Homeland Security for Sale

Robert Greenwald and Brave New Foundation join with CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) to bring you a report on the Department of Homeland Security. While little has been done to secure our ports and authorized government agents testing the system have been able to get firearms and explosives aboard planes, some things are going swimmingly -- corruption and profiteering. As with almost everything else the Bush maladministration touches, there is a lucrative shifting of the public treasury (our tax dollars) into the hands of favored corporations. It is called privatization and may well be the most sacrosanct article in the Bush creed, the only thing Cheney and Bush truly believe in.

Another name for privatization might be theft, or looting. We have returned to the era of robber barons. The thugs in office are successfully taking us back a century to the time when everything was structured for the benefit of a few.

One can believe in capitalism and also believe in regulation so that the interests of the nation and the well-being of the people at large remain in the forefront. This way competition (and cronyism is NOT competition) and profit motivation combine with public interest and the health of our nation and people, not the destruction of the many to enrich the very few holders of power. Consider the very American repugnance for systems where a dozen families run everything and own 80-90% of the wealth of other countries. Well? Where do you think we are headed?

Check out this video report. Have you given your congresscritter hell lately?


--the BB