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Before 9-11, the worst terror attack in the United States was committed by a white man who drove a truck rigged to be a bomb up to a federal building in Oklahoma and subsequently killed 168 people, including children at a day' care center in the building. When Timothy McVeigh was tried on the charges, showing no remorse, he called the deaths of the children, "collateral damage." No amount of racial profiling would have picked McVeigh out of a crowd or kept him from boarding any commercial airliner. Yet, when he was executed for his crime he died as America's greatest domestic terrorist.
The Department of Homeland Security has not helped to make our homeland more secure. Ask the students at Virginia Tech if they felt more secure in their homeland. Ask the students at Northern Illinois University if they feel more secure in their homeland. Ask law-abiding citizens on Chicago's South Side, or West Side, or south suburbs, if they feel more secure.On a recent Chicago talk show, a caller stated that he needed his gun and the help of God (honestly, he put them in that order), to feel safe in his neighborhood. He is being terrorized, and he, like many, many other Americans, doesn't know how to cope with the terror. We're looking for terror in all the wrong places, led by the Department of Homeland Security, and ignoring it when it jumps right up in our faces.Before 9-11, the worst terror attack in the United States was committed by a white man who drove a truck rigged to be a bomb up to a federal building in Oklahoma and subsequently killed 168 people, including children at a day' care center in the building.See the full content of this document
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Homeland Security Brings No Security to Our Homes
A long time ago, I stopped looking to the U.S. Department of Homeland security to provide security in my homeland.
Long before Hurricane Katrina, I knew that my particular homeland was not going to be safer or more secure. I knew becau...See the full content of this document
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