicans to be the real knee jerks. So ignoring the fact that US Customs controls port security, the admin knee jerks have latched onto the idea of having arabs (ack, not arabs!) owning the company that runs the business end of some of our ports. Ok, I can buy a little of this, it could be a risk. But more of a risk than we've already got in our ports where thousands of containers come in without any inspection at all?
On the other hand, I am going to enjoy watching Bushie get ripped to shreds by his own too much to try and stop them.
posted by Anonymous at 8:05 AM
1 Comments:
I don't understand why we are letting companies from other countries do this at all. All we talk about is our dependency on foreign oil and how it is a security risk. Then we go and let foreign companies take care of our security.
I don't want the Brits or the Arabs in charge of US security. With unemployment so high, you'd think they could find some Americans to do the job.
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