Department of Homeland Theatrics

From an excellent TIME article on the dynamics of the 2004 election:

Administration sources tell TIME that employees at the
Department of Homeland Security have been asked to keep their eyes open
for opportunities to pose the President in settings that might
highlight the Administration's efforts to make the nation safer. The
goal, they are being told, is to provide Bush with one
homeland-security photo-op a month.

Did you get that? The Bush campaign is using the Department of Homeland
Security for photo-ops.
Have they caught all the terrorists yet? Is 100% of the baggage being
screened at 100% of US airports? Are all of our ports completely
secured?
It's one thing to use 9/11 as a political commercial. It's a completely
different breed of animal to divert resources away from actual real-life anti-terror efforts
so that Bush can pretend to be concerned about National Security.
So let it be known: Next time you see a picture of Bush on top of a
pile of bomb-sniffing robotic heterosexual dogs, you know the
Department of Homeland Security has just turned in it's monthly photo
shoot.

Posted by flow Frazao on March 15, 2004 at 11:38 PM | Permalink