DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano with FEMA Administrator William Fugate announces the availability of $1.8 trillion in FEMA preparedness grants to states, municipalities and non-profit agencies.

“We will always live in a terrorist threat environment.” So says Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in an interview with USAToday. Its editors wholeheartedly agree. They like their government big — OK, enormous — and nothing grows the State faster than perpetual war, whether on Terror, Drugs, or Poverty. Ergo, the politicians and bureaucrats prosecuting those cruel boondoggles enjoy complete credibility with USAToday and most mainstream media. So much for the Fourth Estate’s vaunted skepticism.

Indeed, the editors challenged none of Napolitano’s assertions, however preposterous. (But the readers’ comments do; thrillingly, most also excoriate the newspaper for its gullibility.) USAToday’s quislings proved their loyalty with their very first question: “It is striking how attitudes have changed since 9/11,” they harrumphed. “Do you perceive a reduced sense of urgency about the terrorist threat?” Napolitano hit that softball right out of the park: terrorism “is something that we just have to be prepared to live with. … We need to do all we can to mitigate the risk. But that means individuals undergo a certain amount of inconvenience at times.”

“Inconvenience.” Jose Padilla and the War on Terror’s millions of other victims might decry the suspension of such Constitutional bedrock as habeas corpus in terms a tad stronger.

As DHS’s chief cheese, Ms. Napolitano has a vested and extremely compelling interest in the War on Terror: it hands her and her immense bureaucracy virtually unlimited power over their fellow citizens. That would be true even if the DHS stuck to its “primary mission” as codified in the legislation that banded 33 bureaucracies together to create it in 2002: “(A) prevent terrorist attacks within the United States; (B) reduce the vulnerability of the United States to terrorism; and” – when DHS inevitably fails at A and B – “(C) minimize the damage, and assist in the recovery, from terrorist attacks that do occur within the United States.”

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danwhitehead1 said:

It seems to me - - - - - - that the true terrorists are the politicians and the UNELECTED and UNACCOUNTABLE bureaucrats breeding out of that vile, noxious swamp known as Washington DC. The war that is truly needed is a war to strike down the fedgov and put it back inside of its LIMITED box where it belongs. The fedgov exists ONLY because of the states; the states DO NOT exist because of the fedgov; and, lately, it would seem that they exist IN SPITE of an out-of-control, rogue fedgov. WAKE UP AMERICA!!! STRIKE THEM DOWN BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!!

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