Comments on: Transparency Does Not Equal Accountability http://www.hlswatch.com/2010/02/17/transparency-does-not-equal-accountability/ News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security today. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:26:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: William R. Cumming http://www.hlswatch.com/2010/02/17/transparency-does-not-equal-accountability/comment-page-1/#comment-138112 William R. Cumming Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:43:23 +0000 http://www.hlswatch.com/?p=8307#comment-138112 Okay so with this great post is launched the need to look at the complex eco-system of Homeland Security. Once long ago at a meal and service commemorating the ancestors of a distinguished public servant and survivor of the Cambodian genocide one of the participants was the then Director of White House personnel. He stated to me flatly that the most difficult task White House Personnel had was keeping the NUTS out of FEMA. This was the 80's. What did he mean? the Survivalists, the Far-Right? The Far Left? The Southern Poverty law Center continues to track rises in anti-social organized groups. Is that what the Jihadis are in fact, not even a religion? And then the worrisome trend of groups that are really unknown factors in our democracy (Republic)! I give the web site of one that just represents an unknown to me but may be of concern to others! ResistNet.com Preservation of Constitutional government is the concern of every citizen and I keep hoping that also includes all the elected and appointed officials of the US Government. Victory over the various "isms" of the 20th Century certainly had benefits--the leading one survival of democracy--but clearly now more than ever the costs are being revealed year by year. Okay so with this great post is launched the need to look at the complex eco-system of Homeland Security. Once long ago at a meal and service commemorating the ancestors of a distinguished public servant and survivor of the Cambodian genocide one of the participants was the then Director of White House personnel. He stated to me flatly that the most difficult task White House Personnel had was keeping the NUTS out of FEMA. This was the 80′s. What did he mean? the Survivalists, the Far-Right? The Far Left? The Southern Poverty law Center continues to track rises in anti-social organized groups. Is that what the Jihadis are in fact, not even a religion? And then the worrisome trend of groups that are really unknown factors in our democracy (Republic)! I give the web site of one that just represents an unknown to me but may be of concern to others! ResistNet.com

Preservation of Constitutional government is the concern of every citizen and I keep hoping that also includes all the elected and appointed officials of the US Government. Victory over the various “isms” of the 20th Century certainly had benefits–the leading one survival of democracy–but clearly now more than ever the costs are being revealed year by year.

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