God (TM) Bless the Land of the Free Inc!

Oh yes it's all the fault of that scape-goat so beloved by the 'free enterprise' nerks: the public employee! Nothing to do with the fact that a whole government infrastructure (I'm talking the DHS for the yanks who like their movie plots simple, thoroughly explained and acted by goodies and baddies in white and black hats respectively) was created purely to fight a largely mythical threat and serve the political agenda of a rabidly neo-con US administration intent on grabbing Middle Eastern oil and lining their pockets (Halliburton et al.). This is precisely what happens when you appoint a bunch of people based on their unquestioning political affiliation rather than on their demonstrable skills and ability to carry out a particular function.

The breathtaking and repeated incompetence in the DHS can only be explained by the supreme over-confidence engendered by the messianic zeal of those running the place. I can just hear their head of IT security: "Why would we need a firewall when we have the holy spirit to protect us?" Actually that reminds me a little of the slightly more secular attitude of of the chinless Oxbridge wonders that swell the ranks of Blairite political advisers in central government here in the UK.

Ok that's enough of a rant at this time in the morning :)