Posted in Homeland Security on April 12th, 2006 2 Comments »
I’ve been listening to a lot of the arguments, both pro and con, of putting Zacarias Moussaoui to death. While I understand the calls for a life sentence from the group that does not believe in the death penalty and the calls for the death penalty from all those who support the death penalty there [...]
Posted in Homeland Security on September 13th, 2005 No Comments »
It was Monday, the day after the fourth anniversary of 9/11 and I’m flying weekly now and will be for the forseeable future. I’m currently reading Tom Clancy’s The Teeth of the Tiger about terrorist threats to the US. Do I feel safer today flying than I did four years ago? No. In fact, [...]
Posted in Homeland Security, International, Politics, Society on January 3rd, 2005 No Comments »
You knew it was going to happen. All those supposed terrorist being detained down at Gitmo are going to have to have some sort of final dispostion decided for them by the US. It appears that some pentagon and intelligence officials feel that they need to be kept incarcerated for the rest of their lives [...]
Posted in Homeland Security, Human Rights, US on June 28th, 2004 No Comments »
I am so pleased to discover that the SC still holds our right to a day in court precious.
Congress did give the president authority to hold Hamdi, a four-justice plurality of the court said, but that does not cancel out the basic right to a day in court.
I personally feel so much more personal [...]
Posted in Homeland Security on February 11th, 2004 Comments Off
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I've been having a conversation with some friends about securing our borders. Most of them believe we need to lock things down and stop illegal immigration. I agree with them on the illegal immigration part, though I know we can never completely stop it, but the locking down the border part I've had trouble with. [...]
Posted in Homeland Security on October 22nd, 2003 Comments Off
I awoke this morning to two news items dealing with airport security. Both items make me mad.
The first case isn’t breaking news. It has to do with a twenty year old college student, Nathaniel Heatwole, who placed boxes containing box cutters, blocks of clay and bottles of bleach onboard two Southwest Airlines flights. It seems [...]
Posted in Homeland Security on April 23rd, 2003 Comments Off
It seems that not only does your use of illicit drugs support terrorism but also your contributions to open source software enables terrorist states. This is about to become as cliché as “for the children.”
Oops: It appears that I have spoke too soon. Evidently someone on the POSSE project was enough of an anti-war activist [...]
Posted in Homeland Security on March 21st, 2003 Comments Off
Sid Caspersen, New Jersey’s director of the office of counter-terrorism, has his own idea as to where to take things should we go to a Red Alert.
“You literally are staying home, is what happens, unless you are required to be out. No different than if you had a state of emergency with a snowstorm.”
I’m not [...]
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