{"id":2911,"date":"2002-09-05T07:30:57","date_gmt":"2002-09-05T12:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2911"},"modified":"2002-09-05T07:30:57","modified_gmt":"2002-09-05T12:30:57","slug":"homeland_insecu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/05\/homeland_insecu.html","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"

A nice — and disturbing — review of where we stand with homeland security, a year after 9-11<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So a year after Sept. 11 we\u2019re left with big and not-very-effective law enforcement bureaucracies that want more power, but show no signs of more accountability, promising to protect us against a terrorist threat while showing no great evidence of learning from past mistakes, or adjusting old policies in order to meet new threats. Somehow, I don\u2019t feel safer.<\/p>\n

And that’s what I hear from pretty much everyone I talk to. Which either means that we’re all being brainwashed by the media, or else there are some fundamental problems going on in DC. Guess which I’m voting for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A nice — and disturbing — review of where we stand with homeland security, a year after 9-11. 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