U.S. policymakers mull creation of domestic intelligence agency
CNNOctober 22, 2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United Kingdom has MI-5, which roots out spies and terrorists in the British Isles.
Canada has CSIS — the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Now Congress is asking: Should the U.S. have its own domestic intelligence agency?
Yikes!
I received this article in an email from a friend. Also included was this piece on how the Joe Wurzelbacher saga goes above and beyond Obama and his loyal media minions. Here's a taste:
RTWT. I have actually pondered on this very issue for years as I am a school trained and "unlicensed" electrician (no I won't come over and fix your foyer light), but if I decide to build my own house I can't legally do the electrical work without an electrician who possesses a license present. I'm not a big fan. I do understand the difference in hiring my drunk heathen nephew-in-law to come over and fix my recalcitrant lighting circuits - which he will surely screw up - and picking a competent electrician who I know has taken the time to be trained in a school, state or otherwise, to do it right, but I get what I pay for; thus when my bubba friend screws up my lights it is my fault to begin with, and I shouldn't have been stupid enough to hire him in the first place. I see nowhere where this is a state problem. Just my $.02.But the New York Times did some digging and discovered – horror – that Joe is doing plumbing without a proper business license. How dare he call himself a plumber! A license is required by Toledo, not just one license or a partnership but for everyone who is called a plumber. Joe has not taken the training courses, is not a member of the union, and cannot legally call himself a plumber.
The press reports on this were explosive, with reporters speaking as if they had caught this guy red-handed and completely discredited him. But what about the complete absurdity of the idea that you have to have a license in order to have the right to fix someone else's sink? This is Soviet like, but deeply entrenched in American professional life.
Last time I checked the FBI is the domestic intelligence service. Why do we need another one?
ReplyDeleteI have no idea, but the last thing we need right now is another secret society that answers to no one trying to find out if every American is a dirty "tearist."
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