Homeland Security - on the alert!
I know that some people have been a little nervous about the Homeland Security Dept ever since it watched an American city get blown away in slow motion without letting Director Chertoff know about it, but this should set your mind at rest. It's from the Washington Post article by William Arkin.
The Department of Homeland Security's "National Asset Database," described in yesterday's New York Times," is made for mocking.
The government database lists among other critical infrastructure and key resources a Pennsylvania-based Amish popcorn company, the Groundhog Zoo; a kangaroo conservation center and some beach "at the end of the street." Notable exclusions? The Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building.
Now here is the troubling part:
"We don't find it embarrassing" at all, a DHS spokesman said in response to an internal report on the database.
OK ... I can understand the kangeroos and the groundhogs, but ... an Amish popcorn company???
Do we pay people for this?
posted by Clemens @ 6:56 PM
4 comments
4 Comments:
Amish popcorn is vital to Homeland Security. When we are bombed back to the stone-age, do you really think microwaves and electric hot-air poppers will function? Who's going to have the popcorn? The Amish. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
Good thinking Christian!
You don't work for the Federal government do you?
You pay them!
Not me!
Well sure, throw that in our face! (are you sure you guys aren't Minnesotans?)
But don't be smug. I'm sure there is a Canadian politician or government agency that did something almost as dumb.
It just didn't endanger the whole country, and possibly most of the rest of the world.
Oh well. I'm going back to reread my comment about all the choices we have as voters down here.
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