$3.4 Billion for a Coffee Shop?

Posted on January 12th, 2009 by Pete Eyre in Bureaucrash HQ

bizarro-homeland-securityThat’s the logic that led James Bunn of DC’s Ward 8 to vote in favor of constructing a new sprawling headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security in Southeast D.C. In a related Washington Post article Norton explains:

Those 14,000 employees will need a place to live . . . And they’ll need somewhere to eat. I can already see a coffee shop or a sit-down restaurant. It’s a win-win situation for the ward.

And that’s how politicians operate — they seek to “bring home the bacon” to their constituents, no matter the harms caused to those outside their district (read: taxpayers whose money is taken). And though public outcry may force the most excessive cases (i.e. the Bridge to Nowhere) to be scaled back or eliminated, most projects make it through.

And no matter what promises to curtail such activity are given, it will not change unless and until those in government truly do respect individuals and their property. Because, as Thomas Jefferson stated:

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

As for Bunn, I guess he didn’t get the memo that the DHS complex will have its own cafeteria… Perhaps a sign DHS is still lacks the ability to share information?

For more on this, check out the Homeland Tyranny, Politics Hurt and Tax Slavery Sucks overviews on Bureaucrash Social and the related swag from our Contraband shop.

jeffersonismyhomeboy

  • Very nice article. I love the T-shirt designs. Where can I purchase this stuff?
  • karentabler
    http://mytheological.blogspot.com/

    What if the attack on the twin towers was an inside job- an act of “false flagging”?
    If the attacks of September 11 had been an “inside job”, puppeteered by the neoconservatives in the White House (“Bilderberg Group”) what would have been the motive? Could it have been to justify the need for the creation of the “Department of Homeland Security”- which has rapidly becoming a militarized menace to American liberties? That's a startling thought, if the attack of 911 was an "inside job."
    “The Homeland Security Act signed by President Bush on November 25, 2002 creates the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and grants it momentous responsibilities and powers. It is earnestly hoped that DHS will provide needed coordination to government anti-terrorism efforts. The new Department will have wide-ranging authority to compile, analyze, and mine the personal information of Americans.”

    Is the Federal Bureau of Investigation worried that corrupt U.S. officials (secretly promoting a New World order via the “Bilderberg Group”) have treasonously crossed the nation’s political border to intentionally expose Americans to serious risk? Are they now the silent minority in control?

    What of our border crossings? With suspicions of corrupt U.S. officials allowing the further infiltration of illegal immigrants to enter the country, the FBI should be concerned that terrorists and materials could be used in a “false flag” terrorist attack. Slipping in, in such a disguised manner - they could initiate a “Code Red” lockdown, imprisoning all U.S. citizens.

    If you’re a corrupt security official and you’re allowing illegal immigration to come into the country, you’re not going to know who you’re letting in.
    Corrupt security officials (secretly sheltered within the New World Order) willing to betray the United States- represent a potentially grave national security threat.

    Whether it’s a truckload of illegal immigrants or whether it’s components of a weapon of mass destruction, who will know what those are. We have no assurance that our borders are safe, that our borders are secure when the very source of our security organizations have been compromised.

    The first line of defense for the security of a free American lies in scrutiny and examination of the “forces used for our protection”- with certainly that the forces employed- do not become the means of our own destruction.
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