Saturday, December 01, 2007

Counterterrorism? Not a Bush priority

Poster courtesy oldamericancentury.org

Remember the SCWOT (so-called war on terror)? Well, in case you thought the Bush maladministration gave a good goddam about it, let's take note of this from the WaPo today:
Emergency Responders Face Deep Aid Cuts
By EILEEN SULLIVAN and DEVLIN BARRETT
The Associated Press
Saturday, December 1, 2007; 6:51 AM

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration intends to slash counterterrorism funding for police, firefighters and rescue departments across the country by more than half next year, according to budget documents obtained by The Associated Press.
...
The plan calls for outright elimination of programs for port security, transit security, and local emergency management operations in the next budget year. [emphasis mine]

Feeling any safer? Me neither.

They plunge the nation further into debt for the accumulation of power and the profits of their crony corporations, destabilizing the world and leaving us increasingly vulnerable, then this?

Ah, I forget, they have a plan to make us "safer"--taking away our liberties!

Poster courtesy oldamericancentury.org

As some others have begun writing in end-tags: impede, impeach, imprison. They have violated their oath of office and are imperiling the American People.

UPDATE: h/t to BarbinMD at DailyKos who alerted me to the WaPo passage. (I did not mean to omit the acknowledgment in the original post.)
--the BB

1 comment:

Episcopollyanna said...

Oh come on, they're too busy rifling through our reading material and tapping our phones to actually protect us from terrorists.

Reading all that stuff takes a lot of time, y'know.