tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post579991684264856635..comments2023-10-31T04:37:20.113-07:00Comments on Bloviating Zeppelin: Right Back Into Politics: The ARROGANCE of Homeland SecurityBloviating Zeppelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-74318362401019729772011-01-02T18:39:15.120-08:002011-01-02T18:39:15.120-08:00I wrote about the same thing Z. You hit the mark p...I wrote about the same thing Z. You hit the mark perfectly. Clapper is also the chief intelligence advisor to the President - he still didn't have the need to know.<br /><br />Napolitano and Brennan are both disgraceful.Maggie Thorntonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01681328690482778919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-91888707839260952072010-12-28T17:27:40.633-08:002010-12-28T17:27:40.633-08:00Wow, AJ & BZ, more truth in your above stateme...Wow, AJ & BZ, more truth in your above statements than millions of government speeches.David Wyatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912850723087704550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-64562355829191841952010-12-26T13:10:25.850-08:002010-12-26T13:10:25.850-08:00From Jerry Pournelle his statement on the Iron Law...From <a href="http://jerrypournelle.com/archives2/archives2mail/mail408.html#Iron" rel="nofollow">Jerry Pournelle</a> his statement on the Iron Law of Bureaucracy:<br />"It will always be this way: TSA is a jobs program. It does little to nothing to increase security and we all know it. But the jobs for the TSA people are Civil Service which means entitlements. See Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy, which predicted this situation.<br /><br />Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions."<br /><br />Remember that this is true for any bureaucracy.A Jacksonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-9605639988344116722010-12-26T12:59:29.652-08:002010-12-26T12:59:29.652-08:00Jena Baker McNeill hit another nail on the head wh...Jena Baker McNeill hit another nail on the head <a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2010/12/20/tsa-has-its-security-priorities-in-the-wrong-place.html" rel="nofollow">when she wrote</a>:<br /><br />"If a would-be terrorist is waiting in the TSA screening line with a bomb in his shorts, the public already is in danger and the government already has failed."<br /><br />That is PRECISELY MY POINT.<br /><br />99.99% of the "homeland security work" should be done WAY BEFORE any ill-willed individual even gets close to stepping into a TSA line.<br /><br />It is called PROFILING, it is called WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES, it is called letting the LE agencies DO THEIR WORK. The job that I know, PERSONALLY, having worked for local and federal LE venues, they CAN DO if just ALLOWED.<br /><br />BZBloviating Zeppelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-79244971500519195722010-12-26T12:38:56.809-08:002010-12-26T12:38:56.809-08:0010 ringed it BZ. Sad to say. a shining example of ...10 ringed it BZ. Sad to say. a shining example of the current administration's inability to perform.Capt. Schmoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02394460305247627610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-84057279173060471302010-12-26T12:24:12.958-08:002010-12-26T12:24:12.958-08:00Seems to me, MrC, she focuses on the convenience o...Seems to me, MrC, she focuses on the convenience of technology, in the wrong areas, instead of the plain and obvious: focus on those whose history has indicated the greatest proclivity towards recent public attempts to kill Americans.<br /><br />AJ: and again, sir, you have hit the nail squarely on the proverbial head. More bureaucracy does not streamline prior existing bureaucracy.<br /><br />TF: I am attempting to Fred, I am attempting to.<br /><br />BZBloviating Zeppelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01359816456769157176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-70322511985372564972010-12-26T11:53:29.891-08:002010-12-26T11:53:29.891-08:00On target, no adjustment needed.. Fire at will!On target, no adjustment needed.. Fire at will!TexasFredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06412925337032937983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-8778499538459552292010-12-26T11:52:45.507-08:002010-12-26T11:52:45.507-08:00Remember that DHS is just like DNI: a created uber...Remember that DHS is just like DNI: a created uber-bureaucracy that tries to make many disparate pieces that didn't play all that well with each other accountable to a single head.<br /><br />Instead it added another layer of bureaucracy over the disparate organizations so that they could point fingers at IT. Thus the idea is when you add bureaucracy onto bureaucracy with the intent of creating something better: incompetence goes up, timeliness goes down and accountability is lessened.<br /><br />More people.<br /><br />More money.<br /><br />Less capability.<br /><br />Less adaptability.<br /><br />Less accountability.<br /><br />You were told about these things for years, now they come home to roost. We are less safe with a DNI and DHS than we were before 9/11, because more bureaucracy is not the answer.A Jacksonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07607888697879327120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370534.post-50111880453873106272010-12-26T11:25:04.140-08:002010-12-26T11:25:04.140-08:00She doesn't give a shit about this Country,, a...She doesn't give a shit about this Country,, and never has.<br />Just a conniving bitch her whole life, and nothing more.<br />I am actually surprised she came out of Arizona politics, and not Massachusetts.<br />It will become Congress's job to keep her in line and embarrass her for the next 2 years, or until she jumps off of Obama's sinking political ship.mrchuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14178283210901458964noreply@blogger.com