The National ID wedge...

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Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

"When I first read that in the newspaper about the need to have passports, particularly the day crossings that take place, about a million, for instance, in the state of Texas, I said, 'What's going on here?'"

You can always count of Bush's confusion to lead the way.

Do you think the Office of Fatherland Security has done anything to make you safer? It added more layers of bureaucracy to numerous organizations that only had one problem - defective top management.

Look, the FBI was faking laboratory work. Its top management did not come from doing law enforcement. It had shortages of translators for most every language (including Spanish which is why a Seattle lawyer sat in jail for about 8 months because his sons Spanish homework was terrorist communications), the nation's #1 anti-terrorist agent was driven out of the FBI for reasons political, a translator (whistleblower) discovered a fellow worker was translating the surveillance on ... his boyfriend ... and changing the translations (and then the whistleblower was reprimanded), FBI agents in four cities were stopping from uncovering the 11 Sept attacks by their own top management, and the agency even had spies for years in positions of counter-spying operations resulting in the murder of American spies in the USSR.

All these problems (and so many more with less publicity) are solved by adding another layer of bureaucracy - Office of Fatherland Security? Not likely. More bureaucracy is how MBAs solve problems. Curious that is what the president's education. And so we have more of "Show me your papers" attitude. Do they address security issues created by bad management? MBA types never do that. Instead they create more bureaucracy and more paper work. And because they are the chosen people (after all they have advanced degrees and spin doctors), then we blindly believe the nonsense - that more bureaucracy and more papers will stop terrorists in their tracks.

We already know Clinton stopped far more terrorist attacks than George Jr - without Fatherland Security and more papers - and passports with bio-computer chips inside. Why? Good administrators empowered that fat black border guard on the Washington / BC border to do her job. Less management and more informed (and empowered) workers provide more security than bureaucracy and paperwork.