On Wed, 04-5-06 11:08 am
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security:
Why I No Longer Believe in It
Written by Mike Filed under: These Days
I had always thought that the purpose of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was to protect the American way of life: that is, the people involved in the development and enforcement of DHS policies were men and women who understood the values and virtues of our nation and would work hard to guarantee the safety thereof. They claimed to know and believe something, to have put their trust in it, and to embody it in their manner of life. I put my trust in DHS and, especially, in the leadership.
Now, however, it appears that Brian Doyle, a deputy press secretary in DHS, has been charged with attempting to have sex with a non-existent, 14-year-old girl (the “girl” was in reality some federal agent posing as a nubile young girl on the internet. Visions of a pot-bellied, badly-in-need-of-a-shave, wife-beater-undershirt-wearing, balding man with a cigarette dangling from his lips comes to mind, but that - I guess - is reflective of my own fantasy issue.)
But I digress and must return to the point. Here we have Doyle, charged with protecting our values and virtues from those who would destroy them - and us - engaging the unacceptable behavior; indeed, in behavior that is in direct conflict with the claims, responsibilities, and purposes of DHS.
Thus, I no longer believe in the U.S. Department - or Church, which is an assembly of “true believers’ - of Homeland Security because they are hypocrites. Yes, I know that only one member of the department has been charged, but they’re all the same, aren’t they? They’re all just a bunch of hypocrites, so I say the DHS is nothing but an illusion, the desperate attempt of a frightened nation to comfort itself with the fantasy of a savior that would deliver it from its nightmares and fears.
The DHS, obviously, is a myth, a “sedative of the people,” created by those in power to deceive the masses and maintain their own positions. In truth, there is no DHS: there are only a bunch of deluded people pretending to protect something that they cannot even live up to themselves, primarily because it does not exist.
There is no department, there is no homeland, there is no security. I, for one, will not be so foolish as to believe in something that cannot be scientifically proven. Brian Doyle has exposed the hypocrisy and lie of DHS which, in turn, falsifies the entire possibility or reality of such a department.
I have seen the light, and the light has shown me the darkness, and in the darkness we all should dwell.
April 6th, 2006 at 10:59 am
Great post!
April 7th, 2006 at 6:02 am
Mike, the same argument has always been used against the Church, because sinners are everywhere. Aside from whether or not you should “believe” in the Department of Homeland Security is the issue of even Jesus had Judas in his twelve. Sin dogs every enterprise, even those of Christ.
Grace and peace.
April 7th, 2006 at 6:42 am
William -
Actually, what I was going for was parody: I was intentionally using the argument against our common faith (to which you refer) in order to show the absurdity of such reasoning. In my haste to post, however, I may not have done a good enough job or perhaps did not draw the parallels closely enough.
- Mike
April 9th, 2006 at 12:37 pm
It was a pretty good job on the DHS, of which the real purpose is so that the President and Congress could say that they “did something” after September 11, 2001. Or possibly to provide federal jobs for thousands of baggage-checkers . . .
April 13th, 2006 at 10:52 am
I Just love parody. We all fall short, even the apostles, yet the church rolls on accomplishing God’s goals in spite of us. We all stumble, some fall, yet God always picks His own back up again, to accomplish His goals.
I don’t believe in the church as a group of perfected saints (per your parody), I believe in the church as a group of sinners who accomplish God’s goals because of Him.