Homeland Security Act: The Rise of the American Police State
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"It is far more dangerous and threatening to our few remaining civil liberties than he appears willing to suggest," writes Professor E. Nathaniel Gates of Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law about William Safire's recent article on the Homeland Security Act. "I had the rather grim and unfortunate duty of reviewing the legislation to which Safire refers in some detail," says Gates.

The Act, sponsored by Representative Dick Armey (R-TX) (whom the ACLU just astonishingly recruited as a consultant), and criticized by nearly every source on the internet, nonetheless passed the House 299-121. Why? Was it the continuing fear of terrorism?

I do not think so.

Is Bush’s “Homeland Security” an oxymoron?

Inasmuch as President George W. Bush has ingrained the appellation “Homeland Security” into the land of the free’s lexicon, as well as in the collective psyche of the nation’s populace, African-American News&Issues would be remiss (as watcher on the wall and editorial voice of Black America), not to take a long hard look at where the leader of the most powerful nation in the history of the world is coming from. If perchance the foregoing lament is too scholarly to fully comprehend, perhaps we should view it from a grassroots Black perspective.

The news in the ‘hood is that the Bush administration’s near phobic focus of keeping American’s homeland secure from outside terrorists, is simply a smokescreen to obscure the salient fact that terrorized citizens live in constant fear of becoming victims of violence in their own homes, insofar as we live in the most dangerous nation on the planet. Translation: Perceptive brothers and sisters that realize that they are more likely to be killed by a angry neighbor, racist cop, or even a crazed family member than Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction—has cause to pause and ponder why homeland security doesn’t start right here at home.
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